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AfriMT5 vs Lesan AI
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Translation
Translation
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Paid only
Pricing
Open weights
EUR 20 per 1 million characters (pay-per-use)
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
african-languages, machine-translation, low-resource, masakhane, mt5
api, machine-translation, amharic, translation, tigrinya
Summary
AfriMT5 (afri-mt5-base) is an mT5-based machine translation model from the Masakhane community fine-tuned to translate across 16 African languages using multilingual adaptive fine-tuning. It targets news-domain translation for low-resource African languages, several of which were not previously covered by existing benchmarks. It is distributed as open weights on HuggingFace.
Machine translation service for Ethiopian and Eritrean languages including Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo and Somali, offering document translation and a translation API. Founded 2019, it reports outperforming Google Translate on its supported pairs.