Pay for the people who own the work.
Free starts at $0. Studio bills owner and admin seats. Stored keys, words and languages are unmetered; machine translation uses credits, or your own provider key.
Free
- Unlimited keys, languages and words
- Unlimited translator and viewer seats, always free
- 1 project
- 1 owner or admin seat
- 250 AI credits per seat each month
- Bring your own provider key — uses no credits
- CLI, CI gate and API tokens
- Full edit history on every string
Studio
Monthly- Unlimited keys, languages and words
- Unlimited translator and viewer seats, always free
- Unlimited projects
- Unlimited owner and admin seats
- 5,000 AI credits per seat each month
- Bring your own provider key — uses no credits
- CLI, CI gate and API tokens
- Full edit history on every string
Team
On request- Unlimited keys, languages and words
- Unlimited translator and viewer seats, always free
- Unlimited projects
- Unlimited owner and admin seats
- 20,000 AI credits per seat each month
- Bring your own provider key — uses no credits
- CLI, CI gate and API tokens
- Full edit history on every string
Prices shown are in US dollars, excluding applicable tax. Paid subscriptions are billed monthly in advance and renew until cancelled. Checkout shows the currency and total before you pay. An owner can cancel in Settings → Billing; the paid plan continues until the end of the paid period.
Start with a Free workspace. When you need Studio, an owner can open Settings → Billing → Plans to subscribe where checkout is available. Free does not upgrade or charge you automatically. Contact us for Team.
Two of these four cost nothing
Translators are invited and unlimited on every plan, including free.
| Role | Can do | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | Everything, including billing | $19 |
| Admin | Structure, members, providers | $19 |
| Translator | Write and approve translations | $0 |
| Viewer | Read everything, change nothing | $0 |
What a credit is
One credit is one UI string of up to 1,000 characters, machine-translated into one language. Claude and OpenAI cost three credits, because they cost us more and are worth more. Past 1,000 characters a string costs one more credit per 1,000, which almost no interface text ever reaches. Credits reset monthly, and running out never stops you translating by hand, importing, exporting or running QA — it stops the machine, not the team.
You wrote it once. Per-locale word pricing counts it 14 times.
40,000 source words across 14 languages become 560,000 hosted words in a per-locale model. Lingvo does not charge for stored words; machine translation uses credits.
Four things we will not do
- Charge for stored words, languages, or keys.
- Charge for the people doing the translating.
- Bill a free workspace by surprise — free is a hard cap, not an overage.
- Meter the CLI or the API. They are how the product is used.
If we are down, you still ship
Your strings are files in your repository. The only thing Lingvo puts in your pipeline is lingvo pull, which writes those files — nothing at build time asks us for a string. So an outage costs you the translations added since your last pull, and your release goes out with the files you already have.
That is also why there is no status page here. It would be the least useful thing we could show you, because the answer never changes.