The State of Translation Automation 2026 · Languages

English to Sundanese AI translation quality, cost and speed

What it takes to automate translation from English into Sundanese against 10 requirements in three levels: the solutions that meet them, what they cost and how fast they are, from the 2026 benchmark of 57 AI models and MT engines.

How good is AI translation from English to Sundanese?

Key findings on English to Sundanese translation

  1. 1Near missAt all three levels, the best available solution is the three-step solution (translation + LQA + repair) on Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6, and it misses general translation quality alone. It has no critical error and two major errors, but 24.1 weighted errors per 1,000 words, above the bar.See the data →
  2. 2Price vs qualityAmong the one-step solutions with a conclusive Intento LQA result and a cost, the one on OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna costs the least, $0.41 per million characters, with 39.2 weighted errors per 1,000 words. Only the one on OpenAI GPT-5.5 has fewer, 35.3 weighted errors per 1,000 words, at $10.29 per million characters.See the data →
  3. 3Metrics vs LQAThe one-step solution on Cohere Command A Translate, first on COMET-Kiwi, has the most errors of the solutions with a conclusive Intento LQA result: 519.4 weighted errors per 1,000 words and 90 critical errors.See the data →

Find English to Sundanese 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 Sundanese, 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 12 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. Inconclusive: the three LQA judges agree on fewer than 90% of the sentences of the solution, so it has no general translation quality result (09-02). 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 Sundanese translation

Trade-off

The three-step solution (translation + LQA + repair) on Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 24.1 total errors per 1,000 words, at $636 per million characters and 243 seconds per 1,000 words. The three-step one on Google Gemini 3.5 Flash has 28.6 total errors per 1,000 words, at $588 per million characters and 161 seconds per 1,000 words. The one-step solution on OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna has 41.8 total errors per 1,000 words, at $0.41 per million characters and 14 seconds per 1,000 words. All three miss general translation quality.

Constraints

A limit of one or two steps leaves the one-step solution on OpenAI GPT-5.5 with the fewest total errors, 36.3 per 1,000 words, at $10.29 per million characters. Of the solutions that cost less, the one-step solution on OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna has the fewest, 41.8 total errors per 1,000 words, at $0.41 per million characters. Of the two real-time (<2 sec) solutions with a conclusive Intento LQA result, the one on DeepL Next Gen has fewer, 75.8 total errors per 1,000 words, against 109.5 for the one on OpenAI gpt-oss-120b.

Agent effect

The Advanced requirements add gender neutrality, and the two best solutions meet it without the gender-neutrality agent. So for the Advanced requirements, the three-step solution (translation + LQA + repair) on Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $636 per million characters and takes 243 seconds per 1,000 words, as for the Standard ones. It has 24.1 total errors per 1,000 words for both. The same holds for the two-step solution (translation + post-edit) on Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8, the other of the two best solutions.

English to Sundanese translation quality levels

Basic requirements

Tier 4: no solution

Solutions that meet them
0
Best available

Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6
three-step

Misses general translation quality.

Total errors per 1,000 words
24.1
Cost per million characters
$636
Seconds per 1,000 words
243
Standard requirements

Tier 4: no solution

Solutions that meet them
0
Best available

Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6
three-step

Misses general translation quality.

Total errors per 1,000 words
24.1
Cost per million characters
$636
Seconds per 1,000 words
243
Advanced requirements

Tier 4: no solution

Solutions that meet them
0
Best available

Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6
three-step

Misses general translation quality.

Total errors per 1,000 words
24.1
Cost per million characters
$636
Seconds per 1,000 words
243

Optimize for selects one of the solutions that meet the level: the one with the fewest total errors, the lowest cost or the shortest time. Where no solution meets the level, the card shows the available solution with the fewest total errors and what it misses. Total errors count every requirement with countable errors.

