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Best free Translation Services (2026)
5 translation services that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: Crowdin at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Crowdin, DeepL, Google Cloud Translation, Weglot, Smartling.
- Data current through: 2026-11-01. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 3 of 5 rows below are marked.
Comparison
| # | Translation Service | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crowdin | $0/mo | No | Yes | No | open source projects | crowdin.com |
| 2 | DeepL | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | privacy-conscious enterprises | eesel.ai |
| 3 | Google Cloud Translation STALE · 2026-09-03 | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | developers needing API-first translation | cloud.google.com |
| 4 | Weglot STALE · 2026-09-03 | $0/mo | Yes | No | Yes | e-commerce stores | weglot.com |
| 5 | Smartling STALE · 2026-09-03 | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | regulated industries (healthcare, finance) | vendr.com |