# Lingo.dev vs Phrase (slim)

> Phrase scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Lingo.dev's 62.3 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Lingo.dev leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. Both do translate text. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Phrase scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Lingo.dev's 62.3 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Lingo.dev leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. Both do translate text.

- Lingo.dev: B 62.3, rank #341 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lingo-dev.min.md
- Phrase: B 64.2, rank #285 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/phrase.min.md
- Lingo.dev, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 71 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 70.
- 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 54; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Lingo.dev | Phrase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 71 | 55 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 54 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lingo.dev | Phrase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Replexica, Inc. | Phrase a.s. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.lingo.dev/account` | `https://mcp.eu.phrase.com` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under the Phrase Terms of Service. The CLI, the Strings API clients and the deprecated local MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `dev.lingo/main` | `io.github.phrase/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-07 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-07 | 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 restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 5.4k stars, 92k npm/wk, 2k PyPI/wk | 49 stars, 40k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk |