# LibreTranslate vs Localazy (slim)

> Localazy scores 54.4 (C) to LibreTranslate's 43.7 (E) for translation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Localazy scores 54.4 (C) on agent readiness against LibreTranslate's 43.7 (E), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. LibreTranslate leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do translation.

- LibreTranslate: E 43.7, rank #1227 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/libretranslate.min.md
- Localazy: C 54.4, rank #909 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localazy.min.md
- LibreTranslate, good for Operators who must keep text on their own servers or want a fixed cost, and for light hosted use. Ahead on Security & auth, 45 against 37; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35; Transparency & trust, 62 against 57. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Open source.
- Localazy, good for App and game teams that keep source strings in a TMS and want agents to push keys, pull translations or run AI translation with a glossary. Ahead on Reliability, 68 against 35; Schema & documentation, 51 against 45; Maintenance & community, 75 against 40. Also Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where LibreTranslate loses 3 points for them.

| Category | LibreTranslate | Localazy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 68 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 45 | 51 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 62 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 45 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 40 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 57 |

| Fact (where they differ) | LibreTranslate | Localazy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | LibreTranslate | Localazy s.r.o. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://libretranslate.com` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | Token |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-05-26 | 2026-10-26 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-23 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 17k stars | 61k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, Localazy +35: LibreTranslate 40 (Last release v1.9.6 on 2026-05-26, 162 days before 4 November (10). No release in the 90 days from 6 August. The repository has 18 commits since then (web UI changes, the URL fix, Weblate translations, a Docker thread setting and a CI runner move), the latest on 25 October. VERSION still reads 1.9.6, and per-commit Docker images aren't releases. The official MCP server @libretranslate/mcp last tagged v1.0.2 on 17 May 2026 (0). Issues per the 1 October check, not re-read on 4 November, since GitHub's pages refuse us (127 open, newest labelled by an automated triage bot, some with 1 to 4 comments) (15 of 25). Current PyPI and Docker packages, no official client SDK (5 of 15). CI runs pytest on Python 3.8 to 3.14 plus Docker builds, with runners moved to Ubuntu 24.04 on 25 October (10).); Localazy 75 (@localazy/api-client 2.3.2 on 26 October 2026 (30). Releases 2.3.0 (12 August), 2.3.1 (29 September) and 2.3.2 (26 October) in the last 90 days (20). Support by email, blog release updates, and public GitHub repositories, but we didn't read issue reply times (7). The TypeScript client and the CLI (2.0.12 on 31 July 2026) are current (13). The client repository shows coverage badges; we didn't confirm CI runs (5). 30+20+7+13+5 = 75.)
- Reliability, Localazy +33: LibreTranslate 35 (Read as the hosted API at libretranslate.com, since the listing is an http-api. No status page found (0). No readable incident history (5). Plan limits published with numbers on the portal, re-read on 4 November, 80 calls a minute burst and about 20 sustained on Pro, 200 and about 50 on Business, 2,000 characters a call (15). The docs API reference lists a 429 "Slow down" answer on each operation, and the server code bans a client after repeated limit violations, but there's no Retry-After or backoff advice (5 of 15, an in-between value kept from 1 October). No SLA (0). Release 1.9.6 is a stable release, not beta (10). Self-hosted, the package reading would score far higher, with CI across Python 3.8 to 3.14 and a 1.x release line.); Localazy 68 (Hosted lines, for the REST API at api.localazy.com. Better Stack status page with Web, API, Public API, Payments and Connect API components and 30, 60 and 90-day uptime (20). The incidents page reports none for September, October or November 2026, but the Public API shows 99.805% uptime in one 30-day bucket, roughly an hour and a half of downtime with no incident posted, so the line is held below clean (25). Limits per plan of 100 requests a minute and 10 a second, plus daily import and fetch caps per project (15). No 429 or retry guidance found in the API docs (0). No SLA found on the pricing page or in the terms (0). The core API is GA; the AI Translation endpoint is marked beta (8). 20+25+15+0+0+8 = 68.)
