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How Verbatra compares

Verbatra next to Lingo.dev, Tolgee, Weblate, Crowdin, Lokalise, Phrase and a manual workflow. Every product cell says what the vendor's own pages stated and links its source; the manual column cites note M.

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Ways to keep locale files translated: Verbatra, Lingo.dev, Tolgee, Weblate, Crowdin, Lokalise, Phrase and a manual workflow
CriterionVerbatraLingo.devTolgeeWeblateCrowdinLokalisePhraseManual workflow
Open source, licenseYes, MIT 1Repository Apache-2.0; the current CLI has no license field; the platform is not described as open source 13Apache-2.0 core, enterprise parts under a non-commercial license; CLI MIT 25Yes, GPL-3.0-or-later, the wlc CLI too 37CLI and GitHub Action MIT; no public platform source found 49CLI BSD-3-Clause; no public platform source found 61CLI and setup-cli Action MIT; no public platform source found 73Not applicable, no product M
Self-hostingRuns on your machine and in your CI; there is no hosted service 2No self-hosted platform offering found; the older open source CLI can run against a local Ollama model 14Yes; advanced features need a license 26Yes, or hosted by Weblate 38Unknown: the pricing page names no on-premises option and no statement either way was found 50No: on-premises and private cloud deployments are not supported 62Unknown: the pricing page names no self-hosted option and no statement either way was found 74Not applicable, no product; depends on the service you choose M
Pricing modelFree; your provider bills its usage to you directly 3Usage-based, with a free Sandbox tier 15Free plan; paid tiers priced by hosted words 27Hosted: priced by hosted strings, free Libre plan for public open source projects; self-hosted: free 39Paid plans priced mainly by hosted words; trials; free licenses for open source projects 51Four paid tiers, 14-day trial 63Paid plans metered by seats and words, 14-day trial 75Developer time plus the service you choose, no product M
AI and machine translation providersBuilt in: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepL, Google Cloud Translation, OpenCode Available from 0.12.0, OpenAI-compatible, LibreTranslate Available from 0.12.0 4LLMs from many vendors, among them OpenAI, Anthropic and Google; no classic machine translation engine such as DeepL listed 16Machine translation: DeepL, Google, Amazon, Azure, Baidu (self-hosted only); LLMs: OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI-compatible APIs 2829 built-in services, including DeepL, OpenAI, Anthropic and LibreTranslate 40Machine translation: DeepL, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and more; AI: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and more 52Google Translate and DeepL; LLMs in Pro AI 64Phrase Language AI, Google, Amazon, Microsoft; DeepL removed from Strings on 2026-06-30 76Any service you paste into, no product M
Bring your own API keysYes, from environment variables only 5An Enterprise feature per the pricing page; the older open source CLI uses your own keys 17LLM keys yes; own machine translation keys stated for self-hosted 29Yes, administrators set up each service with their own credentials 41Yes: third-party machine translation engines take your own keys; AI providers use your own key or are managed by Crowdin 53Unknown: not mentioned in the machine translation and AI docs 65Ecosystem engines under your own contract; within Strings not confirmed 77Your own accounts, no product M
Incremental translationYes, a per-key hash in a lock file 6Yes, a lockfile diff in the CLI 18Auto-translates untranslated targets (2.x docs) 30Automatic translation add-on for strings not yet translated 42Pre-translation can be limited to "Untranslated strings" 54Automations and pre-translation fill empty values 66Pre-translation fills empty translations and skips keys that already have one 78By hand, no product M
Command-line tool (CLI)Yes, verbatra 7Yes, @lingo.dev/cli; the older open source CLI lingo.dev is still published 19Yes, @tolgee/cli, MIT 31Yes, wlc 43Yes, Crowdin CLI 55Yes, Lokalise CLI v2 67Yes, Phrase Strings CLI 79Not applicable, no product M
CI and GitHub ActionOfficial Action; check exits 1 on missing or stale keys 8GitHub App; the repository also ships an action.yml 20No official Action found 32Git integration that pushes commits and opens pull requests; no official GitHub Action found 44Official GitHub Action 56Official push and pull GitHub Actions 68CLI in CI; official setup-cli GitHub Action 80Not applicable, no product M
MCP serverYes, local over stdio 9Yes 21Yes 33No official MCP server found 45Yes, hosted 57Yes, hosted, in beta 69Yes, hosted, signed in with a Phrase account 81Not applicable, no product M
In-context editingNo 10Unknown: not mentioned in the platform docs or the repository README 22Yes, Alt-click or Option-click on an element opens the editor 34No official in-context editor found 46Yes, Crowdin In-Context 58Yes, the LiveJS web editor 70Yes, In-Context Editor with official framework adapters 82Not applicable, no product M
Web interface for translatorsLocal review dashboard (Studio); no hosted interface 11Web platform for engine configuration; no official string editor for translators found 23Yes, the web platform, hosted or self-hosted 35Yes, a web translation interface 47Yes, the online editor in the browser 59Project key editor documented; the page does not say it is web-based 71Yes, the Strings Editor in the browser 83The chosen service's own interface, no product M
File formats14 formats, listed in the docs 1218 listed 2417 on the overview page 3650 listed 4817 listed for string-based projects 6030 listed 7247 format entries listed 84Whatever you copy by hand, no product M

Last checked

Verbatra is a CLI and SDK; the other columns are translation platforms and a manual workflow, compared as ways to keep locale files translated. Each cell states what the vendor's own pages said on that date, and "no official ... found" means our search found none, not that the product lacks it.

