Lara Translate
Translated's professional-grade AI translation platform
Tool details
Lara Translate is a professional-grade AI translation platform from the Italian company Translated (founded in 1999), built around "professional translator data + large-model reasoning" and covering every modality: text, documents, images, audio and live interpreting. Aimed at LSPs, enterprises and developers, it offers translation governance and compliance capabilities across 200+ languages.
Core capabilities
- All-modality translation: one-stop coverage of text, 70+ document formats, images, audio, web pages and live interpreting, with API usage billed separately per minute and per image
- Translation governance: glossaries, translation memory (TMX), and Faithful/Fluid/Creative styles combined with context instructions, plus explanations of the wording choices
- Model matrix: Lara Standard / Think (reasoning, cutting errors on hard sentences by nearly half) / Prosa (literary editing layer), with Lara 3 launched in 2026
- Developer ecosystem: API plus SDKs in seven languages, CLI, and an official MCP Server (about 31.3K downloads), integrable with Claude, n8n and more
- Privacy modes: Incognito stores nothing and trains on nothing; Learning Mode is on by default to improve the models
- AI + human review: optional second-pass review by Translated's professional translators for high-risk content such as legal and financial material
Use cases LSPs and enterprise localization teams, compliance-constrained legal, financial and healthcare industries, developers who need to embed translation into apps or AI agents, and professional translators who value explainability and style control.
Differentiators Whereas DeepL focuses on European-language naturalness and Google on free coverage, Lara differentiates itself through translation governance, explainability, data sovereignty and the backing of 350,000+ enterprise customers; even so, third parties consider DeepL still ahead on European-language naturalness.
Editorial take Drawing on 25 years of Translated's accumulated experience and 25 million real professional translations, it sits in the top tier of professional-grade AI translation. However, its quality lead rests mainly on vendor self-testing without independent verification, official pages contradict each other, and the reputation of the free tier on the browser extension is doubtful. Choose it if you value translation governance and compliance; if you only want the most natural European-language output, DeepL is still the recommendation.
Pricing
Freemium€0 / $0 (Free tier, 60,000 characters/month)No free trial; Free is a permanently free tier (60,000 characters/month), with no credit card required.60,000 characters/month; free API ≤ 10,000 characters/month; documents ≤ 10 MB; no credit card required
500,000 characters/month; overage €0.25 / $0.30 per 10,000 characters
1,500,000 shared characters/month, suitable for 2–3 people
3,000,000 shared characters/month, suitable for 4–6 people
9,000,000 shared characters/month, suitable for 7–18 people
20,000,000 shared characters/month, suitable for 19–40 people
60,000,000 shared characters/month, suitable for 41–120 people
Data sovereignty and residency, enterprise-grade compliance, SSO, 99.9% SLA, dedicated account manager
Additional notes
Official pricing lists € and $ side by side, and this field performs no currency conversion; annual billing saves about 21%. API usage is billed separately: Lara Standard €20 / $24.99 per 1M characters, Lara Think €2,000 / $2,499, and Lara Prosa layered on top of Standard; audio €0.05–0.40 per minute, images €0.02–0.50 per image; documents are billed at a minimum of 20,000 characters each. Subscriptions are generally non-refundable.
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