DeepL
PartialBest-in-class machine translation for European languages
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Lokalise
Visit official siteTranslation collaboration built for engineering teams
Pricing：团队版 $140/月起，免费试用 14 天
Good for
- Teams sharing one resource file across web, iOS, and Android
- Products needing glossaries, MT pre-fill, and translator collaboration
- Engineering-heavy teams with GitHub/GitLab pipelines
Not good for
- Tiny projects with under a hundred strings (manual + DeepL is faster)
- Budget-tight early SaaS (team plan starts at $140/mo)
- Content sites needing a heavy human-review process without technical integration
Integration effort
CLI, GitHub Action, and API. Typical flow: push new keys → Lokalise auto-creates tasks → translations PR back automatically.
KYC and entity
None.
Payouts to China
N/A.
Privacy / compliance notes
SOC 2 and GDPR compliant. Resources are stored in Lokalise cloud.
FAQ
Lokalise vs Crowdin?
Lokalise leans engineering-heavy; Crowdin is more popular in open-source and crowd translation.
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Summary
Lokalise turns i18n resource files (JSON, Strings, ARB) into a collaborative project: developers push keys, translators work in the web app, and translations flow back to the codebase via git.