generated: '2026-08-26'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/pfnet/plamo-translate-cli
name: PLaMo Translate CLI
description: >-
  PFN publishes one first-party command-line tool, plamo-translate, which runs the plamo-2-translate
  model locally and translates between Japanese, English and 14 experimentally supported languages.
  It is a local-inference tool, not a client for the hosted PLaMo API — it does not take a PLaMo API
  key and does not call api.platform.preferredai.jp. There is no CLI for the PLaMo API itself.
binary: plamo-translate
repository: https://github.com/pfnet/plamo-translate-cli
license: Apache-2.0
language: python
package: packages/preferred-networks-packages.yml
covers_api: false
install:
- {method: pip, command: pip install plamo-translate}
- {method: uv, command: uv tool install -p 3.14 plamo-translate}
requirements:
  python: '>=3.10,<=3.14'
  platform: macOS with Apple Silicon (MLX backend); Ollama and vLLM backends stated as planned
  dependencies: ["mcp[cli]", numba, mlx-lm]
commands:
- {command: plamo-translate, description: Interactive translation mode; reads from stdin when piped}
- {command: plamo-translate --input TEXT, description: Translate a single string (client mode when a server is running)}
- {command: plamo-translate server, description: Start the local model server, which is also an MCP server}
- {command: plamo-translate show-claude-config, description: Print an mcpServers JSON block for Claude Desktop}
flags:
- {flag: --input, value: TEXT, description: Input text to translate}
- {flag: --from, value: TEXT, default: English, description: Source language}
- {flag: --to, value: TEXT, default: Japanese, description: Target language}
- {flag: --precision, value: 4bit|8bit|bf16, default: 4bit, description: Model weight precision}
environment:
- {name: PLAMO_TRANSLATE_CLI_SERVER_START_PORT, description: Starting port for the local server}
languages:
  supported: [Japanese, 'Japanese (easy)', English]
  experimental: [Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Arabic, Italian, Indonesian, Dutch, Spanish, Thai, German, French, Vietnamese, Russian]