# Crowdin vs Phrase (slim)

> Crowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against Phrase's 64.2 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Phrase leads on schema & documentation. Both do translate text. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Crowdin scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against Phrase's 64.2 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Phrase leads on schema & documentation. Both do translate text.

- Crowdin: B 69.6, rank #153 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crowdin.min.md
- Phrase: B 64.2, rank #285 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/phrase.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 55; Security & auth, 68 against 58; Transparency & trust, 79 against 74.
- Phrase, good for Teams that keep translation projects, term bases and translation memories in Phrase and want an agent to run them, or to translate through engines chosen per language pair. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 80. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Crowdin | Phrase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 78 | 55 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Crowdin | Phrase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Crowdin OÜ | Phrase a.s. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.crowdin.com/api/v2` | `https://mcp.eu.phrase.com` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Crowdin's terms. The CLI and the official API clients are MIT | Proprietary service under the Phrase Terms of Service. The CLI, the Strings API clients and the deprecated local MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.phrase/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-24 | 2026-10-06 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| 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 | 49 stars, 40k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk |