{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "crowdin", "name": "Crowdin", "vendor": "Crowdin OÜ", "vendorUrl": "https://crowdin.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "translation", "summary": "Crowdin is a hosted localisation platform that stores source files and strings, translation memories and glossaries, and runs machine and AI translation over them. Agents reach it through a REST API, a CLI and a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crowdin.json", "repo": "https://github.com/crowdin/crowdin-cli", "license": "Proprietary service under Crowdin's terms. The CLI and the official API clients are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@crowdin/crowdin-api-client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@crowdin/cli" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "crowdin-api-client" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A person signs up in a browser, then creates a personal access token in Account Settings or registers an OAuth app. No review or sales approval is described. Every call sends `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e`. Tokens take an expiry date (the default is never), scopes with read-only or read-and-write access, and a granular option that limits them to chosen projects. OAuth is the authorisation code grant at accounts.crowdin.com, with a client secret or PKCE, and access tokens last 7,200 seconds with a refresh token. The MCP server accepts the same tokens, or an OAuth sign-in where the client registers itself at `https://mcp.crowdin.com/register`.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "A Free plan at $0 and a 14-day trial of the Team plan let an agent's owner start without a contract. Paid plans in the pricing page's structured data are Pro $50, Team $150 and Team+ $450 a month, with annual billing giving two months free. Plans are sized by hosted words (source words multiplied by target languages). Machine translation, AI and professional translation are paid from prepaid Crowdin Credits, or run on the customer's own engine keys. Plan limits, the comparison table and the CDN add-on's unit prices are drawn by script and were not read. Whether the Free plan needs a card is not stated on the page (https://crowdin.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$50 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer documentation, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 320, "npmWeekly": 264028, "pypiWeekly": 13847, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://support.crowdin.com/developer/api/", "llmsTxt": "https://support.crowdin.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://support.crowdin.com/src/assets/api/crowdin/file-based.yml", "capabilities": [ "translate.text", "translate.documents", "translate.glossary", "translate.detect" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "cli", "typescript", "python", "eu", "status-page", "closed-source", "localisation" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 153, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 30, "reliability": 78, "schema": 80, "security": 68, "transparency": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST API has a public OpenAPI document with 374 operations, and tokens can be limited by scope, access level and project. Translation runs inside Crowdin projects and connected engines, so it is not a stateless per-character translation API. No Retry-After guidance, idempotency keys or SLA were found in the reviewed documentation.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0 document with 374 operations on 218 paths, plus `llms.txt` with one text file per route", "Personal access tokens take an expiry date, per-scope read-only or read-and-write access, and a granular option limiting them to chosen projects", "The MCP V2 endpoint filters tools by header, with `crowdin-read-only`, `crowdin-tool-sets`, `crowdin-project-type` and `crowdin-tool-filter`", "status.crowdin.com lists no incident between 10 July and 8 October 2026, with separate components for the API and the EU data centre", "Seven official API clients under MIT, with `@crowdin/crowdin-api-client` 1.59.0 on 29 September and `@crowdin/cli` 5.3.0 on 24 September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "The terms forbid accessing the service to monitor availability, performance or functionality, or for benchmarking, without Crowdin's prior written consent", "A 429 is returned above 20 simultaneous requests an account, with no Retry-After header or backoff guidance in the reference", "No idempotency keys in the OpenAPI document, and no SLA found in the terms or the help centre", "Plan limits and add-on unit prices on the pricing page are drawn by script. Only four plan prices were readable, from the page's structured data", "MCP V1 and 12 API operations are marked deprecated with no removal date, and no deprecation policy was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to `https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2`. Crowdin Enterprise uses `https://\u003corganization_domain\u003e.api.crowdin.com/api/v2`", "Use the MCP V2 endpoint `https://mcp.crowdin.com/v2/mcp` and set `crowdin-tool-sets`, because the server loads all 33 tool sets by default", "Set `crowdin-read-only: true` on the MCP connection for exploration. It exposes only list and get tools", "Keep to 20 concurrent requests an account across all tokens, and add your own backoff on 429", "Upload a file to `/storages` first, then pass the `storageId` to the add-file call. Builds, exports and reports are asynchronous and need a status poll", "`/mts/{mtId}/translations` takes at most 100 strings a call and needs the `mt` scope and a configured engine" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 69, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 30, "reliability": 78, "schema": 80, "security": 68, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 93 }, "connect": { "install": "npm i @crowdin/crowdin-api-client # or: pip install crowdin-api-client", "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN\" https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2/projects", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --header \"Authorization: Bearer {YOUR_CROWDIN_TOKEN}\" crowdin https://mcp.crowdin.com/v2/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "crowdin": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer {YOUR_CROWDIN_TOKEN}" }, "url": "https://mcp.crowdin.com/v2/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/translate.