amazon-translate-mcp-server
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI applications with access to neural machine translation service, Amazon Translate for text translation, managed batch processing, and smart transl
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Amazon Translate MCP Server connects your AI assistant to AWS's neural machine translation service. 75+ languages, automatic source language detection, translation quality validation.
You can run real-time text translation, kick off batch jobs through S3, and manage custom terminology for domain-specific vocabularies. Install with `uvx awslabs.amazon-translate-mcp-server@latest`, set your AWS credentials as environment variables, and register the server with your client. Standard AWS auth flow.
Amazon Translate is pay-per-use: $15 per million characters for standard text, more for active custom terminology and document-format translation. The MCP layer adds nothing to that bill.
Official AWS Labs project. Part of the larger awslabs/mcp suite, maintained by AWS engineers.
Worth installing if your agent needs translation as part of its workflow and you already use AWS. If you only translate occasionally or you are not in the AWS ecosystem, call DeepL or Google Translate directly from your app code, no MCP needed.
Cost Breakdown
**Free tier:** The MCP server is free. AWS Translate has a free tier of 2 million characters/month for the first 12 months.
**Self-hosted:** Not applicable. The MCP runs locally, but Amazon Translate is a hosted AWS service.
**Paid:** $15 per million characters for standard text translation. Active custom terminology and document-format translation are more expensive. Compare to DeepL Pro at $7-50/month with character caps, or Google Translate API at $20 per million characters.
Free and open source. The underlying service may have its own costs.
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