Canva vs DeepL

Canva — Application · Private · $42B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  DeepL — Application · Private · $2B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Translate and DeepL Translator do comparable work on translation; smaller scale (private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 12 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

3 of 12 capabilities — Shares text generation, translation and workflow automation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — DeepL: $2B valuation, against Canva's $42B valuation.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldCanvaDeepL
Valuation$42B$2B DeepL has 21× smaller
Employees5,5001,000 DeepL has 5.5× fewer
Founded20132017 4 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerApplicationApplication, Model API
HeadquartersSydney, AustraliaCologne, Germany

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Text generationTranslationWorkflow automation

Not verified for DeepL · 9

Code generationData analysisImage editingImage generationMarketing contentPresentation generationSummarizationVideo editingVideo generation

Recorded for Canva. DeepL’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Canva · 2

Speech to textText to speech

Recorded for DeepL. Canva’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Canva

Application

AffinityApplication

Professional desktop suite for vector drawing, photo editing and page layout, acquired by Canva in 2024.

Background RemoverApplication

Removes image backgrounds automatically inside the Canva editor.

CanvaApplication

Browser design tool with generative image, video and text features built in.

Canva AIApplication

Canva's conversational AI assistant, which generates text, images, videos, code and editable designs from chat prompts inside Canva and connects to external tools such as Slack, Gmail, Google Drive and Notion.

Canva CodeApplication

Canva's AI code generator, which turns prompts into responsive, interactive designs — landing pages, dashboards, quizzes, calculators and charts — that can be edited in the Canva editor and published as websites.

Canva GrowApplication

Canva's ad management platform, which generates ad creative with AI, publishes campaigns to Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn, and reports on performance in one place.

Dream LabApplication

Canva's AI image generator, launched from the Canva homepage, which produces up to four images per text prompt and supports reference images, follow-up refinement and resolution boosting.

Magic AnimateApplication

Chooses animations and transitions for a design using its own visual context.

Magic EraserApplication

Removes unwanted objects from photographs inside the Canva editor.

Magic FormulasApplication

Generates spreadsheet formulas from a plain-language description inside Canva Sheets.

Magic InsightsApplication

Analyses spreadsheet data inside Canva and generates visual insights and charts.

Magic LayersApplication

Turns a flat, AI-generated design into an editable layout: select, move and edit individual design elements after the fact.

Magic WriteApplication

Canva's AI text generator, which drafts and rewrites copy inside Canva designs and Canva Docs from a prompt.

TranslateApplication

Translates the text inside a Canva design while preserving layout.

DeepL

Application

DeepL Customization HubApplication

Control layer for on-brand AI translation: glossaries, style rules, translation memories and style profiles applied across DeepL's API and Translator products for B2B communication.

DeepL Translation FlowApplication

End-to-end multilingual project-workflow management, integrating with DeepL's Translator/Write/API and third-party systems (Google Drive, SharePoint, Adobe Experience Manager, Contentful).

DeepL TranslatorApplication

Translates text and whole documents between its supported languages.

DeepL Voice for ConversationsApplication

Real-time speech translation for in-person, face-to-face conversation between multiple languages, with a comfortable dual-viewing mode; available on iOS, Android and web.

DeepL Voice for MeetingsApplication

Real-time voice-to-voice translation and multilingual subtitles for online meetings in Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet, in 30 spoken and 40+ caption languages.

DeepL WriteApplication

Rewrites text for grammar, tone and phrasing in its supported languages.

No counterpart

DeepL sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Canva yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Model API

DeepL APIModel API

Hosted translation API billed by the character.