# x402node Text Translation API

> x402node Text Translation API is a paid API for AI agents from api.x402node.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, not verified (last probed 2026-10-22); live alternatives: JigsawStack AI Language Translation ($0.001) and MyMemory Text Translator ($0.002).

Agents call it through Zero, which pays per call: no API key and no wallet of your own. New accounts start with $5.

Live alternatives for the same use case:
- [JigsawStack AI Language Translation](https://www.zero.xyz/c/jigsawstack-withzero-ai-translate-20be08f9) ($0.001)
- [MyMemory Text Translator](https://www.zero.xyz/c/zeroclick-x402-service-registry-translate-2c36803d) ($0.002)

Translates text between 100+ languages with automatic source language detection via a pay-per-call x402 API

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.x402node.dev/text/translate?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Last successful call: 2026-07-02
- Success rate: 100% of calls made through Zero
- Rating: 1.3 / 5 from 1 review
- Activations on Zero: 4
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-x402node-dev-ad7bb703
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_YT3xDlR4EOlvxsbldEHiP

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability api-x402node-dev-ad7bb703
```

Example prompt: Translate this text into Japanese: 'Welcome to our platform. Please sign in to continue.' — auto-detect the source language.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a low-cost, pay-per-call translation API without API key management, especially within agentic or x402-payment-enabled pipelines handling multilingual content across 100+ languages including CJK, RTL, and European languages.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported language code returns error or empty translation
- Very long input text may exceed limits
- Ambiguous or very short text may cause incorrect language auto-detection
- Network timeout for large payloads
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance blocks the call

## How this service works

translate text, translation API, translate english to chinese, language translator, machine translation, multilingual translator, auto translate. Translate any text between languages. Auto-detects source if not specified. Supports English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese and 100 plus more. For AI agents handling multilingual localization. Accepts payment on Base or Solana — either network works.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the translated text in `text_out`, the detected or specified `source_lang`, the `target_lang` used, the original `text_in`, and `processing_ms` indicating how long the translation took.

## Example request

```json
{
 "text": "Hello world. Welcome to our platform.",
 "targetLanguage": "es"
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "text"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "to": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Target format (optional)"
      },
      "from": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Source format (optional)"
      },
      "text": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Input text (required)"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Source lang (optional)"
      },
      "target": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Target lang (optional)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-x402node-dev-ad7bb703/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.x402node.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.x402node.dev/llms.txt)