WebTranslateIt vs Localazy

This is the closest comparison in our cluster, and the one where we win least. Localazy counts a source key once, however many languages you translate it into — exactly what a segment means here — so the argument that separates us from most of this category is not available against them. They also include unlimited seats on every plan, price in finer steps than we do, and run on European infrastructure owned by a European company.

We would rather set that out properly than write a page that pretends otherwise. There is a band where we are clearly the cheaper choice, and it is narrower than we would like.

Pricing and features below were checked on 11 September 2026 against localazy.com/pricing and our own pricing page. Both products change; verify before deciding.

Where we agree#

Their pricing FAQ answers the question this cluster usually turns on, and answers it the same way we do:

Translations to other languages are unlimited, and translating your project to more languages does not affect the number of source keys used. I.e., the content of one source key translated into 10 languages still counts as one source key.

A source segment here works identically — one string in your source file, with translations never counted. So the twentieth language is free on both platforms, and anyone comparing us should ignore language arithmetic entirely.

Worth noting alongside that: their definition explicitly allows a source key to be long — “a short blog article written in Markdown syntax” is one key. Per-key pricing is length-blind on both sides, which is the material difference from per-word pricing and the reason that whole model fits software badly.

One clarification, because the pricing page invites a misreading. Localazy’s plan cards show a word figure beside the key figure, and the row it belongs to is labelled in-context AI translations. It is an allowance for that feature, not a second cap on how much content you may store. The figures also move with the billing period — 12,000, 32,000 and 68,000 on annual billing against 1,200, 3,200 and 6,800 on monthly — which is what a renewing allowance looks like and not what a storage limit looks like. If it were a cap on your project, switching billing frequency would not change it. Translation credits are a separate axis again, renewing each month and purchasable on top.

The pricing, honestly#

The headline plans are Professional, Autopilot and Business, but each one sells several capacity steps, and those intermediate steps are where the real comparison happens. Taken from their published prices, billed annually:

Ours, billed annually: Micro free at 500 segments, €780/year for 5,000, €1,980 for 10,000, €3,984 for 50,000 — €65, €165 and €332 a month, with 10, 50 and unlimited users. Monthly billing is €79, €199 and €399.

What that means project by project#

Read the pattern rather than any single row. We are clearly cheaper in one band — roughly 3,000 to 5,000 source keys — because our entry plan holds 5,000 segments for €780 while their equivalent step is $1,248. Below about 2,500 keys they are cheaper, because our entry plan is the same €780 whether you use 500 segments of it or 5,000. Around 7,500 they are cheaper again, because our Starter runs out at 5,000 and Premium is a large step up. At 10,000 and 50,000 the two are level. Above 50,000 they publish a price and we do not.

Their granularity is genuinely better than ours and it is worth saying plainly. Ten paid steps against our three means you buy closer to what you need. The flip side is the only structural advantage we have here: because our steps are wide, a project anywhere between about 3,000 and 5,000 segments pays the same €780 that a 500-segment project pays, and in that band the wide step works in your favour rather than theirs.

The second difference: seats#

Localazy includes unlimited seats on every plan, including the free one. We include 10 users on Starter, 50 on Premium and unlimited on Enterprise.

That is a straightforward advantage for them. If fifteen people need to open the tool and you hold 1,500 source keys, Localazy costs $516 a year and admits all of them; we would move you to Premium at €1,980 for user count alone. Anyone running community translation, or a product team where a dozen people touch copy occasionally, should weigh that heavily.

It also removes the quiet cost of seat-limited tooling, which is under-provisioning access. A reviewer who cannot get in is a bottleneck you pay for in release time rather than on the invoice. Our plans create that pressure twice, at ten users and at fifty. Theirs never do.

Where Localazy is genuinely better#

A comparison page that finds no advantages in the competitor is marketing, not information. There are more here than on any other page in this cluster.

Unlimited seats, on every plan. The strongest thing on their side, and unmatched by us below Enterprise.

Finer pricing steps. Ten paid capacity points against our three, so you buy closer to what you actually need.

Published capacity above ours. Their Business plan runs to 100,000 source keys with a price on the page. Ours stops at 50,000.

Over-the-air and CDN delivery. Translations pushed to users without shipping a release. We export into your build; they will also serve the result. For mobile apps that is a real capability we do not have.

Human translation services in the platform. Professional translation, human review of AI output, or human-assisted machine translation, ordered without leaving the tool. We have no equivalent — you bring your own translators or agency.

Vendor-level certification claims. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 asserted on their own behalf rather than inherited from a host.

Duplicate management and project branching on the upper tiers.

If your shape is a wide team, a mobile app, a very small project or a very large one, Localazy is the better buy and you should take it.

Where WebTranslateIt fits better#

The 3,000-to-5,000 band. Narrow, but a common place for a mid-sized application to sit, and worth roughly a third off.

File format breadth. We parse 80+ formats. If your awkward file is a .resx, a .strings, a .po, a .ts or something older, test both against your real files — this is more likely to decide the outcome than price.

Machine translation included rather than bought. Google, Microsoft, Gemini and Mistral on every plan under a fair-use character quota, with no credit balance to watch and no top-up to forget. Theirs is credit-metered and the credits included with a subscription renew monthly.

Fewer moving parts. One number for capacity, users included, no credits and no usage-based delivery line. Whether that is a feature depends on whether you want the things the other lines buy.

Longevity and independence. Running since 2008, independently owned, with no acquisition roadmap and no history of pricing being restructured after an investment round.

Data sovereignty#

This is not a differentiator between these two, and it would be dishonest to present it as one. It is unusual in this category, so it is worth setting out rather than skipping.

• Localazy s.r.o. is a Czech company, registered office Mlýnská 326/13, Brno, company ID 09050451. Their terms are governed by the laws of the Czech Republic with exclusive jurisdiction in Czech courts.
• WebTranslateIt Software S.L. is incorporated in Spain.

Both clear the contracting layer, and neither has a US entity in the chain. On the layer most vendors skip, they clear that too: their data processing agreement names Scaleway as the host, and public DNS confirms it — app.localazy.com and api.localazy.com resolve directly to a Scaleway instance in Paris, unproxied. Cloudflare fronts their marketing site and CDN, not the application.

That makes Localazy and WebTranslateIt the only two platforms in this cluster where no US-controlled entity appears at either the contracting or the infrastructure layer. POEditor is the near miss — genuinely European servers, but a US operator — and the rest are on AWS or Azure, where the CLOUD Act reaches the provider regardless of region:

A provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service shall comply with the obligations of this chapter to preserve, backup, or disclose the contents of a wire or electronic communication and any record or other information pertaining to a customer or subscriber within such provider’s possession, custody, or control, regardless of whether such communication, record, or other information is located within or outside of the United States.

— 18 U.S.C. § 2713, as amended by the CLOUD Act

We run on Hetzner, a German provider independently audited to ISO 27001 and ISO 9001; they run on Scaleway, a French one. If EU sovereignty is your requirement, both of us meet it at both layers, and the question should not decide between us.

Two places they are ahead of us on assurance rather than jurisdiction: Localazy publishes ISO 27001 and SOC 2 claims at the vendor level, where we rely on our hosting provider’s audits. Neither of us publishes a certificate number, so treat both as claims to verify during procurement rather than as settled facts.

Feature comparison#

Feature grids flatter whoever writes them. This one has more ticks in the right-hand column than anywhere else in this cluster, and we have left them there.

How to actually decide#

Count your source keys first. Export your source locale and count the entries in it. With ten paid capacity steps on their side and three on ours, a guess will mislead you, and this number decides most of the price question.

Then count the people. If it is more than ten, their unlimited seats probably outweigh the key arithmetic entirely.

Ignore the language count. Neither of us charges for it. If a third platform joins your shortlist, that is the first thing to check about it.

Test with your real files. This is where we would place the weight. Not a sample — your actual language files, including the awkward format. How each platform round-trips your placeholders and plural forms is what you live with daily, and it is the difference most likely to matter after a year. Both offer free trials; theirs is 14 days, ours 15.

Check the export path before you commit. Translation memory as TMX, terminology, translations in their original formats. This applies to us as much as to anyone.

The short version#

Localazy counts source keys the way we count segments, includes unlimited seats on every plan, prices in finer steps than we do, publishes capacity above ours, and is an EU company on EU-owned infrastructure. On the things this cluster usually argues about, they are our closest analogue and in several places they are simply ahead.

We are clearly cheaper in one band — about 3,000 to 5,000 source segments — parse more file formats, and include machine translation rather than metering it.

Choose Localazy if your team is wide, your project is very small or very large, or you need over-the-air delivery. Choose us if you sit in that middle band, or if your files are the awkward part of your localization problem. On sovereignty, neither of us should decide it — we both pass at both layers, which is more than the rest of this category can say.