Editor Sebastiaan Smits ·
Published November 4, 2026 · Updated November 4, 2026
Teams look past Lokalise when the plan steps from $149 to $379 to $1,049 a month, when fixed yearly quotas on processed words, languages and projects stop features at the limit, or when translation memory files can only be managed on the Advanced plan. They usually go to Crowdin, Phrase, Tolgee or Localazy.
Short answer: The closest replacements for Lokalise in our translation software ranking are Crowdin, Phrase and Tolgee. Choose Crowdin if you want a localization platform with a large integration list and a free route for open source work. These 11 options are lifted from the Best Translation Software in 2026 list. The write-ups look at one question, how each one differs from Lokalise, and admit where Lokalise is still ahead.
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Lokalise lists Explorer at $149 a month, Growth at $379 and Advanced at $1,049, with Enterprise through a demo. Each plan carries fixed quotas, and the help center says an affected feature stops working when a limit is exceeded, until usage drops or the subscription is adjusted.
The Explorer plan covers up to 10 languages, 5 projects and 60,000 processed words a year, with 2 integrations and no Figma integration. Growth lifts languages and projects to unlimited and the allowance to 225,000 processed words. Teams that outgrow Explorer face the $379 step.
Lokalise offers translation memory from the Growth plan, but uploading, downloading and managing TM files starts at Advanced. A team on a lower plan can use its memory inside the product without a documented way to take the file out.
Listed from best to weakest fit for people moving off Lokalise. The rightmost column shows where we rank each one out of 17.
| # | Alternative | Headquarters | Switch if | Our rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Crowdin | Estonia | you want a localization platform with a large integration list and a free route for open source work | #4 |
| 2 |  Phrase | Czech Republic | you need workflow, vendor management and language quality assessment beyond strings | #8 |
| 3 |  Tolgee | Czech Republic | you want unlimited seats and an open-source option you can host yourself | #11 |
| 4 |  Localazy | Czech Republic | you would rather pay by source keys than by processed words and want cheap small plans | #2 |
| 5 |  Weblate | Czech Republic | you want to self-host under an open license or pay a hosted price that scales with strings | #15 |
| 6 |  POEditor | United States | your product has a modest string count and you want a low monthly price per tier | #14 |
| 7 |  XTM Cloud | United Kingdom | you run a translation operation with vendors and want a quoted, workflow-heavy system | #3 |
| 8 |  Smartcat | United States | you want unlimited users on an annual plan and a marketplace of human translators | #12 |
| 9 |  memoQ | Hungary | you translate large volumes and prefer a per-license price with no word metering | #1 |
| 10 |  Weglot | France | your main need is a translated website rather than app strings | #6 |
| 11 |  DeepL | Germany | you mostly need good machine translation of text and files and few shared project workflows | #7 |
Meters hosted words, meaning words to translate multiplied by target languages, across every project on the account. Its docs let you upload and download TMs as TMX, XLSX or CSV. Team trial runs 14 days, Enterprise trial 30 days, and open source projects can request a free license.
Switch from Lokalise if you want a localization platform with a large integration list and a free route for open source work.
Plans are Team, Business and Enterprise, each with unlimited TMS seats and a 14-day trial. Team lists 1,245 a month billed annually with 20 Strings seats and 1,200,000 managed words. Business and Enterprise are quoted. Strings and TMS are separate products under one plan.
Switch from Lokalise if you need workflow, vendor management and language quality assessment beyond strings.
Open source and self-hostable, with seats unlimited on every plan. The free cloud tier has 30,000 words and 3 seats. Cloud plans are Translate at €58 a month billed annually, Optimise at €133 and Manage at €373. Keys are not a pricing metric.
Switch from Lokalise if you want unlimited seats and an open-source option you can host yourself.
Lists unlimited seats, projects, words and languages, and prices by managed source keys. Professional is $34 a month, or $408 billed annually, for 1,000 source keys. AI translation spends credits at $1 each. A 14-day trial is offered.
Switch from Lokalise if you would rather pay by source keys than by processed words and want cheap small plans.
Free open-source software under GPLv3 for self-hosting, plus hosted plans by hosted strings, from €47 a month for 10,000, with unlimited languages, projects and components. Hosted data is stored in the EU. All cloud plans have a 14-day trial.
Switch from Lokalise if you want to self-host under an open license or pay a hosted price that scales with strings.
Prices by hosted strings: Free holds 1,000, Start is $20 a month for 3,000, Plus $60 for 10,000, Premium $160 for 30,000 and Enterprise $260 for 100,000. Yearly billing takes 15 percent off. All plans list unlimited projects.
Switch from Lokalise if your product has a modest string count and you want a low monthly price per tier.
No amounts are published. The pricing page splits the vendor into TMS, XTM Transifex, XTRF, Rigi and VCC, each with its own price page, and offers a proposal for the full platform. Transifex lists unlimited collaborators, projects and hosted content.
Switch from Lokalise if you run a translation operation with vendors and want a quoted, workflow-heavy system.
Adapt starts at $1,200 a year, billed annually, with unlimited users, 100,000 Smartwords and 1 workspace. Translation memory is free on every plan. Accelerate and above are custom and add access to a marketplace of 500,000 experts.
Switch from Lokalise if you want unlimited users on an annual plan and a marketplace of human translators.
Starter is €2,750 a year billed annually for one project manager license and 5 linguist subscriptions, with no volume-based pricing. Larger tiers are quoted, and on-premises hosting appears only on higher tiers. Resource migration on Starter is manual.
Switch from Lokalise if you translate large volumes and prefer a per-license price with no word metering.
Translates websites only, priced by total unique words and languages. Free covers 2,000 words and 1 language; Starter is €15 a month for 10,000 words; Business €29 for 50,000 words and 3 languages; Pro €79 for 200,000 words and 5 languages.
Switch from Lokalise if your main need is a translated website rather than app strings.
A translator priced per user. Individual is €7.49 a month billed annually, Team €24.99 per user and Business €49.99 per user, with a 30-day trial. Plans count characters, file translations, glossaries and style rule lists. Translation memory appears only on Business.
Switch from Lokalise if you mostly need good machine translation of text and files and few shared project workflows.
Stay on Lokalise if your team fits within a plan's fixed quotas and the Growth or Advanced price is acceptable for what you use. Its pricing page lists AI features, branching and in-context editors on specific plans, and the help center describes 24/7 customer support on Explorer. If your processed words, languages and projects stay inside the allowances, a move would cost more than it saves.
Check the plan before you plan the move. Translation files can be downloaded in more than 20 formats, but Lokalise does not keep file templates: a new file is generated on each export. TM files can be downloaded from Advanced upward. Run both exports during the 14-day trial of the target tool.
Lokalise links keys with placeholders such as [%key_id:1234%] inside translation values, and its help center notes that key referencing is a Lokalise Expert feature not available in Vantage. Downloads are branch-specific. Export each branch you rely on and test how the placeholders arrive.
Crowdin accepts TMs in TMX, XLSX or CSV, and Weblate lists a command that imports TMX or JSON files into its translation memory. Load your approved segments before the first job, so earlier work lowers the cost of the next one.
Yes on the Advanced plan and up: the help center says uploading, downloading and managing TM files starts there. Growth includes translation memory but not file management. TMX files above 100 MB cannot be uploaded to Lokalise, which matters only if you move memory in later.
Lokalise says it supports more than 20 file formats, grouped by web, iOS, Android and other platforms. Only keys assigned to the chosen platform are included unless you tick the option for all platform keys. It keeps no file templates, so a new file is generated on every export.
Seven days before the renewal date on a monthly plan and ninety days on an annual plan, according to its Terms of Service. Card customers cancel under Team settings, Billing. Invoice customers email support. The subscription stays active until the end of the paid period.
Yes: the Terms of Service reserve the right to increase fees on auto-renewal, monthly and annual. The customer may terminate within 14 days of receiving the notification, by writing to support@lokalise.com. Annual plans renew automatically unless canceled ninety days before the renewal date.
Lokalise says it deactivates the account within six months of the effective date of termination. If you ask in writing for earlier deletion, it commits to carry that out within one month of the request. Export everything before you cancel, because the terms say you stop using the platform.
Key links and per-branch work are the likeliest problems. Lokalise documents key references as placeholders in translation values and exports are generated per branch. Test one project end to end in the new tool, including placeholders, plurals and your largest branch, before moving the rest.
We opened the vendors' own pages on November 4, 2026 to confirm each price and limit quoted for Lokalise and its rivals. Those pages move without warning, so the numbers describe that day only.
Sebastiaan Smits, Founder, wrote, edited and fact-checked this page.
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