Nitro 4.0 - The first human translation platform built for AI agents
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Nitro is now the first human translation service an AI agent can order and pay for on its own — no account, no API keys, no signup.
Your agent sends the text, pays per request, and a professional native speaker translates it — publication-ready in hours. Great for the smaller texts that still need to be right: ads, app updates, email sequences, and more.
The ordering is machine-to-machine. The translating stays human.
80+ languages. No plans, no minimums.
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Bababot
It's impressive to see how Nitro has evolved over multiple launches while staying focused on quality. Wishing the team another successful launch! 🎉
Alconost Localization Lab
@aarav_pittman Thank you very much for your support!
Alconost Localization Lab
Hi everyone!
I'm Alex — I run Alconost, and Nitro has been my baby for years. I came up with it out of a simple frustration: for short texts — an app update, an ad, a few lines of email — professional translation was far too heavy. You shouldn't need a project manager and a quote to translate three sentences. Nitro was my answer to that.
I've since moved on to other projects, but I still keep an eye on it and bring ideas to the team — and seeing it come back to Product Hunt a fourth time, now with AI agents able to hire human translators directly, feels kind of surreal. Huge thanks to the Product Hunt crowd for all the support over the years.
How do I connect my agent to Nitro? how does it order a translation?
Alconost Localization Lab
@kseniya_avtukhovich It's a standard MPP flow, so any MPP-compatible agent can do it - no account or stored balance needed.
In short: your agent sends a translation request to our API, gets back a "payment required" challenge, pays per request through its MPP provider, then retries with the payment credential and receives the order. It polls until the translation's done and pulls the result.
Full docs and code examples are here: docs.nitrotranslate.com/agentic-flow
80+ languages with no minimums is the part that stands out to me. I've been priced out of smaller translation jobs before because agencies wanted a monthly contract.
Alconost Localization Lab
@kimberly_west thank you! Yes, that's exactly the problem Nitro has been saving - ad hoc translation requests with a wide range of language pairs covered. It wouldn't be possible to create such a service with a stable level of translation quality if it wasn't for our 'parental company', so to say, that offers localization services and has a large pool of translators with a track of Alconost projects. Nitro is like a side job for them with occasional orders between their main projects.
Aren’t you worried that AI could eventually make your service obsolete? Translation quality is already very good with AI, at least for the most widely spoken languages.
Alconost Localization Lab
@natalia_iankovych that's a good question. We do work with AI translations a lot at Alconost, and there are still many cases when you can't blindly trust AI translations - usually they require at least some kind of check and post-editing. The more high-stake content that is, the more serious and in-depth check it should be.
Nitro may need to pivot in the future and maybe offer native-speaker post-editing for AI translations, but in that case it should be worth it for the translators - they need decent pay for the efforts put into their work. So perhaps in case of post-editing there should be larger volumes, not "post-edit these 5 lines and get $0.80" or something - I'm making up figures but just to give you an idea.
Glam AI
Alconost Localization Lab
@kristina__grits Nitro's sweet spot is shorter texts that still need to be right - ads, app updates (whole apps with light text are fine too), store copy, email sequences, UI strings, articles, press releases.
For big, complex localization projects with dedicated managers and workflows, that's what our parent company Alconost handles; Nitro is the fast, self-serve lane.
Coldtea.ai
Congrats on the launch team!!
Alconost Localization Lab
@ohansemmanuel thanks a lot! appreciate the support <3
Serand
Alconost Localization Lab
@rukhsar_amjad Thanks a lot!
That's a good question actually, context is often important for a good translation.
I suppose such decisions can be only made by a human - when preparing content for translation. I am judging from the point of view how a regular translation process in Nitro goes: because it's a self-serve platform, it's up to the customer how much info (screenshots, character limits if needed, terms and tone of voice) is given.
If often happens context is lacking, then Nitro translators leave a question, and if the customer replies to the question, the translator will tweak the translation accordingly.
Nobody's asked the boring one, which is what stops the agent spending. No account and pay per request means the only ceiling is whatever its MPP provider happens to allow, and an agent stuck in a retry loop on a job that keeps failing is an expensive thing to find out about the next morning. A cap you set on your side, per agent, would do more for adoption here than another language pair, because the person who actually authorised this isn't the agent, it's whoever owns the card behind it.