If you're a freelance translator or agency working in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, or any other Indian language — this is the comparison no one else will give you honestly. Price in INR, Indian language quality, workflow fit, and who should use what.
SDL Trados Studio charges in USD. For Indian translators that means exchange rate risk on top of an already steep price.
The freelancer licence runs roughly $299–$999/year — that's ₹25,000 to ₹84,000 at current rates. The full Professional plan with all features can exceed ₹1,20,000/year. And there is no PAYG option — you pay the annual licence whether you translate 5 documents or 500.
t09n.com starts at ₹0. The free plan gives you 500 words/month with no credit card required. The Starter plan is ₹999/month. The Professional plan — which includes CAT tool, MTPE Pro, TQA, Review, Translation Memory, and Glossary — is ₹2,499/month (₹24,900/year on the annual plan).
For irregular workloads, the PAYG wallet from ₹499 means you top up when you need it and pay nothing when you don't.
Bottom line: For most Indian language freelancers, t09n.com costs 70–90% less than SDL Trados — with no USD billing and no annual lock-in.
This is where the difference matters most for your actual work.
SDL Trados is a translation memory and workflow tool. When you add machine translation, you're integrating a third-party engine — typically Google Translate, DeepL, or Microsoft Translator. None of these were built specifically for Indian languages.
The results are predictable for anyone who has used them on Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, or Telugu: literal word-for-word constructions, wrong honorifics, unnatural sentence order, incorrect gender agreement. You end up spending more time fixing the MT output than if you had translated from scratch.
t09n.com's proprietary multi-layer translation engine is built from the ground up for Indian language quality:
SDL Trados has excellent file format support — it is one of its genuine strengths, particularly for enterprise workflows with complex file types.
t09n.com supports all major bilingual formats used by Indian translators: DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, SRT, XLIFF, SDLXLIFF, TXML, TTX, MQXLIFF — all with full formatting preservation.
Importantly, t09n.com supports SDLXLIFF files natively. If your agency clients send SDL Trados packages, you can open them, translate in t09n.com, and return the completed files — without buying an SDL Trados licence.
The migration is straightforward.
Export your SDL Trados TM as a TMX file and import it directly into t09n.com. Your existing approved translations carry over instantly.
Export your SDL Trados termbase as CSV or Excel with source and target columns and import into t09n.com's Glossary per project.
t09n.com supports SDLXLIFF files natively. You can continue accepting SDL Trados packages from existing clients while working in t09n.com — no compatibility issues.
Yes. SDL Trados costs ₹40,000–₹1,20,000/year billed in USD. t09n.com starts at ₹0 with paid plans from ₹999/month — all in INR, no conversion fees.
Yes. t09n.com supports SDLXLIFF natively. Open SDL Trados packages, translate in t09n.com, export back to SDLXLIFF — no SDL Trados licence required.
Yes. t09n.com includes MTPE Basic and MTPE Pro built in — no separate MT subscription required. SDL Trados requires you to connect and pay for a third-party MT engine separately.
Yes. Export your TM as TMX from SDL Trados and import directly into t09n.com. All approved translations carry over instantly.
Yes. Fully cloud-based — no installation, no Windows dependency. Works in any browser on any device.
No credit card required. Free plan available. All 10+ Indian languages supported.
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