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Lara Translate is the web translator at laratranslate.com/translate, built by Translated. The screen takes text, documents, images, audio, or the interpreter, then offers Faithful, Fluid, and Creative. A pricing page measures that work in characters: Free at $0 for 60,000 characters a month, Pro at 500,000, and Team quotas that start at 1.5 million shared characters. Docs add an SDK, an MCP server, and a CLI.

Official website · laratranslate.com

Pricing model
Freemium
Main input
Text, document, image, audio, or speech
Output
Translation, file, image, or recording
Access
Web app; mobile named on the product FAQ and on Pro

Is Lara Translate right for you?

Lara Translate suits a person or a team that wants one character pool across text, a laid-out file, an image, and audio. Free is $0 with no credit card, and it stops at 60,000 characters because extra usage is not available. Pro says billed annually beside $9.99 /month and extra usage at $0.30 / 10,000 chars. Team says you buy a quota and you get free unlimited users to share it.

A good fit for

  • Translating a paragraph, a formatted document, an image, or an audio file from the same account.
  • A group that wants Team's shared character quota instead of a seat price.
  • A developer choosing the SDK, MCP server, or CLI described in the docs hub.

Know the trade-offs

  • The translate screen says 203 languages and 61 file formats. Another block says 200+ languages and 60+ formats. Pricing says 70+ file formats.
  • Free includes no extra usage. Pro and Team bill characters past the quota.
  • Pro and Team say billed annually. A Monthly control is on the page, and no second monthly price is shown.

Inputs, styles, and how characters are counted.

What you can send in

The translate screen splits the job by input. Text says 203 languages, documents 61 file formats, images 11 formats, audio 5 formats, and the interpreter 182 languages. The field says type or paste your text here, with Faithful, Fluid, and Creative beside it. Document translation is described as professional document translation that mirrors your original design. Audio becomes a translated recording. The interpreter is for live conversations in real time. A FAQ on the same page says 200+ languages, 180+ spoken languages, and 60+ file formats, and names PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, MP3, WAV, OGG, WebM, and Opus. Pricing says 70+ file formats. Those counts do not match each other.

Official documentation

Styles, context, and what Incognito claims

Style is a named choice. The page says choose between faithful, fluid or creative styles, and generate multiple valid options for each segment. Add context means add information to improve translation accuracy. The FAQ says Lara is trained on millions of real professional translations, not text scraped from the web. Translated is called a pioneer of adaptive translation since 1999. Incognito mode says your content is never stored, logged, or used for training. Human review is separate: a professional linguist from Translated reviews the AI output, and that block says talk to sales rather than listing the review on the Free or Pro bullets.

Official documentation

How a character is charged

Usage is measured in characters across text, documents, interpretation, audio, and images. Text is per character. A document is per character with a minimum of 20,000, and the estimator says a minimum of 20,000 characters is charged for each document. An image is 10,000 characters / image. Audio is 40 characters / second. The interpreter is 400 characters / second. Free is $0 and 60,000 chars /month, with no extra usage available and no credit card required. Pro says billed annually beside $9.99 /month, with 500,000 characters, less than $0.05 per extra page, and extra usage at $0.30 / 10,000 chars. Team says you buy a quota and you get free unlimited users to share it, and its extra usage is $0.25 / 10,000 chars. Document size is up to 10 MB on Free and up to 200 MB on Pro and Team.

Official documentation

SDK, MCP, CLI, and the support titles

The developer hub says the SDK is available for Python, Node.js, Java, PHP, and Go. It also says to add Lara as a translation agent inside LLM environments like Claude or ChatGPT, or to run translation from the command line and in CI. Setup is get credentials to obtain your access key ID and secret. A path is labeled Switch from ModernMT. This introduction does not paste request bodies. The pricing page says full API access across all plans. Free lists a free API up to 10,000 chars /month. Enterprise lists API personalized pricing, single sign-on, and custom quota. The comparison names Custom SLA & 99.9% uptime. The knowledge base lists Lara and GDPR Compliance as a title and does not include the article.

Official documentation

Ways to use Lara Translate

A paragraph with a chosen style

For a short note is text mode. Type or paste your text here, then pick Faithful, Fluid, or Creative. The 60,000-character Free pool also covers documents and audio, and the card says no extra usage available once it is spent.

A formatted file

For a deck or a spreadsheet, the suggested route is document translation, which the page says mirrors the original design. The charge has a minimum of 20,000 characters. Free stops at 10 MB. Pro and Team list up to 200 MB. Pro includes 330 pages included and less than $0.05 per extra page beside the 500,000-character quota.

A shared team quota

It says you buy a quota and you get free unlimited users to share it. Shown tiers run from $29.99 /month for 1.5M characters to $799.99 /month for 60M, and the card says billed annually. Pro lists 1 glossary and Team lists unlimited glossaries. Enterprise is talk to sales with a custom quota.

