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The key comes from the account panel after you add a payment method.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$5 per million characters. The API product page gives $3 per million for a pre-purchase of 1 billion characters or more and on-premise servers from $200 a month (https://lingvanex.com/products/translationapi/). The text API page gives $1 per million above 20 million, and on-premise at $10 a day as well as from $200 a month (https://lingvanex.com/services/translate-text-api/). A free trial is advertised with no amount stated, and a payment method comes before the API key.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 3, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.lingvanex.com/reference/overview", "openapi": "https://api.swaggerhub.com/apis/Lingvanex/lingvanex-b2b-api/1.0.0", "capabilities": [ "translate.text", "translate.detect" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "openapi", "python", "card-required" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 37.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1125, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1223, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 6, "payments": 15, "reliability": 40, "schema": 48, "security": 37, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "$5 per million characters list price. Product pages disagree on bulk and on-premise prices.", "bestFor": "Bulk translation of non-sensitive text where price per character matters most, or buyers who want an on-premise server later.", "strengths": [ "$5 per million characters list price", "OpenAPI 3.0.3 document on SwaggerHub", "HTML mode, string arrays and transliteration in one call", "Better Stack status page for the Cloud API", "On-premise servers from the same vendor" ], "weaknesses": [ "Product pages disagree on bulk and on-premise prices", "The product page, privacy policy and API terms disagree on how long text is kept", "No published rate limits, and the terms let Lingvanex set them at its discretion", "No glossary or formality parameters, and only 200 and 403 documented", "No changelog, and the Python SDK hasn't changed since June 2024" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call the https:// server, not the http:// one the spec also lists", "Send `platform` as api on every call, since the spec marks it required", "Use locale codes such as en_GB and de_DE, not two-letter codes", "Check the `err` field on every response, since errors aren't only signalled by status code", "Send an array in `data` to translate several strings in one call" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 37.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 50, "maintenance": 6, "payments": 15, "reliability": 40, "schema": 48, "security": 37, "transparency": 38 }, "provenanceScore": 63, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-01", "maintenance": "2026-10-01", "payments": "2026-10-01", "reliability": "2026-10-01", "schema": "2026-10-01", "security": "2026-10-01", "transparency": "2026-10-01" }, "last": "2026-10-01", "lastMoved": "2026-10-27", "oldest": "2026-10-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api-b2b.backenster.com/b1/api/v3/translate -H \"Authorization: Bearer $LINGVANEX_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"platform\":\"api\",\"from\":\"en_GB\",\"to\":\"de_DE\",\"data\":\"Your table is booked for seven.\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/translate.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/lingvanex" }, "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Cloud API", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 5 }, { "item": "Cloud API, 1 billion pre-purchase", "unit": "1m-chars", "usd": 3, "note": "Another page quotes $1 per million above 20 million" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nordicwise Limited", "domain": "lingvanex.com", "domainRegistered": "2016-12-28", "domainNote": "The API endpoint is on backenster.com (registered 2016-12-13). Its RDAP record doesn't name Lingvanex.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://lingvanex.com/terms-of-use-of-api-lingvanex-translation/", "privacy": "https://lingvanex.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.lingvanex.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The API terms give Nordicwise Limited, 52 1st April, 7600 Athienou, Larnaca, Cyprus.", "robots.txt blocked our fetch of lingvanex.com/.well-known/security.txt on the 30 September check.", "The developer docs on docs.lingvanex.com render only in a browser.", "status.lingvanex.com is a Better Stack page with one Cloud API component." ], "score": 63 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingvanex.json", "live": { "slug": "lingvanex", "probe": { "target": "https://api-b2b.backenster.com/b1/api/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-30T02:13:37.579294999Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 219, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.92, "p50ms24h": 145, "p95ms24h": 220, "samples24h": 249, "samples30d": 7272, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 245 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 24, "ok": 24 } ], "outages": [ { "start": "2026-10-14T14:50:58.641405566Z", "end": "2026-10-14T15:08:49.208885809Z", "note": "timed out" } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.lingvanex.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-29T20:43:19.172734123Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "lingvanex", "version": "0.0.11", "released": "2024-06-24", "seenAt": "2026-10-29T13:19:28.472252451Z" } ], "pypiWeekly": 6, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://lingvanex.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-29T15:37:31.574508Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "lingvanex.com", "registered": "2016-12-28", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/lingvanex.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T13:54:08.969490029Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://lingvanex.com/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-29T05:10:18.285473649Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3f9363e612b5" }, { "url": "https://lingvanex.com/terms-of-use-of-api-lingvanex-translation/", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-29T05:10:21.473435091Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "500498c858ff" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-30T02:13:37.579294999Z" } }, "answer": "Smartcat scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Lingvanex Translation API's 37.