LingoHub
LingoHub is an Austrian cloud translation management system for localizing software, websites, apps, games and documents. Its LINA AI assistant translates and runs quality checks in one flow, syncing with GitHub, GitLab and Figma. Every plan includes unlimited seats.
What is LingoHub?
LingoHub is a cloud-based, AI-supported translation management system published by lingohub GmbH, a company entered in the Austrian commercial register in Linz on 30 August 2012. It acts as a central repository for multilingual content, plugged straight into the development and design workflows that produce that content: software, websites, web and mobile applications, games and documents.
At the centre sits LINA, the AI assistant built into the product. LINA translates, reviews, validates, retries and approves segments on its own, escalating only the ones it judges doubtful. It runs in three modes: inline suggestions inside the editor, background work with human validation before publication, or end-to-end automation. The engine is your choice. As of March 2026 the connectable engines include Claude Haiku 4.5, Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro, Mistral Large 3 and Small 4, GPT 5.4, 5.4 Mini and 5.4 Nano, DeepL, Google Translate, Amazon Translate and Amazon Nova, and you may connect your own LLM instead.
Around the engine sit the linguistic assets that hold output consistent: translation memory, glossaries, brand style guides, context images and a full history on every segment. Automated quality checks police terminology, placeholders, formatting and length. Granular permissions, activity logs and audit trails govern who may do what, and in which language.
Integration is where the tool earns its place in a pipeline. It connects to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps and AWS CodeCommit, to Figma, Contentful, Storyblok, Google Docs and Zendesk, and handles 50+ frameworks and 30+ file formats, from JSON, YAML and XLIFF to iOS Strings, Android XML, CSV, PO, RESX and DOCX, across Angular, React, Ruby on Rails, Flutter, Java Spring, Django, Symfony and Vue. A public REST API, a CLI and a mobile SDK with over-the-air updates handle delivery, while a marketplace adds professional human translation in 50+ languages and proofreading in 20+.
Enterprise controls cover SSO with SAML and OpenID Connect, SCIM, two-factor authentication, custom roles and on-premise deployment. The publisher is candid about the boundaries: LingoHub is not a translation agency and does not write original content. It manages and localizes material you already have. Customers displayed on the site include Tractive, Rocket.Chat, Flightradar24 and PlanRadar.
What it does
- Sync source content from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Figma or a CMS
- Pre-translate with translation memory, glossaries and the AI engine of your choice
- Let LINA review, validate, retry and approve segments, escalating only the doubtful ones
- Run automated quality checks on terminology, placeholders, formatting and character limits
- Order professional translation or proofreading from the in-platform marketplace
- Publish through file export, the public REST API or over-the-air CDN updates to mobile apps
- Manage languages, roles and granular permissions across every project from one workspace
When to use LingoHub / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if LingoHub is the right fit.
When to use LingoHub
- Product and engineering teams that ship continuously and want localization wired into their CI/CD pipeline
- Localization managers who need to steer projects, languages, roles and vendors from a single workspace
- Marketing teams holding one brand voice across several markets, through a shared glossary and style guide
- Large or fast-growing organizations, since unlimited seats are included on every plan with no per-user fee
- Companies with EU data-residency requirements, or a need for on-premise deployment on their own infrastructure
When not to use LingoHub
- Anyone shopping for a translation agency: the publisher states plainly that LingoHub is a SaaS management platform, not a service company
- Writers who need original content produced from scratch, since the platform translates and localizes material that already exists
- Teams that require a permanently free tool, as there is only a 14-day trial and no free tier
- Consumers looking for a mobile translation app; the mobile SDK exists to push updates into the customer's own applications
- High-volume projects on a fixed budget, because capacity is capped per plan in credits and hosted characters, with overages billed
How to use LingoHub
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Sign up on app.lingohub.com and start the 14-day trial; no credit card is required
- Connect a content source: a Git repository and branch, a Figma file, or a CMS such as Contentful or Storyblok
- Add the project languages, drawing on any language or dialect in the ISO standard, with no cap on how many
- Configure the engines by picking an LLM or machine-translation provider, or by connecting your own model
- Load the linguistic assets: translation memory, glossary, brand style guide and context images
- Choose the automation mode: in-editor suggestions, LINA in the background with human validation, or end-to-end automation
- Work the segments in the online editor, using memory, glossary, context images and inline discussions
- Order professional translators or proofreaders from the marketplace whenever a language needs human hands
