Translation API
100 languages, 33-50% under hyperscalers
Drop-in alternative to AWS Translate, GCP Translation, and Azure Translator. Backed by Brainiall Translate engine (100 languages including all major European, Asian, and Middle-Eastern pairs). Sync REST endpoint, ISO-639-1 codes, no language-pair surcharges. Closing the only commodity gap where every hyperscaler had a product and we didn't.
Use cases
Localize user-generated content
Marketplaces, social platforms, review sites translate listings, comments, and reviews on the fly. Brainiall Translate engine handles 100 languages with ISO-639-1 codes — no per-language pricing trick like Azure's tiered model.
Multilingual support tickets
Translate inbound tickets to your team's language, translate replies back. Sync REST endpoint means no batch wait — first-token-to-translation under 2s on a 50-character sentence.
Multilingual voice pipelines
Chain Brainiall Speech (Pro tier) (99 langs) → Translate → Brainiall Voice TTS (English narration). End-to-end speech localization without leaving the Brainiall stack — single Bearer key, single billing line.
Document and legal translation
PDF-to-Markdown (S4) extracts structured text → Translate normalizes language for downstream RAG / agents. Useful for compliance pipelines that need to reason across multilingual contracts.
Localized chatbot inputs
User types in any of the 100 supported languages, your LLM agent processes in English, response gets translated back to the user's language. Lower hallucination rate than asking the LLM to handle translation natively.
Quality & price comparison
Quality is approximate on a 0–10 scale within the translation category, derived from published BLEU benchmarks (industry-standard benchmarks, WMT). DeepL leads on European-language nuance; AWS, GCP, Azure, and Brainiall sit at roughly comparable quality across the 100-language coverage band. Price is per million characters in USD.
| Provider | Quality | Price/M-chars | vs market avg | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Translate | 8.5/10 | $15.00 | 86% | — |
| GCP Cloud Translation NMT | 8.5/10 | $20.00 | 114% | — |
| Azure Translator | 8.5/10 | $10.00 | 57% | — |
| DeepL API | 9.5/10 | $25.00 | 143% | — |
| Brainiall STANDARD | 8.0/10 | $5.00(71% cheaper) | 29% | Parity |
Pricing rule: 90% off when inferior · 80% off at parity · 50% off when superior. Position determined by objective benchmark, refreshed quarterly.
Two-line integration
POST text + source/target ISO-639-1 codes. Response includes the translation, char counts, and processing time.
curl https://api.brainiall.com/translate/v1/translate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BRAINIALL_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"text": "Hello world, how are you today?",
"source_lang": "en",
"target_lang": "pt"
}'
# response:
# {
# "translated_text": "Olá mundo, como você está hoje?",
# "source_lang": "en", "target_lang": "pt",
# "chars_in": 31, "chars_out": 31,
# "processing_ms": 1308,
# "pipeline_version": "s10-v1.0.0",
# "request_id": "req_..."
# }Pricing
Discount derived from quality position vs market average. 80% off at parity with AWS / GCP / Azure on coverage and quality.
Free
$0/mo
100,000 characters/month · All 100 languages · Forever free
Starter
$19/mo
5,000,000 characters/month · Standard latency · ISO-639-1 codes
Pro
$99/mo
30,000,000 characters/month · Priority queue · 99.5% SLA
Business
$299/mo
120,000,000 characters/month · Dedicated capacity · Email + Slack
What we don't (yet) have
- DeepL-tier nuance. DeepL leads on European-language register and idiomatic phrasing — for a public-facing brand voice across DE / FR / ES / IT, DeepL's quality premium may justify its 5× price. Brainiall Translate engine is solid but generic.
- Custom domain glossaries. AWS Translate and Azure Translator support domain-specific glossaries (e.g., legal, medical) with one-click overrides. Brainiall does not — yet.
- Translation memory / TM. Enterprise CAT-tool workflows expect TMX interchange. We don't ship that interface today.
- Real-time streaming translation. Our endpoint is request-response. For real-time conferencing, consider pairing Brainiall Speech Pro streaming + Translate + Brainiall Voice TTS — but it's not a single SKU yet.