Lingivio Compared With Smartcat, Crowdin and Phrase
Translation management systems: workflow, translation memory and term bases for teams that translate continuously.
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What Smartcat, Crowdin and Phrase Does Better
Translation memory, shared glossaries, reviewer workflow and vendor management. A team translating continuously is better served by a management system than by a file tool, and that is what these are.
Where We Differ
This is a single-purpose file tool: upload, translate, download, with no project to set up. Where the two overlap is document fidelity, and that is what we are built for.
Feature by Feature
| Feature | Lingivio | Smartcat, Crowdin and Phrase |
|---|---|---|
| xlsx formulas survive | Yes — only text is rewritten; formulas are copied through untouched | Not verified |
| Per-file minimums | None — one credit minimum | Not verified |
| 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 We deliberately do not publish a competitor's output of the same file: we have no licence to redistribute their result, and a screenshot we produced of someone else's product is not evidence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.
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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.