# Lokalise vs Phrase (slim)

> Lokalise scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Phrase's 64.2 (B), and leads in 4 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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Lokalise scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Phrase's 64.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Phrase leads on schema & documentation. Both do translate text.

- Lokalise: BB 71.3, rank #115 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lokalise.min.md
- Phrase: B 64.2, rank #285 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/phrase.min.md
- 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 55; Security & auth, 73 against 58; Transparency & trust, 81 against 74. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- 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 76.

| Category | Lokalise | Phrase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 84 | 55 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 73 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 84 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 81 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lokalise | Phrase |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Lokalise, Inc. | Phrase a.s. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.lokalise.com/api2` | `https://mcp.eu.phrase.com` |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Lokalise Master Service Agreement. The CLI and the Node SDK on GitHub are BSD 3-Clause | 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 | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-11-01 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-01 | 2026-10-06 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 124 stars, 338k npm/wk, 39k PyPI/wk | 49 stars, 40k npm/wk, 14k PyPI/wk |