DeepL records 95,110,871 monthly visits with -1.7% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. YOUS records 4,250 monthly visits with +28.2% growth and Freemium pricing.
Enterprise-grade neural machine translation, AI writing refinement, and real-time voice translation across thirty-plus global languages.
Layout-Preserving Document Translation
Translates whole PDF, Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), Excel (.xlsx), and HTML files up to 30 MB (Individual/Team) or 100 MB (Business/Enterprise) while keeping original fonts, tables, slides, and visual formatting intact.
Ensures consistent brand and technical terminology across language pairs using CSV-importable shared glossaries, automated glossary generation, shared style rule lists, and translation memory.
DeepL Write Pro AI Writing Assistant
Enhances original drafts and translated copy with real-time sentence rewrites, word alternatives, and one-click tone adjustments (e.g., Business, Academic, Casual, Diplomatic) via browser, desktop, and Microsoft 365/Google Workspace add-ins.
DeepL Voice for Meetings & Conversations
Provides real-time spoken language translation and live multilingual captions for video conferences and mobile in-person dialogues, with 30 minutes per user per month included in paid DeepL Pro plans.
Strengths & Pros
+Consistently outperforms generic machine translators in idiomatic fluency, register control (formal vs. informal), and specialized European and Asian language pairs.
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Frequently Asked Questions: DeepL vs YOUS
DeepL has 95,110,871 monthly visits, while YOUS has 4,250. Traffic estimates describe audience size, not product quality.
Best-in-class document translation preserves intricate PowerPoint, Word, and PDF formatting without manual desktop publishing rework.
+Uncompromising enterprise privacy posture with immediate deletion of Pro translations, no model training on customer data, and optional BYOK encryption.
+Unified ecosystem combining text translation, DeepL Write Pro stylistic editing, and 30 monthly minutes of DeepL Voice in standard Pro seats.
Limitations
–TheIndividual plan ($8.74/mo / €7.49/mo) is capped at 300,000 characters and just 3 file translations per month, requiring a jump to Team ($28.74/mo) or Business ($57.49/mo) for heavy workloads.
–Supports roughly 30+ core languages, which is significantly narrower than Google Translate's 130+ language catalog for rare regional dialects.
–DeepL Write Pro requires an extra €6.99/user/month add-on for Individual and Team subscribers unless upgrading to the Business tier.
YOUS
Meetings, calls and chats with a built-in AI translator
AI translation inside audio and video meetings
Create a one-to-one online meeting and select your language and your partner's; YOUS translates each side's speech live and shows a running transcript in the text panel.
Phone calls with a translator
Call mobile and landline numbers and have the AI translate telephone speech during the call, with transcription of what is said on both sides.
Multilingual messenger
Send and receive messages in your native language and let YOUS translate chat messages both ways, so neither person has to type in a second language.
Speech transcription in chat format
The words spoken by participants are recognised and displayed as text, giving a readable record of what was said during the conversation.
Strengths & Pros
+Translation is embedded in meetings, calls and chat rather than being a separate tool
+Works on iOS, Android and in any browser with no install required for web use
+Generous free tier with a messenger plus monthly translated meeting minutes
+Broad language coverage across 17 widely spoken languages
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Chat messages are encrypted and call content is stated not to be retained
Limitations
–Meetings are limited to one-to-one; group meetings are not yet available
–Free plan only includes 5 translated minutes a month, with extra minutes at $0.25 each
–Phone calls require the paid Plus subscription and are billed by tariff
–Some site copy is machine-translated, which can read awkwardly in places
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