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Smartling
Translation management, with the human post-editing layer shrinking.
KINDA
why this verdict
Downgrade — pay for the workflow, not the AI
OpenAI's version covers the headline feature only, so the $1,000/mo is now paying for the workflow around it, not the AI.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Machine translation quality removed most post-editing work. OpenAI, May 13, 2024 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers headline only editorial call
- The headline feature, but not the workflow, data or integrations around it.
- Is there a free way to do it? paid only
- 2 replacements listed, all paid.
- What the call is worth $12,000/yr
- $1,000/mo at the entry paid tier — $12,000 a year per seat.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked missing: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- May 13, 2024
- List price
- $1000/mo
- Per year
- $12,000
The backstory
Smartling manages localisation workflow: string extraction, translation memory, vendor management, QA. The workflow is real infrastructure. The economics are not: when machine output needs far less human editing, the volume of paid linguist hours flowing through the platform drops.