Lara by Translated
Translation AI that reads whole documents, explains its choices, and adapts to your terminology automatically.
About
Lara is Translated's specialized AI model for translation, positioned as an alternative to generic LLMs for professional localization. It analyzes full documents instead of isolated segments, which keeps coherence and terminology consistent, and it explains its translation choices with contextual reasoning. A standout feature is automatic adaptation: it picks up the user's terminology, context, and style without manual configuration. Lara 3, released in July 2026, introduced a Learn by Doing training technique, and in blind evaluations by professional translators on WMT 2025 data it was preferred over Google Translate, DeepL, and frontier AI models (vendor-reported).
Lara supports 200 languages, including low-resource ones like Hausa, Shona, Gujarati, and Tagalog, with reported quality gains up to 76% for underrepresented languages (provider-claimed). Lara Think is a reasoning mode that cuts errors by 50-60% and delivers translations in under 10 seconds (provider-claimed). The ecosystem keeps growing: a multimodal SDK covering audio-to-audio and image translation, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, a Google Sheets add-on, and a free online translator at laratranslate.com.
What it can do
- Full-document understanding for coherent, consistent translations
- Automatic adaptation to user terminology, context, and style
- 200 languages including low-resource African and Indian languages
- Lara Think reasoning mode with transparent translation explanations
- Multimodal SDK: text, audio-to-audio, and image translation
- Browser extension and Google Sheets add-on
Setup
- Try the free translator at laratranslate.com with no account.
- Install the browser extension for Chrome or Firefox to translate pages and documents.
- Add the Google Sheets add-on for spreadsheet translation.
- Integrate the multimodal SDK for text, audio, and image translation in your product.
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Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (TIER verified, metrics-v1). Evidence: shipped product line (free translator, extension, Sheets add-on, multimodal SDK) from an established vendor (Translated, founded 1999), with July 2026 Lara 3 launch covered by industry press (Slator). Strengths: real multimodal product depth, low-resource language coverage, professional-translator evaluation framing. Docked for: (1) benchmark wins and quality percentages are vendor-reported; (2) young product line versus the company's legacy services, so long-term shape is still forming. License: proprietary (freemium + enterprise).
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · Shipped product line: free translator, browser extension, Sheets add-on, multimodal SDK.
- · Vendor is Translated (est. 1999); July 2026 Lara 3 launch covered by Slator.
- · Benchmark wins and quality percentages are vendor-reported.
- · Young product line; long-term shape still forming.
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.