AI Translation from English to Macedonian Translation

How good is AI translation from English to Macedonian?

Two or more one-step solutions meet every Basic and Standard requirement in Macedonian.
Only the solution on OpenAI GPT-5.5 with the gender-neutrality agent meets every Advanced requirement in Macedonian.
The cheapest solution that meets every Standard requirement costs $4.84 per million characters, and the fastest takes 32 seconds per 1,000 words.

A solution is a model plus its harness: prompts, glossaries and other context, pre- and post-processing. It meets a quality level when it meets every requirement of the level.

Requirement	Description	Met when
Basic requirements for any company
General translation quality	Translation errors of every type, such as mistranslations, omissions and grammar errors, classified by type and severity following MQM, the industry standard.	No critical error, at most 3 major errors in the four test texts (3,034 words) and at most 20 errors per 1,000 words, weighted by severity (minor 1, major 5, critical 10).
Standard requirements adds the rules companies set for their content
Terminology	The approved translation of every glossary term, in any of its correct forms.	100% of the glossary terms. We test it in the 16 languages with a glossary, so it does not apply in Macedonian.
Tone of voice	The formal register (Вие) in every sentence in the second person or the imperative.	100% of those sentences.
Tags	Every HTML tag of the source, with its attributes, in the translation.	100% of the tags.
Unicode character integrity	Every character intact, with no corrupted characters and no letter from another script that only looks like the right one.	100% of the characters.
Locale conventions	The punctuation marks of the target language in place of the English ones.	No pass-or-fail bar. We report it as a share, because whether to localize punctuation is a matter of house style.
HTML entities	No HTML character code, such as the code for a quotation mark, that the source does not carry.	No added HTML entity.
Valid JSON	The translated JSON document still parses.	The document parses.
Spacing at tag boundaries	The spaces next to HTML tags stay as in the source.	100% of the tag boundaries.
Advanced requirements adds a requirement for some companies and use cases
Gender neutrality	A gender-neutral translation wherever the English source leaves the gender of a person open, as in “your manager” or “the expert”.	100% of the sentences that refer to a person.

Find English to Macedonian translation solutions for your requirements

Pick a quality level, or your own requirements, bars and constraints, to see the shortlisted solutions that meet them in Macedonian, with a column for each requirement you select. Under Optimize for, choose which of them comes first: the one with the fewest total errors, the lowest cost or the shortest time. Click a column heading to sort by it.

The shortlisted solutions on 11 models, with their Intento LQA results. Total errors per 1,000 words add the weighted general translation quality errors (minor 1, major 5, critical 10) to the missed glossary terms, sentences in the wrong register, tag errors and sentences that fail gender neutrality, each counted once. Formatting counts as met or missed and does not add to the total errors. The models that did not make the shortlist have automatic scores only: the shortlist. Gender neutrality: the Advanced requirements count the two best solutions of the language, with the gender-neutrality agent where they need it. The results of the other solutions are shown for information.

How we measure it: 11-01 · 11-02

Trade-offs in English to Macedonian translation

Trade-off

Four one-step solutions meet every Standard requirement in Macedonian. The one on OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra has the fewest total errors, 14.9 per 1,000 words, the lowest cost and the shortest time, so Optimize for selects it for quality, cost and latency alike. Among the other three, the solution on Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview costs $5.09 per million characters against $12.01 for the one on OpenAI GPT-5.5, but has 22.5 total errors per 1,000 words against 16.2 and takes 97 seconds per 1,000 words against 73.

Constraints

Under the Standard requirements, a cost cap or a time limit below those of the solution on OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra, $4.84 per million characters and 32 seconds per 1,000 words, removes all four solutions. A limit on the steps keeps all four, since each takes one step. Under the Advanced requirements, any limit on the solution complexity removes the only solution, because it works with the gender-neutrality agent. So does a cost cap below $12.57 per million characters or a time limit below 64 seconds per 1,000 words.

Agent effect

The gender-neutrality agent takes the solution on OpenAI GPT-5.5 from $12.01 to $12.57 per million characters, from 73 to 64 seconds per 1,000 words and from 16.2 to 12.2 total errors per 1,000 words. On OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra, the agent comes in a three-step solution (translation + LQA + repair), so the change combines two extra steps with the agent. That solution has 2.9 total errors per 1,000 words against 14.9 for the one-step solution, at $976 against $4.84 per million characters and 160 against 32 seconds per 1,000 words.

English to Macedonian translation quality levels

Macedonian is in tier 1 (simple solution + backup) for the Standard requirements and in tier 3 (one solution) for the Advanced requirements, because only one solution meets gender neutrality.
A solution meets general translation quality with no critical error, at most three major errors and at most 20 weighted errors per 1,000 words.

Optimize for

Basic requirements★★★★