Free neural machine translation service from Yandex covering 101 languages for text, web pages and documents, with voice input, photo translation and an API.
Yandex Translate is a machine translation service from Yandex, a Russian technology company, launched in March 2011 and available on the web and in mobile apps. It translates between 101 languages and handles text, web pages and documents, accepts voice input and translates text inside photos using OCR.
Since September 2017 the service has used a hybrid of statistical and neural machine translation, and Yandex describes combining a neural translation architecture with outlier detection and data augmentation techniques. The service is known for strong quality on Russian, Ukrainian and other Slavic languages. An API lets businesses build translation into their own applications.
Using the translator is free. The company’s page showed a verification screen when checked, so this listing relies on public reference sources instead of a live read of the interface, and API pricing was not confirmed.
Key features
Neural machine translation across 101 languages
Translation of text, web pages and documents
Voice input for spoken translation
Photo translation using OCR
API for business integration
Screenshots & demo
Pricing
Yandex Translate offers a free plan, with paid upgrades for higher limits and more features.
Pricing is provided as a guide. Check the official site for the latest plans.
Is Yandex Translate expensive?
Yandex Translate has no advertised paid tier. Among the 105 priced tools we list in Writing, the median entry price is $12 a month.
66% of Writing tools in the directory offer a free tier, and this is one of them.
Compared against every priced listing in Writing, recalculated as the catalogue changes. Method and the full market breakdown are in our AI tool pricing study.
Pros & cons
Pros
Free to use
Strong quality for Russian, Ukrainian and other Slavic languages
Covers text, voice, photos and whole web pages
Cons
Run by a Russian company, which some organizations restrict for compliance reasons
Live page was not readable during checking, and API pricing is unconfirmed
No independent translation-quality comparison was checked for this listing
Yandex Translate is a machine translation service from Yandex, a Russian technology company, launched in March 2011 and available on the web and in mobile apps.
Is Yandex Translate free?
Yes, Yandex Translate offers a free plan. Paid plans unlock more features and higher usage limits.
What are the best Yandex Translate alternatives?
The closest matches in the directory are Microsoft Translator, Transmonkey, and IMGTrans, compared side by side above.
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