Azure Translator in Foundry Tools
Break language barriers with instant, AI-powered translation
Overview
Break language barriers with Azure Translator
Translate text and documents instantly or in batches across more than 100 languages, powered by the latest innovations in machine translation. Support a wide range of agentic use cases, such as translation for call centers, multilingual conversational agents, or in-app communication.
- Accurately detect the source language, then translate text and documents across your enterprise and agentic apps using a single API.
- Try the new flexible translation powered by neural machine translation (NMT) and foundation models like GPT-4o for tone, gender, and style customization.
- Reflect domain-specific terminology in your translations. Define how terms are translated based on previously translated documents, and build customised translation models without machine learning expertise.
- Build your solutions using a production-ready translation engine that powers translations across Microsoft products such as Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, Edge browser, and Visual Studio. Seamlessly scale up or down based on your translation needs.
Features
Explore what’s possible with Azure Translator
Broad language coverage
Accurately translate text and documents in more than 100 languages.
Customizable translations
Build custom models to handle domain-specific terminology.
Production-ready
Access the same technology that powers billions of translations every day across Microsoft products.
Built-in security
Your data remains yours—your text input isn’t logged during translation.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Get the power, control, and customization you need with flexible pricing
With Azure Translator, pay as you go based on the volume of characters translated. Pay a reduced per-character price when you commit to a minimum volume. You’ll pay for only what you use—with no upfront costs.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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Azure Translator, part of the Foundry Tools suite (formerly Azure AI services and Azure Cognitive Services), is a production-grade translation service that enables real-time and batch translation across more than 100 languages. It helps developers and enterprises break language barriers by embedding translation into applications, websites, and agentic workflows using a simple REST API.
As a Foundry Tool, Translator integrates seamlessly with your agentic AI apps and workflows, allowing you to build multilingual experiences that are scalable, secure, and customizable. Foundry Tools are designed to empower AI agents with core skills like understanding, communicating, and translating, all within a unified development platform.
Whether you're localizing content, enabling multilingual chatbots, or translating documents, Azure Translator in Foundry Tools delivers fast, accurate results with enterprise-grade reliability.
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Azure AI Translator, formerly part of Azure AI services, is now Azure Translator in Foundry Tools. This change is part of a broader platform unification under Foundry, reflecting how developers increasingly use these services as modular tools to build intelligent, agentic applications.
Azure Translator offers the same trusted capabilities, like real-time and batch translation across 100+ languages, language detection, bilingual dictionaries, and script conversion. In addition, Translator is now a core tool within our unified agent-building Foundry platform and allows you to choose your preferred LLMs.
This shift makes it easier for developers to discover, orchestrate, and integrate translation into modern AI workflows—whether you're building multilingual chatbots, localizing content, or enabling global collaboration.
- Azure Translator in Foundry Tools uses a flexible, consumption-based pricing model, with a free tier for light usage and scalable options for enterprise needs. For full details, please visit the Azure Translator pricing page.
- You can explore documentation to learn the basics of Azure Translator, or jump right in with a quickstart to start using Azure Translator for your use case: text translation, document translation, or custom translation.
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