# Lingo.dev vs Smartcat (slim)

> Lingo.dev scores 62.4 (B) to Smartcat's 54.3 (C) for translation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Lingo.dev scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Smartcat's 54.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Smartcat leads on schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do translation.

- Lingo.dev: B 62.4, rank #499 of 1223 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev.min.md
- Smartcat: C 54.3, rank #810 of 1223 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartcat.min.md
- Lingo.dev, good for Product teams that translate interface strings and content into many locales and want glossary, tone and rule control held in one place, driven from code, CI or a coding assistant. Ahead on Reliability, 71 against 56; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 57; Security & auth, 62 against 42; Maintenance & community, 87 against 69.
- Smartcat, good for Agents that run translation projects for a team already on a Smartcat Anticipate or higher plan, such as uploading documents, applying translation memories and glossaries, exporting results and calling real-time translation from an app. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 67 against 54; Payments & pricing, 25 against 20. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Lingo.dev | Smartcat |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 71 | 56 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 54 | 67 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 42 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 69 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lingo.dev | Smartcat |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Replexica, Inc. | Smartcat Platform Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.lingo.dev/account` | `https://smartcat.ai/api/integration` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Lingo.dev's terms of service. The lingodotdev/lingo.dev repository (legacy CLI, JavaScript SDK, compiler) and the Python SDK are Apache-2.0. The `@lingo.dev/cli` package states no licence on npm | Proprietary service under Smartcat's Terms of Use and Customer Agreement. The PHP client on GitHub is GPL-3.0-or-later, and the CLI ships as closed binaries |
| MCP registry | `dev.lingo/main` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-07 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-07 |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 5.4k stars, 92k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk | 6 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | none |