DeepL Translator vs Smartling

DeepL Translator translates text, documents, and websites, and includes translation memory, glossary tools, and API access. It supports 100 languages. Chrome, Firefox, and Edge extensions provide translation and writing improvements while browsing; listed integrations include Microsoft Word, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and AI agents. The Free version costs nothing and includes 50,000 characters per user each month, one file translation per month for files up to 5 MB, and one glossary with five entries per language pair. Individual costs €7.49 a month billed annually and includes a 30-day free period; it allows 300,000 characters monthly and three file translations. Team costs €24.99 a month billed annually, while Business costs €49.99 a month billed annually. Enterprise pricing is custom. DeepL lists TLS encryption and ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified processes and infrastructure. For Pro subscribers, content and results are temporarily stored only as technically needed and then deleted. Team administration is included in Team and available for Business and Enterprise users; single sign-on is available for those tiers. The maker was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cologne, Germany.

Smartling is a cloud-based translation management platform for coordinating multilingual content and localization work. It supports document and website translation, with AI, machine translation and human translation options. Its AI Hub works with more than 20 large language models and machine translation engines. Translation memory, glossary tools and linguistic quality assurance support language management; reporting uses the Multidimensional Quality Metrics framework. Workflows can automate content detection, job submission, quality estimation and publishing. Listed integrations cover content management, code repositories, marketing, cloud storage and collaboration, and the platform offers API access. Supported formats include JSON, XML, YAML, HTML, Markdown, iOS strings, Android XML, Office files, PDFs and subtitles. Smartling says the platform supports hundreds of languages and locales and can process millions of words and translation actions daily. It lists web and API access, plus a free trial. Pricing starts at $0.01; plans include per-word translation options and some with prices not listed.