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locoloop vs Phrase: for teams without a localization department

Phrase is built for organisations where localization is a function with owners, process and budget. If that describes you, it is a serious tool. locoloop is built for the other case: a product team that has to ship five languages and does not want a department to do it.

LOCOLOOP One product, many clients Variants inherit, they do not fork Reviewers and viewers cost nothing Set up from a CI job, not a call EU hosted, one region, no options PHRASE Localization as a department A bigger surface than we have, and a real answer if that surface is what the job needs. Neither column is a criticism. They are different products for different weeks.
Choose locoloop

Nobody at your company has “localization” in their job title. You want the engineering integration to be one CI job, the review to be a colleague who speaks the language, and the bill to scale with editors rather than headcount.

Choose Phrase

You run translation as a managed process with vendors, TMs and quality programmes; you need enterprise procurement, certification and support to match; or your content is far wider than the strings in an application.

Where we genuinely differ

Set-up is an afternoon, not a project

Create a workspace, import your English file, mint an API key, paste a CI job. There is no implementation phase and no call in the way — the whole integration is on one page.

AI on your own key

On the Business plan you connect your own Anthropic, OpenAI or DeepL key, and your text is processed under your own agreement with that provider rather than ours. That matters more to a legal review than most feature lists do.

The history is per cell

Every translation carries its own trail — import, AI, human, API, revert — with a one-click revert and an actor on every entry. What that looks like.

We are smaller

Stated plainly, because it is the real trade: fewer integrations, no translator marketplace, no certifications held today, one hosting region. If any of those is a requirement, Phrase is the better answer and we would rather you found that out here.

We do not reprint other vendors' prices or limits here. They change, and a number that quietly goes stale on a page like this is worse than no number. Everything below is either a statement about locoloop, which you can hold us to, or a description of how the other product is designed, which their own site describes better than we can. Phrase’s own pricing page is the authority on theirs.

Try it against your own strings, not our page

Import a file, translate a locale, decide in an afternoon. Free while you are evaluating.

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