Quality levelTierSolutionsSimplest solutionModelTotal errors per 1,000 wordsCost per million charactersSeconds per 1,000 words
BasicTier 4: no solutionNo solution———
StandardTier 4: no solutionNo solution———
AdvancedTier 4: no solutionNo solution———

One solution per level: the simplest that meets the level, the cheapest of them where several are equally simple. ★ a one-step solution, ☆ a solution with more steps or the gender-neutrality agent.

Level step-up

In Sundanese, the Standard requirements add tone of voice, tags and formatting. Only two solutions meet all three and miss general translation quality alone: the three-step solution (translation + LQA + repair) on Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 and the two-step solution (translation + post-edit) on Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8. The other three-step solutions miss tone of voice too. The Advanced requirements add gender neutrality, and translations from both have 100% of the sentences about people gender-neutral.

How we measure it: 11-01 · 11-02 · 08-09

English to Sundanese translation cost against errors

Chart data
Cost and weighted errors of the one-step solutions in Sundanese
ModelUS dollars per million charactersWeighted errors per 1,000 wordsGroup
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna0.4139.2Misses a Standard requirement
OpenAI GPT-4.12.8276.5Misses a Standard requirement
Google Gemini 3.5 Flash3.4240.5Misses a Standard requirement
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.67.2969.5Misses a Standard requirement
OpenAI GPT-5.510.2935.3Misses a Standard requirement
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.816.1167.9Misses a Standard requirement
DeepL Next Gen27.559.3Misses a Standard requirement
Price vs quality

Of the one-step solutions with a conclusive result and a cost, the two that cost more than the one on OpenAI GPT-5.5 have more weighted errors. The ones on Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 and DeepL Next Gen cost $16.11 and $27.50 per million characters, and have 67.9 and 59.3 weighted errors per 1,000 words. The ones on Google Gemini 3.5 Flash, Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 and OpenAI GPT-4.1 cost $2.82 to $7.29 per million characters and have 40.5 to 76.5 weighted errors per 1,000 words, all more than the cheaper one on OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna.

How we measure it: 11-01 · 10-10

English to Sundanese translation requirements

Chart data
Errors per 1,000 words of the one-step solutions in Sundanese, median, by requirement
RequirementMedian errors per 1,000 words
General translation quality67.9
Tone of voice3.9
Tag handling0
Gender neutrality0

The requirements with countable errors. Every solution with its result on each requirement: the explorer.

Bottleneck

No solution meets general translation quality, with one, two or three steps. The three-step solutions (translation + LQA + repair) have 24.1 to 43.5 weighted errors per 1,000 words, all above the bar. The two-step solution (translation + post-edit) on OpenAI GPT-4.1 has 111.7 weighted errors per 1,000 words, against 76.5 with one step. Two solutions with more steps meet tone of voice: the three-step solution on Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 and the two-step solution on Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8.

How we measure it: 09-09 · 09-10 · 09-11 · 09-12 · 09-18

AI models and MT engines for English to Sundanese translation

Chart data
Weighted errors per 1,000 words of the shortlisted one-step solutions in Sundanese
ModelWeighted errors per 1,000 words of the shortlisted one-step solutions in SundaneseClass
Cohere Command A Translate519.4LLMs
OpenAI gpt-oss-120b97.9Open-weight LLMs
OpenAI GPT-4.176.5LLMs
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.669.5LLMs
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.867.9LLMs
DeepL Next Gen59.3LLM-based MT engines
Google Gemini 3.5 Flash40.5LLMs
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna39.2LLMs
OpenAI GPT-5.535.3LLMs

No translation into Sundanese: AI21 Jamba Large 1.7 (garbage or near-empty).

Model types

Translations from the two shortlisted LLMs with language support by our criteria, OpenAI GPT-5.5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna, have the fewest weighted errors of the one-step solutions. Translations from DeepL Next Gen, the one LLM-based MT engine with a conclusive Intento LQA result, have 59.3 weighted errors per 1,000 words. None of the three MT engines that are not LLM-based made the shortlist. The highest of them, Google Cloud Advanced Translation API, is at rank 23 on COMET-Kiwi and 22 on MetricX.

