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I've found DeepSeek works pretty well for translating content, their API access is pretty cheap. The main limitation comes from the context size, smaller models can handle less text, so you'd have to feed it content in smaller chunks. That said, locally running models are pretty capable of doing these types of translations.
Here's an example node script you could use to call DeepSeek to translate a document:
Similarly, if you wanted to use a model like qwen3 with ollama for translations, you could do something like this:
thanks!