Compare 13 free localization tools, free tiers, and developer deals. We could not confirm today's terms for 7 of them: on 5 the page we cite did not answer, and on 2 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why. Nothing on record contradicts our terms for Crowdin, localizely.com, POEditor and more.
What this name holds: Translation management and string catalogues for shipping a product in more than one language.
We track 13 localization services with a free tier we hold as current and 1 without. This category has been mostly stable — only 1 pricing change recorded across all vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lokalise | Retired | Localization and translation management platform, formerly with a free plan. No free tier. lokalise.com/pricing, read 2026-09-25, prices every plan: Explorer $149/month and Growth $379/month with annual billing, Advanced from $1,049/month with annual billing, Enterprise by estimate. Every plan comes with a free 14-day trial, no credit card required, and when the trial ends a paid plan is needed to continue. | 2026-11-09 |
| Crowdin | Free | Localization management. The Free plan is $0 a month: 60,000 hosted words, 1 private project, unlimited public projects, 1 integration, unlimited translators and Crowdin AI. Users on the Free plan donate their translations to Crowdin's translation memory. Pro starts at $50 a month (2 private projects), Team at $150 and Team+ at $450. Open-source and non-profit projects can apply for a free Open Source License. The CDN for over-the-air translations is free up to 1M requests and 10 GB of data transfer. CLI, GitHub integration, REST API | 2026-11-07 / 2026-10-14 |
| AutoLocalise.com | Free | Instantly localize without managing translation files. Free for up to 10,000 characters/month, unlimited languages.When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-10-29, we refused the change we considered recording because it named no figure that had moved, and refusing a change is not a confirmation of the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-10-29 / 2026-10-04 |
| Free PO editor | Free | Web-based gettext PO file editor and translator, completely free for everyoneWe could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-08-08 · tried 2026-11-10, no read |
| lingohub.com | Free | Free up to 3 users, always free for Open SourceThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-10-11 / 2026-08-08 |
| localazy.com | Free | Localization platform for apps, websites and content. The free plan covers small projects: up to 200 source keys, all essential localization features, unlimited seats and languages, no credit card required. Professional costs $41 a month billed monthly, or $408 a year ($34 a month) billed annually, for 1,000 source keys. Every new account starts with a 14-day trial of the Business plan. Localazy also runs Startup, Nonprofit and Ambassador programs.Our read on 2026-11-08 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-11-08 / 2026-08-05 |
| Localit | Free | Fast, developer-friendly localization platform with seamless and free GitHub/GitLab integration, AI-assisted and manual translations, and a generous free plan (includes 2 users, 500 keys, and unlimited projects).The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-10-11 / 2026-08-06 |
| localizely.com | Free | Free for open-source projects; standard free tier includes 250 string keys | 2026-10-31 |
| Loco | Free | Free up to 2000 translations, Unlimited translators, ten languages/project, 1000 translatable assets/projectThe page we cite for Loco names a plan but states no amount, so these limits come from our own record rather than from that page. | 2026-10-31 / 2026-08-08 |
| POEditor | Free | Free up to 1,000 strings with unlimited projects and 5 contributors | 2026-11-04 |
| SimpleLocalize | Free | Superseded: As of 2026-09-09, simplelocalize.io/pricing reads: The Community plan includes 500 translation keys, unlimited strings, 10 languages, 10 projects, and 1 team member. We are not publishing our stored SimpleLocalize terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-09, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ | 2026-11-10 / 2026-08-27 |
| Texterify | Free | Free for 1 user, 1 project, 2 languages with unlimited keys and translationsThe page we cite for Texterify states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page. | 2026-11-13 / 2026-08-06 |
| Tolgee | Free | Free SaaS offering with limited translations, forever-free self-hosted version | 2026-11-04 |
| transifex.com | Free | Free for open-source projects with OSI-approved license and no commercializationThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-10-11 / 2026-08-07 |