With machine translation provider DeepL having closed its latest funding round , it is a good time to see how DeepL's machine translations rank in the MT Decider Benchmark . We benchmarked four large online MT providers, Amazon, DeepL, Google and Microsoft, with news domain data in 23 language pairs/46 language directions (we are leaving out the MT Decider language pairs English↔Arabic and English↔Korean that only have transcribed speech test data for an apples-to-apples comparison). Using the evaluation metric COMET , DeepL ranks first for 24 of the 46 language directions! Google Translate is a close second ranking first for 19 out of 46 language directions. This is an impressive result given the competition. DeepL doesn't rank the highest in the Q4/2022 MT Decider Index that reflects which provider is best across the evaluated language pairs. Google Translate does. Why? We use ranked voting to calculate our index, so it matters which provider ranks 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. D...