Translation API for Swiss businesses

A REST API that brings Swiss data residency, Swiss German and Romansh to your product. Self-serve for CHF 39 a month.

Read the quickstart Open API reference

Data stays in Switzerland

Swiss servers, Swiss law, Swiss company. No US, no EU detour.

Swiss German and Romansh

Native support for Swiss German with regional dialects and Romansh, alongside German, French, Italian and English.

CHF invoicing, Swiss VAT

Stripe-issued invoices in CHF. Friendly to public-sector procurement.

No training on your text

Translations are never used to train models. Your content stays yours.

Pricing

Per-character usage tracked monthly. 14-day free trial.

Business

Teams and SMEs

CHF 39/month

14-day free trial. Then CHF 4 per million chars of overage.

2,000,000 characters per month included
Up to 10,000 characters per request
10 API keys (per environment, per team)
Priority email support
Usage-alert webhooks
All languages and Swiss German dialects

Enterprise

Federal, cantonal, large organisations

Custom volume, SLA, DPA on request.

Custom monthly volume
SLA negotiated per contract
Data Processing Agreement
Dedicated support

Quickstart

One API key, one POST, one translation.

curl -X POST https://helvetra.ch/api/public/v1/translate \
  -H "X-API-Key: $HELVETRA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "Grüezi mitenand!",
    "source_lang": "gsw",
    "target_lang": "en"
  }'

Helvetra is a Swiss translation API run by a Swiss company on Swiss servers under Swiss law. It supports German, French, Italian, English, Swiss German (with regional dialects), and Romansh. Pricing is CHF 39/month (14-day free trial, 2,000,000 characters included, up to 10,000 per request), with per-character overage. Customer text is never used to train models. Contact: gruezi@helvetra.ch.

Questions or volume needs? Write to gruezi@helvetra.ch