Translation API · Generative AI API · OCR API

Translation and AI APIs, built for global scale

Translate text across 100+ languages, build with leading AI models and extract text from images and documents. One account, one prepaid balance, and you only pay for what you use.

500,000 characters of NMT translation free every month

Products

Three APIs, one platform

Use them on their own or together. All three share the same accounts, API keys, quotas and prepaid balance.

Translation API

Text and HTML translation

Translate text between more than 100 languages with neural machine translation (NMT) or the Translation LLM.

  • Neural Machine Translation (NMT) and the Translation LLM
  • 100+ languages with automatic language detection
  • HTML support and many strings per request
  • One REST v1 API: choose NMT or the LLM per request

Generative AI API

Chat, reasoning and coding

Build with DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi and other leading models through an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API.

  • Choose from 4 models
  • OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions with streaming
  • Billed per token, only for successful requests
  • Context windows of up to 1M tokens

OCR API

Text from images and documents

Extract printed and handwritten text from images, photos and scans.

  • Text detection for photos, screenshots and signs
  • Document text detection for scans, receipts and forms
  • Up to 16 images per request, as base64 or a public URL
  • Returns the full text, line by line

Why Vionex

Everything you need to run translation and AI in production

Accurate models, simple APIs, and the billing and access controls your finance and security teams expect.

Accurate models, clear prices

Leading AI models, high-quality machine translation and OCR, with clear per-unit prices and no minimum commitment.

One balance, project-level control

Every project draws on its billing account's prepaid balance, with usage and costs broken down by project and SKU.

Easy to integrate

Standard REST and JSON, authenticated with an API key. The Translation API offers NMT and the Translation LLM through one v1 interface, the OCR API reads text from images, and the Generative AI API works with OpenAI SDKs.

Production controls built in

Restricted API keys, per-project quotas, usage reports and monthly statements, ready from day one.

How it works

From sign-up to first request in minutes

Four steps, all in the Vionex Console.

  1. Create an account

    Sign up for Vionex with your work email.

  2. Create a billing account and project

    The billing account holds your prepaid balance. Projects keep keys, quotas and usage separate.

  3. Enable an API and create an API key

    Turn on the APIs you need, then create a key restricted to just those APIs.

  4. Call the API

    Send your first request with cURL, Python, Node.js or the client library you already use.

For developers

Start with a single request

Call the REST APIs directly, or point the clients you already use at Vionex.

  • Translation API: /language/translate/v1 REST endpoints, authenticated with X-Api-Key
  • Generative AI API: OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions, with streaming
  • OCR API: images:annotate REST endpoint
  • Manage API keys and track usage in the Vionex Console
curl -X POST "https://api.vionexlimited.com/language/translate/v1" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q": ["Hello, world"], "target": "zh-CN"}'

Pricing

Transparent, pay-as-you-go pricing

Clear per-unit prices in US dollars. Pay only for what you use, from a prepaid balance.

Translation API

500,000

NMT characters free every month

Then $20.00 per 1M characters

Generative AI API

$0.112

Starting price per 1M input tokens

Across 4 chat models

OCR API

1,000

images free every month for each OCR feature

Then $1.50 per 1,000 images

Start building with Vionex

Create an account in minutes and pay only for what you use.