# Tolgee — Translation & Localization Tolgee by Tolgee s.r.o. holds a panel rating of 3.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-11-02. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined. - Vendor: Tolgee s.r.o. (https://tolgee.io/) - Category: [Translation & Localization](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation.md) - Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made - Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/tolgee - Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/tolgee/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/tolgee/alternatives.md)) - Data as of: 2026-11-06 · evaluated 2026-11-02 · oldest source captured 2026-11-01 **AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology ## At a glance - Vendor: Tolgee s.r.o. - Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026 - Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026 - Free plan: Yes, per the vendor’s own page [S8] ## The panel's verdict Tolgee, an open-source localization platform from Tolgee s.r.o. of Brno, is sold as a cloud service or self-hosted. Its strongest criterion is workflow and review, where scores cluster at 7: a translation memory with similarity suggestions shared across projects, Untranslated/Translated/Reviewed states, severity-configurable QA checks, assignable tasks, and in-context editing that works in production. Content confidentiality, portability and exit, and integrations and formats score 6-7, resting on an Apache 2.0-licensed core with documented self-hosting, export through the UI, CLI and REST API, and a wide software format list. Pricing transparency is the weakest criterion at 5-6: cloud prices are published — Free with 30,000 hosted words, 10,000 MT credits and 3 seats, then Translate €58/mo, Optimise €133/mo and Manage €373/mo billed annually — but the self-hosted licence is tailored and unpriced, Enterprise carries no public price, and judges found no public information on overage handling or extra credit costs. On content confidentiality and sovereignty, both 6-7, judges weighing the open-replay inspection clause and the on-request data processing agreement scored lower than those crediting the no-AI-training statement, named subprocessors and the self-hosted option. **Speaks for it:** - Full review workflow documented, from translation-memory suggestions shared across projects to Reviewed states, severity-configurable QA checks and assignable tasks - Platform core licensed under Apache 2.0, with self-hosting documented and export via UI, CLI and REST API - Free self-hosted edition with unlimited keys and up to 10 seats, upgradeable to a licence without data loss - Published cloud pricing, from a Free tier with 30,000 hosted words, 10,000 MT credits and 3 seats with no card required to word tiers from 50k to 10M in EUR or USD - Stated policy that customer data is not used to train AI models, with machine-translation providers named and switchable off **Held against it:** - Terms reserve the vendor's right to look into user projects via open-replay to improve UX and debug - Data processing agreement available only on request and only to enterprise customers - No published price for the self-hosted licence, based on keys and seats, or for the Enterprise plan - We found no public information on overage handling or the cost of machine-translation credits beyond the free 10,000 - We found no public information on CMS or shop connectors, Git repository sync, or layout-preserving document translation for Word, PDF or InDesign **Best for:** - You build web or mobile apps with React, Angular, Vue, Svelte or Next.js and want in-context editing plus worldwide content delivery without rebuilding the app - You must keep localization content on your own servers — the documented self-hosted edition states the vendor sees no projects, users or logs - Your team runs a review cycle with tasks, QA checks and a translation memory shared across projects - You want machine-translation flexibility: five named engines configurable per language, and bring-your-own API keys when self-hosted **Avoid if:** - Your content is Word, PDF or InDesign documents rather than software strings — the documented formats cover software and tabular files, and we found no public information on layout-preserving document translation - You run a shop or CMS and rely on connectors — the captured integrations pages list