LibreTranslate
Open-source · self-hostable · replaces 1 SaaS tool on os-alt
LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate · alive · ★ 14.3k · last commit 4d ago · 118 open issues
License: AGPL-3.0
Good fit for Web apps that want a self-hosted translation API for user content (UGC translation, support ticket I18n).
Weak at Quality on rare pairs (EN ↔ Slavic, EN ↔ Asian) is below DeepL; for high-stakes translation this still matters.
In a terminal? npx -y github:SolvoHQ/os-alt-cli deepl prints
the DeepL comparison table including LibreTranslate.
how the CLI works →
Replaces these SaaS
- DeepL · Machine translation API
`docker run -ti --rm -p 5000:5000 libretranslate/libretranslate --load-only en,de,fr,es`. Models (Argos OpenNMT) download on first start; subsequent runs use the cached models. The HTTP API is DeepL-compatible-ish — most clients only need to swap the base URL: `POST /translate {q, source, target, format}`. For DeepL parity at scale, deploy the Argos packages on a GPU box with batch translation.
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