- Security & auth, LibreTranslate +8: LibreTranslate 45 (Model reading of the checklist, with training and retention in place of the least-privilege and injection lines. One API key per hosted plan, sent in the request body, with no scopes or rotation found. A self-hosted server can run keyless or require keys (10 of 30). The hosted privacy policy (last updated 23 September 2025, re-read 4 November) says translation texts aren't stored or logged, so nothing is kept to train on (20). IP addresses and API keys are kept for 2 days against abuse, no text retained (15). No usage log or per-call view found for the hosted plans (0). No SECURITY.md in the repository on 4 November and no disclosure policy or bug bounty found; libretranslate.com security.txt per the 30 September check, not re-read (0). Two VulnCheck CVEs in 2026, both Medium, are in the negative events. Self-hosting under AGPL-3.0 keeps all text on your own network.); Localazy 37 (Bearer tokens in the Authorization header. A project token reaches every endpoint of one project with read and write access; a translation token reaches only the AI Translation endpoint; organisation tokens are in beta on request (20). The translation token is the only least-privilege option, and project tokens can delete keys and glossary items without a confirmation step (10). The API returns strings written by translators and contributors, with no guidance on untrusted content (5). No per-call log or audit trail for tokens found (2). localazy.com/.well-known/security.txt and /security return 404, and we found no disclosure policy or certification (0). 20+10+5+2+0 = 37.)
- Schema & documentation, Localazy +6: LibreTranslate 45 (The Swagger 2.0 document the 1 October check read at libretranslate.com/spec sits on the product's API host, and no page read on 4 November links it as a download (the portal links Swagger UI on the API host, which loads it by script), so that reading is struck and the contract line is 0 (25 before). No llms.txt at docs.libretranslate.com (404 on 4 November) (0). The docs API reference at docs.libretranslate.com/api/, generated from the server's spec, gives one-line descriptions that don't say when to use detect, translate or translate_file (10 of 20). `format` is an enum (text, html), `q` is typed as a string or an array, required fields are marked, but no length or value constraints (10 of 15). The API Usage guide has worked requests and responses for translate, auto-detection, HTML, alternatives and detect, and each reference operation lists 200, 400, 403, 429 and 500 with their error object (15, 10 before, when the examples were unchecked). GitHub releases and tags, no CHANGELOG file (10 of 15).); Localazy 51 (No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found (0). localazy.com/llms.txt is a six-link index of top-level pages, with no Markdown docs for agents (5). Each endpoint page states which token types can call it, whether write permission is needed and the minimum role, and the limits page says to use the CDN, not the API, for production fetches (14). Request bodies list required and optional fields with limits, such as 512 characters for a key and 1,000 for a comment (12). Sample requests, responses and error responses per endpoint (13). Docs pages carry 'last updated' dates and the blog posts dated release updates, but there's no API version or changelog (7). 0+5+14+12+13+7 = 51.)
- Payments & pricing, LibreTranslate +5: LibreTranslate 40 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Flat monthly plans with published limits, $29 Pro and $58 Business, not per-unit pricing (10). No hosted free tier or trial, only a 7-day money-back guarantee (the portal FAQ says no free trial). We depart from the rubric and give the free line for the self-hosted server, which runs the same API free and with no card (20). An agent can `pip install libretranslate` and run a keyless server, but the hosted plans need a person at a Stripe checkout (10 of 20).); Localazy 35 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices are public ($34, $78 and $175 a month billed annually) and credits are $1 each, with Localazy AI at about $0.005 a word on average, so partial per-unit credit (15). A free plan for small projects and a 14-day Business trial with no credit card (20). A person signs up in a browser and mints tokens in the developer settings (0). 0+15+20+0 = 35.)
- Transparency & trust, LibreTranslate +5: LibreTranslate 62 (Open source under AGPL-3.0 (30). The privacy policy, last updated 23 September 2025, says no text is stored or logged, IPs are kept 2 days and no tracking is used, but there are no terms of service or DPA for the hosted API (15 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (0). We found no telemetry in the server code. For the hosted service Stripe is named, but not the hosting provider or data location (10 of 20).); Localazy 57 (Editorial half only. Closed service under terms that name Localazy s.r.o. of Brno and Czech law; the CLI is BSD-3-Clause and the API client MIT (15). The privacy policy keeps data while the service is used and 24 months after, and includes a DPA, but says nothing on whether content sent to Localazy AI is used for training (15). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (0). The DPA links a list of suppliers and subprocessors on an external knowledge base we didn't read (10). 15+15+0+10 = 40.)