If you're weighing Translated.com, you probably have more multilingual content than your team can handle by hand. Some of it is a true localization program. Much of it is the daily stream of emails, tickets, contracts, and slides that someone needs in another language before lunch.
Translated.com is built for the first kind of work, combining its own translation AI, workflow software, and a large network of professional translators. Lexibird is built for the second: the person who needs the translation gets it in seconds, with your team's terminology applied and no integration project in between.
At a glance
| Lexibird | Translated.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Everyday translation by individuals and teams | Managed localization programs |
| Translation AI | Claude, GPT, and Gemini model families, or Auto | Its own engines, Lara and ModernMT |
| Text translation | 200+ languages | 200+ languages through Lara |
| Terminology | Shared glossaries with CSV, TSV, and TMX import | Glossaries combined with Translation Memories |
| Human translators | Not offered | Network of around 500,000 professionals |
| Getting started | Sign up, invite your team, and translate in the web, desktop, or browser app | Connect content through APIs, SDKs, CLI tools, or CMS integrations |
| Beyond text and documents | Image OCR, audio transcription, dictation, text-to-speech | Centered on localization content |
| Workflow management | Shared workspaces with admin and member roles | TranslationOS for AI and human workflows |
What is Lexibird?
Lexibird is a translator your colleagues open themselves, whenever a message, file, or screenshot lands in a language they don't read. It runs on leading AI models you can choose between, and keeps text, documents, images, audio, a dictionary, and shared glossaries in one place, so a team can start the same day it signs up.
What is Translated.com?
Translated.com has worked in professional translation and localization since 1999. Its offering combines Lara, its purpose-built translation AI, with ModernMT for adaptive machine translation, TranslationOS for managing AI and human workflows, and a network of professional linguists across more than 200 languages and 40 specialized domains.
1. Translation without a localization project
Translated.com shines when translation is a formal program: a product catalog shipped to new markets, a documentation set with recurring updates, a website managed through connected systems.
Most multilingual work inside a company is smaller and constant. A support agent gets a ticket in Portuguese. A salesperson needs a polite follow-up in Japanese. Someone in finance receives a supplier invoice in German. In Lexibird, each one takes a paste, a click, or a file upload, and the result keeps its tone. A support reply that says "Sorry for the wait, we're on it" comes back friendly in Portuguese, not stiff, and you can switch to a formal tone when the message calls for it.
2. A choice of leading AI models
Translated.com relies on its own engines, built for adaptive localization. Lexibird takes a different route: you choose among the Claude, GPT, and Gemini model families, or let Auto decide.
Idioms are a good test. "Let's put this on the back burner for now" should reach a Spanish-speaking colleague as a clear "let's set this aside for now", not as kitchen advice about stoves. Leading AI models handle context, tone, and idioms like this well, and if one model's phrasing doesn't suit a language pair, you can try another on the spot. Premium models are available on paid plans, and you can read more about how Lexibird's AI translation works.
3. Terminology the whole team actually uses
Translated.com combines terminology with Translation Memories, which pays off for teams that reuse large libraries of approved translations. If every file needs human review, that is where Translated.com is strong.
Many teams don't have those libraries. They have a list of product names, feature labels, and phrases legal wants worded a certain way. Lexibird's glossaries live in the team workspace and steer every text translation toward those terms. If the list already sits in a spreadsheet or a TMX export from a past vendor, bring it in as is. The marketing lead updates a term once, and the support team's next translation follows it.
4. Documents, images, and audio in one place
Multilingual work rarely arrives as a localization-ready file. Lexibird's document translation takes the files business teams actually trade, such as Word contracts, PowerPoint decks, Excel price lists, and PDFs, keeps their layout, and deletes them after 24 hours.
The same app reads text from images and screenshots, transcribes recorded calls, and reads translations aloud. When a foreign-language admin tool throws an error you can't select, the desktop app lets you drag a box around it and translate what's inside.
5. Privacy built for business use
On the Business plan, zero data retention is on by default. Lexibird routes your text only to AI providers that have agreed not to keep it, and if none of those is available, the translation stops with an error instead of quietly using a provider that would. Business also adds single sign-on with SAML or OIDC.
Which one should you choose?
Translated.com makes sense if you run a dedicated localization program that needs professional linguists, Translation Memory, and managed workflows.
For the daily translation that never becomes a project, choose Lexibird if:
- Support, sales, and finance need answers in minutes, not after a project kickoff
- You want to compare how Claude, GPT, and Gemini phrase the same message, and keep the best one
- Your terminology is a list in a spreadsheet, not a Translation Memory library
- Screenshots, recordings, and contracts all need translating, not just localization files
Try Lexibird and see how your team's next translation reads.
