# Localization Costs Report

> Know what each language costs – contributors and AI included.

URL: https://store.crowdin.com/localization-costs
Identifier: localization-costs
Category: Manager Productivity, AI
Type: App
Author: Crowdin

See what each target language costs – people and AI in one report. Localization Costs Report combines contributor costs from your rates template with AI usage for the same projects and period, so you no longer have to merge the Translation Costs and AI usage reports by hand. Run it for a project or, in Crowdin Enterprise, for a group or the whole organization.

**Note:** All figures are estimates, not invoices, and some usage may not be counted. See **Notes and limitations** below for details.

![Total cost and Costs by language](https://developers.app.crowdin.net/api/media/file/store-1-overview.png)

## Why use it

- **Plan budgets by language or market.** See which languages cost the most and what drives the cost.
- **Know where each language’s budget goes.** See how much went to contributor work and how much to AI usage.
- **See where AI spend goes.** Find the AI actions, models and providers that use the most budget.
- **Charge costs back.** Show clients or teams what each language costs.

## How it works

1. Choose the projects, a rates template and a period.
2. Click **Generate**.
3. Review the costs by language or export them.

The app prices contributor work with your rates template, as the Translation Costs report does, and adds the AI costs of the same projects and period.

## What's in the report

- **Costs by currency** shows the total and what went to people and what went to AI.
- **Costs by language** lists every target language, from highest to lowest cost. Open a language to see each contributor's words and cost, and the AI actions, models and providers behind it.
    ![Localization cost report: language breakdown](https://developers.app.crowdin.net/api/media/file/store-2-language-breakdown.png)
- **AI costs without a target language** collects AI requests tied to no language, such as AI Proxy calls or Context Advisor runs. They count toward the total but not toward any language.
    ![Localization cost report: AI costs](https://developers.app.crowdin.net/api/media/file/store-3-ai-costs.png)


## Notes and limitations

- **Costs are estimates, not invoices.** Contributor work is priced with your rates template, and AI requests with Crowdin's model prices, so actual invoices may differ.
- **Not included:** machine translation, vendor and agency invoices, and your Crowdin subscription.
- Crowdin doesn't convert currencies: contributor costs stay in your template's currency, AI costs in USD.
- AI usage on a model with no price is counted in tokens and kept out of the totals.
- AI requests that belong to no project, such as AI Proxy and AI Gateway calls, appear only in the organization report in Crowdin Enterprise.
- AI usage from before mid-October 2026 has no target language, so it appears under **AI costs without a target language**.
- Without a rates template, the report shows contributor volumes instead of costs.
- **Export** downloads the Translation Costs and AI usage reports as CSV files.
- The app only reads your data and never modifies it.

## Where to find it

After installation, open **Reports** in a project. In Crowdin Enterprise, the report is also available in the organization's and each group's **Reports**. Project reports are open to the project owner and managers.