Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Literary translation companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 8,780 literary translation companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 64,316 professional contacts across them, including 7,367 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers literary translation companies worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for literary translation companies follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest literary translation companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,141 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lionbridge es el proveedor líder mundial de servicios de traducción y localización.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As one of the largest language service providers globally, we utilise the greatest minds and boundary shattering technology to deliver phenomenal quality at scale to both our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 896 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CCJK (Brand of MarsHub) is a globally known, ISO-certified language services provider that has become the industry leader after years of high-quality services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 866 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Seprotec Multilingual Solutions we help thousands of companies around the world to improve their sales by delivering content and facilitating communications in their customer’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 526 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Localize more with Alpha.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 487 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “How can we help you?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 449 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Oncall is a world leader in quality interpreting and translation services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 422 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mars Translation is an ISO-certified translation service provider that boasts a global network of native translators proficient in over 230 languages and 25+ industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 344 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TolkeNett har 15 års erfaring innen tolke- og oversettingstjenester.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 293 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acclaro and Jonckers have officially come together under the Acclaro brand, marking a new chapter in our journey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Interpreter & translator services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 258 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “translate plus, part of Publicis Groupe, is an award-winning language services provider (LSP) and technology company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in and headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, The Language Group (TLG) is an award-winning language solutions company providing translation and interpretation services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 234 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VerboLabs, Your Gateway to Global Business, is a certified content company offering a one-stop solution to localization, dubbing & voice-over, content writing, desktop publishing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since its establishment as a limited company in 1994, Skrivanek has expanded to become the 20th largest translation company in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TRSB, a trusted name in translation, in North America and around the world- Secure, integrated management systems for high volumes and total confidentiality - In-house…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “India's best Language Service Provider (LSP) with 36 years of industry experience in the language industry, specializing in Translation and Localization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Driven by a passion for language and its power to break barriers between cultures, our translation-and-localization agency was born in 2009 through the collaboration of thousands…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Day Translations (daytranslations.com) is a professional document translation company dedicated to providing the most accurate translations on the planet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Translation Excellence is a full-service language solutions provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Go Global is your multilingual content partner in the tech-driven era.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Versacom is the country’s largest 100% Canadian-owned professional translation firm and holds language-industry exclusive quality certifications CAN-CGSB-131-10-2008 and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 186 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CLS Communication is a subsidiary of Lionbridge, the largest localization and translation services provider in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 179 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ISO 9001, ISO17100 and ISO27001 Certified “There is always a better way” This is our very core belief which we hold closely in our hearts here at SuccessGlo, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KERN Global Language Services is a leading provider of language services worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: literary translation companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names literary translation companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of literary translation companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name literary translation companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Literary translation companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among literary translation companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for literary translation companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “literary translation companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names literary translation companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among literary translation companies, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 7,367 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Literary translation companies by location
33 lists · largest firstEvery Literary translation companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Literary translation companies based in the United States845
- Literary translation companies based in the United Kingdom536
- Literary translation companies based in Spain489
- Literary translation companies based in France419
- Literary translation companies based in Germany358
- Literary translation companies based in Brazil355
- Literary translation companies based in Italy318
- Literary translation companies based in India258
- Literary translation companies based in Canada230
- Literary translation companies based in the Netherlands207
- Literary translation companies based in Argentina206
- Literary translation companies based in Türkiye194
- Literary translation companies based in Egypt185
- Literary translation companies based in Poland142
- Literary translation companies based in the United Arab Emirates140
- Literary translation companies based in Belgium121
- Literary translation companies based in Mexico110
- Literary translation companies based in Portugal88
- Literary translation companies based in Switzerland87
- Literary translation companies based in Romania71
- Literary translation companies based in Japan65
- Literary translation companies based in Greece58
- Literary translation companies based in Ukraine52
- Literary translation companies based in Denmark47
- Literary translation companies based in Australia45
- Literary translation companies based in Hong Kong44
- Literary translation companies based in Croatia41
- Literary translation companies based in Estonia41
- Literary translation companies based in Israel40
- Literary translation companies based in Ireland39
- Literary translation companies based in Sweden36
- Literary translation companies based in Austria34
- Literary translation companies based in Vietnam29
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names literary translation companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many literary translation companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 8,780 literary translation companies worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Lionbridge Technologies, headquartered in Bristol, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most literary translation companies?
The United States leads with 845 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (536) and Spain (489). Every literary translation companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most literary translation companies?
London leads with 193 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (149) and Madrid (106).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 7,367 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 8,780 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.