Gridly vs Smartling

Gridly is a cloud platform for managing and localizing digital content, including multilingual content across platforms and devices. It offers Content Management, Translation Management, and Computer-Assisted Translation modules. The CAT tools include an editor, contextual information, working translation memory, AI suggestions, and concordance search; TMS adds tasks, workflows, progress tracking, analysis, and document translation. Gridly also lists website translation, glossary tools, and API access. Integrations include Google Sheets, OpenAI, DeepL, Unity, WPML, Unreal Engine, memoQ, Discord, Figma, Phrase, Slack, Jira, and XTM. Connectivity options include APIs, webhooks, Google Sheets, MySQL and PostgreSQL connectors, AWS Lambda functions, and SDKs. Plans are organized by module and tier: Basic TMS costs €50.00 per month and includes one seat, 2,500 automated updates monthly, and 3,000 API requests monthly. A 14-day trial provides the full Team-tier feature set across modules. Gridly states that it holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, encrypts stored data with AES-256, and uses TLS 1.2 or higher for transfers.

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.