/best/translationupdated October 2026164 models evaluated
Best AI for translation
Translating content across languages while preserving tone and context.
Translation quality is notoriously hard to benchmark — automated metrics (BLEU, COMET) correlate poorly with human judgment on nuanced text. We use FLORES-200 as a ground truth baseline and supplement with human preference scores on literary and technical translation pairs.
What matters: multilingual benchmark depth (how many languages the model was meaningfully trained on), instruction adherence for style constraints (formal vs. informal register, glossary compliance), and long-context coherence for document-level translation. Models trained heavily on English tend to degrade on minority languages.
Our translation rank weights the multilingual benchmark (3×) and instruction-following (1×). If your use case involves a specific language pair, check the underlying FLORES-200 scores directly — aggregate multilingual scores can hide large quality gaps on specific languages.
Full rankings
All 164 models, scored for translation
| # | Model | Provider | Task score | $/in | $/out | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash | IInclusionai | 5.00/5.0 | $0.010 | $0.030 | 262K |
| 02 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | IInclusionai | 5.00/5.0 | $0.021 | $0.062 | 262K |
| 03 | Ling-3.0-flash | IInclusionai | 5.00/5.0 | $0.021 | $0.063 | 262K |
| 04 | Nex AGI: Nex-N2-Mini | NNex-agi | 5.00/5.0 | $0.025 | $0.100 | 262K |
| 05 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.030 | $0.130 | 1M |
| 06 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.047 | $0.134 | 262K |
| 07 | Inception: Mercury 2.5 Preview | IInception | 5.00/5.0 | $0.040 | $0.150 | 260K |
| 08 | Inception: Mercury 2.5 | IInception | 5.00/5.0 | $0.040 | $0.150 | 260K |
| 09 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.037 | $0.170 | 131K |
| 10 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.240 | 262K |
| 11 | MiMo-V2.5 | XXiaomi | 5.00/5.0 | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.1M |
| 12 | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 13 | Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash | XXiaomi | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 14 | StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash | SStepfun | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 15 | Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 16 | Gemma 4 31B | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.340 | 262K |
| 17 | Upstage: Solar Pro 4 | UUpstage | 5.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.360 | 524K |
| 18 | GLM-4.7 Flash | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.400 | 200K |
| 19 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 20 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.080 | $0.450 | 262K |
| 21 | DeepSeek V3.2 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.259 | $0.420 | 164K |
| 22 | Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.500 | 1.0M |
| 23 | Grok 4.1 Fast | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.500 | 2M |
| 24 | Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.550 | 262K |
| 25 | KAT-Coder-Air V2.5 | KKwaipilot | 5.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 256K |
| 26 | inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 5.00/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 27 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.080 | $0.750 | 262K |
| 28 | Inception: Mercury 2 | IInception | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.750 | 128K |
| 29 | Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking | AArcee-ai | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.800 | 262K |
| 30 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 | MMinimax | 5.00/5.0 | $0.210 | $0.840 | 205K |
| 31 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 32 | Nex-N2-Pro | NNex AGI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.00 | 262K |
| 33 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.188 | $1.13 | 1M |
| 34 | StepFun: Step 3.7 Flash | SStepfun | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.15 | 262K |
| 35 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.20 | 1.1M |
| 36 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.005 | $1.28 | 1.0M |
| 37 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.007 | $1.28 | 1.0M |
| 38 | Kwaipilot: KAT-Coder-Pro V2 | KKwaipilot | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 262K |
| 39 | MiniMax: MiniMax M3 | MMinimax | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M |
| 40 | Meituan: LongCat 2.0 | MMeituan | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 1.0M |
| 41 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 131K |
| 42 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2 | MMinimax | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 205K |
| 43 | Thinking Machines: Inkling Small | TThinkingmachines | 5.00/5.0 | $0.450 | $1.20 | 524K |
| 44 | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.320 | $1.28 | 1M |
| 45 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 46 | AionLabs: Aion-3.0-Mini | AAion-labs | 5.00/5.0 | $0.700 | $1.40 | 131K |
| 47 | Mistral Large 3 2512 | MMistral | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $1.50 | 262K |
