Localazy

Localisation platform priced per source string, where adding target languages costs nothing extra

As of 31 August 2026, Localazy has a free plan and paid plans start at $34/month. A localisation platform that counts what you store rather than what you translate: you pay per source key, and one key translated into ten languages still counts as one. Softwr lists it under Translation. Localazy is available on Web, API, Linux, macOS.

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Overview

What Localazy does

Localazy is a cloud localisation platform for software and content. It holds source strings, distributes them to translators, and pushes translations back through a command line tool, GitHub Actions, framework SDKs or a language CDN. It supports JSON, XLIFF, XLSX, PO and RESX among other formats, with SDKs and plugins for Android, iOS, Flutter, React, Vue and Angular, and a Figma plugin for designers. The company operates from Brno in the Czech Republic and was founded in 2020 by Vaclav Hodek after he tried to translate his own Android application into more than thirty languages. The pricing unit is the whole point. Localazy charges by source key, defined as one segment of text in your source language such as a button label or a short paragraph, and states plainly that the content of one source key translated into ten languages still counts as one source key. Seats and languages are unlimited on every plan including the free one. Compare that with per-word platforms, where every additional locale multiplies the bill by the whole word count again. A team with 3,000 strings shipping in three languages and a team with 3,000 strings shipping in thirty pay the same. If your roadmap is more markets rather than more product, this is a structurally different cost curve and not a discount. Buyers are software teams and indie developers who ship in many locales, plus small companies that want a real free tier rather than a trial. The trade-off is that the ladder is stepped rather than continuous, so crossing a key threshold moves you a whole bracket, and the governance features a larger organisation will be asked for by its security team, single sign-on, audit logs, an SLA and priority support, sit on the Enterprise plan, which is the one tier with no published price. A team that grows into a compliance requirement leaves the transparent part of the pricing behind.

What people use it for

A mobile or web application that ships in twenty or more locales, where per-word pricing would multiply the bill by every added market
An indie developer or small studio that needs a genuinely free tier rather than a fourteen day trial
Teams that want strings pulled from Figma so copy is localised before the interface is built rather than after
Continuous localisation in a build pipeline through the CLI and GitHub Actions, with runtime delivery through the CDN

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Localazy.

The price ladder is stepped rather than continuous, so a project that grows from 2,500 to 2,600 source keys jumps a whole bracket rather than paying slightly more.
Single sign-on, audit logs, an SLA, priority support and audit trails are all Enterprise-only, and Enterprise is the one tier with no published price, so the moment a security review lands you leave the transparent pricing behind.
Counting by source key penalises content models where every paragraph is a separate key, so a documentation site or a marketing site can consume brackets far faster than an application with the same amount of text.
Human translation is sold in the platform but its rates only become visible after you have signed up, and whether Localazy takes a margin on that work is not disclosed anywhere public.
It is a company of roughly twenty people with no disclosed investors and no published legal entity details, which is a real continuity question for anyone putting a multi-year product localisation pipeline through it.

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What people choose instead of Localazy

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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Crowdin
Crowdin: A larger ecosystem and more integrations, with pricing that also scales by hosted strings rather than words
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POEditor
POEditor: A simpler and cheaper string management tool if you do not need SDKs, a CDN or a design plugin
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Weglot
Weglot: The better answer for translating an existing website in place rather than managing strings in a codebase

Pricing

What Localazy costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

200 source keys
Unlimited seats and languages
All essential localisation features
14 day trial of the Business plan on signup

Professional

$34 /mo

1,000 source keys
408 USD per year billed annually, 41 USD if billed monthly
Scales to 1,500 keys at 43 USD and 2,500 keys at 61 USD
Unlimited seats and languages

Autopilot

$78 /mo

3,500 source keys
936 USD per year billed annually, 94 USD if billed monthly
Scales to 5,000 keys at 104 USD and 7,500 keys at 139 USD

Business

$175 /mo

10,000 source keys
2,100 USD per year billed annually, 210 USD if billed monthly
Scales to 25,000 keys at 263 USD, 50,000 at 350 USD and 100,000 at 438 USD

Enterprise

On request

Price not published
Single sign-on, audit logs, SLA and priority support
Localisation manager, guided setup, backup and restore

Capabilities

Features

Per source key pricing
Billing counts stored source strings; target languages and seats are unlimited on every plan
Shared translation memory
Common interface strings can be filled automatically from translations shared across Localazy customers
Framework SDKs
Native integration for Android, iOS, Flutter, React, Vue and Angular
Figma plugin
Pulls copy from designs so strings enter localisation before the interface is built
CLI and GitHub Actions
Automates upload and download of language files as part of a build pipeline
Language CDN
Serves translations at runtime so updates do not require an application release

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

What exactly is a source key?

One segment of text in your source language, such as a button label or a short paragraph. The same key translated into ten languages still counts as one key, and languages are unlimited on every plan.

Is the free plan a trial?

No, the 200 key free plan is permanent and includes unlimited seats and languages. Separately, new signups get a fourteen day trial of the Business plan.

How does it compare with per-word pricing?

It stops scaling with locale count. If you ship in three languages the difference is small; if you ship in thirty, per-key pricing is structurally cheaper rather than marginally so.

Can I get single sign-on?

Only on Enterprise, which is quoted rather than published. There is no mid-tier SSO option.

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