Yandex Translate API

Yandex Translate is a machine translation REST API from Yandex that supports 100+ languages. It provides text translation between any supported language pair, automatic source language detection, and a translation dictionary with synonyms, translations, and examples. The API is part of the Yandex Cloud platform and uses neural machine translation to deliver high-quality translations for developers integrating multilingual capabilities into applications, websites, and services.

Yandex Translate API publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Language Detection API, Languages API, and Translation API. Tagged areas include Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, Language Detection, Translation Dictionary, and Multilingual.

The Yandex Translate API catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Yandex Translate API’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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51.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 44/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessPaidSelf serve

4 APIs

Machine TranslationNatural Language ProcessingLanguage DetectionTranslation DictionaryMultilingualYandex CloudLocalizationInternationalization

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Composite quality — 51.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 17.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 44/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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

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APIs 4

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Yandex Translate Rate Limits

8 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 5

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

Examples 7

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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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 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

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 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: yandex-translate
name: Yandex Translate API
description: Yandex Translate is a machine translation REST API from Yandex that supports 100+ languages. It provides text
  translation between any supported language pair, automatic source language detection, and a translation dictionary with
  synonyms, translations, and examples. The API is part of the Yandex Cloud platform and uses neural machine translation to
  deliver high-quality translations for developers integrating multilingual capabilities into applications, websites, and
  services.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/yandex-translate.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yandex-translate/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
- Machine Translation
- Natural Language Processing
- Language Detection
- Translation Dictionary
- Multilingual
- Yandex Cloud
- Localization
- Internationalization
apis:
- name: Yandex Translate API
  description: REST API for translating text between 100+ languages, detecting the source language of text, and listing supported
    languages. Built on Yandex neural machine translation technology with support for glossaries to improve translation accuracy
    for domain-specific vocabulary.
  humanURL: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/translate/
  baseURL: https://translate.api.cloud.yandex.net
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/translate/api-ref/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/translate/quickstart
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/translate/api-ref/authentication
- aid: yandex-translate:yandex-translate-language-detection-api
  name: Yandex Translate API Language Detection API
  description: Operations for detecting the language of text
  humanURL: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/translate/
  baseURL: https://translate.api.cloud.yandex.net
  tags:
  - Language Detection
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/yandex-translate-language-detection-api-openapi.yml
- aid: yandex-translate:yandex-translate-languages-api
  name: Yandex Translate API Languages API
  description: Operations for listing supported languages
  humanURL: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/translate/
  baseURL: https://translate.api.cloud.yandex.net
  tags:
  - Languages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/yandex-translate-languages-api-openapi.yml
- aid: yandex-translate:yandex-translate-translation-api
  name: Yandex Translate API Translation API
  description: Operations for translating text between languages
  humanURL: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/translate/
  baseURL: https://translate.api.cloud.yandex.net
  tags:
  - Translation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/yandex-translate-translation-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/yandex-translate-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/yandex-translate-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/yandex-translate-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/yandex-translate-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://yandex.cloud/en/services/translate
- type: Documentation
  url: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/translate/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/yandex-cloud
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yandex-cloud
- type: Blog
  url: https://yandex.cloud/en/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/translate/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.yandex.cloud/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/yandexcloud
- type: Plans
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yandex-translate/refs/heads/main/plans/yandex-translate-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yandex-translate/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/yandex-translate-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yandex-translate/refs/heads/main/finops/yandex-translate-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com