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LibreTranslate

Self-hosted machine translation API

provisional — pending verificationAGPL-3.0self-hostable

Arete score

4.3 / 5

Autonomy5

Return4

Efficiency3

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending.

Why it's listed

LibreTranslate is listed in local & private ai because it competes on utility: self-hosted machine translation api. It's built by an independent, bootstrapped team — no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no ad-tax passed to you. Licensed AGPL-3.0; pricing: free (ce) / paid api. Its resource footprint is reasonable for what it does, though not featherweight. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: AGPL-3.0
Pricing: Free (CE) / paid API
Funding model: Indie OSS
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Replaces: Google Translate
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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