Shipglot and Lokalise compared
What Lokalise includes on each plan, what it costs at 2,000 to 40,000 keys, and when it is the better choice. Lokalise figures are from https://lokalise.com/pricing/ as of 2026-09-23.
Shipglot's hosted service is not open yet. The open-source QA gate works today. The Shipglot column describes the plan as published for launch, not a service you can buy now.
Monthly price by project size
| Source keys | Shipglot | Lokalise | How the figure is reached |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,000 | $12 | $379 | Growth, 211,200 words in the first year |
| 5,000 | $29 | $1,049 | Advanced, 528,000 words in the first year |
| 15,000 | $69 | Custom | Enterprise or Business, 1,584,000 words in the first year |
| 40,000 | $129 | Custom | Enterprise or Business, 4,224,000 words in the first year |
Processed words in the first year = keys × words per key × target languages × (1 + 12 × share of keys changed each month); the cheapest plan whose seats and word allowance cover it.
Assumptions:
- 8 target languages, 6 seats (developers and managers), 6 words per key, 10% of keys changed each month.
- Euro prices converted at €1 = $1.10.
- Monthly billing for Shipglot; competitor prices as published, which may assume annual billing where the competitor only shows annual prices.
- "Custom" means no published plan covers the project.
Try other numbers with the Shipglot price calculator.
How each one charges
| Product | What is metered |
|---|---|
| Lokalise | Advanced (manager and developer) seats and processed words per year. Translator and reviewer seats are unlimited. |
| Shipglot | Source keys only, counted as the month's peak across all projects. Languages, seats, projects and features are unlimited; AI translation is included. |
What each plan includes
For Lokalise, the cheapest plan that includes the feature, as stated on its pricing page. "Not stated" means the page did not say.
| Feature | Lokalise | Shipglot |
|---|---|---|
| QA checks (placeholders, ICU, plurals, tags) | Not stated | Every plan. The open-source gate runs them today with no account. |
| Glossary and translation memory | All plans | Every plan, at launch |
| Webhooks and API | Not stated | Every plan, at launch |
| Branches and versions | Not stated | Every plan, at launch (follows git branches) |
| Roles and permissions | All plans | Every plan, at launch |
| SSO / SAML | Not stated | Every plan, at launch |
| Audit log | Not stated | Every plan, at launch |
| Reviewer workflow | Not stated | Every plan, at launch |
| Over-the-air / CDN delivery | Not stated | Every plan, at launch (fair use: 1M requests a month) |
| AI translation | All plans (DeepL, Google, GPT-4o, Claude) | Included at launch: one full retranslation a month; prepaid credits beyond that |
| Seats | Basic seats unlimited; advanced seats capped 5/10/15/40 | Unlimited on every plan, at launch |
| File formats | Not stated on the pricing page | 13 formats on every plan. The open-source gate reads all 13 today. |
| Human translator marketplace | Yes, from $0.07 a word ($10 minimum); plan not stated | Not offered |
| Figma plugin | Yes; plan not stated | Not offered |
| Self-hosted platform | Not offered | Not offered (the QA gate runs anywhere) |
| In-context editor | All plans | Not offered |
Lokalise plans as published
| Plan | Price | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Explorer | $149/mo | 5 advanced seats (max 10), 60,000 processed words a year |
| Growth | $379/mo | 10 advanced seats (max 15), 225,000 processed words a year (unverified: 300,000 on lokalise.com) |
| Advanced | $1,049/mo | 15 advanced seats, 1,000,000 processed words a year |
| Enterprise | Custom | 40 advanced seats, 3,000,000 processed words a year |
Currency: USD. Source: https://lokalise.com/pricing/, as of 2026-09-23.
Unverified figures
- The Growth word allowance differs between docs.lokalise.com (225,000 a year) and lokalise.com (300,000 a year). The calculator uses 225,000.
- The pricing page renders limits with a slider; the figures come from docs.lokalise.com. There is no free plan.
When Lokalise is the better choice
Lokalise is the better choice for a company that wants an established platform with a design workflow (it has a Figma plugin), human translation ordered from the same tool, and unlimited translator and reviewer seats. If your procurement team needs a vendor with a long track record and enterprise contracts, Lokalise has that and Shipglot does not yet.
Sources
- Lokalise pricing, fetched 2026-09-23.
- Shipglot's published price bands: pricing.
Prices change. If a figure here is out of date, the competitor's pricing page is authoritative.