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Apertium vs Papago

Apertium

apertium.com

Papago

papago.naver.com

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FigureApertiumPapago
Price fromFree$9.99/mo
Free planYesYes
Free trial—Yes
Open source——
WebYesYes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYes—
iOS—Yes
Android—Yes
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published15
Spec score · Translation Software8.7 (#13)8.8 (#12)
Spec score · Translation apps8.2 (#48)9.1 (#9)
API accessYesNo
Document translationYesYes
Free planYesYes
Website translationYesYes

Plans

Apertium

  • Free/open-source platformFree

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Papago

  • Plus Basic$9.99 a month
  • Plus Standard$29.99 a month
  • Plus Advanced$55.99 a month
  • PapagoFree
  • Enterprise PassPriced on request

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In their own words

Apertium

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Papago

Papago is an AI translator that NAVER describes as using its own AI technology to help people read, write, hear, and speak foreign languages. Its app offers text, image, voice, offline text, conversation, handwriting, website, and document translation, plus Edu and a dictionary. The app listing names 14 languages, including Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese in Simplified and Traditional forms, Spanish, French, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Russian, German, Italian, and Arabic. The standard web document translator supports PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, and HWPX files up to 20 MB. Papago Plus adds support for PDF, HWPX, MS Office, and TXT documents while retaining complex formatting, with translated files available for editing. Plus also offers batch image translation, real-time voice translation, custom and shared glossaries, and team accounts. The free Papago plan lists monthly limits for images, documents, voice translation, and glossary terms. Plus Basic costs $9.99 a month; the higher Plus plans cost 29.99 USD and $55.99 a month. A 30-day trial is listed.

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