Priced like a developer tool, not like a TMS.

Name: globalize.now
Brand: globalize.now
Price: 5 EUR
Availability: InStock

€5 a month for a side project, €20 for a solo developer, €249 for the organisation. You pay for what you translate, nothing else.

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€5 of translation credit, no card — enough to translate one whole project.

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Indie

A side project or low-traffic app

€5/month

Pay for what you translate — no volume included
Every push translated automatically
No limit on repos or languages. Pay only for what you translate.

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Starter

Team

Organisations with more than one person in the loop

€249/month

€200 of translation credit every month, everything in Starter, plus team features

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What the same job costs elsewhere

Phrase's cheapest plan that includes a TMS: $1,245/month, billed annually.

Lokalise Advanced: $999/month. Transifex Growth: from $236/month, with a 30-collaborator minimum.

Every one of them charges by the seat, the word, or both.

Prices from each vendor's public pricing page, checked 7 August 2026.

What this costs in keys and seats

Most of this category prices by translation key and by seat. We price by what you actually translate, which is a different shape and harder to put side by side — so here is the same thing in their units, at 5 target languages.

Monthly cost by translation-key count at 5 target languages, ours beside the only competitor that publishes a key-based price.
Translation keys	Tolgee	Seats included	globalize.now
500 keys	€0 — Free	3	€6.50 — Indie
2,000 keys	€49 — Team	4	€11.00 — Indie
5,000 keys	€179 — Business	8	€20.00 — Indie
20,000 keys	€499 — Advanced	20	€60.00 — Starter

Read the two columns differently. Their price is a subscription you pay every month to keep the platform. Ours is what it costs to translate that many keys into 5 languages the first time — after that you are billed only on keys that changed, which is usually a fraction of the total.

The seats column has no globalize.now entry because we have no seat model. Everyone on your team can use every plan at no extra cost.

Tolgee is the only vendor in this category that publishes a price against a key count. Lokalise, Phrase and Transifex price on words, seats, or both, so no honest key-based figure exists for them.

A key is assumed to hold 40 characters of source text — the conservative middle of our own catalogues, where the median string is 31 characters and the mean is 62. Competitor prices are their published annual-billing cloud tiers, checked 26 August 2026.

What's included

Every row is either live today or marked as coming. Nothing here is gated behind a sales call.

Feature	Trial	Indie	Starter	Team
Translation
Included translation volume	€5 of credit	None — pure usage	€20 of credit (about 200,000 words)	Everything in Starter
50+ languages, RTL included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Unlimited languages	Included	Included	Included	Included
Context-aware AI glossary	Included	Included	Included	Included
Translation memory included on every plan	Included	Included	Included	Included
Published usage rate (about €0.10 per 1,000 translated words)	Included	Included	Included	Included
Your codebase
Locale files land in your repo — you own them	Included	Included	Included	Included
Every push to main opens a translation PR	Included	Included	Included	Included
Detects existing next-intl, react-i18next, i18next and Lingui setups	Included	Included	Included	Included
Next.js, React and Vite	Included	Included	Included	Included
CLI, API and Git sync	Included	Included	Included	Included
GitHub and GitLab	Included	Included	Included	Included
Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, VS Code and Lovable	Included	Included	Included	Included
Organisation
No per-seat pricing	Included	Included	Included	Included
SSO / SAML	Not included	Not included	Not included	Coming
Roles and permissions	Not included	Not included	Not included	Coming
Support
Priority support	Included	Included	Included	Included

Translation

Included translation volume

Trial: €5 of credit
Indie: None — pure usage
Starter: €20 of credit (about 200,000 words)
Team: Everything in Starter

50+ languages, RTL included

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

Unlimited languages

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

Context-aware AI glossary

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

Translation memory included on every plan

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

Published usage rate (about €0.10 per 1,000 translated words)

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

Your codebase

Locale files land in your repo — you own them

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

Every push to main opens a translation PR

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

Detects existing next-intl, react-i18next, i18next and Lingui setups

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

Next.js, React and Vite

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

CLI, API and Git sync

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

GitHub and GitLab

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, VS Code and Lovable

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

Organisation

No per-seat pricing

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

SSO / SAML

Trial: Not included
Indie: Not included
Starter: Not included
Team: Coming

Roles and permissions

Trial: Not included
Indie: Not included
Starter: Not included
Team: Coming

Support

Priority support

Trial: Included
Indie: Included
Starter: Included
Team: Included

How billing actually works

You pay for characters we translate, not code we read.

We scan the repo for free. You're billed only on text that actually gets translated into a target language.

A character is a character.

1,000 characters is roughly 150 words of English. One string translated into 5 languages counts 5 times, because it's 5 translations.

You're never billed twice for the same string.

Translation memory means unchanged text costs nothing on the next push. Your bill tracks new and changed text, which is why it drops after the first run.

Every limit is visible in the app.

Credit remaining, trial days left, and a plain-English reason if something stops — no silent failures.

Estimate your monthly cost

Words in your app

Plan

Target languages

325,000 characters a month

Base plan: €20.00
Translation usage: €0.00
Estimated monthly cost: €20.00

After the first run, you're typically billed only on what changed — usually 5–15% of this.

Assumes 6.5 characters per word and about €0.10 per 1,000 translated words, quality review included. Starter's €20 of monthly credit covers the first 1,333,333 characters.

Pricing questions

What counts as a translated character?

Every character of text we translate into a target language, quality review included. Source code, config and markup we read but don't translate are free, and translation-memory matches are never billed again. 1,000 characters is roughly 150 English words.

What happens when my €5 credit runs out?

Translations stop and you'll see exactly why, in the app and in the pull request. Add a card to keep going — nothing is deleted and nothing breaks silently.

What happens after the 14-day trial?

Your account stays, your locale files stay in your repo, and translation is limited until you're on a paid plan.

Do I need to give a card to start?

No. €5 of translation credit and no card. The credit is good for 14 days.

Is there a seat charge for my teammates?

No. We don't price on seats. Bring the whole team on any plan.

What's the difference between Indie and Starter?

Indie is a low base fee where all translation is billed as usage, which works out best under occasional use. Starter includes €20 of translation credit every month and works out cheaper once you're shipping regularly.

What's the difference between Starter and Team?

Starter is for one developer shipping their own product. Team is for an organisation where more than one person touches the languages — review, control, and the features that only matter once there's a group. See the table above.

Do I need both globalize.now and an i18n library like i18next?

Yes. globalize.now is infrastructure: it scans repositories, normalizes literals, and emits the locale bundles your process already versions in Git. Runtime libraries such as i18next, next-intl, or react-intl answer how browsers and servers load, pluralize, and swap messages at request time. The two layers stack cleanly—configure the runtime once, let globalize.now keep translations in sync on every Git push so collaborators always edit structured locale data instead of fragile JSX. See how globalize.now handles idioms, plurals, and RTL →

Can I use my own translation vendor for review?

Yes. Translations live as locale files in your repo, so any reviewer or agency can work on them in your normal pull-request flow.

What happens to my translations if I stop paying?

They're in your repo. You keep every one of them. Nothing is held hostage in our database.

Do you have SSO or SOC 2?

SSO is on the Team roadmap. SOC 2 is on our roadmap for Q1 2027; we don't hold it today and won't imply otherwise.

Questions about formats, security, teams or switching tools? See the full FAQ →

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