Kagi Translate is the machine translation service I reach for most.
I've tried Google Translate, DeepL, Papago, and others over the years, and for the language pairs I mostly work with (Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese) Kagi Translate has consistently come out ahead in quality. It's a little slow, but that's never bothered me: I don't copy-paste raw machine output and call it done, I always review and edit by hand, so the extra seconds don't matter.
I'd been recommending it to people for a while, until earlier this year it went from free to paid and got harder to suggest in good conscience.
Now it's free again. If you've never used anything but Google Translate, this is a good moment to give Kagi Translate a try.
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Kagi Translate is back
Kagi Translate is moving to a freemium model and launching a new standalone Individual subscription for $8/month. Anyone with a Kagi account can continue using Translate for free with a limited monthly allowance. For people...
