Smartcat
$1,200/yr
33% less than Crowdin
Crowdin vs Smartcat
Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side
The comparison in short
- Crowdinhas a free plan
- Smartcathas a free plan
Crowdin
With trade-offs
multi-day
On price, Smartcat wins. If you would rather build it, Crowdin is the simplest to rebuild.
Side-by-side comparison
| APPLICATION | CrowdinLocalization | SmartcatLocalization |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly billing | $179/mo$179Team | $100/mo$100Adapt |
| Per year | $1,800/yrannual plan · −16% | $1,200/yr |
| Billing model | Flat subscription | Usage-based |
| Free tier | Free plan exists, but its current numeric project/hosted-word/manager caps were not exposed in accessible official pricing content | Unlimited users, projects and languages; initial AI balance is 15,000 Smartwords for corporate-email trials (14 days) or 3,000 for non-corporate-email trials (7 days), then AI use needs a top-up or paid plan |
| Additional costs | Price scales with managers and hosted words, where hosted words = source words × target languages; over-limit access can be suspended after a grace period; paid marketplace apps, AI/MT/pro translation credits, managed services, and CDN usage above 1M requests + 10GB are separate. | Smartwords expire at renewal and extra Smartwords are paid; Marketplace commission is 20% on Forever Free and lower on paid plans; AI dubbing consumes 10 Smartwords per word and OCR image translation costs 1,000 Smartwords per image. |
| Can you rebuild it? | With trade-offsmulti-day | Worth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sitting |
| Free alternatives | +1 | |
| Checked on | 08/12/2026 | 10/20/2026 |
| Buy on the official site | Buy View app page | Buy View app page |
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