Pricing

Plans

Which plan is cheapest for me?

What is the effective price per million characters?

Pro pays off above about 760,000 characters a month; Team beats Pro above about 2.36 million. Translations run on OpenAI gpt-4.1-mini with OpenAI gpt-4o-mini as an automatic fallback, on our servers; you never need your own key. Prices exclude VAT.

Pricing questions

What is Loomlocale?

A hosted translation service for Next.js apps. You write strings in one language; Loomlocale translates them into the languages you choose and keeps them in sync, from one command.

How much does Loomlocale cost?

Prepaid credits cost £25 per 1 million translated characters with no monthly fee: top up £5, £10, £25, £50 or any amount from £5. Free includes a one-time 50,000 characters per organisation: add a card to claim them, with no charge (it does not reset monthly), then it draws on credit. Pro is £19/month with 1 million included (then £22 per million) and Team is £49/month with 3 million included (then £20 per million), so subscriptions are cheaper per character.

Is a subscription cheaper than prepaid credits?

Yes, once you use more than about 760,000 characters a month. Pro works out at £19 per million and Team at £16.33 per million when the allowance is used, against £25 with prepaid credit.

How do prepaid credits work?

You buy credit once with Stripe; there are no automatic top-ups. When a job is queued its estimated cost is held from your balance, the actual cost is taken when it finishes and anything unused goes back. If your balance is too low the job is refused before it runs, with a link to top up.

Does the free allowance reset every month?

No. Every new workspace can claim 50,000 free characters once, by adding a card (no charge; one claim per card). They never reset or top up; after they are used, translation draws on prepaid credit at £25 per million. Pro and Team include an allowance that resets each month.

Why do I need to add a card for the free characters?

Adding a card (no charge) unlocks the one-time 50,000 free characters and stops the allowance being claimed over and over with throwaway accounts. Each card can claim it once. Nothing is charged unless you buy prepaid credit or subscribe.

Does credit expire?

Yes. Each purchase expires 12 months after you buy it, and the oldest credit is always used first. The billing page shows every purchase's expiry date and flags credit expiring within 30 days.

How do I translate a Next.js app?

Run npx next-tongue in your project. It detects your locale files, signs you in, lets you pick languages, shows the cost and writes the translated files.

What counts as a character?

Each source character sent for translation, multiplied by the number of target languages. Unchanged keys and cached strings are not billed.

Does it retranslate everything when I change a string?

No. tongue update compares hashes and only translates new or changed keys; deleted keys are removed.

Which translation engine does Loomlocale use?

OpenAI gpt-4.1-mini with OpenAI gpt-4o-mini as an automatic fallback, run on Loomlocale's servers. You don't need your own API key.

Will it break ICU placeholders and plurals?

No. Placeholders, plural and select branches and rich tags are masked before translation and validated afterwards; failures go to review, not to your files.

Can I edit translations in a web app?

Yes. Edits made in the dashboard are pulled into your repo on the next tongue update or tongue pull, with conflict handling.

How do I sign in from the command line?

Run tongue login, approve the code at www.loomlocale.com/device, then run tongue link to choose or create a project.

Does it work in CI and GitHub?

Yes. Use a project token in LOOMLOCALE_TOKEN with tongue update --ci, or the loomlocale/update GitHub Action to open pull requests.

Which frameworks are supported?

Next.js 16+ with the App Router via next-tongue today; next-intl and i18next file formats are on the roadmap.

Is my data used to train AI models?

No. Strings are processed under API terms that exclude training, kept encrypted, and can be processed in the EU on Team.

How does Loomlocale compare with Locize or SimpleLocalize?

It bills per character instead of words or keys, has no key limits, and is built around next-tongue's CLI and lockfile so only changes are paid for.

Can I set a spending limit?

Prepaid credit is the limit: you can never spend more than you have topped up, and every run shows the cost before it starts. You can also pass --max-cost to cap a single job.