Looking for a Crowdin Alternative? Try Transifex

Transifex empowers businesses with AI-driven localization, and advanced features that streamline multilingual content management and global communication.

Embed the most modern AI localization technology into your tech stack
Simplify continuous localization and enhance team collaboration
Have more flexibility with pricing as you scale your localization strategy

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Choosing the Right Localization Tool: A Comparative Guide between Transifex and Crowdin

First of all, kudos to Crowdin for creating a solid localization platform with hundreds of applications and integrations!

While Crowdin offers robust features and extensive integrations, Transifex stands out with its advanced Transifex AI and Transifex Quality Index (TQI). Developed by developers for developers, Transifex excels in managing complex continuous localization workflows, making it the ideal choice for businesses seeking full control over their localization efforts.

To explore this in more detail, we’ve evaluated Crowdin alongside Transifex, focusing on key features, use cases, and price points. Hopefully, our research will help you understand how Transifex and Crowdin compare, so you can choose the best option for your localization project.

Let's Explore the Transifex Localization Hub First

Transifex AI and TQI
Transifex TMS
Transifex Live
Transifex Native

Transifex AI and TQI

Transifex AI is basically your brand’s translator, designed to deliver large-scale, context-aware translations that are continuously refined to adhere and respect your unique brand voice. Transifex Quality Index (TQI) is your auto-reviewer that post-edits and verifies translations automatically, ensuring they are ready to be published.

Transifex TMS

The localization hub that brings together 40+ integrations , AI, MT, Translation Memory (TM), workflow automation, real-time collaboration, and support for diverse content types and formats for optimal localization management.

Transifex Live

Provides real-time website localization that enables seamless Over-the-Air (OTA) publishing of translated content. It's a one-stop-shop for marketers and product marketers aiming to significantly reduce developer dependency by integrating Transifex Live directly with their website.

Transifex Native

A solution originally built by developers for developers, Transifex Native offers a developer-friendly project type that enables direct integration of continuous localization into your CI/CD processes for any application. This allows developers to work directly on localization projects without spending time learning the Transifex platform.

Transifex vs. Crowdin: Enter the AI Localization Era

Choosing the right localization platform is more important than ever as AI innovations revolutionize the field. While Crowdin supports a wide range of applications, Transifex offers a gateway into the world of AI which is not just a window to ChatGPT. With Transifex AI and TQI, businesses can stay at the forefront of AI innovation and leverage long-standing technical expertise to streamline localization efficiency.

AI Capabilities Beyond ChatGPT

Unlike Crowdin, which uses a manual AI setup as a simple front-end to ChatGPT, Transifex embeds the best AI technologies into your tech stack to deliver high-quality, brand-authentic translations.

Transifex evaluates the best public LLMs for optimal translations and offers per-customer fine-tuning for personalized results. Additionally, the Transifex Quality Index (TQI) reviews and qualifies AI-generated content, minimizing the need for manual intervention.

Boosting Engineering Productivity

Transifex Native is unique to Transifex, offering greater control over your localization projects.

Native automatically syncs content with Transifex for real-time updates. It helps empower your engineering team to use Transifex without deep platform knowledge, enhancing their ability to build and execute more complex localization strategies with ease.

Continuous Localization

We’ve received numerous testimonials from clients praising Transifex's continuous localization capabilities, which consistently outperform the competition. Our powerful Git integration is a key differentiator, offering multi-branch support and two-way synchronization.

With auto push to Git based on webhooks, you can set triggers for 100% translated, reviewed, and proofread content, ensuring seamless updates. This robust integration scales efficiently, even with the most complex CI/CD processes.

Communication and Team Management

While both platforms offer extensive collaborator communication and team management functionalities, we found that Transifex has some additional functionalities often praised by its users.

When it comes to communication and team management it offers 1:1 discussions, team discussions, as well as project-level announcements, and organization-wide updates. These capabilities come in handy when it comes to enhance coordination, and keep everyone informed and aligned throughout the localization process.

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Features and Integrations Comparison Table

To wrap up, Transifex’s advanced AI capabilities, unique Transifex Quality Index (TQI), continuous localization features, and comprehensive team management tools ensure a seamless workflow for localization teams. On the other hand, if you’re looking for extensive app and integrations library and don't mind putting some more manual effort in your setup, Crowdin might be a better fit.

But before making your final decision, let’s dive into the top standout differences between the two:

Comparison Table

Transifex

Crowdin

Web-Based Editor

CAT Features

Native Project Types

Branching

Integrated AI Capabilities

Auto AI-Generated Content Review

QA Checks on Glossary Terms

Advanced Communication Options

Glossary

Translation Memory (TM)

Translation Memory (TM) Management

Machine Translation (MT) Workflows

Drupal

HubSpot

Subtasks

Proofread Option

Don’t take our word for it! Hear it from our partners

Celonis slashed translation times by 70% and with AI-driven localization

2x Faster speed to market

70% Reduction in translation time

Increased product adoption

Julia

Julia, Senior Training Manager at Celonis

“Apart from the seamless integration with our platform, we choose Transifex for its usability and functionality. Because it's so easy to set up and enable othersto use it too.”

HubSpot Delivers Continuous Localization with 80% Faster Workﬂows

Significantly reduced turnaround times for translations

Localized their software for 86,000 customers in 120 countries

Fully integrated localization updates within the development-release cycle

Dierk Runne

Localization and Systems Leader, HubSpot

“With Transifex, we’ve been able to streamline our localization process, reducing turnaround times and enabling us to launch new features simultaneously in every language.”

Oportun launched a multi –language mobile app in weeks, not months

Faster go-to-market

Seamless Integration

Less Translation Workload

Justin

Sr. Product Ops Mgr., Oportun

“Our app’s localization would be a non-starter without Transifex, it saves us weeks on our release cycles.”

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Manage Translation Projects Across Teams

Manage complex localization projects with ease using customizable workflows, 40+ integrations, and advanced collaboration tools.

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On-Brand & Context-Aware Translations

Language AI combines advanced AI with your unique brand context, keeping your localization strategy one step ahead with on-brand translations at scale.

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