Native TranslateHow Native Translate compares
Every translation extension gets the words across. The differences are in how the page feels while you read, what you have to set up, what it costs when you read a lot, and what happens to your text.
Checked October 2026 against each product’s public pages
At a glance
| Native Translate | Immersive Translate | Google Translate / Chrome | DeepL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| For heavy reading | Pro $7.99/month or $59.99/year, 1,000 pages a month | Pro $14.99/month or $119.88/year; Max $39.99/month | Free | Paid plans from €7.49/month billed yearly; page translation needs a paid plan |
| Free use | 20 pages without an account, then 10 pages a day with an email code | Free plan | Free | 50,000 characters a month |
| Setup | Nothing to configure: no API keys, no model to pick | Choose among services and models; bring-your-own key optional | None | Account for the paid features |
| How a page translates | Written into the page’s own text, streaming sentence by sentence, text on screen first | Translation added under each paragraph (bilingual) or replacing it | Chrome swaps the page’s text for the translation in one go | Page translation on paid plans |
| Bilingual view | Yes | Yes (its default) | No | — |
| Selected text | Right-click → card next to the text | Yes | Yes (extension) | Yes |
| Translate what you type | Any field, Alt+Shift+I | Yes | No | Writing assistant |
| PDF, video subtitles, images | Not yet | Yes | PDF via Google Translate site | Documents in the app |
| Keeps text on your device | Local-only mode (Chrome’s built-in translator) | Depends on the service you choose | — | No |
Prices and plans from Immersive Translate’s membership terms (updated August 2026), DeepL Pro (EU pricing) and the products’ Chrome Web Store listings. Tell us at [email protected] if something here is out of date and we will fix it.
Native Translate vs Immersive Translate
Immersive Translate is the most complete toolbox in the category: PDFs, subtitles, manga, mobile apps, and a choice of translation services. If you need those today, it is the better fit.
Native Translate is built for one thing: reading web pages in your language as if they were written in it. Translations are written into the page itself, so the layout stays the same and links, menus and web apps keep working. Text streams in starting with what is on your screen, and the article body gets a second, context-aware pass. You never choose a model or paste a key; we route each piece of text to the right model and switch when a provider slows down. Pro costs about half as much.
Native Translate vs Google Translate and Chrome
Chrome’s built-in translation is free and quick, and for an occasional page it is hard to beat. It replaces the page’s text in one go, without a second pass for context, and swapping text under a running web app is a long-standing source of errors in React sites (facebook/react#11538).
Native Translate writes into the text the page already has, tracks every change so “Show original” restores it exactly, and is tested against React, single-page apps and infinite feeds. It adds what the built-in translation does not: bilingual mode, per-site Always/Ask/Never rules, translation of what you type, site tuning, and a refinement pass that keeps names and terms consistent through a long article.
Native Translate vs DeepL
DeepL is known for careful translation of documents and selected text, and its writing tools are excellent. Whole-page translation is part of its paid plans. Native Translate is page-first: it translates the whole page in place while you read, free for 10 pages a day, with the original one click away.
Where others are ahead today
- PDFs and video subtitles. Not in Native Translate yet.
- Other browsers and mobile. Native Translate runs on desktop Chrome; Microsoft Edge is next.
- Choosing your own model or key. On purpose: we pick the model so you don’t have to. If you want to use your own API key, an open-source extension such as Read Frog or KISS Translator is the better match.
Try it on a page you read
The best comparison is your own reading. Install Native Translate, open a page in another language and press the N in your toolbar. The first 20 pages need no account.
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