# Google Cloud Translation vs Lokalise (slim)

> Lokalise scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Google Cloud Translation's 68.1 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Google Cloud Translation leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do translate text. Category scores, facts, verdicts and…

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Lokalise scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Google Cloud Translation's 68.1 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Google Cloud Translation leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do translate text.

- Google Cloud Translation: B 68.1, rank #191 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation.min.md
- Lokalise: BB 71.3, rank #115 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lokalise.min.md
- Google Cloud Translation, good for Agents on Google Cloud that want high quotas, clear data terms and a choice of NMT, LLM or adaptive translation with glossaries. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 84; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 69; Security & auth, 80 against 73.
- 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 Schema & documentation, 76 against 70; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Maintenance & community, 84 against 38. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Google Cloud Translation | Lokalise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 84 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 80 | 73 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 38 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 81 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Google Cloud Translation | Lokalise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google Cloud | Lokalise, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://translation.googleapis.com` | `https://api.lokalise.com/api2` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Price for translate text | $20 per 1M characters | not published |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | Proprietary service under the Lokalise Master Service Agreement. The CLI and the Node SDK on GitHub are BSD 3-Clause |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-04-09 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | 2025-11-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-03-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 561k npm/wk, 2.3M PyPI/wk | 124 stars, 338k npm/wk, 39k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |