Translation models handle text, documents and correspondence without sending data to an external service. Businesses use them to localize websites and product listings and to work with international clients. Check that your language pairs are covered, how the model handles industry terms, and the license terms.
Business models: document search with source citations, tool calling, many languages. Command A+ (2026) was the first under Apache 2.0, followed by the North line: code, translation and compact vision.
Tencent translators for 33 languages; the first version won the WMT25 competition. Russian is supported. The small 1.8B version runs on a laptop; the new Hy-MT2 is under Apache 2.0.
More than a thousand small translators, each for its own language pair. Russian-English and back are available. Fast even on a regular CPU.
European language models trained on all EU languages and several others, with a focus on translation. Russian is supported. Permissive license.
Translators based on Gemma 3 for 55 languages that can also translate text in images. Russian is supported. The 4B version fits on a laptop.
A compact ByteDance translator for 28 languages, close in quality to large closed systems. Russian is supported. Ready-made compressed versions are available.
Language models tailored for translation and multilingual text work: translating, editing, and assessing translation quality. Russian is supported. Non-commercial license.
Compact Kazakh-Russian translators from VK. At 197M they translate as well as the 600M NLLB and run on a regular CPU.
Research translators based on Llama 2. The first ALMA covered 5 pairs with English, including Russian; X-ALMA expanded coverage to 50 languages.
Google's translator for more than 400 languages under a permissive license. Russian is supported. A good substitute for NLLB when commercial use is needed.
A translator for 200 languages, including rare and minor ones. Russian is supported. Strong language coverage, but the license prohibits commercial use.
An early Meta translator that translates directly between 100 languages, without English in the middle. Russian is supported. Old, but light and permissively licensed.
An open model can run on your own server: data stays in-house, there is no per-request fee, and the model can be fine-tuned on your documents.
