About Smartling
Smartling is an AI-powered translation and localization platform built for global enterprises, combining AI translation, automated workflow orchestration, managed language services and enterprise-grade security in one cloud system. It is the #1-rated translation management system (TMS) on G2 for 15 consecutive quarters, landed on Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list for both 2025 and 2026, and took #2 on G2's 2026 Best Software Awards for Content Management Systems. Smartling customers typically get content to market up to 50% faster and cut translation costs by up to 70%.
Pricing
Check the official site for current plans and pricing.
Key features
- AI Hub:: one interface into 20+ leading LLMs and machine-translation engines supporting 450+ languages. Auto Select MT and Auto Select LLM automatically route every string to the best-performing engin
- AI translation line-up:: AIHT (AI efficiency with human linguistic review, backed by a Translation Satisfaction Guarantee) and AIT (fully automated translation that replaces traditional MTPE, in Tier
- LQA Agent (2026):: automated translation evaluation built on the MQM framework — categorizes errors by type and severity, scores every language, and either publishes error-free content automatically o
- Quality tooling:: Style Rules for AI (punctuation, dates and regional standards for 30+ locales), Language Adaptation (e.g. US English to UK English, BR-PT to EU-PT without full retranslation), AI Ima
- Automation:: Smartling automates up to 99% of the translation process — auto-detecting new content, authorizing and submitting jobs instantly, AI post-editing with quality estimation, and auto-publish
Pros & cons
Pros
- : one interface into 20+ leading LLMs and machine-translation engines supporting 450+ languages. Auto Select MT and Auto
- : AIHT (AI efficiency with human linguistic review, backed by a Translation Satisfaction Guarantee) and AIT (fully autom
- : automated translation evaluation built on the MQM framework — categorizes errors by type and severity, scores every la
Cons
- Confirm plan limits and feature gates on the official pricing page
- Best results usually need correct setup and ongoing optimization
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