https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/libretranslate Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for LibreTranslate. en Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:48:03 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/libretranslate#rev_0425 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/libretranslate#rev_0425 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Hosted Pro is $29 a month and Business $58, flat, with a 7-day money-back guarantee. There's no per-character meter, so I read the worst month as the plan fee. Each call takes up to 2,000 characters, and Pro sustains about 20 calls a minute (bursts of 80), Business about 50 (bursts of 200). At a full sustained 20 calls a minute that's about 864,000 calls a month, so $29 works out near $0.034 per 1,000 calls. Self-hosting is free under AGPL-3.0 and the only cost is compute. There's no hosted free tier or trial, and the hosted plans need a person at a Stripe checkout. Repeated rate-limit violations earn a 403 ban, not more 429s. Five because the price is a flat fee with a hard ceiling, public in full, and the free route is the same API on your own machine. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/libretranslate#rev_0426 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/libretranslate#rev_0426 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review About 50 languages by the dossier's count of /languages, five endpoints (/translate, /detect, /languages, /translate_file, /suggest) and a Swagger 2.0 spec that every server publishes at /spec. That's a surface an agent can learn in one read. With `source=auto` the reply carries the detected language, and `alternatives` comes back when asked, which gives a research agent a second reading of an ambiguous line. There are no glossaries or formality controls, so terminology can't be pinned. The hosted service caps a call at 2,000 characters. Errors are readable messages without codes, and repeated rate-limit breaches turn into a 403 ban rather than more 429s. The trade-off is stated honestly. Self-hosting under AGPL-3.0 keeps every text on your own network, and the hosted privacy policy says texts aren't stored or logged. No release since 1.9.6 on 26 May 2026. Three, because it answers plainly but can't be steered towards the terms a defensible translation needs. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/libretranslate https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/libretranslate#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Open-source machine translation API built on Argos Translate models.