# Crowdin vs Lokalise (slim)

> Lokalise scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Crowdin's 69.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do translate text. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Lokalise scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Crowdin's 69.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do translate text.

- Crowdin: B 69.6, rank #153 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin.min.md
- Lokalise: BB 71.3, rank #115 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lokalise.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.
- Lokalise, good for Agents that manage localisation work, such as adding keys, uploading and exporting string files, keeping a glossary and starting AI or machine translation tasks for a team that already uses Lokalise. Ahead on Reliability, 84 against 78; Security & auth, 73 against 68. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Crowdin | Lokalise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 78 | 84 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 73 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 81 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Crowdin | Lokalise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Crowdin OÜ | Lokalise, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2` | `https://api.lokalise.com/api2` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Crowdin's terms. The CLI and the official API clients are MIT | Proprietary service under the Lokalise Master Service Agreement. The CLI and the Node SDK on GitHub are BSD 3-Clause |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | 2025-11-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-24 | 2026-03-01 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 320 stars, 264k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk | 124 stars, 338k npm/wk, 39k PyPI/wk |