Review (August 2025)
Translation service and translation jobs for freelance translators and translation agencies.
5.82M
Estimated Revenue
3.55M
Website Visitors
2.5/5
Trustpilot Score
What do we know about ProZ.com?
What is ProZ.com's Revenue?
ProZ.com's estimated revenue for 2024 is $5.82M.
What does ProZ.com do?
ProZ.com is home to the world's leading translator community. It is the busiest website in human translation. Freelance translators and interpreters use the site to collaborate on terms, etc., and translation companies and end clients use the site to find freelancers at no cost.
What are the monthly traffic metrics for Proz?
6/mo Traffic Growth
2.90%
All Time Traffic Growth
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Monthly Hits
4M
Time on Site
3.3Mins
Pages per Visit
2.0
Bounce Rate
64%
How fast is Proz growing?
Proz has grown by -8.2% in the last 6 months according to SimilarWeb.
How do people interact with Proz?
Last month, Proz received 4M visitors who spent an average of 3.3 minutes on the website and visited 2.0 different pages per session. Overall, 64% of people bounce on the first visit.
How do people find Proz?
1.4M people (39%) visit Proz directly. 2M (57%) people search for them in Google. Whereas, 30.2k (1%) discover Proz through Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube. 74.2k (2%) visitors come from Proz's email newsletters. Finally, 143.9 (0.0%) people come from affiliates and or paid referrals.
Who uses Proz?
Proz's top market is the United States and they receive 302.8k (8.5%) people.Then the 2nd is Spain with 290.8k (8.2%).The 3rd is is Poland with 290.1k (8.2%).
Traffic Growth (last 6 months)
What do Proz's customers say about them?
Review Score
2.5/5
Total Reviews
30
5 Star
30.0%
4 Star
0.0%
3 Star
5.0%
2 Star
5.0%
1 Star
60.0%
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Laurentiu
As a company looking for a translator - website is horrible
Reviewed on 2021-03-23T10:20:38
I've tried using Proz.com to find a translator. The website is horrendous, borderline unusable.Google 'User Experience Design'! It feels like you launched the website in 1999 then mindlessly added bits and pieces of functionality to it, then lost the blueprints half way through.
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rmccann
Good for a beginner, avoid the forums
Reviewed on 2021-01-27T18:00:51
This might be a good website for a translator to start out with. It has some good free tools and resources but the jobs will go to the lowest offers and these can sometimes be very low,and expect there to be some scammers - clients and translators. There are some good guides and articles for the beginner. The forums\message boards appear to be managed by a small group of translators. Most discussions are full of sexual content and innuendo, and newcomers are bullied or attacked with racist jokes. "Merv the perv" and a few of the other administrators, (seemingly middle-aged men) seem to get their kicks out of writing seedy content. I'm not sure how this can be allowed on what is supposed to a website for professional translators. Join for the free resources and to get some experience.
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Baltais Gulbis
Just another bidding site
Reviewed on 2020-09-12T11:28:08
They only seem to be interested in one thing - to get your membership fee. Since I do not pay others for my own hopes I never paid.Otherwise it is just another bidding site. I only went there because someone wanted my ProZ profile and I made it but since then I never heard from that someone again. Better keep that money for yourself.
And, yes, anyone can claim to be a translator there. Serious agencies give you a test. You may find out that your fields of expertise do not match their requirements (there is no such thing as a universal translator) and usually it is not so easy to start with an agency even if you pass the test but at least you can expect some result. And it does not cost anything, maybe except the price of printing out a paper contract and sending it to the agency. But not a membership fee for being on their list.
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Khalid Shinwari
Great for freelancers
Reviewed on 2020-09-03T11:30:25
Great for freelancers
Julia
I found it's not worth the money. At all. Go for the free membership and take nothing that comes from there seriously.
Reviewed on 2020-08-20T18:30:00
I found that a lot of scammers contacted me from ProZ and I got more trouble from them than help.Another thing I found to be a turn off is that when other members found I was talking a certain language, they contacted me, making nice with me over the phone, finding out how much I charge, what are my clients, only to find out that they were doing that to find out what kind of competition I am for "them". When I would contact them to ask advice, or to just say hi, they ghosted me.
Overall, ProZ lured me in(joining a facebook group required a ProZ membership), but once I was in, I didn't gain anything out of it, except I paid them money, or except "a taking" on their part happened. There was no community- but just folks trying to find out about you, what you do so they can discredit you on some level.
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Helen
I found all my clients on Proz
Reviewed on 2020-07-11T09:24:41
I disagree with the negative comments posted here: I've now been working as a freelance translator for 8 years,and that would never have happened without ProZ.
ProZ offers a great meeting space for freelancers and outsourcers/translation agencies. But that's what ProZ is: a meeting platform. Translation jobs are not magically going to land in your inbox simply because you registered on the platform. As a freelancer, you need to put the work in: build a solid profile, with translation samples to showcase your skills, do a few pro bono jobs and then request feedback to have something to show to potential paying clients, customise your application for each job to show you are the right translator for this specific project, instead of sending the same template to every outsourcer, etc.... And yes, paying members get a lot more benefits and work opportunities, but ProZ is not a charity, they need income to provide their platform to you! So if you are not ready to do all this, then your paying membership will be a waste of money, but if you are, the return on investment is well worth it.
And of course, ProZ can't guarantee that the outsourcer will pay you on time, or that the translator you hire is qualified or reliable, but they have feedback systems in place for both, and they flag up outsourcers that have been consistenly reported for non-payment, so I really think they're doing what is reasonnably possible here.
My one strong criticism would be the way translators are ranked in search results: the rankings are mainly based on the level of participation to their terminology Q&A page for translators (called KudoZ), which is not fair, or representative of the translator's skills/experience.
But, if you're a real, talented translator (not someone who think they can translate because they are vaguely bilingual), and if you have a bit of common sense and business sense, ProZ is a great place to start.
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Chris Alvar
Terrible support
Reviewed on 2020-06-12T16:20:19
Terrible support
It's an excellent site for being contacted by agencies but they go out of their wayto support dishonest agencies and not their paying members.
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Pilar Wootton
Scammers using the site
Reviewed on 2020-01-14T00:16:52
I have now been reached 3 different times by 3 different people/3 different emails all with the same pretense of wanting to hire me for an English to Spanish translation,always using the same document and with the same scheme. The first time I had my doubts but followed through with the back and forth communication until I received a check from them, delivered by UPS. They attempted to pay me over $4K “in advance”, I called the bank the check came from and they confirmed the account had been closed and the check was fraudulent.
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