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GCrowdin vs Smartling
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Crowdin if…
- you're in its core audience: software and mobile developers, game studios
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Choose Smartling if…
- you're in its core audience: enterprise localization teams, software developers
Side by side
Feature Crowdin Smartling
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price——
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your content—Yes, unless you opt out
Data retention—Kept as long as necessary for the purpose collected; may retain for business or legal reasons
Security and compliance—SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 42001, PCI DSS
Glossaries—
Translation memory—
AI quality scoring—
Human translation—
Repo & design integrations—
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CategoryTranslationTranslation
CompanyCrowdinSmartling, Inc.
Based in—United States
Founded—2009
Part of——
Key features
C Crowdin
- Online translation editor with translation memory and glossaries
- AI pre-translation, AI proofreading and automatic QA
- Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure AI and 40+ MT engines
- Quality checks for placeholders, length and consistency
- Branch-based translation for parallel releases
- Over-the-air content delivery for mobile apps
- 700+ integrations including GitHub, Figma, Unity
- Support for 100+ file formats
S Smartling
- Translation management system with customizable workflows
- 50+ connectors for CMS, CRM, code repos and design tools
- LQA Agent scoring AI translations with MQM
- Auto Select LLM chooses a model per language pair
- Website translation proxy (Global Delivery Network)
- CAT tool with visual context and translation memory
- Open APIs, SDKs and CI/CD integration
- Professional translation from 4,000+ linguists
Plans and prices
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Crowdin
CrowdinNot listed
Crowdin EnterpriseNot listed
Open Source / Academic LicenseFree
Smartling
CoreFree to start
EnterpriseCustom
Machine TranslationFrom $0.0075/word
AI TranslationFrom $0.06/word
AI Human TranslationFrom $0.12/word
Human TranslationFrom $0.20/word
Strengths and limitations
Crowdin
- Free licenses for open source and academic projects
- Trials available: 14 days for Crowdin, 30 days for Enterprise
- Paid plans include unlimited translators and proofreaders
- 700+ integrations and 100+ file formats
- Exact plan prices are not shown on the pricing page text
- Enterprise is billed annually only
- Hosted word limits count each target language separately
Smartling
- Core plan is free to start
- Per-word rates published, from $0.0075/word for machine translation
- Customers can export translation memory (TMX) and content (XLIFF)
- Lists SOC 2, ISO/IEC 42001, HIPAA and GDPR compliance
- Enterprise plan pricing is not published
- Core plan keeps translation memory for only 180 days
- Some connectors require a higher tier or an add-on
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