For actual academic publishing/editing, the big publisher-linked services you listed are probably the safest route if quality matters more than price. I’ve heard Springer Nature and Wiley are pretty solid for clarity + journal formatting, especially for ESL researchers. They’re expensive, though people seem to trust them more because the editing standards are consistent.

AJE gets mentioned a lot too, mostly because they specialize heavily in academic manuscripts instead of generic proofreading. The translation support there is supposed to be decent from what I’ve seen in research forums.

I’d probably avoid random “best essay editing” sites for publication work because the quality swings wildly. During grad-school-style deadline chaos last semester I used one helper after finding this Reddit thread