We classify models by API access, distinguishing MT engines from promptable LLMs.
We fill the shortlist places for fast solutions by measured latency. A solution qualifies when it returns a document in 2 seconds or less, whatever its type.
The 57 models by type
| Model | Vendor |
|---|---|
| MT engines | |
| Alibaba | Alibaba |
| ALL-Lab | ALL-Lab |
| Amazon | Amazon |
| AppTek NMT | AppTek |
| Baidu | Baidu |
| Elia Elhuyar Machine Translation System | Elia |
| Google Cloud Advanced Translation API | |
| iFlyTek MT | iFlyTek |
| Microsoft Translator | Microsoft |
| ModernMT Enterprise Edition | Translated |
| Naver Papago NMT Commercial | Naver |
| NiuTrans | NiuTrans |
| Oracle | Oracle |
| Pangeanic | Pangeanic |
| SYSTRAN PNMT API | SYSTRAN |
| Tarjama | Tarjama |
| TartuNLP | TartuNLP |
| Tencent Cloud TMT | Tencent |
| Yandex | Yandex |
| Youdao | Youdao |
| LLM-based MT engines | |
| DeepL Next Gen | DeepL |
| Google Translation LLM | |
| Supertext LLM | Supertext |
| Tilde | Tilde |
| Translated Lara 2 | Translated |
| Widn AI Tower Anthill | TransPerfect |
| Widn AI Tower Sugarloaf | TransPerfect |
| Widn AI Tower Vesuvius | TransPerfect |
| LLMs | |
| AI21 Jamba Large 1.7 | AI21 |
| Anthropic Claude Fable 5 | Anthropic |
| Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic |
| Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 | Anthropic |
| Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic |
| Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic |
| Cohere Command A Translate | Cohere |
| Cohere Tiny Aya | Cohere |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | DeepSeek |
| GLM-5 | z.ai |
| Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | |
| Google Gemini 3.5 Flash | |
| Grok 4.20 (non-reasoning) | xAI |
| Grok 4.20 (reasoning) | xAI |
| M2.5 | MiniMax |
| Mistral Large 3 | Mistral |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mistral |
| MoonshotAI Kimi K2.5 | MoonshotAI |
| OpenAI GPT-4.1 | OpenAI |
| OpenAI GPT-5.5 | OpenAI |
| OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna | OpenAI |
| OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol | OpenAI |
| OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI |
| Open-weight LLMs | |
| Alibaba Cloud Qwen3-235B-A22B | Alibaba |
| Apertus-8B-2509 | Swiss AI |
| Google Gemma 4 | |
| Meta Llama 4 Maverick | Meta |
| OpenAI gpt-oss-120b | OpenAI |
| SpeakLeash Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct | SpeakLeash |