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Smartling

Enterprise translation and localization platform combining AI translation with human lingu

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Smartling is a cloud-native translation management platform that moves content in through connectors and APIs, translates it with AI and optional human review, and publishes the results back automatically. It centralizes translation memory, glossaries, quality assurance scoring, and workflow automation, and includes a web proxy for serving translated sites and a marketplace for ordering professional translation services.

Key capabilities include 50+ pre-built integrations with CMSs, CRMs, marketing tools, code repositories, and cloud storage, plus open APIs, SDKs, Zapier support, and CI/CD pipeline integration. AI features include post-editing, quality estimation, tone enforcement, brand safety filters, and model selection per language pair, with the option to bring your own AI model. Linguistic Quality Assurance (LQA) scores jobs against the MQM framework, and supported formats span software, mobile, document, design, and media files.

Smartling is aimed at marketing, engineering, and localization teams in enterprises and smaller organizations. It is packaged as a tiered SaaS platform with a Core plan that is free to start, covering basic workflows, translation memory for 180 days, and essential reporting, and an Enterprise plan adding customizable workflows, advanced integrations, unlimited translation memory, glossary and style guide controls, and AI and machine translation services.

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