Alternatives to DeepL docs for Document Translation
If DeepL docs is not keeping your file intact, these are the options — including DeepL docs itself, where it is still the right answer. Every claim about another tool is checked against that vendor's own published information.
Competitor facts on this page were last checked 61 days ago. They are re-checked at least every 90 days.
What DeepL docs Does Better
Raw translation quality. For several European pairs its output reads better than most alternatives, and if your document is prose in a format it handles well, that quality is the thing that matters.
Where We Differ
We are built around the file rather than the text: spreadsheet formulas, cell number formats and page geometry are treated as structure that has to survive, and we meter in credits — a page, a slide, a worksheet — instead of applying a per-file character minimum.
Feature by Feature
| Feature | Lingivio | DeepL docs |
|---|---|---|
| xlsx formulas survive | Yes — only text is rewritten; formulas are copied through untouched | Partially Checked against the vendor's own published information |
| PDF layout fidelity | High, plus a side-by-side mode | Low to medium Checked against the vendor's own published information |
| Per-file minimums | None — one credit minimum | 50,000 characters per file Checked against the vendor's own published information |
| Bilingual-cell / multi-language source control | Yes | No Checked against the vendor's own published information |
| CJK and right-to-left output | Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text formats; not PDF or images yet | Partial Checked against the vendor's own published information |
| Price for 25 document pages a month | $10 a month on Starter: 25 credits. Covers Word, text PDF, HTML, Markdown and plain text; spreadsheets, slides, subtitles, scans and images need a higher plan. | Not verified |
We have not checked this against the vendor's own material, so we do not state it. An empty cell here is an admission, not a verdict.
How to Check This Yourself
Our side of every row is derived from the product itself: the target-language matrix is the same module the API validates a job against, so this page cannot claim a combination the API would refuse. The competitor side is taken from that vendor's own published pricing and product information, and re-checked at least every 90 days.
We publish a real before and after from our own engine, produced from the same sample file every time. We deliberately do not publish a competitor's output of the same file: we have no licence to redistribute their result, and a screenshot we produced of someone else's product is not evidence you can check. Run the same file through both and compare — that is the honest version of a side-by-side.
DeepL docs is a trademark of its owner, named here to identify the product being compared. There is no affiliation and no endorsement.
What It Would Cost Here
Enter the credits you use in a month. The plans are read live from the same catalog checkout charges from, so nothing here can drift from what you would actually pay.
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Try It on Your Own File
No card and no per-file character minimum. If a segment cannot be translated confidently you will see it fall back, rather than a green tick over a guess.