How we measure it: 00-04 · 08-15 · 23-01

How we shortlisted English to Sundanese translation solutions

Chart data
Ranks of the models on the two automatic metrics, Sundanese
ModelCOMET-KiwiRank on COMET-KiwiMetricXRank on MetricXShortlistedShortlist place
Mistral Large 30.684122.1118NoNot shortlisted
Google Gemma 40.682131.9114NoNot shortlisted
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 50.680152.1319NoNot shortlisted
Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview0.678161.8310NoNot shortlisted
xAI Grok 4.20 (non-reasoning)0.677171.9616NoNot shortlisted
z.ai GLM-50.676181.8713NoNot shortlisted
DeepSeek V3.20.667191.8611NoNot shortlisted
MoonshotAI Kimi K2.50.660202.4120NoNot shortlisted
Alibaba Qwen3-235B-A22B0.660212.4821NoNot shortlisted
Mistral Medium 3.10.659222.9824NoNot shortlisted
Google Cloud Advanced Translation API0.656232.5222NoNot shortlisted
Anthropic Claude Fable 50.654241.8612NoNot shortlisted
ModernMT Enterprise Edition0.599253.5225NoNot shortlisted
MiniMax M2.50.588265.2327NoNot shortlisted
Yandex Cloud Translate v20.575274.2626NoNot shortlisted
Cohere Command A Translate0.75611.787YesTop 8 by both metrics
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.50.73621.9315YesTop 8 by COMET-Kiwi
Swiss AI Apertus-8B-25090.70032.6623YesTop 8 by COMET-Kiwi
DeepL Next Gen0.69941.541YesTop 8 by both metrics
OpenAI GPT-4.10.69451.645YesTop 8 by both metrics
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.60.69461.623YesTop 8 by both metrics
Translated Lara 20.69371.829YesTop 8 by COMET-Kiwi
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna0.69281.592YesTop 8 by both metrics
OpenAI gpt-oss-120b0.68891.9617YesReal-time place
Google Gemini 3.5 Flash0.688101.666YesTop 8 by MetricX
OpenAI GPT-5.50.684111.634YesTop 8 by MetricX
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.80.682141.808YesTop 8 by MetricX
ModelSolution complexityCOMET-Kiwi rankCOMET-KiwiMetricX rankMetricXShortlist
Cohere Command A TranslateAdjusted LLM10.75671.78Top 8 by both metrics
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5Adjusted LLM20.736151.93Top 8 by COMET-Kiwi
Swiss AI Apertus-8B-2509Off-the-shelf LLM30.700232.66Top 8 by COMET-Kiwi
DeepL Next GenOff-the-shelf NMT40.69911.54Top 8 by both metrics
OpenAI GPT-4.1Adjusted LLM50.69451.64Top 8 by both metrics
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6Adjusted LLM60.69431.62Top 8 by both metrics
Translated Lara 2Adjusted NMT70.69391.82Top 8 by COMET-Kiwi
OpenAI GPT-5.6 LunaAdjusted LLM80.69221.59Top 8 by both metrics
OpenAI gpt-oss-120bOff-the-shelf LLM90.688171.96Real-time place
Google Gemini 3.5 FlashOff-the-shelf LLM100.68861.66Top 8 by MetricX
OpenAI GPT-5.5Adjusted LLM110.68441.63Top 8 by MetricX
Mistral Large 3Adjusted LLM120.684182.11Not shortlisted
Google Gemma 4Adjusted LLM130.682141.91Not shortlisted
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8Adjusted LLM140.68281.80Top 8 by MetricX
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5Adjusted LLM150.680192.13Not shortlisted
Google Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewOff-the-shelf LLM160.678101.83Not shortlisted
xAI Grok 4.20 (non-reasoning)Adjusted LLM170.677161.96Not shortlisted
z.ai GLM-5Adjusted LLM180.676131.87Not shortlisted
DeepSeek V3.2Adjusted LLM190.667111.86Not shortlisted
MoonshotAI Kimi K2.5Adjusted LLM200.660202.41Not shortlisted
Alibaba Qwen3-235B-A22BAdjusted LLM210.660212.48Not shortlisted
Mistral Medium 3.1Adjusted LLM220.659242.98Not shortlisted
Google Cloud Advanced Translation APIOff-the-shelf NMT230.656222.52Not shortlisted
Anthropic Claude Fable 5Adjusted LLM240.654121.86Not shortlisted
ModernMT Enterprise EditionOff-the-shelf NMT250.599253.52Not shortlisted
MiniMax M2.5Adjusted LLM260.588275.23Not shortlisted
Yandex Cloud Translate v2Off-the-shelf NMT270.575264.26Not shortlisted
OpenAI GPT-5.6 SolAdjusted LLM—0.676—1.53Same model family as OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna
OpenAI GPT-5.6 TerraAdjusted LLM—0.677—1.71Same model family as OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna
xAI Grok 4.20 (reasoning)Adjusted LLM—0.674—1.78Same model family as xAI Grok 4.20 (non-reasoning)

