# Crowdin vs LibreTranslate (slim)

> Crowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against LibreTranslate's 49.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LibreTranslate leads on payments & pricing. Both do translate text. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

Crowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against LibreTranslate's 49.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LibreTranslate leads on payments & pricing. Both do translate text.

- Crowdin: B 69.6, rank #153 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin.min.md
- LibreTranslate: D 49.8, rank #602 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/libretranslate.min.md
- Crowdin, good for Teams that keep product strings and files in Crowdin and want an agent to upload sources, check progress, apply pre-translation, manage glossaries and pull builds. Ahead on Reliability, 78 against 35; Schema & documentation, 80 against 65; Security & auth, 68 against 45; Maintenance & community, 82 against 40; Transparency & trust, 79 against 60.
- LibreTranslate, good for Operators who must keep text on their own servers or want a fixed cost, and for light hosted use. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 30. Also Open source.

| Category | Crowdin | LibreTranslate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 78 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 45 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 40 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 60 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Crowdin | LibreTranslate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Crowdin OÜ | LibreTranslate |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2` | `https://libretranslate.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Crowdin's terms. The CLI and the official API clients are MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-05-26 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-24 | 2025-09-23 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 320 stars, 264k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk | 17k stars, 4.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |