IBM Language Translator

IBM Watson Language Translator was a REST API service for translating text between 35+ languages, detecting input language automatically, and creating custom domain-specific translation models using TMX, XLIFF, or CSV training data. The service supported neural machine translation (NMT) and was available through IBM Cloud. IBM deprecated the service in June 2023 and fully withdrew it in December 2024.

IBM Language Translator publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Documents API, Languages API, Models API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Translation, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, IBM Watson, and Artificial Intelligence.

The IBM Language Translator catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

IBM Language Translator’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 18 more developer resources.

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Translation Natural Language Processing Machine TranslationIBM WatsonArtificial Intelligence Text Analysis Deprecated

What this lets a business do 1

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AI Model Services

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Models

POST /v3/models

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Composite quality — 46.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.1 / 16

Developer Ergonomics 3.1 / 13

Access Clarity 6.5 / 13

Operational Transparency 4.7 / 8

Contract Governance 0.8 / 8

Discoverability 4.3 / 7

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Open Source Surface 6.5 / 10

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
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A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 55.9 — up to +11.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 9.8 — up to +10.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Localization and Translation Management	undeclared	-	-	-

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

IBM Language Translator Documents API

Operations for translating documents

IBM Language Translator Languages API

Operations for listing supported and identifiable languages

IBM Language Translator Models API

Operations for managing translation models

IBM Language Translator Translation API

Operations for translating text

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

IBM Watson Language Translator V3 Documents API

OPEN COLLECTION

IBM Watson Language Translator V3 Documents Languages API

OPEN COLLECTION

IBM Watson Language Translator V3 Documents Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

IBM Watson Language Translator V3 Documents Translation API

OPEN COLLECTION

IBM Language Translator API pricing

Prices published by IBM Language Translator, read 2026-10-07 from www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-orchestrate. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Trial	Free trial Includes: 30-day free period
Essentials	Starting at $530.00 USD Per month
Standard	Starting at $6,360.00 USD Per month Includes: Higher usage limits
Premium	Contact us

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Lite Plan Concurrency: 10 requests per minute
Standard Plan Concurrency: 50 requests per minute
Character Limit Per Request: 50000 characters

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against IBM Language Translator's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Billed by: subscription · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ibm Translate Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Ibm Translate Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ibm Translate Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

IBM Language Translator

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Ibm Translate Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

context Context

8 classes · 35 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

IBM Language Translator — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

DocumentStatus

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TranslationModel

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TranslateRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TranslationResult

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Identify Language

4 fields

EXAMPLE

List Models

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Translate Text

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ibm Translate Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Ibm Translate Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Ibm Translate Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Ibm Translate Agentic Access

13 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

Releases

StatusPage

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

Pricing

Plans

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ibm-translate
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ibm-translate/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: IBM Language Translator
kind: company
description: IBM Watson Language Translator was a REST API service for translating text between 35+ languages, detecting input
  language automatically, and creating custom domain-specific translation models using TMX, XLIFF, or CSV training data. The
  service supported neural machine translation (NMT) and was available through IBM Cloud. IBM deprecated the service in June
  2023 and fully withdrew it in December 2024.
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: Apache-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ibm-translate.png
tags:
- Translation
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Translation
- IBM Watson
- Artificial Intelligence
- Text Analysis
- Deprecated
tags_raw:
- Translation
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Translation
- IBM Watson
- AI
- Text Analysis
- Deprecated
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-08-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: ibm-translate:ibm-translate-documents-api
  name: IBM Language Translator Documents API
  description: Operations for translating documents
  humanURL: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/language-translator
  baseURL: https://api.us-south.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ibm-translate-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/language-translator
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-language-translator/pricing
- aid: ibm-translate:ibm-translate-languages-api
  name: IBM Language Translator Languages API
  description: Operations for listing supported and identifiable languages
  humanURL: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/language-translator
  baseURL: https://api.us-south.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com
  tags:
  - Language
  tags_raw:
  - Languages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ibm-translate-languages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/language-translator
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-language-translator/pricing
- aid: ibm-translate:ibm-translate-models-api
  name: IBM Language Translator Models API
  description: Operations for managing translation models
  humanURL: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/language-translator
  baseURL: https://api.us-south.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ibm-translate-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/language-translator
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-language-translator/pricing
- aid: ibm-translate:ibm-translate-translation-api
  name: IBM Language Translator Translation API
  description: Operations for translating text
  humanURL: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/language-translator
  baseURL: https://api.us-south.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com
  tags:
  - Translation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ibm-translate-translation-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/language-translator
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-language-translator/pricing
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/ibm-translate-capability-edges.yml
  name: IBM Language Translator Business Capability Map
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/ibm/
  name: Ibm
  x-relationship: product
  x-generated-by: ibm-family:2026-08-21
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk/releases
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk/blob/master/.github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/ibm-translate-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/ibm-translate-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ibm-translate-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ibm-translate-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-language-translator
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/language-translator
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.ibm.com/blog/category/watson/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-language-translator/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://cloud.ibm.com/status?component=language-translator&selected=status
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/IBMcloud
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ibm-translate-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ibm-translate-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ibm-translate-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: ibm
x-relationship: product

IBM Language Translator API — frequently asked questions

Does IBM Language Translator have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from IBM Language Translator, including IBM Language Translator Documents API, IBM Language Translator Languages API and IBM Language Translator Models API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the IBM Language Translator API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for IBM Language Translator, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the IBM Language Translator API?

IBM Language Translator uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Ibm Translate Authentication.

How much does the IBM Language Translator API cost?

IBM Language Translator publishes its prices; its Trial plan is Free trial as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for IBM Language Translator, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the IBM Language Translator API ready for AI agents?

IBM Language Translator has a Kin Score of 46.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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