# ManyLives AI Text Translation

> ManyLives AI Text Translation is a paid API for AI agents from api.manylives.me, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Translates a given text from any detected language into a specified target language, returning the translation and detected source language.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.manylives.me/paid/text/translate?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-ai-text-translation-bf0cfe23
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_I9ruIz6GpREzJf-qehRJh

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 manylives-ai-text-translation-bf0cfe23 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Translate this French text into English for me: 'Bonjour, comment allez-vous ? Nous avons une nouvelle stratégie de trading à vous présenter.'

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a lightweight, pay-per-call text translation with no account setup, especially within an agent pipeline that already uses ManyLives AI services for crypto/trading workflows. Ideal for translating financial content, trading signals, or strategy descriptions on-demand without committing to a subscription-based translation API.

## Known failure modes

- Text exceeds 20,000 character limit — request rejected
- Unsupported or unrecognized target language code — translation fails or falls back to English
- Empty or missing 'text' field — validation error returned
- Payment failure via x402 protocol — 402 response, translation not performed
- Ambiguous or very short input text — source language detection may be inaccurate

## How this service works

Pay-per-call tools for people building AI agents: live web search and page contents, point-in-time crypto market data and news for backtests (no lookahead), verifiable track records of 1,000 crypto strategies locked on the Base network, company profiles, quick AI and batch prices. Ask us to turn a public website into a JSON endpoint. Pay per call, no account, free trial.

## Output

A JSON object containing the translated text under 'translation', the detected source language code under 'source_language', and the target language code under 'target_language'.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "to": {
   "type": "string",
   "examples": [
    "en"
   ],
   "description": "target language, e.g. 'es' or 'Japanese' (default English)"
  },
  "text": {
   "type": "string",
   "examples": [
    "Bonjour, comment allez-vous ?"
   ],
   "description": "the text (required, max 20,000 chars)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "translation": "…",
  "source_language": "fr",
  "target_language": "en"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-ai-text-translation-bf0cfe23/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.manylives.me](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.manylives.me/llms.txt)