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Alternatives to Microsoft Translator
19 translation tools sit alongside Microsoft Translator in this directory. Below is what separates each from Microsoft Translator on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 19
- With a free tier
- 8
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Microsoft Translator starts at
- Free
Why people look past Microsoft Translator
Nothing on the record flags a reason to move. Microsoft Translator has a free tier. People still switch over fit and workflow, and those are not things a catalogue entry can measure, which is what the comparisons below are for.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Free consumer translation app and website, backed by the paid Cloud Translation API priced per million characters
- 4 tiers to Microsoft Translator's 3.
AWS machine translation API priced at $15 per million characters, with a 2 million character monthly free tier for the first 12 months
- 4 tiers to Microsoft Translator's 3.
Free, open source desktop CAT tool under the GPLv3, maintained by a volunteer community rather than a company
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than Per million characters.
- 1 tier to Microsoft Translator's 3.
Free, browser-based CAT tool under the LGPL, developed and hosted by the translation company Translated
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than Per million characters.
- 1 tier to Microsoft Translator's 3.
Consumer translation, dictionary and grammar tool with a free tier and a Premium subscription around $6.49 to $9.99 a month
- Sold on a Per user per month model rather than Per million characters.
Translation platform formerly called Bureau Works, priced by processed words per year with unlimited seats and a real free tier
- Publishes an entry price of $38/month, where Microsoft Translator does not.
- Sold on a Per year by processed word volume model rather than Per million characters.
- 8 tiers to Microsoft Translator's 3.
Every Microsoft Translator alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Translator (this page) | Free | Per million characters | 3 | |
| Google TranslateIf you want the most widely documented free tier and are not tied to the Azure ecosystem | Free | Per million characters | 4 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| Amazon TranslateIf you are building on AWS and want a 2 million character per month free tier for your first year | Free | Per million characters | 4 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| OmegaT | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| MateCat | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| Reverso | Free | Per user per month | 3 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| wxrks | Free, then $38/month | Per year by processed word volume | 8 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| POEditor | Free, then $14.99/month | Per month by string count | 4 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| Pontoon | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| Plunet | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| XTRF | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| Unbabel | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| Systran | On request | Per user per month, or quote for Enterprise | 3 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| Gengo | On request | Per word | 2 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| Smartcat | $1200/year | Per year by Smartword volume | 4 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| SDL Trados Studio | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| Sonix | $10/month | Per hour of transcription | 5 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| Smartling | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| XTM Cloud | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Microsoft Translator |
| Wordbee | €150/month | Per power user per month | 7 | vs Microsoft Translator |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Microsoft Translator badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (8)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Google Translate , Free
- Amazon Translate , Free
- OmegaT , Free
- MateCat , Free
- Reverso , Free
- wxrks , Free, then $38/month
- POEditor , Free, then $14.99/month
- Pontoon , Free
What you would be giving up
Microsoft Translator is most often brought in for a developer already building on azure who wants translation billed through the same cloud account as other services, an enterprise with high, predictable translation volume that negotiates a commitment-tier discount, a microsoft 365 organisation using built-in document and teams translation without a separate integration project, a team needing speech translation as part of a broader azure ai speech deployment. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Microsoft Translator is broadly right and the question is cost, the Microsoft Translator pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Translation category lists everything the directory holds, and best translation tools ranks them.
Microsoft Translator runs on web, ios, android, windows. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Microsoft Translator alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Microsoft Translator?
- 19 other translation tools are listed in this directory, led by Google Translate, Amazon Translate, OmegaT, MateCat. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Microsoft Translator?
- 8 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Google Translate, Amazon Translate, OmegaT, MateCat, Reverso.
- Is there a reason to switch away from Microsoft Translator?
- Nothing in the data flags one. Microsoft Translator has a free tier. Fit and workflow are the usual reasons to move, and those are not things this record can measure.
- What would I give up by switching from Microsoft Translator?
- Microsoft Translator is most often brought in for a developer already building on azure who wants translation billed through the same cloud account as other services, an enterprise with high, predictable translation volume that negotiates a commitment-tier discount, a microsoft 365 organisation using built-in document and teams translation without a separate integration project, a team needing speech translation as part of a broader azure ai speech deployment. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Microsoft Translator?
- None of the translation tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Microsoft Translator alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Translation, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Microsoft Translator against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Microsoft Translator covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every translation tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Translation category, 19 tools beside Microsoft Translator. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.