Deploy and Host LibreTranslate on Railway

LibreTranslate is a free, open-source machine translation API powered by Argos Translate. It runs fully offline on your own server, with a simple web UI and a JSON API.

About Hosting LibreTranslate

This template runs the official libretranslate/libretranslate:latest image with a volume at /home/libretranslate/.local for the language models. To keep memory and first-boot time reasonable, the start command loads English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Japanese with 2 workers. The first boot downloads these models (a few minutes) to the volume; each restart checks for missing or updated models. To change languages, edit --load-only in the service's start command.

The API is public and has no API key by default. Use --api-keys and the ltmanage keys command if you want to restrict it.

Common Use Cases

Translate text and documents in your own apps without a paid API
Offer a private translation page to a team
Keep text off third-party translation services

Dependencies for LibreTranslate Hosting

One service with a volume; nothing else

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy LibreTranslate on Railway?

Railway gives you a public HTTPS URL, a persistent volume for the models and automatic restarts with no server to maintain.