Translation & Language

Smartcat alternatives

Explore 8 options alongside Smartcat (Smartcat), a product in Translation & Language.

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Crowdin

Listed together in guide “AI translation tools”

AI-powered localization platform and translation management system for software, apps, websites, and game content.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Localizing software strings and release content
  • Translating websites and marketing pages with CMS sync
  • Managing community or vendor translation workflows

Pricing: Crowdin offers a free plan for individuals, small teams, and open-source projects, plus paid team and Crowdin Enterprise tiers; enterprise pricing is quoted on request.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-12.

Lokalise

Listed together in guide “AI translation tools”

AI localization platform for translating and shipping software and marketing content across locales.

Paid

Use cases

  • Localizing app strings without spreadsheet chaos
  • Shipping multilingual marketing and product copy
  • Keeping brand voice consistent across locales

Pricing: Lokalise is a paid localization platform for teams; plans are sold to businesses rather than as a free consumer translator.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.

Phrase

Listed together in guide “AI translation tools”

AI-powered localization platform and translation management system for software and enterprise content.

Paid

Use cases

  • Localizing software strings and release content
  • Managing enterprise translation vendors in one TMS
  • Scoring and routing machine translation before human review

Pricing: Phrase is a paid localization platform with quote- or plan-based pricing for teams; there is no permanent consumer free translator.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.

Smartling

Listed together in guide “AI translation tools”

Cloud translation orchestration platform that combines AI translation with optional human linguists and connectors.

Paid

Use cases

  • Orchestrating enterprise website and product localization
  • Mixing machine translation with human post-edit
  • Connecting CMS and code repos to a TMS

Pricing: Smartling is a paid enterprise localization platform with quote-based plans; there is no consumer free translator.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.

Transifex

Listed together in guide “AI translation tools”

AI localization platform and translation management system for software, websites, apps, games, and help centers.

Paid

Use cases

  • Localizing software, apps, and websites continuously
  • Translating help centers and marketing content
  • Routing AI translation output through review workflows

Pricing: Transifex prices by AI-translation volume rather than per-seat tiers, according to its pricing page; hosted content and human review are described as not counting toward usage, and quotes go through sales.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-12.

Unbabel

Listed together in guide “AI translation tools”

Language operations platform that combines machine translation with human editing for business customer communications.

Paid

Use cases

  • Multilingual customer support at enterprise scale
  • Localizing marketing and help-center content
  • Consistent brand voice across translated communications

Pricing: Unbabel is a paid enterprise service; pricing is quote-based, typically tied to translation volume and language pairs.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

Amazon Translate

Related: shares the task Translation

Neural machine translation API from AWS for batch and real-time text translation in applications.

Paid

Use cases

  • Localizing application and support content
  • Translating incoming multilingual data for analysis
  • Building multilingual chat and email workflows on AWS

Pricing: Amazon Translate is usage-priced per character on AWS, with no contracts or minimums; see the AWS Translate pricing page.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-09.

DeepL

Related: shares the task Translation

AI translation service that translates text and documents between dozens of languages using neural networks.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Translating business documents with formatting intact
  • Multilingual customer communication
  • Developer integrations for in-app translation

Pricing: A free tier with limits is available; DeepL Pro plans add unlimited text, document volume, security guarantees, and API capacity.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

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