Smartcat
Smartcat is an AI translation and localisation platform that combines machine translation, CAT tooling, a freelance linguist marketplace and payment handling for multilingual content. Companies use it to translate websites, documents, software, video and e-learning material into hundreds of languages.
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Who it's for
Best for
Agencies needing unlimited seats and one monthly invoice for freelance linguists
Marketing teams localizing websites, software, and video across languages
Not for
Freelancers who need fee-free payouts and dependable payment dates
Teams that cannot tolerate the Europe workspace or glossary tools going down
Features
AI translation in 280+ languages
Machine translation covers more than 280 languages with near-human accuracy and handles websites, files, software, video and e-learning content.
Marketplace of 500,000+ linguists
An integrated marketplace lists over 500,000 professional linguists for translation and editing work on global content projects.
Unlimited seats on projects
An unlimited seat model puts no cap on project seats, and edits made on the platform feed back into the translation engine.
Integrations with content tools
Connects with Google Docs, WordPress/WPML, Figma, Contentful, Salsify, Jira, Slack, Salesforce and Git/Bitbucket repositories.
Automated linguist payments
Payment automation covers hiring any number of translators under one agreement, with all work settled through a single monthly invoice.
What users say
Pros
- Manual invoices raised inside the platform secure the agreed project rate.
- Direct messaging in project chat unblocks stalled payouts.
Cons
- A completed revision job worth $1,130 was paid out at $0.28 and requests to correct it were refused.
- Newly introduced withdrawal fees deduct extra charges from payout transfers.
- Months of completed work went unpaid past the promised 60-day term, prompting talk of legal action.
- Uploading a new file left it stuck on text extraction for over an hour, and the Europe workspace would not open.
- Glossaries could not be found, edited or exported, and concordance search and machine translation suggestions stopped returning results.
- Signing up with a Gmail address is blocked by a prompt demanding a business email instead.
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Global Traffic Rank
Top 1M
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ProManual invoices at the agreed rate, client chat unblocks payoutsQuick translations in many languages, handy camera modeSlavic strength, bulk documents, image capture, above GoogleNatural translations, plus Write for second-language drafts
Better forTranslating signs, menus, and spoken conversations on mobile while travelingPolishing grammar and refining sentence phrasing with an AI writing assistant
Weaker atManaging team translation workflows with translation memories and linguist reviewHandling less common languages outside its catalog of roughly thirty options