Every model we got a translation from, as the shortlist compared it: off the shelf, without context in the request, or adjusted, with it. A model that did not make the shortlist is shown adjusted, unless off the shelf it scores higher by 0.03 or more on COMET-Kiwi. Ranks among 27 models, with each model family counted once, and the top 8 of each metric in bold. Higher is better on COMET-Kiwi, lower on MetricX. The scores rank models within this language and are not a requirement result.

Metrics vs LQA

MetricX alone brought in the one-step solution with the fewest weighted errors, on OpenAI GPT-5.5, at rank 4 against rank 11 on COMET-Kiwi. The three solutions that came in through COMET-Kiwi alone, on Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5, Swiss AI Apertus-8B-2509 and Translated Lara 2, have no conclusive Intento LQA result. Nearest the cut in the tail are Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, at rank 10 on MetricX, and Mistral Large 3, at rank 12 on COMET-Kiwi.

How we measure it: 00-08 · 00-09

English to Sundanese translation cost

Quality levelCheapest solution that meets every requirement of the levelCost per million characters
BasicNo solution—
StandardNo solution—
AdvancedNo solution—
Chart data
Cost of the shortlisted one-step solutions in Sundanese
ModelUS dollars per million charactersClass
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna$0.41LLMs
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5$2.25LLMs
OpenAI GPT-4.1$2.82LLMs
Google Gemini 3.5 Flash$3.42LLMs
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6$7.29LLMs
OpenAI GPT-5.5$10.29LLMs
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8$16.11LLMs
Translated Lara 2$24.99LLM-based MT engines
DeepL Next Gen$27.5LLM-based MT engines
Chart data
Tokens per character of the translation into Sundanese, by model
ModelTokens per characterClass
Anthropic Claude Fable 50.509LLMs
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.80.508LLMs
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 50.508LLMs
Mistral Large 30.407LLMs
Mistral Medium 3.10.407LLMs
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.60.386LLMs
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.50.377LLMs
MoonshotAI Kimi K2.50.355LLMs
z.ai GLM-50.351LLMs
Alibaba Qwen3-235B-A22B0.35Open-weight LLMs
DeepSeek V3.20.344LLMs
xAI Grok 4.20 (non-reasoning)0.325LLMs
xAI Grok 4.20 (reasoning)0.325LLMs
MiniMax M2.50.317LLMs
Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview0.316LLMs
Google Gemini 3.5 Flash0.31LLMs
Google Gemma 40.307Open-weight LLMs
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol0.282LLMs
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra0.282LLMs
Cohere Command A Translate0.279LLMs
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna0.279LLMs
OpenAI GPT-5.50.277LLMs
OpenAI GPT-4.10.276LLMs
Cost driver

The tokenizers of 23 models produce a median 0.33 tokens per character of the translation, 1.4 times as many as for English. Tokens per character do not set the order of the costs alone. With 0.277 tokens per character, the one-step solution on OpenAI GPT-5.5 costs $10.29 per million characters, and with 0.377, the one on Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $2.25. On Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6, one step costs $7.29 per million characters, two steps (translation + post-edit) $16.16 and three steps (translation + LQA + repair) $636.