Figma, Slack and browser plugins alongside the SDKs, and we found no public information on shop or CMS connectors - Your terms review cannot accept a clause under which the vendor looks into user projects via open-replay to improve UX and debug ## Scores by judge and criterion Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion. | Criterion | The Localization Manager | The App Developer | The In-House Document Translator | The Data Protection Officer | The E-Commerce Marketer | The Skeptic | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Machine translation & AI quality | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | | Translation memory, terminology & review workflow | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | | Integrations, file formats & developer tools | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | | Confidentiality of translated content | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | | Data export, portability & self-hosting | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | | European sovereignty | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | | Pricing transparency | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | | **Weighted verdict** | **3.5/5** | **3.5/5** | **3.5/5** | **3.5/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | ### The judges - **The Localization Manager** (v1.0): Runs localization for a Hamburg software company whose product, help centre and marketing site ship in fourteen languages, with two agencies and a pool of freelancers. Every release brings a few thousand new strings and a deadline. Wants one translation memory and termbase across all content, machine translation that respects the glossary, review steps per language, QA checks that stop a broken placeholder before it ships, and cost and progress per vendor in one view. - **The App Developer** (v1.0): Lead developer of a web app and two mobile apps at a Vienna start-up, with strings in JSON, xcstrings and Android XML. Has hand-merged translation files once and will not do it again. Wants a CLI and a GitHub sync that opens pull requests, over-the-air updates so a typo fix does not need an app store release, an API that does everything the interface does, and ideally an open-source edition they could run themselves if the vendor changes course. - **The In-House Document Translator** (v1.0): Works in the legal and export team of a machine builder in Baden-Württemberg with customers in France, Italy, Poland and China. Translates contracts, operating manuals and supplier correspondence every day, with no translation management system and no wish for one. Needs translations that read like the company wrote them, the company's terms kept through a glossary, Word and PDF files back with their layout intact, and a written promise that a draft contract is not kept or used to train anything. - **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Data protection officer of a health insurer whose staff translate letters to members, HR documents and internal guidelines. Found a free translator in the proxy logs and had to explain to the board what had been pasted into it. Reads the terms before the feature page: how long texts are kept, whether they train a model, which engines and LLM providers a platform passes them to, who the subprocessors are and where, and whether the contract names a European entity. - **The E-Commerce Marketer** (v1.0): Runs marketing for a Shopify shop selling cycling apparel from Munich, live in German and English and due in French, Italian, Dutch and Spanish before the spring season. Has no developer and no translator on staff. Wants product pages, checkout and emails translated in days, a way to fix a bad product name by hand, multilingual SEO that search engines index, and a monthly price that does not double when the catalogue grows. - **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has seen "human quality" on an engine nobody has evaluated in public, "we never store your data" next to a TMS that forwards every segment to three LLM providers, and a translation memory built over six years that could only leave as a spreadsheet. Reads that a product is "enterprise-grade secure" and asks how long the text is kept, which models it reaches, and whether the memory and termbase export as TMX and TBX — and what leaving would cost. ## European sovereignty — proven