Lesan AI
VerifiedBuilt by Lesan AI
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.
- Category
- AI Resources
- Pricing
- EUR 20 per 1 million characters (pay-per-use)
- Country
- 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
- Last verified
- 10 Oct 2026
{ "name": "Lesan AI", "slug": "lesan-ai", "category": "AI", "country": "ET", "docs_status": "LIVE", "licensing_required": "PAID_ONLY", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-10-10", "website": "https://lesan.ai/", "documentation_url": "https://lesan.ai/services.html"}Verification history
- 10 Oct 2026 · live
- 7 Oct 2026 · live
- 4 Oct 2026 · live
- 1 Oct 2026 · live
- 28 Sept 2026 · live
- 25 Sept 2026 · live
- 22 Sept 2026 · live
- 22 Sept 2026 · live
Automated checks run every few days. See all recent status changes
30-day uptime
Tags
Compare Lesan AI
Side-by-side, verified specs against its closest translation alternatives.
Related in AI Resources
Toucan
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.
GhanaNLP Khaya
GhanaNLP is an open-source Ghana-based NLP initiative whose Khaya product offers machine translation, text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition for 10+ Ghanaian languages (Twi, Ewe, Ga, Dagbani, Frafra and others) via web/Android/iOS apps and a REST API with Python and JavaScript SDKs.
AfriMT5
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.