SLara Translate vs ModernMT
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
Choose Lara Translate if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you work on iOS, Android
- you're in its core audience: professionals and freelancers, business teams
Choose ModernMT if…
- you're in its core audience: localization teams, professional translators
Side by side
Price changes we've recorded
We re-read each pricing page every month and log what changed.
Lara Translate
- Nov 2, 2026Pricing model: Pricing unknown → Freemium; New plan: Free (€0); New plan: Pro (€8/mo billed annually); New plan: Team (From €25/mo billed annually); New plan: Enterprise (Custom)
ModernMT
- Nov 2, 2026Pricing model: Pricing unknown → Contact for pricing; New plan: Enterprise / Team (Custom)
Key features
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Lara Translate
- Translation across 200+ languages
- Document translation in 60+ formats with layout preserved
- Image translation that keeps the visual design
- Audio translation and live AI interpreter
- Faithful, fluid and creative translation styles
- Glossaries and translation memories
- Incognito mode with no storage or training use
- Optional human review by professional linguists
M ModernMT
- Translation across 200+ languages
- Document translation in 60+ file formats
- Image translation for 10+ file types
- Audio translation via API in 60+ languages
- Adapts to glossaries, translation memories and style guides
- Trados Studio and memoQ plugins
- MCP server, CLI and SDKs for seven languages
- Integrations with Crowdin, n8n, Blackbird and Google Sheets
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Lara Translate
ModernMT
Strengths and limitations
Lara Translate
- Free plan includes 60,000 characters a month and no credit card is required
- API access on every plan, including 10,000 free characters a month
- Team plans include unlimited free users on a shared quota
- Incognito mode states that content is not stored or used for training
- Prices are listed only in EUR
- Pro and Team prices are shown only with annual billing; monthly-billing prices aren't listed
- The Free plan has no extra usage beyond its monthly limit
- Mobile apps and scanned PDF support require the Pro plan or higher
ModernMT
- Supports 200+ languages
- Handles 60+ document formats
- SDKs available for seven programming languages
- Plugins for Trados Studio and memoQ
- ModernMT will shut down by the end of 2026 and is being replaced by Lara
- No public prices; pricing requires contacting sales
- Style guides and profanity detection are available only through the API
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