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "smartcat", "name": "Smartcat", "vendor": "Smartcat Platform Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.smartcat.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "translation", "summary": "Smartcat is a hosted AI translation and localisation platform with projects, translation memories, glossaries and a linguist marketplace. Agents reach it through a REST API with webhooks, a real-time translation endpoint and a command-line tool.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartcat", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartcat.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartcat.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smartcat.json", "repo": "https://github.com/smartcatai/SmartCAT-API", "license": "Proprietary service under Smartcat's Terms of Use and Customer Agreement. The PHP client on GitHub is GPL-3.0-or-later, and the CLI ships as closed binaries", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://smartcat.ai/api/integration", "packages": [ { "registry": "packagist", "name": "smartcat/smartcat-api" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A company account is needed, and freelancer accounts can't use the API. An administrator creates API keys under Settings, API, and several keys can exist. Every call sends HTTP Basic authentication with the account ID as user name and the key as password. No scopes, expiry or read-only keys are documented. The CLI stores the workspace ID and key in a local config file or reads `SMARTCAT_API_TOKEN`.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "API access is listed from the Anticipate plan, $60,000 a year with 2,000,000 Smartwords per the help centre (20 October 2026). Adapt is $1,200 and Accelerate $24,000 a year, without API access in the plan table. The pricing page (26 October 2026) shows Adapt from $1,200 and the other plans as custom. Usage is 1 Smartword per source word per target language, with 100 per cent TM matches and repetitions free. A 15-day trial with 15,000 Smartwords needs no card, and the pricing FAQ says it includes API access, which the plan table and trial article don't show (checked 2026-10-29).", "priceSummary": "$100 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer guides, the API reference, the OpenAPI file or the pricing pages (checked 2026-10-29). Plans are billed annually by contract or card.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 6, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-29" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.smartcat.com", "openapi": "https://smartcat.com/api/methods/v1/swagger.json", "capabilities": [ "translate.text", "translate.documents", "translate.glossary" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "openapi", "webhooks", "cli", "php", "trial", "no-card", "status-page", "soc2", "enterprise", "sales-led" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 810, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1223, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 69, "payments": 25, "reliability": 56, "schema": 67, "security": 42, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-29" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Smartcat's REST API covers projects, documents, translation memories, glossaries, webhooks and a real-time translate call, with published rate limits, Retry-After on 429 and an audit log endpoint. Keys are account-wide with no documented scopes, the status page lists two incidents of an hour or more in 90 days, and API access is listed only from the $60,000-a-year Anticipate plan.", "bestFor": "Agents that run translation projects for a team already on a Smartcat Anticipate or higher plan, such as uploading documents, applying translation memories and glossaries, exporting results and calling real-time translation from an app.", "strengths": [ "Rate limits published per method group, with Retry-After on 429 and `x-rate-limit-remaining` and `x-rate-limit-reset` on other responses", "A public OpenAPI 3.0.1 file with 187 operations at smartcat.com/api/methods/v1/swagger.json", "`POST /api/integration/v1/smartTranslation/translate` returns translations synchronously, and a charges method reports the Smartwords each call cost", "Webhooks for project, document, export and report events, retried 8 times over about 2 hours, with a `lastErrors` endpoint", "`GET /api/integration/v1/audit/logs` returns account events with user, type and payload, filterable by date" ], "weaknesses": [ "API access is listed only from the Anticipate plan, $60,000 a year per the help centre, while the pricing FAQ says the trial includes it", "API keys are account-wide, with no scopes, expiry or read-only option in the reviewed documentation", "The status page lists a 4-hour slowdown on 2 September 2026 and a 2-hour access outage in the Americas on 21 September", "The OpenAPI file isn't linked from the developer docs and declares no security scheme", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or bug bounty was found, and SOC 2 Type II is a claim on Smartcat's pages", "The only official client is the PHP library, and the developer docs have no llms.txt or Markdown copies" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Basic` with base64 of `accountId:apiKey` to the account's region host, https://smartcat.ai, https://us.smartcat.ai or https://ea.smartcat.ai.", "On 429, wait the seconds in Retry-After before retrying. The 429 itself carries no `x-rate-limit-*` headers.", "Create a smart translation profile in the web app first and pass its ID as `profile` to `smartTranslation/translate`.", "Store each `requestUid` and look charges up later with `smartTranslation/charges`, since the translate response doesn't include the cost.", "Treat callbacks as hints and poll project, document or export status as a fallback, because failed deliveries are dropped after the last retry." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 69, "payments": 25, "reliability": 56, "schema": 67, "security": 42, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 91, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-29", "maintenance": "2026-10-29", "payments": "2026-10-29", "reliability": "2026-10-29", "schema": "2026-10-29", "security": "2026-10-29", "transparency": "2026-10-29" }, "last": "2026-10-29", "oldest": "2026-10-29", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "composer require smartcat/smartcat-api", "http": "curl -X POST https://smartcat.ai/api/integration/v1/smartTranslation/translate -u \"$SMARTCAT_ACCOUNT_ID:$SMARTCAT_API_KEY\" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"sourceLanguage\": \"en\", \"targetLanguages\": [\"de\"], \"profile\": \"PROFILE_ID\", \"texts\": [{\"text\": \"Your order has shipped.\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/translate.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/smartcat" }, "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Adapt (100,000 Smartwords a year, no API access)", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "$1,200 a year billed annually, help centre and pricing page, checked 29 October 2026" }, { "item": "Accelerate (1,000,000 Smartwords a year, no API access)", "unit": "month", "usd": 2000, "note": "$24,000 a year billed annually per the help centre of 20 October 2026; the pricing page shows custom" }, { "item": "Anticipate (2,000,000 Smartwords a year, API access)", "unit": "month", "usd": 5000, "note": "$60,000 a year billed annually per the help centre of 20 October 2026; the pricing page shows custom" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Smartcat Platform Inc.", "domain": "smartcat.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-11-29", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.smartcat.com/legal/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.smartcat.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.smartcat.ai", "changelog": "https://developers.smartcat.com/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-29", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use (last updated 18 September 2026) name Smartcat Platform Inc., registered in the United States, or Smartcat Europe B.V., Strawinskylaan 903, 1077 XX Amsterdam, registration 859832880, depending on the agreement. Personal users contract with Smartcat Platform Inc. The notice address is 2810 N Church St PMB 50985, Wilmington, Delaware.", "Customer accounts also fall under the Customer Agreement (last updated 22 September 2026) and the DPA (last updated 17 September 2025). The privacy policy was last updated 23 June 2026.", "The API answers on smartcat.ai, us.smartcat.ai and ea.smartcat.ai. smartcat.ai redirects to smartcat.com, and the Swagger UI and OpenAPI file are on smartcat.com.", "status.smartcat.com redirects to status.smartcat.ai, a Statuspage site whose robots.txt disallows /api/.", "www.smartcat.com/.well-known/security.txt and developers.smartcat.com/.well-known/security.txt return 404.", "RDAP for smartcat.com gives a registration date of 1999-11-29. The domain predates the company, which its CEO dates to 2013.", "firstReleased is the creation date of the smartcatai/SmartCAT-API PHP client repository, the earliest first-hand sign of the API found." ], "score": 91 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartcat.json", "live": { "slug": "smartcat", "probe": { "target": "https://smartcat.ai/api/integration", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-30T02:13:50.234623298Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 80, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 81, "p95ms24h": 126, "samples24h": 19, "samples30d": 19, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 19, "ok": 19 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.smartcat.ai", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T02:14:58.338435937Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-30T02:14:58.338435937Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Lingvanex", "b": "Smartcat Platform Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api-b2b.backenster.com/b1/api/v3", "b": "https://smartcat.ai/api/integration", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under Smartcat's Terms of Use and Customer Agreement. The PHP client on GitHub is GPL-3.0-or-later, and the CLI ships as closed binaries", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-10-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-01", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "3 PyPI/wk", "b": "6 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Smartcat scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Lingvanex Translation API's 37.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Lingvanex Translation API or Smartcat?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Lingvanex Translation API and Smartcat need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Lingvanex Translation API has a hosted endpoint at https://api-b2b.backenster.com/b1/api/v3 and Smartcat at https://smartcat.ai/api/integration.", "question": "Can an agent call Lingvanex Translation API and Smartcat without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Bulk translation of non-sensitive text where price per character matters most, or buyers who want an on-premise server later.", "slug": "lingvanex", "watchFor": "Product pages disagree on bulk and on-premise prices" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 56 against 40", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 67 against 48", "Agent ergonomics, 57 against 50", "Security \u0026 auth, 42 against 37", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 15", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 69 against 6", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 74 against 51" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Agents that run translation projects for a team already on a Smartcat Anticipate or higher plan, such as uploading 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Both do translation.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "lingvanex": "$5 per million characters list price. Product pages disagree on bulk and on-premise prices.", "smartcat": "Smartcat's REST API covers projects, documents, translation memories, glossaries, webhooks and a real-time translate call, with published rate limits, Retry-After on 429 and an audit log endpoint. Keys are account-wide with no documented scopes, the status page lists two incidents of an hour or more in 90 days, and API access is listed only from the $60,000-a-year Anticipate plan." