Translation

LibreTranslate

Machine translation API you can run yourself.

open source self-hostable LibreTranslate project · ?

Open-source translation based on Argos models; no text leaves your server.

Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “Translation” with it

How you can run it

Way	Where the data lives	Price basis	Verdict
Host it myself	your own server or hardware	free	green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure.

Facts

Company / project	LibreTranslate project (jurisdiction unknown)
Licence	AGPL-3.0
Self-hosting footprint	2048 MB RAM · 1 vCPU · 5 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people
Commonly replaces	Google Translate
Provenance	curated, verified 2026-09-04

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