Crowdin vs. Lokalise:
True Lokalise Alternative
Below is Crowdin's perspective on how it compares to Lokalise. From feedback from our customers, both those who have compared the two services and those who have migrated, Crowdin is better suited for making the whole company multilingual, while Lokalise is primarily good for translating UI copy.
Where Crowdin Beats the Competitionas of August 2026 |   | |
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Pricing | Starts at $50/month | Starts at $44/month |
Processed words | Unlimited | from 60K/year |
Languages | Unlimited | 10 |
Integrations | 2 | 2 |
Figma integration | Included at no extra cost | Only available on higher-tier plans |
AI Providers | OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Azure AI Studio, Mistral AI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, AWS Bedrock, Replicate, Cloudflare Workers AI | OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic |
Continuous AI fine-tuning | ||
Context for AI | Prompt, File level, Segment (key) level | Key level |
Owning fine-tuned models | ||
AI Price | Provider prices without markup | Set by Lokalise company |
File Format Support | Over 100 | 29 |
Security | ISO/IEC 27001 certified, complies with EU GDPR and HIPAA, Enterprise-level security (SAML SSO, SIEM, SCIM, IP Allowlist) | SOC 2 Type 2 certified, ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27017 certified |
Machine Translation Providers | 20+ | 3+ |
Source Text Review | ||
WYSIWYG for documents | ||
In-context | ||
Apps Marketplace | 700+ apps and connectors | 50+ apps and connectors |
Email translation | 20+ apps | 3+ apps |
Knowledge base translation | 20+ apps | 3+ apps |
Survey translation | ||
Unity plugin | ||
Glossary | ||
Translation memory | ||
Screenshots | ||
Styleguide | ||
Branches | 2 |
Similarities Between Lokalise and Crowdinas of August 2026 | | |
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API | ||
Access Controls/ Permissions | ||
Activity Dashboard | ||
Collaboration Tools | ||
Software localization | ||
Commenting | ||
Spell Check | ||
Terminology Management | ||
Version Control | ||
Git-integrations | ||
Website translation | ||
E-commerce | ||
Design plugins |
Crowdin Enterprise Unique Features |   | |
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Custom placeholders | ||
Custom fields | ||
Automatic workflows | ||
Crowdin Apps | ||
TMS Connectors | ||
Content Translation | ||
Global Search | ||
Translation Import Checks | ||
Project groups with granular permissions | ||
Multi-vendor workflows | ||
Custom spellchecks | ||
Custom reports | ||
Professional LQA | ||
AI term extraction | ||
Multi project management tools |
Hosted words vs. Processed words
Processed Words charges for every active operation performed on your text (such as file imports, API syncs, or AI tasks).
For example, translating a 500-word file into 10 languages permanently burns 5,500 processed words (500 source + 5,000 target) from your allowance, compared to only 5,000 words in the Hosted Words model. Plus, unlike hosted words, deleting the file does not restore your allowance.
Crowdin streamlined our translation process with a tight GitLab integration. By automatically presenting new strings to our community for translation, we're able to save time and get our community engaged quickly. The integration also allows us to immediately present new translations in a new merge request when they get approved by our community proofreaders, helping us integrate new translations quickly. We're big fans!
Crowdin lets our engineering team ship features fast, without worrying about translations. We commit strings in one language and they're automatically translated and synced back. It's one of those tools that just works.
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