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GCrowdin vs Microsoft Translator
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Crowdin if…
- you're in its core audience: software and mobile developers, game studios
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Choose Microsoft Translator if…
- you work on iOS, Android, Windows
- you're in its core audience: travelers, developers
Side by side
Feature Crowdin Microsoft Translator
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price——
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, iOS, Android, Windows, API
CategoryTranslationTranslation
CompanyCrowdinMicrosoft
Based in——
Founded——
Part of——
Key features
C Crowdin
- Online translation editor with translation memory and glossaries
- AI pre-translation, AI proofreading and automatic QA
- Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure AI and 40+ MT engines
- Quality checks for placeholders, length and consistency
- Branch-based translation for parallel releases
- Over-the-air content delivery for mobile apps
- 700+ integrations including GitHub, Figma, Unity
- Support for 100+ file formats
M Microsoft Translator
- Real-time conversation translation
- Multi-device conversation translation
- Offline translation of menus and street signs
- Website and document translation
- Live captioning for classrooms
- Translator API for text and speech
- Custom translation model training and hosting
- Built into Bing and Outlook, with an Outlook add-in
Plans and prices
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Crowdin
CrowdinNot listed
Crowdin EnterpriseNot listed
Open Source / Academic LicenseFree
Microsoft Translator
Free (F0)Free
S1 Pay-as-you-goPer million characters
D3 Custom volume$40 per million characters
Strengths and limitations
Crowdin
- Free licenses for open source and academic projects
- Trials available: 14 days for Crowdin, 30 days for Enterprise
- Paid plans include unlimited translators and proofreaders
- 700+ integrations and 100+ file formats
- Exact plan prices are not shown on the pricing page text
- Enterprise is billed annually only
- Hosted word limits count each target language separately
Microsoft Translator
- API free tier includes 2 million characters a month
- Apps for Android, iOS and Windows
- Custom model training is capped at $300 per run
- Built into Bing and Outlook
- S1 pay-as-you-go rates did not display on the pricing page we fetched
- Business API use requires an Azure subscription
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Built from each vendor's public website; we haven't tested them hands-on. Editorial policy