| 48 | AionLabs: Aion-2.0 | AAion-labs | 5.00/5.0 | $0.800 | $1.60 | 131K |
| 49 | Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.80 | 1M |
| 50 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.325 | $1.95 | 1M |
| 51 | GPT-5 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 400K |
| 52 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 | BBytedance-seed | 5.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 53 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.955 | $1.91 | 1.0M |
| 54 | R1 0528 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.15 | 164K |
| 55 | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra | NNVIDIA | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.20 | 262K |
| 56 | GLM-4.7 | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.600 | $2.20 | 205K |
| 57 | Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 58 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 | MMoonshotAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.465 | $2.45 | 262K |
| 59 | Seed 2.1 Turbo | BByteDance | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $2.50 | 262K |
| 60 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.425 | $2.55 | 1M |
| 61 | R1 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $0.700 | $2.50 | 64K |
| 62 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $0.450 | $2.70 | 262K |
| 63 | Grok 4.20 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 2M |
| 64 | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 1.0M |
| 65 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code | BBytedance-seed | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $3.00 | 262K |
| 66 | Kimi K2.7 Code | MMoonshot AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.671 | $3.35 | 262K |
| 67 | Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| 68 | Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| 69 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $3.75 | 1.0M |
| 70 | Thinking Machines: Inkling | TThinkingmachines | 5.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $4.05 | 524K |
| 71 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | DDeepSeek | 5.00/5.0 | $1.32 | $3.96 | 1.0M |
| 72 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M |
| 73 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M |
| 74 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.1 | MMeta | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $4.25 | 1.0M |
| 75 | GPT-5.4 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.750 | $4.50 | 400K |
| 76 | o4 Mini | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.10 | $4.40 | 200K |
| 77 | Qwen 3.7 Max | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $1.48 | $4.42 | 1M |
| 78 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K |
| 79 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.00 | $6.00 | 1.1M |
| 80 | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $1.03 | $6.16 | 262K |
| 81 | Grok 4.5 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K |
| 82 | Grok 4.6 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K |
| 83 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max | QQwen | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 1M |
| 84 | Sakana: Fugu Max | SSakana | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 1M |
| 85 | AionLabs: Aion-3.0 | AAion-labs | 5.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $6.00 | 131K |
| 86 | Z.ai: GLM 5.3 | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.039 | $7.00 | 1.0M |
| 87 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | MMistral | 5.00/5.0 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 262K |
| 88 | Z.ai: GLM 5.2 | ZZhipu AI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.084 | $8.00 | 1.0M |
| 89 | GPT-4.1 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 1.0M |
| 90 | o3 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 200K |
| 91 | Gemini 3.5 Flash | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $1.50 | $9.00 | 1.0M |
| 92 | GPT-5 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 93 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1.0M |
| 94 | GPT-5.1 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K |
| 95 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M |
| 96 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1.1M |
| 97 | MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 | MMoonshotAI | 5.00/5.0 | $0.500 | $12.00 | 1.0M |
| 98 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | GGoogle | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.0M |
| 99 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.1M |
| 100 | GPT-5.2 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400K |
| 101 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 102 | GPT-5.4 | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $2.50 | $15.00 | 1.1M |
| 103 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M |
| 104 | Grok 4 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 256K |
| 105 | Grok 3 | XXAI | 5.00/5.0 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 131K |
