Intento
Machine translation software
Localization software
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What is Intento
Intento is an enterprise machine translation and language AI orchestration platform that helps organizations route translation requests across multiple MT engines and related NLP services. It is used by localization teams, product teams, and developers to integrate translation into applications and content workflows via APIs and connectors. The platform focuses on vendor-neutral engine selection, quality/performance monitoring, and governance features such as terminology and policy-based routing.
Vendor-neutral MT orchestration
Intento is designed to connect to multiple third-party machine translation engines through a single integration layer. This helps teams avoid hard-coding to one provider and enables switching engines by language, domain, or cost constraints. It also supports centralized management of credentials, routing rules, and usage across teams.
Quality and performance monitoring
The product emphasizes evaluation and monitoring of translation quality across engines and language pairs. It supports comparing outputs and tracking quality signals to inform routing decisions over time. This is useful for enterprises that need repeatable governance rather than ad hoc engine selection.
API-first enterprise integration
Intento provides APIs intended for embedding translation into applications, content pipelines, and localization workflows. This approach fits engineering-led teams that need programmatic control and automation rather than only a translator-facing UI. Centralized orchestration can reduce duplicated integrations when multiple business units need MT.
Depends on third-party engines
Intento’s output quality and language coverage depend heavily on the underlying MT engines it connects to. Organizations still need to select, contract, and manage those providers (or accept the constraints of available connectors). If a preferred engine is not supported, additional integration work may be required.
Not a full TMS replacement
While it supports MT within localization processes, Intento is not positioned as an end-to-end translation management system with full project management, linguist workflows, and CAT tooling. Many teams will still require separate localization platforms for human translation, review cycles, and asset management. This can add operational complexity if users expect a single system to cover all localization needs.
Setup and governance overhead
Realizing value typically requires defining routing policies, evaluation methods, and organizational governance for MT usage. Teams may need technical resources to integrate APIs and maintain connectors, as well as localization expertise to manage terminology and quality expectations. Smaller teams with simple needs may find a direct MT API easier to adopt.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Not publicly listed (purchase in-console) | Includes 1,000,000 characters/month; third-party provider fees included; monthly or annual billing available; services paused when quota exceeded; 2-week free trial available (or until 500,000 characters). |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing (contact sales) | Unlimited connected accounts & enterprise connectors, custom workflows, fine-tuning options, premium support and SLA; pricing and configuration provided by sales. |
Usage-based / per-model examples (from Intento documentation): Pricing model: Usage-based (per 1,000,000 characters) for specific MT/LLM models offered through the platform. Example costs:
- OpenAI MT via ChatGPT (GPT-3.5-turbo) – $1.5 per 1M characters.
- OpenAI MT via GPT-3 (davinci-003) – $12 per 1M characters.
- OpenAI MT via GPT-4 – $30 per 1M characters. Notes: Many providers and fine-tuned/custom models have separate pricing (may depend on provider or customization). These per-model rates are documented in Intento's help articles.
Seller details
Intento, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, USA
2016
Private
https://inten.to/
https://x.com/IntentoAI
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