Lingivio Compared With Google Translate docs
The document mode of a free, universally available translator.
These competitor facts were last checked 94 days ago. Vendors change pricing and features without notice, so treat them as unproven until they are re-checked.
What Google Translate docs Does Better
Free, instant, and covering more languages than anyone. For a quick read of a foreign document where the layout does not matter, it is hard to argue with.
Where We Differ
We optimise for a file you have to hand to someone else: structure preserved, formulas intact, and an explicit fallback when a segment cannot be translated confidently.
Feature by Feature
| Feature | Lingivio | Google Translate docs |
|---|---|---|
| xlsx formulas survive | Yes — only text is rewritten; formulas are copied through untouched | Partially Checked against the vendor's own published information |
| PDF layout fidelity | High, plus a side-by-side mode | Low Checked against the vendor's own published information |
| Per-file minimums | None — one credit minimum | Not verified |
| Bilingual-cell / multi-language source control | Yes | No Checked against the vendor's own published information |
| CJK and right-to-left output | Chinese, Japanese and Korean in every format, PDF and images included; Arabic and Hindi in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and text formats | Partial Checked against the vendor's own published information |
| Price for 25 document pages a month | $10 a month on Starter: 25 credits. Covers Word, OpenDocument text, text PDF, HTML, Markdown and plain text; spreadsheets, slides, subtitles, scans, images and CAD drawings need a higher plan. | Free — cheaper than anything we sell — but the file comes back with its layout and formulas broken. Checked against the vendor's own published information |
We have not checked this against the vendor's own material, so we do not state it. An empty cell here is an admission, not a verdict.
How to Check This Yourself
Our side of every row is derived from the product itself: the target-language matrix is the same module the API validates a job against, so this page cannot claim a combination the API would refuse. The competitor side is taken from that vendor's own published pricing and product information, and re-checked at least every 90 days.
We publish a real before and after from our own engine, produced from the same sample file every time. We deliberately do not publish a competitor's output of the same file: we have no licence to redistribute their result, and a screenshot we produced of someone else's product is not evidence you can check. Run the same file through both and compare — that is the honest version of a side-by-side.
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What It Would Cost Here
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Try It on Your Own File
No card and no per-file character minimum. If a segment cannot be translated confidently you will see it fall back, rather than a green tick over a guess.