How to get started with Lara Translate

  1. 1

    Pick the input

    Open the translate screen and choose text, documents, images, audio, or interpreter.

  2. 2

    Set style and context

    Choose Faithful, Fluid, or Creative, then add context or a glossary if the screen offers it.

  3. 3

    Read the character rate

    Text is per character. A document charges at least 20,000. An image is 10,000 characters. Audio and interpreter use per-second rates.

  4. 4

    Match the pool to the month

    Compare Free at 60,000 characters with no extra usage against Pro at 500,000 and the Team shared tiers.

Free, Pro, Team, and Enterprise quotas.

Check live pricing

Dollar amounts are the tokens on the public pricing page, which also shows an EUR toggle without printing euro figures. Pro and Team cards say billed annually. A Monthly control and Save up to 21% are visible, and a separate monthly price is not.

Free

Trying the features on a few documents.

$0.

No credit card required.

  • 60,000 chars /month
  • No extra usage available
  • Free API up to 10,000 chars /month
  • Up to 10 MB documents

Pro

One person who needs a larger monthly pool.

$9.99 /month.

Billed annually.

  • 500,000 chars /month
  • Extra usage $0.30 / 10,000 chars
  • 330 pages included and less than $0.05 per extra page
  • CAT tool and API Usage $24.99 / 1M characters

Team

A shared quota with unlimited users on the card.

$29.99 /month.

Billed annually, for the 1.5M tier.

  • 1.5M shared chars /month, best for 2-3 users
  • $54.99 /month for 3M, $149.99 /month for 9M, $269.99 /month for 20M, $799.99 /month for 60M
  • Extra usage $0.25 / 10,000 chars
  • CAT tool and API Usage $19.99 / 1M characters

Enterprise

Organizations that need a custom quota.

Not verified.

Talk to sales.

  • Custom quota and custom extra usage pricing
  • Single-Sign-On (SSO) and data sovereignty and residency
  • API personalized pricing

The Free API line says 10,000 characters a month, while another block says full API access across all plans. The comparison then prices Pro API usage at $24.99 / 1M chars and Team at $19.99 / 1M chars. Team user wording is taken from the plan card instead.

Alternatives to Lara Translate

SYSTRAN

Choose SYSTRAN when the job is another translation stack, not Lara's per-image and per-second rates.

SYSTRAN sits in the same translation category. Lara Translate is the page that includes 10,000 characters per image and per-second rates for audio and the interpreter.

Gladia

Choose Gladia when you are not buying Lara's document minimum or interpreter rate.

Gladia is the other translation-category slug. Open it when Lara's 20,000-character document minimum and the Team quota table are not the comparison.

Lara Translate: common questions

Is there a free Lara Translate plan?

Free is $0 for 60,000 chars /month. It says no extra usage available and no credit card required. The line under the price says try all features on a few documents to get familiar with Lara.

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What happens after the monthly characters run out?

Free says no extra usage available. Pro lists extra usage at $0.30 / 10,000 chars, and Team lists $0.25 / 10,000 chars. A FAQ heading asks what happens past the monthly limit.

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Does Lara Translate charge per user?

Users included are 1 on Free, 1 on Pro, Unlimited on Team, and Custom on Enterprise. Team says you buy a quota and you get free unlimited users to share it.

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How are documents, images, and audio counted?

Text is per character. A document has a minimum of 20,000 characters. An image is 10,000 characters / image, audio is 40 characters / second, and the interpreter is 400 characters / second. They share one monthly pool.

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Is there an API, and what does the page say about GDPR?

The pricing page says full API access across all plans. Free lists a free API up to 10,000 chars /month. Pro lists $24.99 / 1M characters and Team lists $19.99 / 1M characters for CAT and API usage. The docs say to get an access key ID and secret. Lara and GDPR Compliance is a knowledge-base title, and the policy text is not in the public page.

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What does Incognito mode say it does?

The feature line says your content is never stored, logged, or used for training. The knowledge base lists Learning or Incognito mode and does not include the article.

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Is a human translator included in Pro or Team?

A professional linguist from Translated reviews the AI output, and the block says talk to sales. That review is not one of the Free, Pro, or Team bullets on the public cards.

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Sources & last checked

Oct 6, 2026 · NavHunt editorial

NavHunt did not run Lara Translate, did not paste a paragraph, and did not upload a file. Character rates and plan amounts are restated from pages on laratranslate.com. The line about twice the accuracy of the largest generic LLMs is the pricing page's claim, not a NavHunt measurement. This description is based on Lara Translate's official materials reviewed on 2026-10-06, including Lara Translate, Lara Translate pricing, Lara for Developers, Lara Translate Knowledge Base.

Check the character line before you upload.

Free is 60,000 characters a month with no extra usage. A document is charged at least 20,000 characters.

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