facts Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined. | Dimension | Finding | Points | Source | |---|---|---|---| | Legal entity | Not determined | — | — | | Hosting location | Not determined | — | — | | Hosting options | Not determined | — | — | | Open source | Not determined | — | — | | Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — | | Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — | ## Key facts Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources). **Compliance** - CCPA no sale: no [S10] - Dependency scanning: Snyk [S11] - DPA: yes · enterprise customers [S11] - Employee access: yes [S11] - Encryption: yes [S11] - Encryption at rest: databases · file storage · backups · yes [S11] - GDPR: yes · yes [S11] - Google API limited use: yes [S10] - ISO 27001: footer link · ISO 27001 [S9] - ISO 27001: yes [S11] - ISO 27001 GDPR: yes · ISO 27001 [S8] - ISO 27001: ISO 27001 [S1] - ISO 27001: yes [S2] - ISO 27001: ISO 27001 listed in footer [S3] - ISO 27001: yes [S4] - ISO 27001: ISO 27001 [S5] - ISO 27001: ISO 27001 · yes [S14] - ISO 27001: yes [S13] - ISO 27001: yes [S12] - ISO 27001: ISO 27001 [S15] - ISO 27001 link: yes [S10] - Logging: yes [S11] - Pentesting: yes [S11] - Selfhosted responsibility: yes [S11] - Subprocessor DPA: yes [S11] - Vulnerability disclosure: security@tolgee.io [S11] **Data** - Account deletion: yes [S10] - AI training: no [S11] - Backup disclaimer: no [S9] - Backups: 7 [S11] - Confidentiality open replay: yes [S9] - Confidentiality survival: 5 [S9] - Deletion: 7 · 7 [S11] - Dnt response: no [S10] - Personal info collected: names, email addresses, usernames, passwords, billing addresses, debit/credit card numbers, phone numbers [S10] - Retention: kept while account is active plus legal retention periods [S10] - Selfhosted license usage: key count · seat count · string count [S11] - Selfhosted telemetry: yes · yes [S11] - Termination deletion: yes [S9] **Hosting** - Certifications encryption: EU · US · ISO 27001 · SOC 2 [S11] - Pricing URL: https://tolgee.io/pricing [S9] - Providers: object storage and transactional emails · compute and databases · Microsoft Azure · AWS [S11] - Self host docker: Docker hub listed in community links [S1] - Server locations: Germany · Czech Republic · United States [S10] **Integrations** - Categories: All, Popular, Web, Mobile, Tools & Plugins, Other [S14] - Chrome plugin: Modify strings rendered with Tolgee SDKs even on production [S14] - Cli: yes [S13] - Cli import export: Import / export via CLI [S1] - CSV xlsx: CSV · XLSX · older XLS import [S5] - Export methods: CLI · REST API · UI [S4] - Figma: Localize in design phase, preview translation in designs [S14] - Figma plugin: Figma plugin [S1] - File formats: JSON · XLIFF · .po (PHP) · .po (C/C++) · Ruby .yaml · .NET RESX · Compose Multiplatform XML [S5] - File import export UI: Import / export your files via UI [S1] - Firefox addon: Plugin for in-context editing of web apps [S14] - Frameworks: React · Angular · Vue · Svelte · Next.js [S5] - I18next plugin: yes [S5] - Listed technologies: React · Angular · Vue · Svelte · Next · Slack integration · Figma plugin · Vanilla JS · REST API · JSON · .po PHP · Apple .strings · Android · Flutter [S1] - Mobile formats: Apple .strings/.stringsdict · Apple XLIFF · Android XML · Flutter .arb [S5] - Other apps: Slack · Figma plugin · Vanilla JS · REST API · JSON · .po PHP · Apple .strings · Android · Flutter [S13] - Plugins: Firefox Add-on · Chrome plugin · Slack integration · Figma plugin [S5] - Rest API: REST API [S1] - Rest API: yes [S5] - Rest API webhooks: yes [S13] - Sdk docs: yes [S3] - Sdks: SDKs [S1] - Slack: Get notified about changes in your project to Slack [S14] - Surface: web SDKs · mobile SDKs · Figma plugin · MCP [S8] - Unreal: yes [S5] **Legal** - Business users only: no [S9] - Comparisons: Lokalise · Crowdin · Phrase · Transifex · Locize · Localazy · POEditor [S1] - Confidentiality survival: 6 · 2 [S9] - Docs: Privacy policy · Terms & conditions · Cookie statement · Information security policy · EE licence [S5] - Effective date: 2025-09-29 [S11] - Entity: Letovická 1421/22, Řečkovice, 621 00 Brno · 09968326 · Czech Republic · Tolgee s.r.o. · Regional Court in Brno, file no. C 121574 [S9] - Entity name: Tolgee s.r.o. [S10] - Governing law: Czech Republic · courts of the Czech Republic [S9] - Ip indemnity: copyrights, excluding Your Data and Third-Party Materials · yes [S9] - Last updated: 2021-09-21 [S10] - Non compete damages: 1000000 · USA and EEA, during term plus 2 years [S9] - Terms version: 2026-10-15 [S9] **Pricing** - Annual discount: 2 months free [S8] - Cloud published: tolgee.io/pricing [S15] - Enterprise features: Enterprise · premium support · SSO · dedicated Slack channel · account manager · team training · prioritized feature requests [S8] - Excess use interest: 0.5 [S9] - Free available: yes · no [S1] - Free plan: 3 · 30000 · 0 · yes [S8] - Free version: yes [S9] - Legacy plans: yes · yes [S9] - Liability cap: lesser of 100% of amounts paid in preceding 12 months or USD 1000 [S9] - Licensed plans: keys · seats · monthly · annual · no [S15] - Manage price: Manage · 373 [S8] - Non refundable: no [S9] - Optimise price: Optimise · 133 [S8] - Payment provider: Stripe · for long-term subscriptions, Enterprise plans, or other individually agreed arrangements [S9] - Self hosted free tier: yes · 10 · via own API keys [S6] - Self hosted licensed features: SSO · granular permissions [S6] - Self hosted trial: 14 · no [S15] - Subscription model: hosted words · MT credits · seats · yes [S9] - Taxes exclusive: no [S9] - Translate price: Translate · 58 [S8] - Unlimited seats: unlimited · unlimited [S8] - Word tiers: EUR · USD · 50k to 10M hosted words [S8] **Product** - Activity log: yes [S7] - Additional context fields: project description · language-specific notes · key descriptions [S2] - Advanced features inactive by default: advanced features included in official binaries, inactive by default, unlocked with license key [S15] - AI features: AI translator & Brand context · Glossaries · AI playground · Branching · Tasks · Granular permissions [S8] - AI playground: yes [S2] - AI translation human review: AI translation with human review of AI-generated translations [S2] - AI translator: AI translator using context · yes [S1] - AI translator: yes [S7] - AI translator: yes [S13] - Auto translation: yes [S7] - Auto translation key creation: yes [S4] - Automatic context collection: yes [S2] - Browser plugin: Browser plugin enables modifying translations, context extraction and screenshots on production [S3] - Browser plugin browsers: Chrome · Firefox [S3] - Chrome plugin: yes [S7] - Cli: yes [S7] - Cloud 2FA: yes · no [S11] - Cloud card handling: no [S11] - Cloud self hosted license separate: yes [S15] - Comments: yes [S7] - Community edition: fully open-source Apache 2.0 version requires removing ee/ directories and building own binaries [S15] - Community translators: coming soon [S4] - Compare pages: Lokalise · Crowdin · Phrase · Transifex · Locize · Localazy · POEditor [S5] - Content delivery: yes [S4] - Context extraction: Automatic context extraction on key creation/update [S3] - Context use: Extracted context used for AI translation [S3] - Contextual AI translation: yes [S2] - Cross platform formats: cross-platform export to supported formats [S13] - Custom llm providers: OpenAI · Anthropic · Google Gemini · yes [S2] - Custom prompts: yes [S2] - Custom translation labels: yes [S12] - Default model gpt4o: GPT-4o shown as model in AI settings/playground UI [S2] - Demo booking: Book a demo [S1] - Deployment versions: Cloud · Self-hosted [S9] - Environment separation: yes [S11] - Framework integrations: React · Angular · Vue · Svelte · Next.js [S13] - Free key limit: unlimited [S15] - Free missing features: SSO · granular permissions · other advanced features [S15] - Free seat limit: 10 · no [S15] - Free support: docs.tolgee.io · no · GitHub Discussions [S15] - Free to licensed upgrade: no [S15] - Glossary term types: non-translatable · case-sensitive [S12] - In context editing: in-context editing · yes [S1] - In context editing: In-context editing, context extraction, one-click screenshots via SDKs [S3] - In context production: yes [S7] - In context sdks: In-context key adding/screenshots via JS SDKs for React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, Svelte [S4] - In context translation: yes [S7] - Installation methods: Docker · Java [S6] - Key assignment tasks: yes [S12] - Languages stack: 0.2 · 43.7 · 0.3 · 0 · 0.3 · 55.5 [S7] - License core: Apache License 2.0 · Tolgee Enterprise Edition (EE) License [S15] - Licensed features: full Tolgee features on own infrastructure [S15] - Llm API policy: yes · yes [S11] - Load balancing providers: yes [S2] - Machine translation configuration: yes · yes · yes [S12] - Machine translation providers: DeepL · Google Translate · AWS Translate · Azure Translator [S7] - Machine translation providers: Tolgee AI Translator · AWS · DeepL · Google Translate · Azure [S12] - Mcp server: Claude Code · Cursor · Codex · yes [S2] - Mcp server: yes [S7] - MFA totp: yes · no [S11] - Min system requirements: 4 · 2 [S6] - Mt credits free: 3 · 10000 · 30000 [S1] - Native sdks: Native SDKs for JavaScript and React, Vue, Angular, Svelte [S3] - Nonprofit pricing: free Optimise plan for open-source projects; special pricing for non-profits [S15] **Subprocessors** - Analytics: EU · EU [S11] - Categories: Data Analytics Services · Payment Processors · Ad Networks · Cloud Computing Services · Communication & Collaboration Tools · Data Storage Service Providers · Performance Monitoring Tools [S10] - Machine translation: yes · ChatGPT · AWS Translate · Google Translate · DeepL [S11] - Payment stripe: yes · Stripe [S11] **Support** - Channels: community Slack · Github discussions · Docs [S1] - Docs: yes [S7] - Licensed self hosted: email · Slack · yes · yes [S15] - Security contact: security@tolgee.io [S11] 41 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/tolgee ## Questions ### Is Tolgee European? Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Tolgee as EU-Made. ### Where does Tolgee store data? Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026. ### Does Tolgee have a free plan? Yes. Tolgee has a free plan, per [the vendor’s page captured 1 Nov 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/14797). ### What are the best alternatives to Tolgee? As of 2 Nov 2026, the panel rates [SimpleLocalize (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/simplelocalize), [LILT (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/lilt) and [Phrase Localization Platform (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/phrase) highest among the other 12 Translation & Localization products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [SimpleLocalize](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/simplelocalize) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Tolgee alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/tolgee/alternatives). ## What this page leaves out - 13 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 9 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 1 compliance fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 1 legal fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 5 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown. ## Sources - [S1] Vendor homepage: https://tolgee.io/ (checked 2026-11-01) - [S2] Features page (AI translation): https://tolgee.io/features/ai-translation (checked 2026-11-01) - [S3] Features page (in-context editing): https://tolgee.io/features/in-context (checked 2026-11-01) - [S4] Features page (localization process): https://tolgee.io/features/localization-process (checked 2026-11-01) - [S5] Integrations page: https://tolgee.io/apps-integrations (checked 2026-11-01) - [S6] Documentation (self-hosting): https://docs.tolgee.io/platform/self_hosting/getting_started (checked 2026-11-01) - [S7] Source code repository: https://github.com/tolgee/tolgee-platform (checked 2026-11-01) - [S8] Pricing page: https://tolgee.io/pricing (checked 2026-11-01) - [S9] Terms of service: https://tolgee.io/terms_and_conditions_2026_10_15 (checked 2026-11-01) - [S10] Privacy policy: https://tolgee.io/privacy-policy (checked 2026-11-01) - [S11] Security / trust page: https://tolgee.io/info-security-policy (checked 2026-11-01) - [S12] Translation memory, terminology & review workflow — found from sitemap: https://tolgee.io/features/translators (checked 2026-11-01) - [S13] Integrations, file formats & developer tools — found from sitemap: https://tolgee.io/apps-integrations/rest-api (checked 2026-11-01) - [S14] Integrations, file formats & developer tools — found from sitemap: https://tolgee.io/apps-integrations/tools (checked 2026-11-01) - [S15] Data export, portability & self-hosting — found from sitemap: https://tolgee.io/pricing/self-hosted (checked 2026-11-01) --- Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Tolgee — Translation & Localization", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-11-06. https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/tolgee Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/1305?target=page