Best Translation AI tools, matched to your use case and budget
21 Translation tools in our graveyard are still alive and taking signups. Below they're sorted two ways — by the job you're hiring them for, and by what you can afford per month. Anything we've confirmed dead, abandoned or absorbed is listed at the bottom so you don't waste an afternoon on it.
Pick by what you're trying to do
Use cases are matched against what each tool actually claims to do, not its marketing tier.
Automating repetitive work
Workflows, triggers, batch jobs and anything you'd rather never do by hand again.
Phrase
🟢ActivePhrase is a cloud-based localization platform for managing software, website, and content translation workflows. It combines translation management, string localization, machine translation, integrations, and analytics.
Weglot
🟢ActiveWeglot is a website translation platform that detects site content, provides machine translation, supports human editing and collaboration, and publishes localized pages with multilingual SEO features.
Lokalise
🟢ActiveLokalise is a cloud localization platform for managing software, website, app, game, and document translations. It combines translation workflows, integrations, automation, machine translation, and AI-assisted localization tools.
Smartcat
🟢ActiveSmartcat is a cloud-based translation and localization platform that combines AI translation, workflow automation, linguistic quality tools, and access to language professionals for business content.
Creating content and assets
Drafting, generating, designing and producing something a human ships.
Google Translate
🟢ActiveGoogle Translate is a multilingual machine-translation service for translating text, documents, websites, images, handwriting, and speech. It is available on the web and through mobile apps and developer APIs.
Naver Papago
🟢ActiveNaver Papago is a neural machine translation service from South Korea's Naver. Its web and mobile apps translate text, speech, images, documents, websites, and conversations across supported languages.
Phrase
🟢ActivePhrase is a cloud-based localization platform for managing software, website, and content translation workflows. It combines translation management, string localization, machine translation, integrations, and analytics.
Weglot
🟢ActiveWeglot is a website translation platform that detects site content, provides machine translation, supports human editing and collaboration, and publishes localized pages with multilingual SEO features.
Understanding data and customers
Search, research, analytics, summarisation and sentiment — turning noise into a decision.
Phrase
🟢ActivePhrase is a cloud-based localization platform for managing software, website, and content translation workflows. It combines translation management, string localization, machine translation, integrations, and analytics.
QuillBot Translator
🟢ActiveQuillBot Translator is a web-based machine translation tool within QuillBot’s writing platform. It translates entered text between supported languages and sits alongside QuillBot tools for paraphrasing, grammar checking, and summarization.
Wordly
🟢ActiveWordly provides AI-powered live translation, captions, transcripts, and summaries for in-person, virtual, and hybrid meetings and events. Attendees can access translated audio or text on their own devices.
Meta SeamlessM4T
🟢ActiveMeta SeamlessM4T is an open research model for multilingual speech and text translation. It supports speech recognition, speech-to-speech translation, speech-to-text translation, text translation, and text-to-speech translation.
Helping a team work together
Shared workspaces, support inboxes, meetings, handoffs and internal knowledge.
DeepL Translator
🟢ActiveDeepL Translator is a neural machine translation service from DeepL SE. It translates typed text, documents, and supported websites across multiple languages through web, desktop, mobile, browser, and API products.
Naver Papago
🟢ActiveNaver Papago is a neural machine translation service from South Korea's Naver. Its web and mobile apps translate text, speech, images, documents, websites, and conversations across supported languages.
Weglot
🟢ActiveWeglot is a website translation platform that detects site content, provides machine translation, supports human editing and collaboration, and publishes localized pages with multilingual SEO features.
Lilt
🟢ActiveLilt is an enterprise translation platform combining machine translation, human linguists, workflow automation, and APIs. It supports localization teams translating websites, software, documents, and customer content.
Building software
Code, APIs, infrastructure and everything with a terminal somewhere behind it.
DeepL Translator
🟢ActiveDeepL Translator is a neural machine translation service from DeepL SE. It translates typed text, documents, and supported websites across multiple languages through web, desktop, mobile, browser, and API products.
Google Translate
🟢ActiveGoogle Translate is a multilingual machine-translation service for translating text, documents, websites, images, handwriting, and speech. It is available on the web and through mobile apps and developer APIs.
Weglot
🟢ActiveWeglot is a website translation platform that detects site content, provides machine translation, supports human editing and collaboration, and publishes localized pages with multilingual SEO features.
Yandex Translate
🟢ActiveYandex Translate is a web and mobile machine-translation service from Yandex. It translates text, websites, documents, and text in images across many languages, with related translation APIs available through Yandex Cloud.
Pick by budget
Based on the lowest recorded entry price. Vendors change pricing constantly — treat these as a shortlist, then confirm on the vendor page.
21 live Translation tools have no pricing on record yet: DeepL Translator, Google Translate, Naver Papago, Phrase, Weglot, Yandex Translate, Lokalise, Smartcat, Language Weaver, Lilt, Reverso Context, Baidu Translate.
Don't bother: Translation tools that are gone or going
Still ranking in Google, still linked in listicles, no longer worth your card details.
- Skype Translator🔴Shutdown / Dead
Microsoft retired Skype on May 5, 2025, directing users to Microsoft Teams Free. Because Skype Translator was integrated into Skype rather than offered as a standalone product, it was retired with the service.
- Transifex🟡Acquired / Merged
Transifex continues to operate as a product and company website, but was acquired by PAR Technology Corporation in 2022 and is now part of PAR Technology.