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/crowdin" }, "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 50, "note": "from the pricing page's structured data, plan limits not read" }, { "item": "Team plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 150, "note": "from the pricing page's structured data, plan limits not read" }, { "item": "Team+ plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 450, "note": "from the pricing page's structured data, plan limits not read" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Crowdin OÜ", "domain": "crowdin.com", "domainRegistered": "2009-02-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://support.crowdin.com/terms/", "privacy": "https://support.crowdin.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.crowdin.com", "changelog": "https://crowdin.com/blog/whats-new-at-crowdin-september-2026", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms (last revised 24 September 2026) name Crowdin OÜ, Liivalaia 36, Tallinn, Estonia, register code 14479905, as the contracting party, under Estonian law.", "The terms govern the platform and its APIs (the definition of Software Services includes APIs) and carry the data processing contract in section 9.", "The privacy policy (last revised 24 September 2026) covers the site and the service. crowdin.com/privacy redirects to it.", "crowdin.com/.well-known/security.txt gives a contact page, a policy link and an expiry of 31 January 2030.", "No dated API changelog was found. The changelog link is the latest monthly product update on the blog, published 1 October 2026.", "RDAP for crowdin.com gives a registration date of 2009-02-07.", "The API answers at api.crowdin.com and the MCP server at mcp.crowdin.com." ], "score": 93 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin.json", "live": { "slug": "crowdin", "probe": { "target": "https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:08.255292657Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 271, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 280, "p95ms24h": 301, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.crowdin.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:58.709720971Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:08.255292657Z" } }, "answer": "Crowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against Lingo.dev's 62.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lingo.dev leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "lingo-dev", "name": "Lingo.dev", "vendor": "Replexica, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://lingo.dev", "kind": "http-api", "category": "translation", "summary": "Lingo.dev is a hosted AI translation platform from Replexica, Inc. Customers configure engines with glossaries, brand voices, rules and a model per language pair, then call them through a REST API, a CLI or a hosted MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lingo-dev.json", "repo": "https://github.com/lingodotdev/lingo.dev", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Lingo.dev's terms of service. The lingodotdev/lingo.dev repository (legacy CLI, JavaScript SDK, compiler) and the Python SDK are Apache-2.0. The `@lingo.dev/cli` package states no licence on npm", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.lingo.dev/account", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@lingo.dev/cli" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "lingo.dev" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@lingo.dev/_sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "lingodotdev" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes an API key in the `X-API-Key` header. A person creates the key in the dashboard after a browser signup, with no review or sales step. Personal keys exist on every plan and carry their creator's access. Organisation keys with their own role and engine scope need the Enterprise plan. The MCP server signs in through a browser with OAuth (authorisation code, PKCE, dynamic client registration) and the user picks one organisation on the consent screen. No OAuth scopes are published.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Usage is billed from prepaid credits with auto-reload. Lingo.dev charges $2 per million output tokens on top of the LLM provider's price, which is passed through with no markup, plus $0.50 per engine a month and $0.01 per AI review run. Sandbox has a $0 base and 100,000 tokens a day, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Production is $99 a month with 5 million tokens a day, and Enterprise is custom. No free usage allowance was found, and whether signup needs a card could not be read without an account (https://lingo.dev/en/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$99 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs or the pricing page. The API's 402 status means the organisation's credit limit was reached and carries no payment instructions (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 5402, "npmWeekly": 91991, "pypiWeekly": 1975, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://lingo.dev/en/docs/api", "registryName": "dev.lingo/main", "capabilities": [ "translate.text", "translate.glossary", "translate.detect", "translate.formality" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-priced", "prepaid", "mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "cli", "webhooks", "async-jobs", "typescript", "python", "closed-source", "status-page", "soc2", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 341, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 20, "reliability": 71, "schema": 54, "security": 62, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Lingo.dev suits teams that want glossary and tone control on every translation call, with a published fee of $2 per million output tokens and model costs passed through. It has no public OpenAPI file, its `llms.txt` is one line, and scoped keys, roles and audit logs are limited to the Enterprise plan.", "bestFor": "Product teams that translate interface strings and content into many locales and want glossary, tone and rule control held in one place, driven from code, CI or a coding assistant.", "strengths": [ "Glossary terms, per-locale brand voice and rules apply on every call, sync or async, through one configured engine", "Each sync response reports the model used, token counts and cost in USD", "Async jobs take up to 100 target locales, an `idempotencyKey`, signed webhooks and cursor paging with `limit` up to 100", "The hosted MCP server signs in with OAuth, PKCE and dynamic client registration, with no key to paste", "Public prices, a weekly changelog since March 2026 and an OpenStatus page with incident history" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public OpenAPI file was found, `llms.txt` holds one title line and docs pages have no Markdown version", "Organisation keys with their own role and engine scope, RBAC and audit logs are Enterprise only. On other plans every member is an Owner", "The status page lists two partial API outages in 90 days, on 18 July 2026 (closed after 19 hours) and 22 September 2026 (1 hour 50 minutes)", "Errors carry a status code and a free-text `message`, with no machine-readable code and no `Retry-After` documented", "The privacy policy points to lingo.dev/security for sub-processors, and that page returned 404 on 8 October 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `X-API-Key` to https://api.lingo.dev and keep the key server-side. On non-Enterprise plans a personal key reaches every engine its creator can", "Use `POST /process/localize` for one language pair and `POST /jobs/localization` with an `idempotencyKey` for several. Pipeline stages run on async jobs only", "Treat 402 (credit limit) and 429 (daily token quota) as limits to report, not to retry. Retry 500 with backoff", "Read `usage.cost` on each sync response to track spend. Sandbox stops at 100,000 tokens a day", "Connect MCP clients to https://mcp.lingo.dev/account. Its tools can create and revoke API keys and invite members, so ask before those calls" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 20, "reliability": 71, "schema": 54, "security": 62, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 91 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @lingo.dev/cli", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.lingo.dev/process/localize \\\n -H \"X-API-Key: your_api_key\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"engineId\": \"eng_abc123\", \"sourceLocale\": \"en\", \"targetLocale\": \"de\", \"data\": {\"greeting\": \"Hello\"}}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add lingo --transport http https://mcp.lingo.dev/account --scope user", "config": { "lingo": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.lingo.dev/account" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/translate.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/lingo-dev" }, "area": "everyday", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Lingo.dev infrastructure fee", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 2, "note": "Computed from output tokens. The LLM provider's price is added with no markup" }, { "item": "Production plan base", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "5 million tokens a day. Sandbox base is $0 with 100,000 a day" }, { "item": "Each engine", "unit": "month", "usd": 0.5, "note": "Per engine on Sandbox and Production" }, { "item": "AI review run", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "Per run" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Replexica, Inc.", "domain": "lingo.dev", "domainRegistered": "2021-05-03", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://lingo.dev/en/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://lingo.dev/en/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.lingo.dev", "changelog": "https://lingo.dev/en/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of service (last updated 7 May 2026) cover the website, the platform, the APIs, the CLI and the MCP server, name Replexica Inc. and Lingo.dev (Replexica, Inc), and are governed by Delaware law.", "The privacy policy (last updated 7 May 2026) covers the website and the platform, including content submitted for translation.", "The API answers at api.lingo.dev and the MCP server at mcp.lingo.dev, both on the vendor's domain.", "lingo.dev/.well-known/security.txt gives security@lingo.dev, a canonical URL and a disclosure policy with a safe-harbour promise. It has no Expires field.", "RDAP for lingo.dev gives a registration date of 2021-05-03. The site footer says the company is headquartered in San Francisco. No street address was found in the terms or the privacy policy.", "The privacy policy says the sub-processor list is kept in the Data Processing Agreement and at lingo.dev/security. That URL returned 404 on 8 October 2026 and no published DPA was found." ], "score": 91 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev.json", "live": { "slug": "lingo-dev", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.lingo.dev/account", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:14.053179587Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 707, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 958, "p95ms24h": 1336, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.lingo.dev", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:45.164350131Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:14.053179587Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Crowdin