Choosing a tool
WordRate is a quoting tool with client rate cards and glossary storage, so the honest question is whether your bottleneck is the quote or the rest of the business.
Most freelance translators reach for software at the same moment: a PDF lands at 4pm, the client wants a price before they leave for the day, and the last three quotes for that account are buried in sent mail. WordRate exists for that moment. It counts the words, applies the rate card you saved for that client, respects your minimum fee and rush tier, and gives you a number you can send in about ninety seconds. The glossary for that client is already attached to the same record.
The tools below are real products this trade evaluates, and each assumes a different shape of work. Some are built around the full freelance admin stack, from job record to invoice to year end reporting. Some are project management systems that assume a client side and a vendor side with money moving between them. One is an enterprise platform for agencies with dedicated project managers. None of them is wrong. The comparisons here are written as fit questions, because a two person shop in Tucson and a fifteen vendor agency in Chicago are not the same buyer.
WordRate vs LSP.expert
WordRate suits the translator whose painful hour is the quoting hour, while LSP.expert is aimed at translators who want the whole freelance business recorded in one system.
WordRate vs Protemos
Protemos is built for translation businesses that route work to vendors, while WordRate is built for the shop where the person quoting is usually the person translating.
WordRate vs Plunet BusinessManager
Plunet BusinessManager is enterprise translation management for agencies with dedicated project managers, while WordRate is for the small shop that quotes in the morning and translates in the afternoon.
Free tools
Two calculators that answer the questions that come up before you accept a job: what should this cost, and can it actually be delivered on time.
Working document
Twenty checks that stand between an incoming file and a price you will not regret, grouped in the order you actually do them.
Every product on this page can record a translation job. What separates them is whether the design started from the quote or from the wider business around it, and no comparison table settles that for your particular week. Book a demo, bring one client rate card and a recent file, and see the quoting side working before you commit a year to anything.