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Lesan AI vs Toucan
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
Translation
Translation
Country
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Paid only
Institutional only
Pricing
EUR 20 per 1 million characters (pay-per-use)
Free / open weights
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
api, machine-translation, amharic, translation, tigrinya
nlp, african-languages, machine-translation, ubc-nlp, many-to-many
Summary
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.
An Afrocentric many-to-many machine translation model (1.2B params, mT5) fine-tuned from Cheetah to support 156 African language pairs, evaluated on the AfroLingu-MT benchmark. Developed by the UBC Deep Learning and NLP Lab and published at ACL 2024.