Built because literal Discord translation was not good enough

What I built instead

A bot that translates what people mean

1. It reads the conversation

   BabelBot can include recent messages from the same channel. It knows what a reply answers, so a short answer keeps its meaning.

2. It uses your server's words

   Custom words keep names, game terms, and community slang the way your members use them.

3. It stays in the chat

   Translations appear as replies, in threads, in linked language channels, or in place of the original under the member's name. Members keep chatting in one place.

4. It is free to start

   Free gives each server 100 AI translations a month. When they run out, any member can vote on top.gg to reset them. No credit card is needed.

How I run it

Plain rules, written down

• Limited message text in storage

  Message sync records keep Discord IDs, delivery state, and a short fingerprint of each message. A bridged reply also keeps a short quote of the message it answers and that author's name for 30 days. For translation context, BabelBot keeps up to 5 recent messages per channel, up to 200 characters each, for a short time.

  Read the privacy policy

• AI translation in the EU

  AI text translation runs on Google model servers in the EU.

  See the subprocessors

• Prices you can read

  Plans are per server. The free plan costs EUR 0 per month.

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Shipped in public

Recent updates

I ship fixes and features every week. These are the three latest releases.

1. Improvedv2.29.5/November 15, 2026

   Bot profile takes an image upload instead of a URL

   The Profile page now takes a PNG, JPEG or WebP file from your device for the avatar and the banner, and no longer takes an image URL. Images you set before stay on the profile.

   • Open Settings, then Bot identity, then Profile. The profile is part of Pro, Ultra and Founder Access.
   • BabelBot crops the avatar to a square and the banner to a wide rectangle, and the preview shows the result before you save.
   • GIF files are no longer accepted.
   • Fixed a bug where a nickname change could fail when the address of a profile image no longer worked.
2. Improvedv2.29.4/November 14, 2026

   Video translations no longer describe the video

   Video translations now cover only the speech and the text on screen, and no longer describe what happens in the video. A video with no words gets no translation, and text sent with the video is still translated.

3. Fixedv2.29.3/November 14, 2026

   Image translations posted BabelBot's instructions

   Fixed a bug where an image or PDF translation could post BabelBot's own instructions instead of the text in the file.

   • When an image translation only repeats the message text, BabelBot posts that text once.
   • We changed the prompt so translations are less likely to include notes about the image.
   • Images that show only names and labels, such as a game screen, no longer fail with "Translation failed" for languages such as Korean, Japanese or Russian.