Google Translate
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Google Translate is Google's neural machine translation service. It covers text, speech, image (via camera), and document translation across more than 100 languages, works offline for downloaded language packs, and is available on the web, iOS, and Android as well as through Cloud Translation APIs.
ABOUT GOOGLE TRANSLATE
Google Translate is Google's neural machine translation service. The consumer product covers text, speech, camera, handwriting, and document translation across more than 100 languages on the web, iOS, and Android, with offline translation available for downloaded language packs. For developers, the same underlying models are exposed through the Google Cloud Translation API on a usage-based rate card.
OVERVIEW
- Who is it for?
- Consumers translating text, speech, camera captures, and documents across 100+ languages, plus developers who need the same models via a paid Cloud API.
- Problem
- Travellers, students, and multilingual teams need fast, offline-capable translation across many languages, and developers need a production API without training their own models.
- Solution
- Google Translate offers free web, iOS, and Android apps with camera translation, live conversation mode, transcribe mode, handwriting input, offline packs, and tap-to-translate. Developers get the same underlying models via the Cloud Translation pay-per-character API.
- What makes it unique
- 100+ language coverage with offline translation, camera and handwriting inputs, and a matching Cloud Translation API on the same underlying models. The consumer product is fully free.
KEY FEATURES
- 100+ language pairs
- Camera translation for signs and menus
- Live conversation mode
- Transcribe mode for continuous speech
- Offline translation with downloaded language packs
- Handwriting input
- Tap-to-translate from any app
- Cloud Translation API for developers
PRICING PLANS
Every published plan tier. Editorial reasoning about which one to buy lives on our reviews and best-of pages, not here.
Consumer
Free
Free web, iOS, and Android apps for text, speech, camera, handwriting, and document translation.
Cloud Translation API
Contact sales
Google Cloud pay-per-character API for developers. See Cloud Translation pricing for the current rate card.
COMPANY
- Founded
- 1998
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Founders
- Larry Page, Sergey Brin
- Publicly traded
- Yes
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Sources
- Google Translate About - Homepage · checked Aug 29, 2026
- Google Cloud Translation product page - Documentation · checked Aug 29, 2026