OÜ", "b": "Replexica, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2", "b": "https://mcp.lingo.dev/account", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Crowdin's terms. The CLI and the official API clients are MIT", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Lingo.dev's terms of service. The lingodotdev/lingo.dev repository (legacy CLI, JavaScript SDK, compiler) and the Python SDK are Apache-2.0. The `@lingo.dev/cli` package states no licence on npm", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "dev.lingo/main", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-30", "b": "2026-10-07", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-24", "b": "2026-05-07", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-24", "b": "2026-05-07", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "320 stars, 264k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk", "b": "5.4k stars, 92k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Crowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against Lingo.dev's 62.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lingo.dev leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Crowdin or Lingo.dev?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Crowdin and Lingo.dev need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Crowdin has a hosted endpoint at https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2 and Lingo.dev at https://mcp.lingo.dev/account.", "question": "Can an agent call Crowdin and Lingo.dev without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 78 against 71", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 54", "Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 62", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 71" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "crowdin", "watchFor": "The terms forbid accessing the service to monitor availability, performance or functionality, or for benchmarking, without Crowdin's prior written consent" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 75 against 69", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 82" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Product teams that translate interface strings and content into many locales and want glossary, tone and rule control held in one place, driven from code, CI or a coding assistant.", "slug": "lingo-dev", "watchFor": "No public OpenAPI file was found, `llms.txt` holds one title line and docs pages have no Markdown version" } ], "job": { "capability": "translate.text", "name": "Translate text" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-crowdin.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs Crowdin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-crowdin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lingo-dev.json", "title": "Amazon Translate vs Lingo.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-translate-vs-lingo-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-translator-vs-crowdin.json", "title": "Azure Translator vs Crowdin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-translator-vs-crowdin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-translator-vs-lingo-dev.json", "title": "Azure Translator vs Lingo.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-translator-vs-lingo-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-deepl-api.json", "title": "Crowdin vs DeepL API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-deepl-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-google-cloud-translation.json", "title": "Crowdin vs Google Cloud Translation", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-google-cloud-translation" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lara-translate.json", "title": "Crowdin vs Lara Translate API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lara-translate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-libretranslate.json", "title": "Crowdin vs LibreTranslate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-libretranslate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lingvanex.json", "title": "Crowdin vs Lingvanex Translation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lingvanex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lokalise.json", "title": "Crowdin vs Lokalise", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lokalise" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-phrase.json", "title": "Crowdin vs Phrase", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-phrase" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-systran.json", "title": "Crowdin vs SYSTRAN Translate API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-systran" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepl-api-vs-lingo-dev.json", "title": "DeepL API vs Lingo.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepl-api-vs-lingo-dev" 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Lingo.dev leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do translate text.", "verdicts": { "crowdin": "The REST API has a public OpenAPI document with 374 operations, and tokens can be limited by scope, access level and project. Translation runs inside Crowdin projects and connected engines, so it is not a stateless per-character translation API. No Retry-After guidance, idempotency keys or SLA were found in the reviewed documentation.", "lingo-dev": "Lingo.dev suits teams that want glossary and tone control on every translation call, with a published fee of $2 per million output tokens and model costs passed through. It has no public OpenAPI file, its `llms.txt` is one line, and scoped keys, roles and audit logs are limited to the Enterprise plan." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lingo-dev", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lingo-dev.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lingo-dev.