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Lokalise pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Lokalise (lokalise.com) is a translation or localization tool. Monthly subscription per plan: unlimited translator/reviewer (standard) seats, a capped number of developer/manager (advanced) seats with extra seats sold separately, and monthly processed-word and AI. No free plan.

What Lokalise costs

  • Entry plan: $169/mo (Explorer $169/mo on monthly billing (embedded priceBilledMonthly; $149/mo billed yearly). Includes unlimited hosted words, 10 languages, 5 projects, 5K processed words/mo, unlimited standard seats and 5 advanced seats (extra seat $10/mo monthly or $100/yr).)
  • Site in 2 languages: no public price (Null: no self-serve plan shows no-code website translation (JS snippet, translation proxy or page-publishing CMS plugin). The in-context JS editor is client-side editing; Explorer includes 2 integrations and Growth 3, but which apps they are is not stated, and the WordPress, Webflow and Contentful apps were not verified to publish translated pages on the buyer site.)
  • App, 5 users: $439/mo (Growth $439/mo monthly, no add-ons needed. The scenario needs about 20K processed words a month: per the Lokalise docs, 5,000 changed source words count 5,000 once as base plus 3 x 5,000 as target words, which is 20,000. Explorer includes only 5K/mo and its processed-word add-on prices are not published, so Growth (20K/mo included, exactly enough) is the cheapest fully priced plan; it also has 10 advanced seats (2 needed), unlimited hosted words, projects, languages and standard seats, and 50 GB/mo OTA data (100K downloads fit if the average file is under 500 KB). API/CLI and import/export are not listed as plan-gated features.)

Plan compared: Explorer plan, monthly billing ($169/mo). Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans and WordPress plugin licences divided by 12): the cheapest paid plan that does each product's core job, a 10,000-word website translated into 2 languages, and an app with 2,000 keys localized into 3 languages by a 5-person team. A dash means the product does not do that job.

What Lokalise does

Core: Software string management, Git, CLI and API sync.

Important: Instant machine translation (partly), Over-the-air updates (partly), In-context visual editing, Translation memory (partly), Glossary and terminology (partly), Customizable AI translation, Choice of MT engines (partly), Review workflow and QA, Integrations ecosystem, Security and compliance (partly).

Also has: Document file translation (partly), Multilingual website (partly), Professional translation ordering (partly).

Lokalise price hikes

Cheaper alternatives to Lokalise

At the entry plan, Lokalise costs $169/mo. 2 translation or localization tools cost less:

  • Weglot: $17/mo (Starter plan, monthly billing), covers 69% of Lokalise; missing or partial: Software string management (partly), Git, CLI and API sync (partly), Translation memory, Customizable AI translation (partly), Review workflow and QA (partly)
  • Crowdin: $60/mo (Pro plan, monthly billing (inferred, see pointNotes)), covers 93% of Lokalise; missing or partial: In-context visual editing (partly), Customizable AI translation (partly)

Lokalise alternatives: 3 translation or localization tools compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of Lokalise

  • Gemini (AI assistants): covers 31% of Lokalise; missing or partial: Software string management, Git, CLI and API sync, Over-the-air updates, In-context visual editing, Translation memory
  • HeyGen (AI video): covers 31% of Lokalise; missing or partial: Software string management, Git, CLI and API sync, Over-the-air updates, In-context visual editing (partly), Translation memory

Every change we logged

  • Sep 21, 2026 · Price increase: Explorer, Growth and Advanced rose on the default annual-billing display: Explorer $144 to $149 a month (+3.5%), Growth $375 to $379 (+1.1%), Advanced $999 to $1,049 (+5.0%). Enterprise stays custom-quoted.
  • Jul 3, 2026 · Free tier cut: The free plan ended, and Explorer at $144/mo (annual billing) became the entry tier. The free plan had 2 seats, 500 hosted keys and 2 projects.
  • Jul 3, 2026 · Price cut: Growth was cut about 25% (-24.8%) on the annual-billing display, from $499 to $375 a month.
  • Apr 3, 2026 · Limits cut: Explorer's standard AI/MT translated-word allowance went from unlimited to 240K a year (20K a month). PricingSaaS logs no price change on that date.
  • Mar 10, 2026 · Free tier cut: The free plan's unlimited standard AI/MT word allowance was removed; the free plan itself ended on 2026-07-03.
  • Jan 2026 · Repriced: Plans were renamed (Start to Explorer, Essential to Growth, Pro to Advanced), hosted keys became hosted words, per-seat pricing became unlimited standard seats, and a free tier was added. The Pro price was replaced by 'Chat With Sales' (previously $825/mo yearly or $990/mo monthly); a headline cited a 117% rise, but no prior Growth price is stated, so no increase is recorded.

Sources

Pricing page: lokalise.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Monthly prices come from the pricing page's embedded plan data (priceBilledMonthly), since the default display is annual billing, the basis PricingSaaS logs. PricingSaaS's 'Explorer $8.33/mo billed annually' matches the $100/yr extra-seat price rather than the plan, its Jan 2026 dates may be recording dates, and processed-word add-on prices are not published, which is why the app point uses Growth.