- Let the automated quality checks flag terminology, placeholder, formatting and length problems before approval
- Deliver the result by file export, through the REST API, or as an over-the-air CDN update to iOS and Android apps
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Unlimited seats on every plan, including the 45 EUR per month entry tier, so team size does not drive the bill
- Data hosted inside the EU, in AWS data centres in the Ireland region, with encryption at rest and in transit
- Contractual commitment that customer data is not used to train third-party LLMs or general-purpose models
- Free choice of AI engine, from Claude, Gemini, GPT, Mistral and DeepL to your own connected LLM
- Native repository and CI/CD integration, which makes continuous localization possible rather than a release-time scramble
- Detailed public sub-processor list, naming each provider with its service and its location
- European publisher: Austrian law, jurisdiction in Linz, and on-premise deployment for large accounts
Cons
- No permanently free plan, only a 14-day trial, despite the “Try for free” buttons across the site
- Capacity is capped per plan in language credits and hosted characters, and overage is billed at roughly 3 EUR per 100,000 credits
- ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II are claimed with no certificate number, certifying body or validity date published anywhere
- The ISO 27001 cited for the data centres is AWS's, and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework covers the named US providers, not lingohub GmbH
- Cancelling a subscription means deleting the organization outright, an irreversible step that destroys projects and data
- Several integrations (Figma, Storyblok, Zendesk) and SEPA payment are reserved for the Pro plan and above
- No named list of supported languages is published, only counts: 100+, 200+ depending on the engine, 50+ and 30+ in the marketplace
Pricing & Plans
There is no permanently free plan. LingoHub is sold as a subscription in four tiers, billed monthly by default, with amounts quoted in euros, US dollars and pounds sterling. The lowest price point is the Starter plan at 45.00 EUR per month; annual billing lowers it to 40.00 EUR per month, with reductions of up to 12 percent across the range. A 14-day free trial of the full product is available without a credit card. Capacity is metered in language credits and hosted characters rather than words, and usage beyond the plan allowance is billed at approximately 3.00 EUR per 100,000 language credits, with a monthly budget cap available. Additional hosted characters may be purchased as an add-on according to the billing cycle. Visa, Mastercard and American Express are accepted, and SEPA direct debit is available from the Pro plan upward. Upgrades take effect immediately and are prorated, while downgrades apply at the end of the billing period. The pricing page does not state whether VAT is included or excluded.
- unlimited seats
- 100
- 000 language credits per month (roughly 15
- 000 words)
- 1 million hosted characters
- quality checks
- brand style guide
- glossary
- everything in Starter plus 500
- 000 language credits (roughly 75
- 000 words)
- 5 million hosted characters
- premium workflows
- unlimited projects
- branching
- and the Bitbucket and Azure DevOps integrations
- everything in Team plus 1 million language credits (roughly 150
- 000 words)
- 10 million hosted characters
- over-the-air CDN updates
- teams
- custom roles
- enforced 2FA
- one-year audit logs
- custom seats and capacity
- on-premise deployment
- migration assistance
- a dedicated account manager
- priority support
- high API quotas
- enterprise SSO
- SCIM provisioning and three-year audit logs
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how LingoHub handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR is addressed explicitly and in detail. The home page claims LingoHub is fully GDPR compliant and SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified. The terms state that lingohub GmbH processes customer personal data as a processor under Article 28 GDPR, and a full data processing agreement is published on a dedicated page. The privacy policy names a data protection officer reachable at support@lingohub.com and sets a minimum age of 18. Because the publisher is established inside the EU, in Austria, no Article 27 representative is required or designated. Sub-processors are listed publicly with the service and location of each, and the company states that data processing agreements are signed with all of them. Transfers outside the EU are covered by standard contractual clauses, adequacy decisions and, for the US providers named, the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Austrian law applies, with exclusive jurisdiction in Linz.
Who owns the data?
Under the published privacy policy, LingoHub owns the code, the databases and all rights to the platform itself, while the customer retains all rights to their personal data. For customer content, lingohub GmbH acts as a processor under Article 28 GDPR, which means it handles the data on the customer's instructions rather than for its own purposes. A data processing agreement is published on the site and incorporated into the terms by reference; where the terms and the DPA conflict, the DPA prevails. Processing extends to the sub-processors named publicly, among them AWS, Stripe, Intercom, OpenAI and DeepL, each listed with its service and its location.
