Trados Studio

Trados Studio

45 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Trados Studio	Score5.1 out of 10	N/A	Trados Studio is a translation management and language localization platform, from multinational SDL headquartered in the UK. It is a computer-assisted translation product, designed to be a complete translation environment for language professionals who want to edit, review and manage translation projects whilst in the office or on the move.	$408 per year per user

Pricing

Trados Studio

Freelance Subscription: $408
per year per user
Professional Subscription: $1,500
per year per user

Pricing Offerings
Trados Studio
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Trados Studio
Considered Both Products	RWS Group Verified User Chose Trados Studio Trados Studio Freelance Edition is perfect for me as a freelancer. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Trados Studio I didn't select. My agencies use Trados Studio. Incentivized Helpful? Ian Jones Freelance translator at Freelance (Translation & Localization, 1-10 employees) Chose Trados Studio I believe it does not have all the features that Trados has Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Trados Studio memoQ is better quality and cheaper. Previously, Trados had a monopoly on the market but fortunately there are other adequate options available now at a lower cost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Trados Studio I tried using memoQ to get used to server-based localization tools, but experienced critical issues such as translation data not being updated on the server so stopped using it before I get used to it, unfortunately. It must be updated and improved by now, so I might try using … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Trados Studio It is not our main CAT tool but having an SDL Trados Studio license is really handy as we receive new requests as Trados project packages regularly. It is not as efficient as Memsource for example but it is a great option and has many features. Incentivized Helpful? Dmitry Kornyukhov Founder in Professional Services at The Open Mic (Translation and Localization, 1-10 employees) Chose Trados Studio We occasionally use Smartcat as well and love that it is more tailored to freelancers and smaller (boutique) agencies. It also has better overall team-management features, however SDL is a popular choice of many bigger clients that we work with, hence, choosing it was a … Incentivized Helpful? Ricardo G Lopes Portuguese Interpreter and Translator in Corporate at Self Employed (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Trados Studio I did a private application that extracts data from an Office application and sends it to a Word table and allows the user to work there directly. Of course, SDL Trados is better than competitors but could do a better job with the formatting display in the Editor. I am aware … Incentivized Helpful? Anabella Valeria Weisman Translator at Self-employed (Translation and Localization, 1-10 employees) Chose Trados Studio I prefer Trados Studio to other online CAT tools, since online CAT tools can turn very slowly, because of the internet. The fact that I can import documents in Excel, PowerPoint, editable PDF, and Word format helps a lot, as well as the compatibility of Trados with MemoQ. … Incentivized Helpful? Brad Orfall Translation Manager in Information Technology at Inline Translation Services, Inc. (Translation and Localization, 1-10 employees) Chose Trados Studio We have tried a variety of other CAT software at times. The problem is that few have the market penetration or critical mass of users that SDL Trados does. It's not that the software is the best out there, it's long term stability and the number of users that is more important. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Trados Studio The interpretation business is taking care of business. There are loads of various agile devices out there meant to encourage interpreters and organizations to do their work quicker and with the quality customers expect. I have been an SDL Trados client for very nearly ten … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	86% Would buy again 6 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	60% Delivers good value for the price 3 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	57% Happy with the feature set 4 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	50% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 3 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
67% Implementation went as expected 4 Answers

User Ratings
	Trados Studio
Likelihood to Recommend	5.0 (11 ratings)
Usability	4.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Trados Studio
Likelihood to Recommend	RWS Group SDL Trados Studio is extremely well suited for expert CAT tool users. More novice users will have trouble getting up to speed. I have an office full of employees that constantly ask questions on how to do specific tasks, mainly because the task sequence is not obvious and is only uncovered by rote repetition of the same things. If you learn and apply the same techniques repeatedly, it becomes easier, but it seems the software was designed by software people, sometimes with little thought to the end users who have to figure it out. I don't know that professional training should be so necessary. Incentivized Brad Orfall Translation Manager Read full review
Pros	RWS Group Extracting sentences from Word, PowerPoint, and PDF. Updating the source document when the client sends an updated source file. Comparing sentence by sentence old set of source/target translations made outside of SDL Trados. Maintaining a user community base to broadcast knowledge and issues. Having an aggressive product update frequency. Incentivized Ricardo G Lopes Portuguese Interpreter and Translator Read full review
Cons	RWS Group I would like it to be faster. When I create a new project, even if it is short, it takes a couple of minutes until I can start using the file. I would like it to support more than 5 languages as, for example, I work with 7 different language pairs. It does not always accept the files after they were converted with OCR. It would be great if I could use Trados for those files as well. Incentivized Anabella Valeria Weisman Translator Read full review
Usability	RWS Group Again, the list of functions is impressive but the way it is organized (not process-driven) and the fact that complex tasks should be close to basic tasks make the product suitable to hardcore users that have a lot of time to research the manuals and blogs. By the way, Nora Diaz is one of the most respectable users of this product. Her videos help a lot! Incentivized Ricardo G Lopes Portuguese Interpreter and Translator Read full review
Support Rating	RWS Group Support has been fast, precise and thorough. There is support on the web, by chat, by email, from the communities, from the experts, on the product Help section, on YouTube, and other social media. There is also a paid support for companies. This area is where the company stands out. I was not able to evaluate the support in languages other than English. Incentivized Ricardo G Lopes Portuguese Interpreter and Translator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	RWS Group I tried using memoQ to get used to server-based localization tools, but experienced critical issues such as translation data not being updated on the server so stopped using it before I get used to it, unfortunately. It must be updated and improved by now, so I might try using it again in the near future. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	RWS Group As we have the license we can accept and take on our clients' requests without problem. Integration with other tools such as Xbench makes it very easy to apply our QA procedures. It is less efficient compared to our main CAT tool thus sometimes it can get time-consuming. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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