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lingo-dev.min.md" }, "markdown": "Crowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against Lingo.dev's 62.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lingo.dev leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do translate text.\n\n- Crowdin: grade B, 69.6/100, rank #153 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crowdin.json\n- Lingo.dev: grade B, 62.3/100, rank #341 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lingo-dev.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Crowdin (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 78 against 71\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 54\n- Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 62\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 71\n\nWatch for: The terms forbid accessing the service to monitor availability, performance or functionality, or for benchmarking, without Crowdin's prior written consent\n\n### Lingo.dev (B)\n\nGood for: Product teams that translate interface strings and content into many locales and want glossary, tone and rule control held in one place, driven from code, CI or a coding assistant.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 69\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 82\n\nWatch for: No public OpenAPI file was found, `llms.txt` holds one title line and docs pages have no Markdown version\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Crowdin | Lingo.dev | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 78 | 71 | Crowdin +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 54 | Crowdin +26 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 75 | Lingo.dev +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 62 | Crowdin +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | Crowdin +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 87 | Lingo.dev +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 71 | Crowdin +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.6 · B** | **62.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Crowdin | Lingo.dev |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Crowdin OÜ | Replexica, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2` | `https://mcp.lingo.dev/account` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Crowdin's terms. The CLI and the official API clients are MIT | Proprietary hosted service under Lingo.dev's terms of service. The lingodotdev/lingo.dev repository (legacy CLI, JavaScript SDK, compiler) and the Python SDK are Apache-2.0. The `@lingo.dev/cli` package states no licence on npm |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `dev.lingo/main` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | 2026-05-07 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-24 | 2026-05-07 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 320 stars, 264k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk | 5.4k stars, 92k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Crowdin.** The REST API has a public OpenAPI document with 374 operations, and tokens can be limited by scope, access level and project. Translation runs inside Crowdin projects and connected engines, so it is not a stateless per-character translation API. No Retry-After guidance, idempotency keys or SLA were found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n**Lingo.dev.** Lingo.dev suits teams that want glossary and tone control on every translation call, with a published fee of $2 per million output tokens and model costs passed through. It has no public OpenAPI file, its `llms.txt` is one line, and scoped keys, roles and audit logs are limited to the Enterprise plan.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Crowdin\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to `https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2`. Crowdin Enterprise uses `https://\u003corganization_domain\u003e.api.crowdin.com/api/v2`\n2. Use the MCP V2 endpoint `https://mcp.crowdin.com/v2/mcp` and set `crowdin-tool-sets`, because the server loads all 33 tool sets by default\n3. Set `crowdin-read-only: true` on the MCP connection for exploration. It exposes only list and get tools\n4. Keep to 20 concurrent requests an account across all tokens, and add your own backoff on 429\n5. Upload a file to `/storages` first, then pass the `storageId` to the add-file call. Builds, exports and reports are asynchronous and need a status poll\n6. `/mts/{mtId}/translations` takes at most 100 strings a call and needs the `mt` scope and a configured engine\n\n### Lingo.dev\n\n1. Send `X-API-Key` to https://api.lingo.dev and keep the key server-side. On non-Enterprise plans a personal key reaches every engine its creator can\n2. Use `POST /process/localize` for one language pair and `POST /jobs/localization` with an `idempotencyKey` for several. Pipeline stages run on async jobs only\n3. Treat 402 (credit limit) and 429 (daily token quota) as limits to report, not to retry. Retry 500 with backoff\n4. Read `usage.cost` on each sync response to track spend. Sandbox stops at 100,000 tokens a day\n5. Connect MCP clients to https://mcp.lingo.dev/account. Its tools can create and revoke API keys and invite members, so ask before those calls\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Crowdin or Lingo.dev?\n\nCrowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against Lingo.dev's 62.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lingo.dev leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Crowdin and Lingo.dev need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Crowdin and Lingo.dev without installing anything?\n\nYes. Crowdin has a hosted endpoint at https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2 and Lingo.dev at https://mcp.lingo.dev/account.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lingo-dev.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crowdin-vs-lingo-dev.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"crowdin\", \"b\": \"lingo-dev\"}`. 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