Crowdin alternative

A Crowdin alternative, priced on the same workload

Crowdin prices on hosted words: source words times target languages, the same unit Transglot meters. Below is the Crowdin plan that holds a 400,000-word job, its price per translated word, and how to import a Crowdin project.

Prices checked October 29, 2026

3.5× cheaper
Per translated word: $0.0000975 on Transglot, $0.000345 on Crowdin, for the same 400,000-word job.
AI inside the plan price
Crowdin includes translation engines but bills their usage through its Managed Balance; Glossa translation is inside Transglot's plan price.

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Pick Crowdin if this is you

Where Crowdin wins, and the catch.

Each strength comes with the limit attached, and with how Transglot handles the same need.

Crowdin is built for

Developers and open-source projects

Crowdin suits developers, open-source projects and software teams up to mid-size that want unlimited translators and a large community.

The limitPlans scale by hosted words and manager seats: Pro has no manager seats, and Team with 400,000 hosted words and 5 managers is $244 a month.
TransglotTransglot meters the same unit, source words times target languages, with Glossa translation inside it and unlimited seats from Team.

Where Crowdin is ahead

A free plan for public projects

Crowdin Free holds 60,000 hosted words with unlimited public projects, and translators are unlimited on every plan, which suits volunteer translation.

The limitFree covers one private project; private work beyond that starts on Pro at $59 a month.
TransglotTransglot Free is one project with a 100,000-word welcome grant plus 10,000 words each cycle, Glossa translation included, and 3 seats.

Where Crowdin is ahead

An app store of integrations

Crowdin has an app store of integrations, and machine translation engines come with every plan.

The limitEngine usage is paid through the Managed Balance, and over-the-air CDN usage, from Pro up, is billed above 1 million requests.
TransglotTransglot connects through a CLI, a GitHub Action, an API and webhooks rather than an app store, and Glossa translation is inside the word meter.

What each price counts

Crowdin vs Transglot, per translated word.

Both tools priced for the same workload. The per-word figure is the monthly cost divided by the translated words in that workload.

Crowdin vs Transglot,
Figure	TransglotTeam	CrowdinPro with 560K hosted words (billed monthly)
Plan that holds the workload	Team 1,000,000 translated words a month included.	Pro with 560K hosted words (billed monthly) Pro includes 60,000 hosted words. Billed monthly, the next step that holds 400,000 is 560,000 for $79 more. Pro has no manager seats; Team with 400,000 hosted words and 5 managers is $244 a month, or $204 a month billed yearly.
Listed price	$39 a month Launch price for new subscriptions. List price $49 a month.	$59 a month, plus $79 a month for 560,000 hosted words
Monthly cost for this workload	$39 a month	$138 a month
What the price counts	Words per target language Each source word counts once for every language it is translated into.	Words per target language Crowdin calls them hosted words: the words to be translated multiplied by the project's target languages. The source language is not counted on top. This workload is 40,000 source words in 10 target languages: 400,000 hosted words.
Price per translated word	$0.00009753.5× cheaper	$0.000345

Transglot

Team

Plan that holds the workload: Team
1,000,000 translated words a month included.
Listed price: $39 a month
Launch price for new subscriptions. List price $49 a month.
Monthly cost for this workload: $39 a month
What the price counts: Words per target language
Each source word counts once for every language it is translated into.
Price per translated word: $0.00009753.5× cheaper

5,000 strings of 8 words, translated into 10 languages: 400,000 translated words. Prices checked October 29, 2026. Source: Crowdin pricing page

What you work in after the switch

One workspace, from first draft to release.

Real screens from the console, on a demonstration project.

The translation editor filtered to AI drafts waiting for review.

The bilingual translation table with source and target columns.

The glossary with locked and preferred terms across languages.

The quality gate report with findings and scores per language.

Transglot finds new strings on every push and Glossa drafts each language you have configured, inside the plan's word meter.

The source and every language sit side by side in the browser. A reviewer edits a cell and the next pull carries it.

Load the terms that must stay put. They go into every draft and are checked again afterwards.

Placeholders, plurals, glossary and length are checked on every row. A broken placeholder, plural or forbidden term gets one repair, then the row is refused rather than shipped. A length overrun is written, not refused.

Feature by feature

What each tool includes.

Read from each vendor's own product and pricing pages on the check date. Hover a row for the detail behind a partial answer.

What each tool
Feature	Transglot	Crowdin

Capabilities
	Yes	Partly
	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Partly
Translation memory	Yes	Yes
	Yes	Yes
	Partly	Yes
	Yes	Yes

Capabilities

AI translation included in the plan: Yes
Command-line tool: Yes
GitHub integration: Yes
Over-the-air delivery: Yes
In-context editor: Yes
Translation memory: Yes
Glossary: Yes
Automated QA checks: Partly
Free plan: Yes

Your translations come with you

Switch from Crowdin in three steps.

Create a Personal Access Token in Crowdin under Account settings, then API. Each Crowdin project imports as one Transglot project.

Connect Crowdin
Paste a read-only Crowdin token in Settings, then choose Import.
Check what comes across
You see every key and language before anything is written. Your translations stay marked as human-authored.
Run init in your repo
It finds your locale files and shows the word count before anything translates.

Importer guide CLI guide

Crowdin questions, answered.

How much does Crowdin cost?

On October 29, 2026, Crowdin listed Pro from $59 a month, Team from $179 a month and Team+ from $450 a month billed yearly, each with paid steps for more hosted words. Holding 400,000 hosted words on Pro costs $138 a month, which is $0.000345 per translated word.

What are Crowdin hosted words?

Crowdin multiplies the words to be translated by the project's target languages. It is the same unit Transglot meters, so the two per-word figures on this page compare directly.

Is Transglot cheaper than Crowdin?

For the workload on this page, Transglot's Team plan at $39 a month is $0.0000975 per translated word, against $0.000345 on Crowdin: 3.5× cheaper. Crowdin's Free plan hosts 60,000 words in unlimited public projects, which matters for small and open-source projects.

Can I move my Crowdin project to Transglot?

Yes. The importer reads source strings and every language's translations from the Crowdin API with a personal access token, shows a review before anything is written, and keeps existing translations as human-authored.

Before you pick either tool

Why localize at all.

Crowdin and Transglot both assume you have decided to ship in more than one language. This is the published research behind that decision.

40%

In the same 2020 CSA Research survey, 40% of respondents said they will never buy from websites in other languages.

15%

Google Play's case study on the app Koo reports a 15% rise in organic installs in non-English languages, in countries where the national language is not English, after Koo ran custom store listings and listing experiments.

49.5%

W3Techs' survey of website content languages finds English on 49.5% of websites whose language it can identify, followed by Spanish at 6.1%, German at 5.9% and Japanese at 4.9%.

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