Baidu Translate vs Google Translate

Baidu Translate offers text, document, image, and speech translation, alongside APIs for applications and websites. Its general text translation API covers more than 200 languages across more than 40,000 language directions, with automatic source-language detection available. Document translation supports 11 formats, including scanned PDFs and images embedded in documents. The image API supports 25 languages and can place translated text back into the scene; speech translation combines recognition, text translation, and speech synthesis for more than 10 languages. A large-model API supports custom prompts and industry terminology customization, while advanced and premium API editions support custom terminology translation. Identity-verified users can receive up to 2 million free characters per month through the general text API. The platform also offers multimodal translation and private deployment, including offline web, desktop, API, and plug-in access. It lists Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, web, self-hosted, API, and extension platforms. Baidu was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Google Translate provides translation for text, speech, images, conversations, documents, and websites, with API access. On the web, users can enter text, have its source language detected, and select a translation language. The mobile app can translate text through a camera or from phone images, accept voice input and handwriting, and support conversations between speakers of different languages. Language packs allow offline translation, while copied text from another app can be translated with a tap. Saved words and phrases are available across devices. The Google Play listing says typed text translation covers 108 languages. On the web, DOCX, PDF, PPTX, and XLSX document translation supports files up to 10 MB, with PDFs limited to 300 pages. Document translation is unavailable on mobile and smaller screens, and does not translate text embedded in images or scanned PDF pages. Computer microphone translation is fully supported in Chrome and has limited support in Safari and Edge. Google Translate is free to use at free on Android, iOS, web, and API.