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lingvanex-vs-smartcat", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lingvanex-vs-smartcat.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lingvanex-vs-smartcat.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lingvanex-vs-smartcat.min.md" }, "markdown": "Smartcat scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Lingvanex Translation API's 37.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do translation.\n\n- Lingvanex Translation API: grade F, 37.3/100, rank #1125 of 1223. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingvanex.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lingvanex.json\n- Smartcat: grade C, 54.3/100, rank #810 of 1223. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartcat.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smartcat.json\n- Best machine translation APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/translation/index.md\n- All 78 translation comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/translation/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Lingvanex Translation API (F)\n\nGood for: Bulk translation of non-sensitive text where price per character matters most, or buyers who want an on-premise server later.\n\nWatch for: Product pages disagree on bulk and on-premise prices\n\n### Smartcat (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that run translation projects for a team already on a Smartcat Anticipate or higher plan, such as uploading documents, applying translation memories and glossaries, exporting results and calling real-time translation from an app.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 56 against 40\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 67 against 48\n- Agent ergonomics, 57 against 50\n- Security \u0026 auth, 42 against 37\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 15\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 69 against 6\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 74 against 51\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: API access is listed only from the Anticipate plan, $60,000 a year per the help centre, while the pricing FAQ says the trial includes it\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Lingvanex Translation API | Smartcat | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 56 | Smartcat +16 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 67 | Smartcat +19 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 57 | Smartcat +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 37 | 42 | Smartcat +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 15 | 25 | Smartcat +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 6 | 69 | Smartcat +63 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 74 | Smartcat +23 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **37.3 · F** | **54.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Lingvanex Translation API | Smartcat |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Lingvanex | Smartcat Platform Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api-b2b.backenster.com/b1/api/v3` | `https://smartcat.ai/api/integration` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Smartcat's Terms of Use and Customer Agreement. The PHP client on GitHub is GPL-3.0-or-later, and the CLI ships as closed binaries |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-01 | |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | 3 PyPI/wk | 6 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Lingvanex Translation API.** $5 per million characters list price. Product pages disagree on bulk and on-premise prices.\n\n**Smartcat.** Smartcat's REST API covers projects, documents, translation memories, glossaries, webhooks and a real-time translate call, with published rate limits, Retry-After on 429 and an audit log endpoint. Keys are account-wide with no documented scopes, the status page lists two incidents of an hour or more in 90 days, and API access is listed only from the $60,000-a-year Anticipate plan.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Lingvanex Translation API\n\n1. Call the https:// server, not the http:// one the spec also lists\n2. Send `platform` as api on every call, since the spec marks it required\n3. Use locale codes such as en_GB and de_DE, not two-letter codes\n4. Check the `err` field on every response, since errors aren't only signalled by status code\n5. Send an array in `data` to translate several strings in one call\n\n### Smartcat\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Basic` with base64 of `accountId:apiKey` to the account's region host, https://smartcat.ai, https://us.smartcat.ai or https://ea.smartcat.ai.\n2. On 429, wait the seconds in Retry-After before retrying. The 429 itself carries no `x-rate-limit-*` headers.\n3. Create a smart translation profile in the web app first and pass its ID as `profile` to `smartTranslation/translate`.\n4. Store each `requestUid` and look charges up later with `smartTranslation/charges`, since the translate response doesn't include the cost.\n5. Treat callbacks as hints and poll project, document or export status as a fallback, because failed deliveries are dropped after the last retry.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Lingvanex Translation API or Smartcat?\n\nSmartcat scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Lingvanex Translation API's 37.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Lingvanex Translation API and Smartcat need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Lingvanex Translation API and Smartcat without installing anything?\n\nYes. Lingvanex Translation API has a hosted endpoint at https://api-b2b.backenster.com/b1/api/v3 and Smartcat at https://smartcat.ai/api/integration.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lingvanex-vs-smartcat.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lingvanex-vs-smartcat.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"lingvanex\", \"b\": \"smartcat\"}`. 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