One API for all best translator vendors
Neural Machine Translation via one universal API
The best translator doesn't exist
Language Pair
Billions of quality source data must be fed into the training model to teach AI to translate a language pair. A perfectly working training model for a given current language pair will not work for another. Moreover, it will not work in the opposite direction.
Architecture of NLP
Getting closer to human translation, vendors aimed to build the best model architecture. For example, BERT architecture from Google achieves a GLUE benchmark of 80.4%, MultiNLI accuracy to 86.7. So one NLP is different to another NLP.
Evaluation of AI
We are entering a new era in AI where we are not doing machine translation, but Deep Bidirectional Language Understanding. And there are no forever leaders in this new era, as evidenced by the example of the small company called Deepl.
Translator vendors
You don't have to try all the dictionary vendors to find out which are the best.
Top examples of language pairs selection
As you can see, one dictionary is not enough even for one language pair.
EN to ZH
Tencent
ZN to EN
Google, Tencent
EN to DE
Deepl
DE to EN
EN to FR
Deepl, Amazon
FR to EN
Deepl
EN to PT
SYSTRAN, ModernMT
PT to EN
SYSTRAN
EN to JA
Amazon, Google
JA to EN
ModernMT
FR to RU
Deepl, Amazon, Google
RU to FR
Deepl, Amazon
FR to DE
Deepl, Amazon, Yandex
DE to FR
Deepl
FR to ES
SYSTRAN, Deepl
ES to FR
ES to ZH
Amazon, Google
ZH to ES
ZH to JA
Amazon, Google, Tencent
JA to ZH
Yandex, Google
Price efficiency
The X-fold price efficiency is achieved by the fact that you do not purchase X translators at a time.
Translator Vendors
Price for 1M chars*
Quality **
ModernMT
$50
very high
SAP Translation Hub
$45
normal
Alibaba Cloud
$33
normal
SYSTRAN
$30
high
IBM Watson
$22
normal
Deepl
$20
very high
Google Translate
$20
very high
*The price is only for minimum subscription. With increasing volumes, the price decreases.
**The quality of translations is based on the average value of popular language pairs by hLEPOR metric.
