Localization, billed per word corrected to
seat
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Every other tool meters your content — hosted words, stored strings, or keys — and several multiply it by the number of languages you ship. Lingvo meters people. Owners and admins are billed; translators are free, and words are never counted.
You wrote it once. They bill it 14 times.
40,000 source words, 14 languages, and not one of those strings changed. On a tool that bills hosted words — Crowdin, Transifex, Weblate — you are billed for all 560,000 of them. We bill for the people with keys to the workspace.
The same app, priced four ways
A small team shipping one app into ten languages, on each vendor's entry paid plan.
| Lingvo | Crowdin | Lokalise | Phrase | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | Owner and admin seats | Hosted words — source words multiplied by target languages, across the whole account | Processed words per year, plus advanced seats. Hosted words are unlimited | Seats plus managed source words, metered separately per product |
| Entry paid plan | Studio $19 per seat / month | Pro $59/mo, or $50/mo billed annually | Explorer $169/mo, or $144/mo billed annually | Software UI/UX $525/mo, billed annually |
| What that buys | Unlimited keys, languages, words and projects | 60,000 hosted words, 2 private projects | 60,000 processed words a year, 5 projects, 10 languages | 1,000,000 managed words, 5 projects, 15 seats |
| Admin seats at that price | Unlimited, billed per seat | None included on Pro — managers start on Team, $150–179/mo | 5 advanced seats, then $100 a year each | 15 seats |
| Translators billed? | No — translators and viewers are free and unlimited | No — unlimited translators and proofreaders on paid plans | No — standard seats unlimited; manager seats capped | Unclear — TMS seats are unlimited, Strings seats are capped |
| If you hit the limit | Machine translation pauses. Keys, languages and words have no limit to hit | Notice, then 10 days to upgrade, then translator access is suspended. Data is kept | The affected feature stops until usage drops or the plan is adjusted | Some features become restricted until capacity is added |
| Free tier | Yes — 1 seat, 1 project, 250 AI credits a month, no card | Yes — 60,000 hosted words; free-plan translations are donated to Crowdin's memory | No — 14-day trial | No — 14-day trial |
All three sell human translation through vendor marketplaces; we do not. All three ship over-the-air translation delivery with mobile SDKs, in-context editors and SAML single sign-on. Phrase adds a full translation management system for documents and long-form content. Crowdin lists more than 700 integrations.
Cheaper options existIf your project is open source, Weblate's Libre plan and Crowdin's open-source programme are free, and both Weblate and Tolgee can be self-hosted at no licence cost. If your string count is small and stable, POEditor starts around $17 a month and Tolgee has a free tier. Lingvo is built for a product team that keeps adding locales — not for every case.
Competitor figures observed on 11 August 2026 from each vendor's own pricing page: Crowdin, Lokalise, Phrase. Plans marked contact-sales publish no price. Vendors change pricing; if you find one of these out of date, tell us and we will correct it.Source, target and memory, in one view
Plurals get every CLDR category the locale actually has, and QA runs as you type rather than at the end.
Zahlung abgeschlossen
Three commands, and one of them says no
The CLI and the editor stay in the same loop as the code they support. The gate is the point: a missing plural fails the build rather than reaching a user.
$ lingvo push
47 keys · 3 files · 2 new, 45 unchanged, 0 obsolete
$ lingvo pull --locale de
wrote composeResources/values-de/strings.xml
41 of 47 translated, 6 omitted rather than written empty
$ lingvo qa --fail-on-error
ru checkout.items_count — missing plural categories: few, many
1 error, 0 warnings
exit 1
Your files, unchanged
11 formats, in and out. Keep the native file type for each platform instead of reshaping your stack around a tool.
- Android XML
- iOS .strings
- iOS .stringsdict
- Apple String Catalog
- JSON · nested
- JSON · flat
- .properties
- YAML
- CSV
- XLIFF
- PO
Two of these four cost nothing
Translators are invited and unlimited on every plan, including free.
| Role | Can do | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | Everything, including billing | $19 |
| Admin | Structure, members, providers | $19 |
| Translator | Write and approve translations | $0 |
| Viewer | Read everything, change nothing | $0 |
Free is a hard cap, not an overage. Running out stops the machine, not the team.