Lingivio Compared With ChatGPT / Claude upload
Uploading a document to a general-purpose assistant and asking it to translate.
Competitor facts on this page were last checked 61 days ago. They are re-checked at least every 90 days.
What ChatGPT / Claude upload Does Better
Unstructured rewriting. If you want a document summarised, restructured or explained rather than translated, an assistant does things no translation pipeline will.
Where We Differ
An assistant returns text; we return your file. The structure, the formulas and the page layout are the deliverable here, and the numbers are verified rather than retyped.
Feature by Feature
| Feature | Lingivio | ChatGPT / Claude upload |
|---|---|---|
| xlsx formulas survive | Yes — only text is rewritten; formulas are copied through untouched | No Checked against the vendor's own published information |
| PDF layout fidelity | High, plus a side-by-side mode | None Checked against the vendor's own published information |
| Bilingual-cell / multi-language source control | Yes | Manual 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 | Text only 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. | $20 a month, and what comes back is text rather than your file. Checked against the vendor's own published information |
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 We deliberately do not publish a competitor's output of the same file: we have no licence to redistribute their result, and a screenshot we produced of someone else's product is not evidence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.
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What It Would Cost Here
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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.