Vendors know what they charge. Buyers know what they pay. Nobody publishes either.
To make matters worse, tool performance is anecdotal and switching costs, perhaps the most important but never-discussed topic, is reported... nowhere.
You have been doing this a long time. You know what the real numbers look like. This is where you share them, anonymously, with everyone else running the same programs.
This is the first practitioner-reported dataset on how localization actually works. Not vendor-sponsored. Not analyst-synthesized.
Why are you here?
To share your localization tools and rates, or get an estimate for the cost of switching your TMS or LSP.
How can this site help you?
To understand whether your rates are in line with the market, whether your tools are working as well as they should, and whether the cost of switching is worth it.
Three real-time feedback mechanisms, contributed by practitioners across the industry. Fill in just one. Fill out all three. It's totally optional. See the results to help navigate buying decisions and program strategy.
Report the tools you use and how well they work together. Vendors publish feature lists. Nobody publishes satisfaction ratings from the people running the programs. This is for measuring real performance: which combinations people run, how they rate them, and where the friction is.
Your tools →Report what you pay for TMS, automation, MT, and AI platforms. Pricing opacity in this industry benefits vendors, not buyers. Contracts are negotiated privately, benchmarks do not exist publicly, and the gap between what platforms cost and what buyers think they should cost is rarely discussed. This changes that.
Your rates →Estimation tool
Estimate the real cost of switching your TMS or LSP. Migration, re-integration, contract exit, and linguist pool setup are rarely priced before a switch is made. These figures are based on real-world experience and are the kind of numbers that do not appear in vendor proposals.
Cost to change →What's next?