| 106 | Claude Opus 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 107 | Claude Opus 4.6 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 108 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 109 | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | OOpenAI | 5.00/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 110 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 111 | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 112 | Claude Opus 5 (Fast) | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 113 | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 | AAnthropic | 5.00/5.0 | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M |
| 114 | Ministral 3 3B 2512 | MMistral | 4.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 115 | Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1 | PPoolside | 4.50/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.120 | 262K |
| 116 | Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B | QQwen | 4.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 117 | Poolside Laguna S 2.1 | PPoolside | 4.50/5.0 | $0.090 | $0.180 | 1.0M |
| 118 | IBM: Granite 4.2 8B | IIbm-granite | 4.50/5.0 | $0.060 | $0.250 | 131K |
| 119 | GPT-5 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.400 | 400K |
| 120 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini | BBytedance-seed | 4.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 262K |
| 121 | GPT-4.1 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1.0M |
| 122 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash | QQwen | 4.50/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.470 | 1M |
| 123 | Grok 3 Mini | XXAI | 4.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.500 | 131K |
| 124 | Upstage: Solar Pro 3 | UUpstage | 4.50/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 131K |
| 125 | Mistral Small 4 | MMistral | 4.50/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 262K |
| 126 | inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T | IInclusionai | 4.50/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.625 | 262K |
| 127 | Codestral 2508 | MMistral | 4.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $0.900 | 256K |
| 128 | MiMo-V2.5-Pro | XXiaomi | 4.50/5.0 | $0.435 | $0.870 | 1.1M |
| 129 | DeepSeek V3.1 | DDeepSeek | 4.50/5.0 | $0.250 | $0.950 | 164K |
| 130 | MiniMax: MiniMax-01 | MMinimax | 4.50/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.10 | 1.0M |
| 131 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 | MMinimax | 4.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 205K |
| 132 | GPT-5.4 Nano | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.25 | 400K |
| 133 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $0.250 | $1.50 | 1.0M |
| 134 | GPT-4.1 Mini | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $0.400 | $1.60 | 1.0M |
| 135 | Mistral Medium 3.1 | MMistral | 4.50/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 131K |
| 136 | Devstral 2 2512 | MMistral | 4.50/5.0 | $0.400 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 137 | xAI: Grok Build 0.1 | XXAI | 4.50/5.0 | $1.00 | $2.00 | 256K |
| 138 | MiniMax: MiniMax M1 | MMinimax | 4.50/5.0 | $0.550 | $2.20 | 1M |
| 139 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | GGoogle | 4.50/5.0 | $0.300 | $2.50 | 1.0M |
| 140 | Relace: Relace Search | RRelace | 4.50/5.0 | $1.00 | $3.00 | 256K |
| 141 | Claude Opus 4.7 | AAnthropic | 4.50/5.0 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M |
| 142 | GPT-5.5 | OOpenAI | 4.50/5.0 | $5.00 | $30.00 | 1.1M |
| 143 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.018 | $0.090 | 131K |
| 144 | IBM: Granite 4.1 8B | IIbm-granite | 4.00/5.0 | $0.050 | $0.100 | 131K |
| 145 | Ministral 3 8B 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.150 | 262K |
| 146 | Ministral 3 14B 2512 | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $0.200 | 262K |
| 147 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.094 | $0.250 | 256K |
| 148 | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | QQwen | 4.00/5.0 | $0.070 | $0.280 | 262K |
| 149 | Llama 4 Scout | MMeta | 4.00/5.0 | $0.100 | $0.300 | 1.3M |
| 150 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | MMeta | 4.00/5.0 | $0.220 | $0.500 | 131K |
| 151 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | MMistral | 4.00/5.0 | $0.351 | $0.555 | 128K |
| 152 | Llama 4 Maverick | MMeta | 4.00/5.0 | $0.188 | $0.652 | 1.0M |
| 153 | DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | DDeepSeek | 4.00/5.0 | $0.270 | $1.00 | 164K |
| 154 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 | MMinimax | 4.00/5.0 | $0.270 | $1.08 | 205K |
| 155 | MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her | MMinimax | 4.00/5.0 | $0.300 | $1.20 | 66K |
| 156 | Grok Code Fast 1 | XXAI | 4.00/5.0 | $0.200 | $1.50 | 256K |
| 157 | ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite | BBytedance-seed | 4.00/5.0 | $0.250 | $2.00 | 262K |
| 158 | Grok 4.3 | XXAI | 4.00/5.0 | $1.25 | $2.50 | 1M |
| 159 | KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5 | KKwaipilot | 4.00/5.0 | $0.740 | $2.96 | 262K |
| 160 | GPT-4o | OOpenAI | 4.00/5.0 | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128K |
| 161 | ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash | BBytedance-seed | 3.50/5.0 | $0.075 | $0.300 | 262K |
| 162 | GPT-4o-mini | OOpenAI | 3.50/5.0 | $0.150 | $0.600 | 128K |
| 163 | IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | IIbm-granite | 3.00/5.0 | $0.017 | $0.112 | 131K |
| 164 | Sakana: Sakana Namazu | SSakana | 0.00/5.0 | $0.950 | $4.00 | 262K |
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