Reuse rights
The published terms give LingoHub no ownership over customer content: the customer keeps all rights to their personal data, and finished translations come back through file export, the public REST API or over-the-air updates, with no further authorization step. On LingoHub's side, customer data is used to deliver the AI features requested and to improve the platform. The terms state that Customer Data shall not be used to train general-purpose or customer-independent AI models, unless expressly agreed in writing under Special Terms, and that LingoHub takes commercially reasonable steps to ensure third-party LLMs do not retain, use or incorporate customer data into their own training or model development. Anonymized or aggregated data is used where that is feasible. The written-agreement reservation in the Special Terms is the one clause worth reading closely before signing.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Customer data is hosted in European AWS data centres in the Ireland region, which the publisher describes as all data hosted in European, ISO 27001-certified AWS data centers in the Ireland region. That ISO 27001 belongs to AWS as the host, not to lingohub GmbH. Encryption is applied at rest and in transit over HTTPS, and database backups are automated and encrypted. The published sub-processor list separates EU-based providers, including AWS, Stripe, Mailgun, Google (Ireland/EMEA), TextMaster (Acoload SAS), AWS Bedrock, DeepL, Amazon Translate, Google Translate and Microsoft Translator, from the US-based ones, Intercom Inc. and OpenAI LLC. Transfers outside the EU are covered by standard contractual clauses, adequacy decisions and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the last of which applies to the American providers rather than to the publisher. Enterprise customers may instead deploy on-premise, hosting the platform inside their own infrastructure. The publisher is established in Austria, so Austrian law governs and the courts of Linz have exclusive jurisdiction.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting LingoHub.
- The VAT number published by the site, ATU82401848, is valid in the EU VIES register but returns a different company: Rankscale GmbH, Untere Viaduktgasse 10/6, AT-1030 Wien, not lingohub GmbH in Linz. The check was run on 2 September 2026, on a day when VIES correctly rejected control numbers.
- The registered address is inconsistent on the site itself: postcode 4020 in the terms, the privacy policy and the Austrian commercial register, but 4040 in the footer of all seventeen pages collected. The 4020 value is the one that matches the register.
- ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II are stated by the publisher on its security page and in its privacy policy, yet no certificate number, certifying body or validity date is published anywhere, so the claim cannot be verified. The ISO 27001 cited for the data centres belongs to AWS, and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework covers the named US providers such as AWS and Intercom, not lingohub GmbH itself.
- The no-training commitment carries a contractual reservation: customer data may be used to train general-purpose models if expressly agreed in writing under Special Terms. Customer data may also be used to improve the platform, outside of model training.
- Commercially, three points deserve attention before signing: there is no permanently free plan behind the “Try for free” buttons, capacity is capped per plan with overage billed, and cancelling is done by deleting the organization, which is irreversible and takes the projects and data with it.
- The domain was registered on 1 February 2010 and first captured by the Internet Archive on 2 February 2011, both roughly a year and seven months before the legal entity was registered on 30 August 2012. The site itself publishes only “Founded 2012”, so the exact date comes from the Austrian commercial register rather than from the publisher.
- Automated translation invites over-trust. LINA escalates only the segments it judges doubtful, which means the errors it is confident about pass without a human ever seeing them. Legal, medical, financial and safety-critical wording deserves a human read regardless of what the quality score says, and a glossary is not a substitute for a reviewer who knows the market.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Two-tier. Getting started needs no technical skill: you sign up online, open the 14-day trial without a card, and repository connections such as GitHub work out of the box. Real engineering effort begins when you wire the platform into a CI/CD pipeline, the REST API, the CLI or the mobile SDK, though 50+ frameworks and 30+ file formats are handled natively and custom formats can be requested. Migration from another TMS is assisted by LingoHub, and Enterprise accounts receive dedicated onboarding. On-premise deployment is a separate infrastructure project.
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Frequently asked questions
Is there a free trial?
Is there a permanently free plan?
How many users can I add?
How many languages can a project contain?
Does LingoHub have an API?
Where is my data hosted?
Is my content used to train AI models?
Can LingoHub run on our own infrastructure?
How do I cancel my subscription?
Which payment methods are accepted?
Should you pick LingoHub?
LingoHub is a mature European translation management system: the company behind it was entered in the Austrian commercial register in 2012, and the product is still actively developed in 2026. Its positioning is clear, combining AI automation with deep integration into the software development cycle, and that pairing is what separates it from generic machine translation on one side and traditional agency work on the other.
The strengths are concrete. Unlimited seats on every plan, from 45 EUR per month upward, mean a growing team does not pay more simply for growing. Data sits in AWS data centres in Ireland, the sub-processor list is published in full with a service and a location for each entry, and the terms carry a written commitment that customer data is not used to train third-party or general-purpose models. The engine is yours to choose, up to and including your own LLM.
The reservations are just as concrete. There is no permanently free plan behind the “Try for free” buttons, only a 14-day trial. Capacity is capped per plan in language credits and hosted characters, and overage is billed. The ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications are stated by the publisher without a certificate number, a certifying body or a validity date, and the ISO 27001 attached to the data centres is AWS's rather than LingoHub's. The published VAT number resolves in VIES to a different company, and the registered postcode differs between the footer and the terms.
For a product or localization team that ships continuously, wants its data in the EU and values a named, auditable list of processors, LingoHub is a serious candidate. Read the Special Terms clause on model training, and the cancellation mechanism, before committing.
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