DeepL

Best-in-class neural machine translation

Cologne, Germany · Founded 2017 · Freemium
A European alternative to Google Translate Microsoft Translator Amazon Translate

About DeepL

DeepL is a German AI company headquartered at Maarweg 165 in Cologne, founded in 2017 by Jaroslaw Kutylowski and best known for its neural translation engine. The platform translates text, full documents (Word, PDF, PowerPoint and more) preserving formatting, and offers DeepL Voice for real-time translation in meetings, plus DeepL Write for monolingual editing in English and German. Coverage spans 33+ languages with enterprise features such as glossaries, term rules and Clarify. A free web tier is available; DeepL Pro Starter is around €8.74/month (annual), and the API costs roughly USD 5.49/month base plus USD 25 per million characters. EU-hosted with GDPR-grade data security.

Quick facts

Pricing model Freemium
Free trial
Open source
Self-hostable No
Public API No
Target audience B2B
Company size fit All
DPA available Yes
Data stored in EU Yes
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