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Reverso
Consumer translation, dictionary and grammar tool with a free tier and a Premium subscription around $6.49 to $9.99 a month
As of 1 September 2026, Reverso is free to use. A translation and language-learning tool best known for its context search feature, showing real bilingual example sentences rather than only a raw translation. Softwr lists it under Translation. Reverso is made by Reverso Technologies Inc., available on Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension.
Overview
What Reverso does
Reverso provides text translation, a contextual example-sentence search engine, grammar checking and vocabulary tools across a web app, browser extensions and mobile apps. Its context feature, which surfaces real bilingual sentence pairs drawn from translated documents and subtitles, is the tool’s most distinctive capability and the reason many language learners and translators use it alongside, rather than instead of, a machine translation API. Commercially it sits apart from Google, Microsoft or Amazon’s developer-facing APIs: Reverso has no meaningful volume-priced API business for developers, and instead sells a consumer Premium subscription, at roughly $6.49 a month billed annually or $9.99 billed monthly, that removes ads, raises document translation to 50,000 words a year, expands context search results, and adds a premium grammar checker and offline mobile access. A separate business-oriented Pro tier extends the annual word cap to 200,000 words with larger file size support. Buyers are individual language learners, translators and writers who want a browser-based tool for everyday translation and writing help, not developers building translation into an application at scale. The trade-off against the major MT APIs is that Reverso’s document translation caps (50,000 or 200,000 words a year) make it unsuitable for high-volume automated translation, and it offers no on-premises or enterprise-scale infrastructure option the way Systran does.
What people use it for
- A language learner wanting real bilingual example sentences alongside a raw translation, not just a single output string
- A translator using context search to check idiomatic usage before finalising a phrase
- A student or writer subscribing to Premium for ad-free use, offline access and a grammar checker in one tool
- A small business needing occasional document translation within the Pro tier’s 200,000-word annual cap
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Reverso.
- There is no meaningful volume-priced developer API, so it is not a fit for embedding translation into an application the way Google, Microsoft or Amazon’s APIs are.
- Document translation is capped by annual word count even on paid tiers, ruling it out for high-volume automated translation workloads.
- It has no on-premises or enterprise-scale deployment option, unlike Systran, so organisations with data residency requirements cannot use it for sensitive content.
- The free tier is ad-supported and limited on document translation, pushing regular users toward Premium fairly quickly.
- Context search quality depends on the size and domain coverage of its bilingual corpus, which can thin out for less common language pairs or highly technical terminology.
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Pricing
What Reverso costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- Text translation and context search, ad-supported
- Limited document translation
Premium
$6.49 /mo
- Billed annually; $9.99 if billed monthly
- Ad-free, 50,000 words/year document translation
- Premium grammar checker, offline mobile access
Pro
$19.99 /mo
- 200,000 words/year document translation
- Larger file size support (up to 120MB), more formats
Capabilities
Features
Context search
Real bilingual example sentences drawn from translated documents and subtitles
Text and document translation
Standard translation plus document upload, capped by annual word count on paid tiers
Grammar and rephrasing checker
Writing assistance tools bundled into the Premium subscription
Vocabulary trainer
Saved word and phrase lists with spaced-repetition style review
Browser extensions
In-page translation and context lookup across major browsers
Offline mobile access
Downloaded content available without a network connection on Premium
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
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Is Reverso a machine translation API for developers?
No, it is a consumer-facing product with no significant developer API business; Google, Microsoft or Amazon are the appropriate choice for embedding translation into an application.
What is the context search feature?
It shows real bilingual example sentences from translated documents and subtitles alongside a translation, which is useful for checking natural usage rather than a raw one-line output.
How much document translation do I get on Premium?
50,000 words a year on Premium; the Pro tier raises that to 200,000 words a year with larger file support.
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