Lingo.dev cells refer to the current @lingo.dev/cli and the hosted platform unless they name the older open source CLI lingo.dev.

Format counts come from each vendor's own list and are not normalized against each other.

Tolgee, Crowdin, Lokalise and Phrase offer in-context editing, which Verbatra does not. For review, Verbatra has the local Studio dashboard, not a hosted editor for translators. 101134587082

Sources

Every source below was checked on October 15, 2026.

  1. Verbatra: https://github.com/verbatra/verbatra/blob/main/LICENSE
  2. Verbatra: /docs/data-handling
  3. Verbatra: https://github.com/verbatra/verbatra/blob/main/packages/sdk/src/config/provider-billing.ts; /docs/providers
  4. Verbatra: /docs/providers
  5. Verbatra: /docs/providers#keys-come-from-the-environment
  6. Verbatra: /docs/the-lock-file
  7. Verbatra: /docs/cli
  8. Verbatra: /docs/github-action; /docs/ci-and-exit-codes
  9. Verbatra: /docs/cli/mcp
  10. Verbatra: /docs
  11. Verbatra: /docs/review-in-studio
  12. Verbatra: /docs/formats
  13. Lingo.dev: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lingodotdev/lingo.dev/main/LICENSE.md; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lingodotdev/lingo.dev/main/packages/cli/package.json; https://registry.npmjs.org/@lingo.dev%2Fcli/latest; https://lingo.dev/en/docs/platform
  14. Lingo.dev: https://lingo.dev/pricing; https://github.com/lingodotdev/lingo.dev; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lingodotdev/lingo.dev/main/packages/cli/src/cli/localizer/explicit.ts
  15. Lingo.dev: https://lingo.dev/pricing
  16. Lingo.dev: https://lingo.dev/en/docs/platform/llm-models; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lingodotdev/lingo.dev/main/packages/cli/src/cli/localizer/explicit.ts
  17. Lingo.dev: https://lingo.dev/pricing; https://lingo.dev/en/docs/platform/llm-models; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lingodotdev/lingo.dev/main/packages/cli/src/cli/localizer/explicit.ts
  18. Lingo.dev: https://lingo.dev/en/docs/cli; https://lingo.dev/en/docs/cli/ci
  19. Lingo.dev: https://lingo.dev/en/docs/cli
  20. Lingo.dev: https://lingo.dev/en/docs/cli/ci; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lingodotdev/lingo.dev/main/action.yml
  21. Lingo.dev: https://lingo.dev/en/docs/mcp
  22. Lingo.dev: https://lingo.dev/en/docs/platform; https://github.com/lingodotdev/lingo.dev
  23. Lingo.dev: https://lingo.dev/en/docs/platform; https://lingo.dev/en/docs
  24. Lingo.dev: https://lingo.dev/en/docs/cli/formats
  25. Tolgee: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tolgee/tolgee-platform/main/LICENSE; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tolgee/tolgee-platform/main/ee/LICENSE; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tolgee/tolgee-cli/main/LICENSE
  26. Tolgee: https://docs.tolgee.io/platform/self_hosting/licensing; https://github.com/tolgee/tolgee-platform
  27. Tolgee: https://tolgee.io/pricing
  28. Tolgee: https://docs.tolgee.io/platform/translation_process/machine_translation; https://docs.tolgee.io/platform/translation_process/ai_translator
  29. Tolgee: https://docs.tolgee.io/platform/translation_process/ai_translator; https://docs.tolgee.io/platform/projects_and_organizations/llm-providers; https://docs.tolgee.io/platform/translation_process/machine_translation
  30. Tolgee: https://docs.tolgee.io/platform/2.x.x/translation_tools
  31. Tolgee: https://docs.tolgee.io/tolgee-cli/push-pull-strings; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tolgee/tolgee-cli/main/package.json
  32. Tolgee: https://github.com/tolgee; https://docs.tolgee.io/tolgee-cli/push-pull-strings
  33. Tolgee: https://docs.tolgee.io/platform/integrations/mcp_server/about
  34. Tolgee: https://github.com/tolgee/tolgee-platform; https://docs.tolgee.io/js-sdk/in-context
  35. Tolgee: https://github.com/tolgee/tolgee-platform
  36. Tolgee: https://docs.tolgee.io/platform/supported_formats; https://docs.tolgee.io/platform/formats/flat_yaml
  37. Weblate: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/main/pyproject.toml; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/main/LICENSE; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WeblateOrg/wlc/main/pyproject.toml
  38. Weblate: https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/main/README.rst
  39. Weblate: https://weblate.org/en/hosting/
  40. Weblate: https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/machine.html
