Baidu Translate
by Baidu, Inc.
Baidu Translate is Baidu's machine-translation service for translating text, documents, webpages, images, speech, and video across numerous languages through web, mobile, and API products.
Why Abandoned
Baidu's translation website remains available, and Baidu continues to provide official translation APIs and mobile app listings.
💵 Pricing & access
- Pricing model
- Not documented
- Starting at
- Not documented
- Official site
- Visit Baidu Translate →
🩺 Health Signals
- HTTP Status
- 200
- Response
- —
- SSL
- —
- Confidence
- 94%
- Domain expires
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- Last content change
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- Last tweet
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- API status
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📅 Timeline
Baidu Translate launched
Baidu publicly launched its online translation service, initially supporting Chinese-English translation.
Neural translation research highlighted
Baidu researchers published work on an attention-based neural machine translation system, reflecting the service's shift toward deep-learning methods.
Large-scale translation model introduced
Baidu and Peng Cheng Laboratory announced ERNIE-M, a multilingual model designed to improve zero-shot cross-lingual understanding and generation.
🔄 Alternatives to Baidu Translate
ChatGPT
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DeepL Translator
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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.
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.
🪦 Other dead Translation tools
Skype Translator
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Transifex
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
What is Baidu Translate?
Baidu Translate is a machine-translation service from Baidu that translates text and supports additional workflows such as document, webpage, image, speech, and video translation.
Is Baidu Translate free to use?
The consumer web service can be used without charge for basic translation. Baidu's developer APIs use separate quotas, authentication, and pricing rules documented on the Baidu Translate Open Platform.
What languages does Baidu Translate support?
Baidu says its service supports translation across more than 200 languages. Exact language and feature availability can differ between the website, mobile apps, and APIs.
Does Baidu Translate offer an API?
Yes. The Baidu Translate Open Platform provides APIs for general text translation and specialized capabilities, subject to account, quota, and pricing requirements.
What are the best alternatives to Baidu Translate?
Common alternatives include Google Translate, DeepL Translator, Yandex Translate, and ChatGPT. The best option depends on language coverage, translation quality, privacy needs, and API availability.