# Google translation offerings

Google Cloud translation offerings enable your websites and applications to
translate text with state-of-the-art translation models. Depending on your use
case, you can use the Cloud Translation API to apply those models programmatically,
or access them through Vertex AI.

Here is a summary of the different translation options:

- **Cloud Translation - Basic API** provides quick, plug-and-play access
  to the standard Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model.

- **Cloud Translation - Advanced API** provides access to an advanced
  Translation LLM (TLLM) model and the standard Neural Machine Translation (NMT)
  model. It also supports customizations of the NMT model
  and TLLM model and Adaptive Translation using the
  TLLM model. Adaptive Translation can achieve customization and localization
  using a limited number of example translation pairs, optionally in
  multi-sentence context windows. Cloud Translation - Advanced API also has features
  such as glossary support, and document, batch, and real-time translation.

- **Vertex AI Model Garden Platform**
  lets you access and customize other models directly. This platform is for
  those who want to build their own end-to-end translation MLOps pipeline.
  You can use it to work with foundation models for translation-adjacent
  tasks, and customize them through Vertex fine tuning and embeddings.
  It supports Neural Machine Translation (NMT) custom models and
  a Translation LLM (TLLM) supervised fine-tuning model.

- **Vertex AI Studio (UI experience)**
  provides a user-friendly interface for rapid prototyping, quick
  experimentation, and fine-tuning. It lets you choose between the
  NMT and Translation LLM (TLLM) models and
  upload example translation pairs for Adaptive Translation or
  to fine-tune and customize your models.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** This site only covers the [Cloud Translation API](https://docs.cloud.google.com/translate/docs/api-overview). For Vertex AI offerings, see [Vertex AI Model Garden](https://cloud.google.com/model-garden) and [Vertex AI Studio](https://cloud.google.com/generative-ai-studio) documentation.

This diagram further illustrates Cloud Translation options:

![Alt text](https://docs.cloud.google.com/static/translate/images/translation_paths.png)

See the [**Cloud Translation API overview**](https://docs.cloud.google.com/translate/docs/api-overview) for more
information about API operations and options.