  41. Weblate: https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/machine.html
  42. Weblate: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/main/weblate/addons/autotranslate.py; https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/addons.html
  43. Weblate: https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/wlc.html
  44. Weblate: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/main/docs/admin/continuous.rst; https://github.com/WeblateOrg
  45. Weblate: https://github.com/WeblateOrg; https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/tree/main/docs
  46. Weblate: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/main/docs/devel/community.rst
  47. Weblate: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/main/docs/user/translating.rst
  48. Weblate: https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/formats.html; https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/tree/main/docs/formats
  49. Crowdin: https://github.com/crowdin/crowdin-cli; https://github.com/crowdin/github-action
  50. Crowdin: https://crowdin.com/pricing
  51. Crowdin: https://crowdin.com/pricing
  52. Crowdin: https://support.crowdin.com/machine-translation/; https://support.crowdin.com/crowdin-ai/
  53. Crowdin: https://support.crowdin.com/machine-translation/; https://support.crowdin.com/crowdin-ai/
  54. Crowdin: https://support.crowdin.com/pre-translation/; https://support.crowdin.com/uploading-files/
  55. Crowdin: https://github.com/crowdin/crowdin-cli
  56. Crowdin: https://github.com/crowdin/github-action
  57. Crowdin: https://support.crowdin.com/developer/crowdin-mcp-server/
  58. Crowdin: https://support.crowdin.com/in-context-localization/
  59. Crowdin: https://support.crowdin.com/online-editor/
  60. Crowdin: https://support.crowdin.com/uploading-files/
  61. Lokalise: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lokalise/lokalise-cli-2-go/master/LICENSE
  62. Lokalise: https://lokalise.com/product/security/
  63. Lokalise: https://lokalise.com/pricing
  64. Lokalise: https://docs.lokalise.com/en/articles/5166158-machine-translation; https://docs.lokalise.com/en/articles/11776521-what-is-standard-ai-mt-and-pro-ai; https://docs.lokalise.com/en/articles/12292275-ai-frequently-asked-questions
  65. Lokalise: https://docs.lokalise.com/en/articles/5166158-machine-translation; https://docs.lokalise.com/en/articles/12292275-ai-frequently-asked-questions
  66. Lokalise: https://docs.lokalise.com/en/articles/5166158-machine-translation; https://developers.lokalise.com/docs/github-actions
  67. Lokalise: https://docs.lokalise.com/en/articles/3401683-lokalise-cli-v2
  68. Lokalise: https://developers.lokalise.com/docs/github-actions
  69. Lokalise: https://docs.lokalise.com/en/articles/13547066-setting-up-and-using-the-lokalise-mcp-server
  70. Lokalise: https://docs.lokalise.com/en/articles/1592525-livejs-web-in-context-editor
  71. Lokalise: https://docs.lokalise.com/en/articles/2059009-key-editor-and-key-actions
  72. Lokalise: https://docs.lokalise.com/en/collections/2909229-supported-file-formats
  73. Phrase: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/phrase/phrase-cli/master/LICENSE; https://github.com/phrase/setup-cli; https://github.com/phrase/react-intl-phraseapp
  74. Phrase: https://phrase.com/pricing/
  75. Phrase: https://phrase.com/pricing/
  76. Phrase: https://support.phrase.com/hc/en-us/articles/5821202515996-Machine-Translation-Strings; https://support.phrase.com/hc/en-us/articles/5709660879516-Phrase-Language-AI
  77. Phrase: https://support.phrase.com/hc/en-us/articles/5709660879516-Phrase-Language-AI
  78. Phrase: https://support.phrase.com/hc/en-us/articles/5822187934364-Pre-translation-Strings
  79. Phrase: https://developers.phrase.com/en/developer-tools/strings-cli
  80. Phrase: https://support.phrase.com/hc/en-us/articles/5822060164508-Continuous-Integration-Strings; https://github.com/phrase/setup-cli
  81. Phrase: https://developers.phrase.com/en/mcp-server
  82. Phrase: https://github.com/phrase/react-intl-phraseapp
  83. Phrase: https://support.phrase.com/hc/en-us/articles/5822638157340-Strings-Editor-Overview
  84. Phrase: https://support.phrase.com/hc/en-us/articles/9652464547740-List-of-Supported-File-Types-Strings

M The manual workflow is not a product, so it has no source: the column describes copying strings into a translation service and back by hand.