Text Translation API

Last update: December 27, 2024

Text translation APIs convert texts from one language to another. +Show More

Text translation APIs convert texts from one language to another. It leverages NLP methods to understand the text and its language and translate it appropriately. A popular use case for these APIs is to translating business websites to different languages to reach more audience.

If you’d like to learn about the ecosystem consisting of Text Translation API and others, feel free to check AIMultiple Machine Learning APIs.
How relevant, verifiable metrics drive AIMultiple’s rankings

AIMultiple uses relevant & verifiable metrics to evaluate vendors.

Metrics are selected based on typical enterprise procurement processes ensuring that market leaders, fast-growing challengers, feature-complete solutions and cost-effective solutions are ranked highly so they can be shortlisted.
Data regarding these metrics are collected from public sources as outlined in the “What are AIMultiple’s data sources?” section of this page.


There are 2 ways in which vendor metrics are processed to help prioritization:
1- Vendors are grouped within 4 metrics (customer satisfaction, market presence, growth and features) according to their performance in that metric.
2- Vendors that perform high in these metrics are ranked higher in the list.


The data used in each vendor’s ranking can be accessed by expanding the vendor’s row in the below list.
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Products Position Customer satisfaction
Google Cloud Translation API logo

Google Cloud Translation API

Leader
Low
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Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
3.90 / 5 based on ~50 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100k-1m employees
Company's social media followers
50m-60m followers
Alconost Inc. logo

Alconost Inc.

Leader
Satisfactory
Accurate and authentic online translation of texts into 70+ foreign languages.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.65 / 5 based on ~20 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
4k-5k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2004
Scribendi Editing Services API logo

Scribendi Editing Services API

Leader
Satisfactory
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.80 / 5 based on ~10 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
1997
Baidu Customized Translation API logo

Baidu Customized Translation API

Leader
Satisfactory
Baidu was founded in 2000 by Internet pioneer Robin Li, creator of visionary search technology Hyperlink Analysis, with the mission of providing people with the best way to find information and connect users with services.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.10 / 5 based on ~20 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
20k-30k employees
Company's social media followers
100k-1m followers
Total funding
$10-50m
# of funding rounds
3
Latest funding date
June 18, 2004
Last funding amount
$10-50m
Company
Type of company
public
Founding year
1999
Bitext API logo

Bitext API

Leader
N/A
Text mining API is aimed to developers and businesses that want to enrich their product offerings with text analysis.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
4.58 / 5 based on 4 reviews
Market presence
Company's number of employees
10-20 employees
Company's social media followers
2k-3k followers
Total funding
$1-5m
# of funding rounds
2
Latest funding date
May 1, 2018
Last funding amount
$1-5m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2007
Proofread Bot API logo

Proofread Bot API

Challenger
N/A
AI bot that reviews your written work to find grammatical and spelling errors.
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Average rating
3.80 / 5 based on 5 reviews
Yandex Translate API logo

Yandex Translate API

Challenger
N/A
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Market presence
Company's number of employees
5k-10k employees
Company's social media followers
1m-2m followers
DeepL Translator API logo

DeepL Translator API

Challenger
N/A
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Market presence
Company's number of employees
1k-2k employees
Company's social media followers
50k-100k followers
Total funding
$250-500m
# of funding rounds
5
Latest funding date
May 22, 2024
Last funding amount
$250-500m
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2017
Crowdin API logo

Crowdin API

Challenger
N/A
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Market presence
Company's number of employees
100-200 employees
Company's social media followers
5k-10k followers
Company
Type of company
private
Founding year
2009
Apertium API logo

Apertium API

Challenger
N/A
Basis for Evaluation

We made these evaluations based on the following parameters;

Customer satisfaction
Market presence
Company's social media followers
200-300 followers

“-”: AIMultiple team has not yet verified that vendor provides the specified feature. AIMultiple team focuses on feature verification for top 10 vendors.


Sources

AIMultiple uses these data sources for ranking solutions and awarding badges in text translation APIs:


21 vendor web domains
17 funding announcements
50 social media profiles
23 profiles on review platforms
19 search engine queries

Text Translation API Leaders

According to the weighted combination of 4 metrics

Google Cloud Translation API logo
Alconost Inc. logo
Scribendi Editing Services API logo
Baidu Customized Translation API logo
Bitext API logo

What are text translation API
customer satisfaction leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current text translation API customer satisfaction leaders:

Google Cloud Translation API logo
Alconost Inc. logo
Scribendi Editing Services API logo
Baidu Customized Translation API logo
Bitext API logo

Which text translation API solution provides the most customer satisfaction?

AIMultiple uses product and service reviews from multiple review platforms in determining customer satisfaction.

While deciding a product's level of customer satisfaction, AIMultiple takes into account its number of reviews, how reviewers rate it and the recency of reviews.

  • Number of reviews is important because it is easier to get a small number of high ratings than a high number of them.
  • Recency is important as products are always evolving.
  • Reviews older than 5 years are not taken into consideration
  • older than 12 months have reduced impact in average ratings in line with their date of publishing.

What are text translation API
market leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current text translation API market leaders:

Google Cloud Translation API logo
Alconost Inc. logo
Scribendi Editing Services API logo
Baidu Customized Translation API logo
Bitext API logo

Which one has collected the most reviews?

AIMultiple uses multiple datapoints in identifying market leaders:

  • Product line revenue (when available)
  • Number of reviews
  • Number of case studies
  • Number and experience of employees
  • Social media presence and engagement
Out of these, number of reviews information is available for all products and is summarized in the graph:

Google Cloud Translation API
Baidu Customized Translation API
Alconost Inc.
Scribendi Editing Services API
Proofread Bot API

What are the most mature text translation APIs?

Which one has the most employees?

Google logo
Baidu logo
Yandex logo
Deepl logo
Proz logo

Which text translation API companies have the most employees?

186 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 163 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.

In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 16 companies with >10 employees are offering text translation apis. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 300k employees. The largest company in this domain is Google with more than 300,000 employees. Google provides the text translation API solution: Google Cloud Translation API

Google
Baidu
Yandex
Deepl
Proz

Insights

What are the most common words describing text translation APIs?

This data is collected from customer reviews for all text translation API companies. The most positive word describing text translation APIs is “Easy to use” that is used in 4% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Expensive” with which is used in 2% of all the text translation API reviews.

What is the average customer size?

According to customer reviews, most common company size for text translation API customers is 1-50 Employees. Customers with 1-50 Employees make up 40% of text translation API customers. For an average Machine Learning APIs solution, customers with 1-50 Employees make up 38% of total customers.

Customer Evaluation

These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all text translation APIs. Text Translation APIs are most positively evaluated in terms of "Customer Service" but falls behind in "Likelihood to Recommend".

Overall
Customer Service
Ease of Use
Likelihood to Recommend
Value For Money

Where are text translation API vendors' HQs located?

What is the level of interest in text translation APIs?

This category was searched on average for 2.2k times per month on search engines in 2024. This number has decreased to 0 in 2025. If we compare with other machine learning apis solutions, a typical solution was searched 3.6k times in 2024 and this decreased to 0 in 2025.