LibreTranslate

Free and open-source machine translation REST API supporting 30+ languages with self-hostable deployment and no third-party service dependency. Powered by the open-source Argos Translate library, LibreTranslate provides endpoints for text translation, language detection, file translation, and translation suggestions. Deployable on-premise for full offline capability or accessible via the managed hosted service.

LibreTranslate publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Misc API and Translate API. Tagged areas include Translation, Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, Open Source, and Self-Hosted.

The LibreTranslate catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

LibreTranslate’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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31.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-04 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessFreemium

1 published contract

Translation Machine Translation Natural Language Processing Open Source Self-Hosted

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-04 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 31.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 1.8 / 15

Access Clarity 7.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 2.1 / 9

Discoverability 4.3 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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

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APIs 2

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

LibreTranslate Misc API

The misc API from LibreTranslate — 3 operation(s) for misc.

LibreTranslate Translate API

The translate API from LibreTranslate — 4 operation(s) for translate.

Open Collections 3

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

LibreTranslate misc API

OPEN COLLECTION

LibreTranslate misc translate API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

LibreTranslate API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

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

DetectRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Language

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TranslateRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TranslateResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 5

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Detect Language

4 fields

EXAMPLE

List Languages

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Translate Auto Detect

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Translate Batch

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Translate Text

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

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

Libre Translate Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Libre Translate Agentic Access

7 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

PublicAPIsListing

PublicAPIsListing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: libre-translate
name: LibreTranslate
description: Free and open-source machine translation REST API supporting 30+ languages with self-hostable deployment and
  no third-party service dependency. Powered by the open-source Argos Translate library, LibreTranslate provides endpoints
  for text translation, language detection, file translation, and translation suggestions. Deployable on-premise for full
  offline capability or accessible via the managed hosted service.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/libre-translate.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-08-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Translation
- Machine Translation
- Natural Language Processing
- Open Source
- Self-Hosted
tags_raw:
- Translation
- Machine Translation
- Natural Language Processing
- Open Source
- Self-Hosted
- Open-Source
apis:
- aid: libre-translate:libre-translate-misc-api
  name: LibreTranslate Misc API
  description: The misc API from LibreTranslate — 3 operation(s) for misc.
  humanURL: https://libretranslate.com
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - misc
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/libre-translate-misc-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.libretranslate.com
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/json-schema/translate-request.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/json-schema/translate-response.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/json-schema/detect-request.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/json-schema/language.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/json-ld/jsonld.json
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: libre-translate:libre-translate-translate-api
  name: LibreTranslate Translate API
  description: The translate API from LibreTranslate — 4 operation(s) for translate.
  humanURL: https://libretranslate.com
  tags:
  - Translate
  tags_raw:
  - translate
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/libre-translate-translate-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.libretranslate.com
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/json-schema/translate-request.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/json-schema/translate-response.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/json-schema/detect-request.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/json-schema/language.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/json-ld/jsonld.json
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/libre-translate-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/libre-translate-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://libretranslate.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.libretranslate.com
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/LibreTranslate
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/libretranslate
- type: Blog
  url: https://community.libretranslate.com
- type: Pricing
  url: https://portal.libretranslate.com
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.libretranslate.com
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/libretranslate
- type: Plans
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/libre-translate/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- type: PublicAPIsListing
  url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-merged-from:
- libretranslate

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