How to compare translation APIs without rewriting your workflow

How to compare translation APIs without rewriting your workflow Draft Comparing translation APIs sounds simple until you try to do it in a real workflow. On paper, you are just swapping one provider for another. In practice, you end up touching request formats, auth handling, retries, fallback logic, content-type handling, and often parts of the app that were never meant to know anything about translation providers in the first place. That means the real cost of testing or switching translation APIs is usually not the API bill. It is workflow friction. The hidden cost is not the translation call Most teams start with a simple assumption: pick one provider wire it in call the API ship That works at the beginning. The problem starts later, when one of these things happens: you want to compare quality across providers you want fallback if one provider is slow or unavailable pricing changes and you want to test alternatives certain content types work better with different providers one tea