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Phrase
A flexible platform with product capacities that scale with your team
As of 29 August 2026, Phrase's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A localization platform for translation management, machine translation quality and software strings. Softwr lists it under Translation.
Overview
What Phrase does
A localization platform for translation management, machine translation quality and software strings.
What people use it for
- Software localization
- Translation management
- Multi-language content delivery
The honest half
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 Phrase.
- Business and Enterprise tiers require contacting sales for pricing
- Multimedia localization (Phrase Studio) is a paid add-on across all plans
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Pricing
What Phrase costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Freelancer
$27 /mo
- 1 TMS Seat
- 200K managed words
- Annual billing
Software UI/UX
$525 /mo
- 15 Strings seats
- 1M managed words
- Developer Portal with APIs
- 50+ file format support
- Annual billing
Team
$1,245 /mo
- Unlimited TMS Seats
- 20 Strings Seats
- 1.2M Strings Managed Words
- 2.5M TMS Processed Words/year
- 2M Machine Translation Units/year
- Annual billing
Business
On request
- Unlimited TMS Seats
- 150 Strings Seats
- 3M Strings Managed Words
- 12M TMS Processed Words/year
- 50M Machine Translation Units/year
Enterprise
On request
- Unlimited seats and customized capacities
- Premium Success Plan
- Tailored onboarding
- Private communication channel
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
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What is the lowest-cost Phrase plan?
The Freelancer plan starts at $27/month when billed annually, including 1 TMS Seat and 200K managed words.
SourceDoes Phrase offer a free trial?
Yes, Phrase offers a 14-day free trial of Enterprise features across all plan types.
SourceWhat are the per-seat costs for higher Phrase tiers?
The Team plan ($1,245/month) provides unlimited TMS seats and 20 Strings Seats. Business and Enterprise plans have unlimited seats but require custom quotes for pricing.
SourceKeep looking
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- Lokalise
- memoQ
- DeepL
- Smartcat
- XTM Cloud
- wxrks
- SDL Trados Studio
- Smartling
- Wordbee
- Google Translate
- Transifex
- Systran
- Twine
- Unbabel
- Weglot
- Smartling
- Wordbee
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Pricing on request12 researched notesLuxembourg translation management priced at a flat 150 EUR per power user per month, with translators and requesters not counted as seats
From €150/mo12 researched notesFree consumer translation app and website, backed by the paid Cloud Translation API priced per million characters
Free plan11 researched notesTurn localization into a background process, not a resource drain
Free, then $135/mo11 researched notesEnterprise and on-premises machine translation, sold on per-user monthly plans and separate quoted API and installed-server products
Pricing on request10 researched notesHuman-in-the-loop translation combining machine translation with human post-editing, priced per word rather than per character
Pricing on request10 researched notesEnterprise translation management sold alongside first-party language services priced per word
Pricing on request12 researched notesLuxembourg translation management priced at a flat 150 EUR per power user per month, with translators and requesters not counted as seats
From €150/mo12 researched notes
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