How is billing calculated?
Every plan includes a monthly amount of translation credit, and translation is metered against it per job. Nothing is
billed by seat, by language, or by the size of your repository.
What each plan includes
- Starter — €20/month with €20 of translation credit included every month
- Team — €249/month with €200 of translation credit included every month, plus team features
- Indie — €5/month with no included credit; all translation is billed as usage at the same rate
- Trial — every new account starts with €5 of credit, no card required, valid for 14 days
What a job costs
A job translates your new or changed strings into each target language and runs an AI quality review on every language.
Both steps are metered and both come out of your credit.
As a guide, translation costs about €0.10 per 1,000 translated words, quality review included. Worked example from our
own repository (24 August 2026): 158 keys into four languages — 3,796 translated words — cost €0.35 including quality
review.
A typical small app with a few hundred UI strings translated into three or four languages fits comfortably inside
Starter's monthly credit.
What counts toward the bill (and what "character" means)
We don't meter characters, keys, seats or repositories. A job uses credit for the model work it does: one translation
pass and one quality-review pass per target language. So the cost follows how much text gets translated, and into how
many languages.
- Counted: new or changed source text, once for every target language it's translated into. 1,000 words translated
into three languages counts as 3,000 translated words.
- Not counted on its own: your source text. You never pay for the English (or other source) copy itself, only for its
translations.
If you think in characters, as older pricing pages did: about €0.015 per 1,000 translated characters, and 1,000
characters is roughly 150 English words.
What a typical project costs
Estimates at €0.10 per 1,000 translated words, before translation-memory savings. The first run translates everything
that already exists, so it is the biggest bill; after that you only pay for what changes. Very small jobs cost a little
more per word, because each pass has a fixed overhead.
| Project | First run | A typical month after | |---|---|---| | Small app: 500 strings (about 3,000 words) into 3
languages | 9,000 words ≈ €0.90 | 300 changed words, 900 translated ≈ €0.10–0.20 | | Mid-size product: 3,000 strings
(about 20,000 words) into 8 languages | 160,000 words ≈ €16 | 10% changes ≈ €1.60 | | Large product: 15,000 strings
(about 100,000 words) into 20 languages | 2,000,000 words ≈ €200 | 10% changes ≈ €20 |
Adding a language later works like a first run for that language: the whole existing catalogue is translated once.
Which plan do I need?
- Indie (€5/month + usage) is cheapest while you translate less than about €15 a month, roughly 150,000 translated
words.
- Starter (€20/month, €20 of credit included) costs less than Indie once your translation goes past about €15 a month.
- Team (€249/month, €200 of credit included) is for organisations that want personal onboarding and the team features
as they ship. On translation cost alone it only beats Starter above about €249 a month. See "Using globalize.now as
a team".
No plan charges for seats, repositories or languages.
What you are never billed for
- Source-language strings, code, config and markup we read but don't translate
- Strings that match your translation memory — they are never billed again, so repeat runs on the same project cost
less
- Locale-file entries you edited by hand
- Seats, languages, or repositories
When credit runs out
Translations pause and you'll see exactly why, in the app and in the pull request. Nothing is deleted and nothing breaks
at runtime. Add a card or upgrade to continue.
Viewing your usage
Your credit balance and a per-job transaction history are in Settings → Billing. Each job expands to show the
translation and quality-review passes per language and what each one cost.
