Translation Services

Proven talent and flexible solutions for every localization need

The Problem With Traditional Translation Providers

Old-fashioned translation companies operate in a black box, hiding their internal processes from clients. This keeps you from controlling your content in other languages: Cost, quality, and the true message you’re sending customers is an unknown. But data-driven technology using the right translation services provides transparency, helping you escape the box and see localization clearly for the first time.

Smartling Translation Services: A Data-Driven Approach to Professional Localization

With a professional team translating 150+ languages across 50+ specialized industries, Smartling Translation Services is a one-stop solution that scales. Whether you need a single file translated or manage millions of words a month, our data-driven approach is 100% turnkey. Smartling provides an objective way to measure quality and predict turnaround time, cutting clients’ translation budgets by up to 25%.

Reliable Translation Speed

Trusted Translation Quality

Reduced Translation Costs

Set your schedule.
Smartling ensures predictable translation turnarounds with up to a 99.98% on-time guarantee.

Most translation agencies dictate timelines based on their capacity and availability. Customers have no visibility into internal processes and receive no assurances on exact delivery dates. Smartling understands that translation should fit your timeline — not the other way around. We provide predictable turnarounds with up to a 99.98% on-time guarantee to make sure you meet your business goals. Smartling also offers complete visibility into who exactly is performing your translations, enabling effortless communication with suppliers.

Access top talent.
Smartling continuously measures the quality of its translators, standing behind it with a 99% guarantee.

Most translation agencies take a reactive approach to quality. Instead of preventing errors, they try to catch them after they’ve occured. Smartling takes a data-driven approach. Every single translation performed receives a Quality Confidence Score™ (QCS). This proprietary metric is derived from 75 different data points. With a 99% accuracy guarantee, you can trust that your translations are just as elegant as their source content. With upfront testing and only a 10% pass rate, Smartling’s translators are hand-selected and continuously vetted professionals, with experience using our translation technologies.

Maximize your budget.
Smartling eliminates unnecessary fees and minimums, providing up to a 25% volume discount.

Most translation agencies pad their profits by outsourcing your projects to other companies. The ones that don’t farm out your work often offset their own overhead with unnecessary management fees. But not Smartling. Our transparent process, automated workflows, and volume discounts optimize your budget, helping you save up to 25%.

Set your schedule.
Because Smartling continuously measures the quality of its translations, guaranteeing a 99% perfection rate.

Most translation agencies dictate timelines based on their capacity and availability. Customers have no visibility into internal processes and receive no assurances on exact delivery dates. Smartling understands that translation should fit your timeline — not the other way around. We provide predictable turnarounds with up to a 99.98% on-time guarantee to make sure you meet your business goals. Smartling also offers complete visibility into who exactly is performing your translations, enabling effortless communication with suppliers.

Get it right the first time.
Smartling continuously measures the quality of its translators, standing behind it with a 99% guarantee.

Most translation agencies take a reactive approach to quality, leaving customers with little confidence in the initial output and only handling errors after the fact. Smartling takes a data-driven approach. All translations receive a Quality Confidence Score™ (QCS). This proprietary metric is derived from 75 different data points. With up to a 99% guarantee, you can trust that your translations are just as elegant as their source content. With upfront testing and only a 10% pass rate, Smartling’s translators are hand-selected and continuously vetted professionals, with experience using our translation technologies.

Maximize your budget.
Smartling eliminates unnecessary fees and minimums,
providing up to a 25% volume discount.

Most translation agencies pad profit margins by outsourcing to intermediary agencies and offsetting the cost of their operating overheads with unnecessary fees. We understand that your translation budget won’t always increase as quickly as the demand for global content. With Smartling, you benefit from up to 25% savings on language services via direct access to translators and volume discounts. The savings we generate by eliminating project management fees and leveraging highly-automated workflows are passed directly to our customers.

Smartling Translation Services Benefits

Smartling customers have translated nearly one billion words. That’s a scale they couldn’t have reached without data-driven workflows, proven quality assurance strategies, and our responsive community of professional translators. Our best-in-class translation management system delivers content more quickly and more cost-effectively than anything else on the market.

Quality Confidence Score

Quality Confidence Score ™

An unparalleled, singular measure of translation quality built into an industry-leading SLA. Professional quality, or your money back.

Improved Time-to-Market Translations

Improved Time-to-Market

Standardized, upfront turnaround time estimates based on volume. Enterprise-grade SLAs, backed by financial guarantees.

Translation Spend Reduction

25% Spend Reduction

Prepaid plans guarantee translator availability, ensure consistency, and offer volume discounts of up to 25%.

Community of Professional Translators

Experts in 150+ Languages

On-demand access to a curated community of professional translators in 150+ languages and 50+ industries.

Interested in Transcreation?

Transcreation is the most nuanced way to transfer your message from one language into another. To be effective, however, it must be done properly. Smartling’s Translation Services team is comprised of a large network of professional, in-country translators that help to deliver precise, on-brand, and culturally-relevant messaging.

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Proven talent and flexible solutions for every localization need

The Problem With Traditional Translation Providers

Smartling Translation Services: A Data-Driven Approach to Professional Localization