How we measure it: 10-01 · 10-03 · 05-02

English to Sundanese translation speed

Quality levelFastest solution that meets every requirement of the levelSeconds per 1,000 words
BasicNo solution—
StandardNo solution—
AdvancedNo solution—
Chart data
Time to translate 1,000 words into Sundanese, by model
ModelSeconds per 1,000 wordsClass
Google Cloud Advanced Translation API0.2MT engines
ModernMT Enterprise Edition0.3MT engines
DeepL Next Gen0.6LLM-based MT engines
Translated Lara 21.6LLM-based MT engines
OpenAI gpt-oss-120b2.1Open-weight LLMs
Yandex Cloud Translate v23.3MT engines
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna14LLMs
xAI Grok 4.20 (non-reasoning)17LLMs
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.533LLMs
Cohere Command A Translate38LLMs
OpenAI GPT-4.138LLMs
Mistral Medium 3.140LLMs
Swiss AI Apertus-8B-250943Open-weight LLMs
xAI Grok 4.20 (reasoning)44LLMs
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra45LLMs
MiniMax M2.550LLMs
Google Gemini 3.5 Flash55LLMs
DeepSeek V3.263LLMs
Mistral Large 366LLMs
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 571LLMs
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.679LLMs
Anthropic Claude Fable 579LLMs
OpenAI GPT-5.580LLMs
Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview81LLMs
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.889LLMs
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol91LLMs
Alibaba Qwen3-235B-A22B137Open-weight LLMs
Google Gemma 4146Open-weight LLMs
MoonshotAI Kimi K2.5185LLMs
z.ai GLM-5204LLMs

Real-time models are those the shortlist counts as real-time, under 2 seconds per text across the languages we timed. The chart shows the time of each model into Sundanese.

Real-time

Three of the five real-time models made the shortlist: the LLM-based MT engines DeepL Next Gen and Translated Lara 2, and the open-weight OpenAI gpt-oss-120b. Translations from DeepL Next Gen have 94.5% of the tags right. Of the shortlisted LLMs that are not open-weight, the one-step solution on OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna is the fastest, at 14 seconds per 1,000 words. On Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6, one step takes 79 seconds per 1,000 words, two steps (translation + post-edit) 143 and three steps (translation + LQA + repair) 243.

How we measure it: 12-01 · 12-02 · 12-09

Tone of voice and gender-neutral English to Sundanese translation

Tone of voice
Formal register, with basa lemes
Gender-neutrality strategy
No grammatical gender for persons — neutral by default; only avoid gendered terms
Default gender
None where the source leaves the gender open
The two best solutionsSolutionSentences about people that are gender-neutralMeets every Advanced requirementCost per million charactersSeconds per 1,000 words
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6three-step100%✗$636243
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8two-step100%✗$35.68162
Analysis

For tone of voice we check the formal register, with basa lemes as the form of address. With one step, translations have it in 29.8% to 95.7% of the sentences in the second person or the imperative. The two best solutions, the three-step solution (translation + LQA + repair) on Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 and the two-step solution (translation + post-edit) on Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8, have it in 100%. Sundanese has no grammatical gender for persons, so a translation is gender-neutral unless it has a gendered term.

How we measure it: 02-05 · 02-06 · 08-11 · 09-18

How confident are we in measuring English to Sundanese translation quality?

Confidence

The metric agreement in Sundanese is not borderline. Across the 12 shortlisted solutions, the median agreement of the three LQA judges is 91.5% of the sentences. The general translation quality results on this page rest on the nine one-step solutions with a conclusive result, and on the two-step and three-step solutions on four LLMs among them: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6, Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8, Google Gemini 3.5 Flash and OpenAI GPT-4.1.

How we measure it: 00-07 · 07-05 · 09-02

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