Translation · pricing
Pontoon pricing
Pontoon publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the translation tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Pontoon pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Pontoon plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open source, self-hosted | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Pontoon stops being free
Open source, self-hosted, Free
- No licence fee and no per contributor charge
- You provide hosting, database and maintenance
- Machine translation billed by whichever engine you connect
- Support is community only through GitHub and Matrix
No paid tier on record
Pontoon lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Pontoon feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Repository sync
- Suggest and approve workflow
- Fluent support
- Translation memory
- Machine translation suggestions
- Contributor statistics
People bring Pontoon in for open source projects with volunteer translator communities across many locales, organisations that must keep translation data on their own infrastructure, projects using mozilla fluent where commercial tools have partial or no support, replacing a per seat translation platform where contributor count, not word volume, drives the bill. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Pontoon are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Translation
Too few translation tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontoon (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Unbabel | On request | quote | - | vs Pontoon |
| Microsoft Translator | Free | Per million characters | - | vs Pontoon |
| XTRF | On request | quote | - | vs Pontoon |
| Amazon Translate | Free | Per million characters | - | vs Pontoon |
| Plunet | On request | quote | - | vs Pontoon |
| Reverso | Free | Per user per month | - | vs Pontoon |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Pontoon badges page.
Before you pay for Pontoon
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Pontoon runs on web, self-hosted, and is published by Mozilla of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Pontoon review, and the rest of the category is under best translation tools.
Pontoon pricing questions
- How much does Pontoon cost?
- Pontoon publishes a single tier, Open source, self-hosted, at Free.
- Does Pontoon have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open source, self-hosted tier costs nothing and covers no licence fee and no per contributor charge, you provide hosting, database and maintenance, machine translation billed by whichever engine you connect.
- Which translation tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 translation tools listed alongside Pontoon have a free tier: Microsoft Translator, Amazon Translate, Reverso, Google Translate.
- What am I actually paying for with Pontoon?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for open source projects with volunteer translator communities across many locales, organisations that must keep translation data on their own infrastructure, projects using mozilla fluent where commercial tools have partial or no support.
- Does Pontoon charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Pontoon prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Pontoon against before paying?
- The closest translation tools in this directory are Unbabel, Microsoft Translator, XTRF, Amazon Translate. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Pontoon covering price, platforms and features.