Weglot, Lokalise, Crowdin and POEditor alternatives, on one page.
8 tools, ours included. For each one: what it is actually for, which of the others do the same job, and the sentence that tells you to choose it over us.
The short answer
The best translation management software depends on what you are trying to stop doing. Every tool here moves strings out of your codebase, translates them, and hands them back. They differ on what happens around that. If you have a localization department with vendors and approvals, buy the platform built for that department — Phrase, Lokalise or Crowdin. If you cannot run a build step — you paste code into a page or a theme and that is the whole of your control — a proxy-based tool serves an indexable page per language where a script cannot, whatever the platform is called. If you have a build and no localization process, and what you want is for the whole subject to stop needing you, that is the gap BeMyWords was built for.
What each one is for.
Weglot
Choose Weglot if your site is on a hosted platform — Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow — and you need the translated pages to rank, not just to read. Their proxy gives you a real URL per language there and we have deliberately not built one, because it would mean routing your visitors through us. Also choose them for the ecosystem: years of edge cases, a big integration catalog, and a large support team.
Alternatives to Weglot on this page: Localize.js, Lokalise, Crowdin, POEditor and Phrase — and BeMyWords, if you have a build and would rather not run a localization process at all.
DeepL
Choose DeepL when what you need is the translation of a piece of text, not a system that keeps a site's translations current.
Localize.js
Choose Localize if you want a managed enterprise rollout with their services team.
Alternatives to Localize.js on this page: Weglot, Lokalise, Crowdin, POEditor and Phrase — and BeMyWords, if you have a build and would rather not run a localization process at all.
Lokalise
Choose Lokalise if you have a localization department that needs assignment workflows across many vendors.
Alternatives to Lokalise on this page: Weglot, Localize.js, Crowdin, POEditor and Phrase — and BeMyWords, if you have a build and would rather not run a localization process at all.
Crowdin
Choose Crowdin for community/crowd translation projects or marketplace-scale integration needs.
Alternatives to Crowdin on this page: Weglot, Localize.js, Lokalise, POEditor and Phrase — and BeMyWords, if you have a build and would rather not run a localization process at all.
POEditor
Choose POEditor if you want the simplest possible string-file workflow and nothing else.
Alternatives to POEditor on this page: Weglot, Localize.js, Lokalise, Crowdin and Phrase — and BeMyWords, if you have a build and would rather not run a localization process at all.
Phrase
Choose Phrase if you run a localization function — vendors, translators, an approval process — and you need a platform that fits around it.
Alternatives to Phrase on this page: Weglot, Localize.js, Lokalise, Crowdin and POEditor — and BeMyWords, if you have a build and would rather not run a localization process at all.
BeMyWords
Choose BeMyWords if you would rather not run a localization process at all. One owner, no seats, no approval chain, and translations that keep themselves current as the site changes. Four ways in: a script tag, files at build time, the REST API, or an MCP server your AI assistant drives.
Every claim about another company on this page was checked against their public pricing and documentation on 6 August 2026. If something has changed since, tell us and we will correct it.
What does BeMyWords cost?
Free to start: 5,000 words stored, 1 site, no card. Paid tiers start at 199 kr a month, or 1 990 kr for a year. They count the words you store, the original plus each translation of it, and never people, pageviews or a cap on how many languages you run. Bring your own AI key and it is 199 kr a month flat with no word limit.
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Every tier, and what it holds Size your siteShortlists are cheaper to settle by trying one.
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