GCrowdin vs Phrase
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Crowdin if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you're in its core audience: software and mobile developers, game studios
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Choose Phrase if…
- you're in its core audience: localization managers, software developers
Side by side
Feature Crowdin Phrase
Pricing modelFreemiumFree trial
Starting price—$27/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your content—Yes
Data retention—Deleted within 60 days after customer deletes content or agreement ends
Security and compliance—GDPR
Glossaries—
Translation memory—
AI quality scoring—
Repo & design integrations—
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CategoryTranslationTranslation
CompanyCrowdinPhrase a.s.
Based in—Czech Republic
Founded—2010
Part of—Phrase Group Holding s.r.o.
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
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Phrase
- Translation management system with custom workflows
- AI translation with machine translation engine selection
- Translation quality scoring and language quality assessment
- Software localization with in-context visual editor
- Subtitles and dubbing for multimedia content
- Phrase Atlas conversational assistant for projects and reports
- APIs, webhooks, MCP server and CLI
- Integrations with GitHub, Figma, Contentful, Slack
Plans and prices
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Crowdin
CrowdinNot listed
Crowdin EnterpriseNot listed
Open Source / Academic LicenseFree
Phrase
Freelancer27/mo billed annually
Professional525/mo billed annually
Software UI/UX525/mo billed annually
Team1,245/mo billed annually
BusinessCustom
EnterpriseCustom
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
Phrase
- 14-day free trial on all plans with no automatic charge
- Freelancer plan starts at 27/month billed annually
- Developer tools include APIs, webhooks, MCP server and CLI
- 24/7 customer support on all plans
- Team and Professional plans start at 525–1,245/month
- Listed prices apply only to annual billing
- Business and Enterprise pricing requires contacting sales
- No free plan
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