The vendor list grew from 21 in December 2018 to 106 in August 2026, mainly through LLM providers after 2023.
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| Group | On the 2025 list | On the 2026 list | On both lists | Of them, under a new name or owner | Gone | Left the market | Fell outside the commercial scope | Added | New | Shown in the 2025 edition but not counted | With outdated or English-only models | With a current multilingual model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MT vendors | 51 | 57 | 45 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 4 | ||
| LLM providers | 41 | 49 | 38 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 19 | 30 |
Of the 51 MT vendors of 2025, 45 are still on the list, 12 of them under a new name or owner, and 6 are gone: 4 left the market and 2 are non-commercial and out of our scope. The 12 MT vendors added are 8 new ones and 4 that we showed in the 2025 edition without counting them. Of the 41 LLM providers of 2025, 38 are still on the list and 3 are gone, and 11 are new. All 19 providers that now have only outdated or English-only models were on the 2025 list.
MT vendors and LLM providers that left or joined our lists, 2025 to 2026
| Vendor | Note |
|---|---|
| MT vendors gone (6) | |
| IBM Watson Language Translator | Withdrawn |
| Kingsoft AIDAtrans | The AIDAtrans domain no longer works |
| Lingua Custodia | Renamed Dragon LLM, then acquired by OVHcloud in March 2026 |
| Lindat | Non-commercial, outside our scope |
| Masakhane | Non-commercial, outside our scope |
| Sogou | Discontinued |
| MT vendors added (12) | |
| ALL-Lab | New |
| Lara 2 by Translated | New |
| Lilt | New |
| Reverie | New |
| Supertext | New |
| T-tact AN-ZIN | New |
| Volcengine MT | New |
| Widn.AI | New |
| Devnagri | Shown in the 2025 edition, not counted |
| Oracle Translate | Shown in the 2025 edition, not counted |
| Phrase NextMT | Shown in the 2025 edition, not counted |
| SmartMATE | Shown in the 2025 edition, not counted |
| LLM providers gone (3) | |
| BAIR | |
| Deci | |
| LianjiaTech | |
| LLM providers added (11) | |
| AI Singapore | New |
| ByteDance | New |
| Moonshot AI | New |
| Sarvam AI | New |
| SpeakLeash | New |
| Swiss AI | New |
| TartuNLP | New |
| Thinking Machines | New |
| Tilde | New |
| Upstage | New |
| Z.ai | New |
ALL-Lab, DeepL, NetEase Youdao, NiuTrans, Translated and Xiaomi are also new to our generative AI survey. We track only translation models for them, so they are not among the LLM providers.