Who Covers All 24 Official EU Languages? The 2026 Engine Scorecard

DeepL’s April Voice-to-Voice launch made a point of covering all 24 official EU languages — a regulatory-grade checklist that matters to institutions and to any business selling across the single market. Here is how the text-translation engines stack up on the same test.

Why EU-24 is a useful benchmark

It is a fixed, politically meaningful set spanning Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Baltic, Finno-Ugric and Celtic families plus Maltese (Semitic). An engine that handles EU-24 well handles most of the world’s commercial web.

Choosing for an EU-focused site

Our standing recommendation: DeepL for your top revenue languages (German, French, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Spanish) where its fluency and formality control shine; Google for full-set coverage and the smaller languages. Transxlate supports either key — or start with one and switch anytime, since translations persist in your database.

Compliance corner

Selling EU-wide increasingly implies consumer information in local languages. Machine translation with human review of legal pages is the pragmatic, defensible middle path — see legal localization.