Translator

When Chrome (138 or later, on a computer) already has the languages, its own translator does it on your device. Otherwise it runs on our server with Google’s Gemma 4, with nothing to download (the text isn’t stored), unless you choose this device under “Where it runs”: then Chrome’s translator downloads a small pack, or other browsers use Opus-MT models from the University of Helsinki (Apache 2.0 and CC BY 4.0), about 110 MB per direction.

Between English and Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian; and into English from Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Polish. Between two of these other than English, the text goes through English, which takes two downloads and can lose a little meaning. Malay, Filipino, Urdu, Persian, Swahili and the other languages no browser or downloadable model knows yet are translated on our server.

The open models that translate out of English into Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Polish aren’t good enough yet, so this tool doesn’t offer them outside Chrome.

Good for understanding and everyday text; not a replacement for a professional translator for contracts, medical or legal text. Names and idioms are sometimes translated too literally. Read the result before you send it to anyone.

Up to 20,000 characters at a time; on our server, 20,000 characters a day are free. On this device the open models translate a few sentences a second, so long texts take a minute or two; the translation appears as it goes.

It is free, with no watermarks and nothing to sign up for. On this device there are no daily limits. Our server has a free daily allowance, and a free account makes it six times bigger.