Gridly vs Trados

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.

Trados is a translation platform for localization professionals, translators, language service providers and organizations managing multilingual content. It combines document translation, translation memory and glossary tools; Studio keeps approved terminology and recommends consistent wording across languages and scripts. Studio handles more than 50 file types. For browser work, Trados Go runs on any device without an installation, and users can select files from OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and Google Drive. The desktop editor is officially supported on Windows, not macOS. Studio licenses include up to 6 million characters of Language Weaver machine translation each year. AI Bridge connects to OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini and DeepSeek. Trados offers online resources and community support; direct technical support requires an active Support and Maintenance Agreement. There is no free plan, and a 14-day trial is listed. Trados Go costs £24 a month or £288 a year; Freelance costs £34 a month or £408 a year. Both price sets exclude VAT.