The idea of Software as a service doesn't suit translators in particular, especially if you are a small company and want to make your small business cost efficient. A software that i buy now and expires next year if i don't pay doesn't suit me.

I buy the software once.then i decide if i want the upgrades or not. What makes me say this? It's simple, the subscription model spreads and then you find yourself forced to pay yearly subscriptions for all of your software (it already happens for many platforms). But it is not conceivable (in my personal view) to have to pay a subscription. It even has a Studio add-on and works well. So despite me being tempted to buy it i always skipped it. i don't share the yearly subscription model. Has anyone used Xbench 3.0 for a longer time and knows if it would be worth investing 99 EUR each year for a license? In my particular case, it seems the best option as I want to always be able to use the QA checks in Xbench with my MultiTerm glossaries.

However, since I often have created my own MultiTerm glossaries I was planning to use also the Xbench plug-in for Studio 2014, and then export the unclean files from MemoQ Server and import into Studio 2014 to perform the QA there with Xbench plugin, using my MultiTerm glossaries. Now, the customer I will begin to work for long-term has given me a license for MemoQ Server and asked me to use Xbench 2.9 (the free version) for QA.

Most often I use MultiTerm Desktop and MultiTerm Convert to create my own MultiTerm glossaries that I use within SDL Trados Studio 2014. Is it worth paying for Xbench 3.0 or should I use the free version?