What it sells
The Localization Engineering Platform
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedLocalization engineers and engineering/product teams, with enterprise sales for larger orgs ("Talk to sales").
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
UnverifiedNeed to ship software or content in many languages at known quality without reading those languages; replacing ad hoc LLM translation scripts and manual review.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Define quality criteria, translate with LLMs through configurable engines via GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket integrations or API, score output with AI reviewers, route low scores to native speakers, and auto-tune translation rules from their edits.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Usage-based: LLM provider cost passed through at zero markup, plus $2 per million tokens of Lingo.dev infrastructure, $0.50 per engine per month and $0.01 per AI review run; Production plan adds a $99/mo base; Enterprise custom.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Self-serve signup (sandbox) with developer integrations and API/MCP, plus sales-led enterprise.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Fall 2024 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.