diff --git a/src/app.ts b/src/app.ts
index 9fb67ced..8831f188 100644
--- a/src/app.ts
+++ b/src/app.ts
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ import {
   trendingStatusesController,
   trendingTagsController,
 } from '@/controllers/api/trends.ts';
+import { translateController } from '@/controllers/api/translate.ts';
 import { errorHandler } from '@/controllers/error.ts';
 import { frontendController } from '@/controllers/frontend.ts';
 import { metricsController } from '@/controllers/metrics.ts';
@@ -126,6 +127,8 @@ import { requireSigner } from '@/middleware/requireSigner.ts';
 import { signerMiddleware } from '@/middleware/signerMiddleware.ts';
 import { storeMiddleware } from '@/middleware/storeMiddleware.ts';
 import { uploaderMiddleware } from '@/middleware/uploaderMiddleware.ts';
+import { DittoTranslator } from '@/translators/translator.ts';
+import { translatorMiddleware } from '@/middleware/translatorMiddleware.ts';
 
 interface AppEnv extends HonoEnv {
   Variables: {
@@ -141,6 +144,8 @@ interface AppEnv extends HonoEnv {
     pagination: { since?: number; until?: number; limit: number };
     /** Normalized list pagination params. */
     listPagination: { offset: number; limit: number };
+    /** Translation service. */
+    translator?: DittoTranslator;
   };
 }
 
@@ -220,6 +225,7 @@ app.post('/api/v1/statuses/:id{[0-9a-f]{64}}/bookmark', requireSigner, bookmarkC
 app.post('/api/v1/statuses/:id{[0-9a-f]{64}}/unbookmark', requireSigner, unbookmarkController);
 app.post('/api/v1/statuses/:id{[0-9a-f]{64}}/pin', requireSigner, pinController);
 app.post('/api/v1/statuses/:id{[0-9a-f]{64}}/unpin', requireSigner, unpinController);
+app.post('/api/v1/statuses/:id{[0-9a-f]{64}}/translate', requireSigner, translatorMiddleware, translateController);
 app.post('/api/v1/statuses/:id{[0-9a-f]{64}}/reblog', requireSigner, reblogStatusController);
 app.post('/api/v1/statuses/:id{[0-9a-f]{64}}/unreblog', requireSigner, unreblogStatusController);
 app.post('/api/v1/statuses', requireSigner, createStatusController);
diff --git a/src/controllers/api/translate.ts b/src/controllers/api/translate.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..86aaa1f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/controllers/api/translate.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+import { LanguageCode } from 'iso-639-1';
+import { z } from 'zod';
+
+import { AppController } from '@/app.ts';
+import { languageSchema } from '@/schema.ts';
+import { Storages } from '@/storages.ts';
+import { dittoTranslations, dittoTranslationsKey } from '@/translators/translator.ts';
+import { parseBody } from '@/utils/api.ts';
+import { getEvent } from '@/queries.ts';
+import { renderStatus } from '@/views/mastodon/statuses.ts';
+
+const translateSchema = z.object({
+  //lang: languageSchema, // Correct property name, as stated by Mastodon docs
+  target_language: languageSchema, // Property name soapbox sends
+});
+
+const translateController: AppController = async (c) => {
+  const result = translateSchema.safeParse(await parseBody(c.req.raw));
+  const { signal } = c.req.raw;
+
+  if (!result.success) {
+    return c.json({ error: 'Bad request.', schema: result.error }, 422);
+  }
+
+  const translator = c.get('translator');
+  if (!translator) {
+    return c.json({ error: 'No translator configured.' }, 500);
+  }
+
+  const { target_language } = result.data;
+  const targetLang = target_language;
+  const id = c.req.param('id');
+
+  const event = await getEvent(id, { signal });
+  if (!event) {
+    return c.json({ error: 'Record not found' }, 400);
+  }
+
+  const viewerPubkey = await c.get('signer')?.getPublicKey();
+
+  const kysely = await Storages.kysely();
+
+  let sourceLang = (await kysely
+    .selectFrom('nostr_events')
+    .select('language').where('id', '=', id)
+    .limit(1)
+    .execute())[0]?.language as LanguageCode | undefined;
+  if (!sourceLang) {
+    sourceLang = undefined;
+  }
+
+  if (targetLang.toLowerCase() === sourceLang?.toLowerCase()) {
+    return c.json({ error: 'Source and target languages are the same. No translation needed.' }, 400);
+  }
+
+  const status = await renderStatus(event, { viewerPubkey });
+
+  const translatedId = `${target_language}-${id}` as dittoTranslationsKey;
+  const translationCache = dittoTranslations.get(translatedId);
+
+  if (translationCache) {
+    return c.json(translationCache.data, 200);
+  }
+
+  const mediaAttachments = status?.media_attachments.map((value) => {
+    return {
+      id: value.id,
+      description: value.description ?? '',
+    };
+  }) ?? [];
+
+  try {
+    const translation = await translator.translate(
+      status?.content ?? '',
+      status?.spoiler_text ?? '',
+      mediaAttachments,
+      null,
+      sourceLang,
+      targetLang,
+      { signal },
+    );
+    dittoTranslations.set(translatedId, translation);
+    return c.json(translation.data, 200);
+  } catch (_) {
+    return c.json({ error: 'Service Unavailable' }, 503);
+  }
+};
+
+export { translateController };