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Alternatives to DeepL
24 translation tools sit alongside DeepL in this directory. Below is what separates each from DeepL on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 24
- With a free tier
- 11
- Cheaper to start
- 1
- DeepL starts at
- Free, then $8.99/month
Why people look past DeepL
Nothing on the record flags a reason to move. DeepL has a free tier, and starts at $8.99/month against a category median of $144/month. People still switch over fit and workflow, and those are not things a catalogue entry can measure, which is what the comparisons below are for.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Simple, transparent pricing. Start free and scale as you grow.
- Starts $8.99 a month cheaper, at Free.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than freemium.
- 1 tier to DeepL's 3.
New packages to fuel your revenue growth
- Starts $135.01 a month dearer, at $144/month.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than freemium.
- 4 tiers to DeepL's 3.
Adapt your communication to local cultures with memoQ
- No free tier, where DeepL has one.
- Starts $2895.01 a year dearer, at €2904/year.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than freemium.
- 4 tiers to DeepL's 3.
A flexible platform with product capacities that scale with your team
- No free tier, where DeepL has one.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than freemium.
- 5 tiers to DeepL's 3.
Free, open source desktop CAT tool under the GPLv3, maintained by a volunteer community rather than a company
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than freemium.
- 1 tier to DeepL's 3.
Azure AI Translator, priced at $10 per million characters for standard text translation with volume commitment discounts available
- Sold on a Per million characters model rather than freemium.
Every DeepL alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepL (this page) | Free, then $8.99/month | Freemium | 3 | |
| CrowdinSimple, transparent pricing. Start free and scale as you grow | Free | Subscription | 1 | vs DeepL |
| LokaliseNew packages to fuel your revenue growth | Free, then $144/month | Subscription | 4 | vs DeepL |
| memoQAdapt your communication to local cultures with memoQ | €2904/year | Subscription | 4 | vs DeepL |
| PhraseA flexible platform with product capacities that scale with your team | On request | Subscription | 5 | vs DeepL |
| OmegaT | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs DeepL |
| Microsoft Translator | Free | Per million characters | 3 | vs DeepL |
| Amazon Translate | Free | Per million characters | 4 | vs DeepL |
| Google Translate | Free | Per million characters | 4 | vs DeepL |
| MateCat | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs DeepL |
| Reverso | Free | Per user per month | 3 | vs DeepL |
| wxrks | Free, then $38/month | Per year by processed word volume | 8 | vs DeepL |
| POEditor | Free, then $14.99/month | Per month by string count | 4 | vs DeepL |
| Pontoon | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs DeepL |
| Plunet | On request | Quote | 1 | vs DeepL |
| XTRF | On request | Quote | 1 | vs DeepL |
| Unbabel | On request | Quote | 1 | vs DeepL |
| Systran | On request | Per user per month, or quote for Enterprise | 3 | vs DeepL |
| Gengo | On request | Per word | 2 | vs DeepL |
| Smartcat | $1200/year | Per year by Smartword volume | 4 | vs DeepL |
| SDL Trados Studio | On request | Quote | 1 | vs DeepL |
| Sonix | $10/month | Per hour of transcription | 5 | vs DeepL |
| Smartling | On request | Quote | 3 | vs DeepL |
| XTM Cloud | On request | Quote | 3 | vs DeepL |
| Wordbee | €150/month | Per power user per month | 7 | vs DeepL |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the DeepL badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (11)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Crowdin , Free
- Lokalise , Free, then $144/month
- OmegaT , Free
- Microsoft Translator , Free
- Amazon Translate , Free
- Google Translate , Free
- MateCat , Free
- Reverso , Free
Cheaper than DeepL (1)
Entry price under DeepL's $8.99/month. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- Crowdin , Free
What you would be giving up
DeepL is most often brought in for ai tools management, workflow automation, reporting. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If DeepL is broadly right and the question is cost, the DeepL pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Translation category lists everything the directory holds, and best translation tools ranks them.
DeepL runs on web, desktop, mobile, api. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about DeepL alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to DeepL?
- 24 other translation tools are listed in this directory, led by Crowdin, Lokalise, memoQ, Phrase. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to DeepL?
- 11 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Crowdin, Lokalise, OmegaT, Microsoft Translator, Amazon Translate.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to DeepL?
- Yes. 1 of the alternatives below start under DeepL's $8.99/month: Crowdin at Free.
- Is there a reason to switch away from DeepL?
- Nothing in the data flags one. DeepL has a free tier, and starts at $8.99/month against a category median of $144/month. Fit and workflow are the usual reasons to move, and those are not things this record can measure.
- What would I give up by switching from DeepL?
- DeepL is most often brought in for ai tools management, workflow automation, reporting. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to DeepL?
- None of the translation tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these DeepL alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Translation, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare DeepL against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against DeepL covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every translation tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Translation category, 24 tools beside DeepL. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.