Lokalise Cost Tuning

Overview

Optimize Lokalise localization spending across plan tiers, contributor seats, Translation Memory (TM) leverage, machine translation (MT) triage, and dead key cleanup. Lokalise pricing is per-seat subscription (Essential ~$120/user/month, Pro ~$290/user/month) with optional pay-per-use for MT and AI features.

Prerequisites

• Lokalise Admin role for billing and usage visibility
• LOKALISE_API_TOKEN with read access to project statistics
• Understanding of translation workflow (human, MT, or hybrid)
• curl and jq for API queries

Instructions

Step 1: Audit Current Usage

set -euo pipefail
echo "=== Lokalise Usage Audit ==="