Tool profile
Gridly: cost, fit and limits
Gridly is a content management and localization platform made by Gridly AB that stores content in spreadsheet-style grids with audit trails, translation memories and a Localization Agent, for game developers and product teams that manage structured text.
What to know first
Gridly sells separate modules with starting prices: Basic TMS from €50 a month for one seat, Basic CMS from €99 for three seats, Basic CAT from €140 for ten seats, Team CMS from €249 for five seats, and a custom Enterprise tier. Extra seats and pay-as-you-go add-ons cost more. Team has a 14-day trial, and Basic tiers cap records and API requests.
Gridly at a glance
| Maker | Gridly AB, Not stated on the vendor pages |
|---|---|
| Free plan | Free trial only |
| Entry price | From €50 per month (Basic TMS module) |
| API access | Yes |
| Category | Best AI Localization Software in 2026, rank 11 of 12 |
| Website | gridly.com |
Who Gridly is best for
Game studios
Unity and Unreal Engine connections and grids with branches suit games that keep dialogue and UI text in tables with many columns.
Teams that need change history
An audit trail tracks events in any cell, with history review and rollback, which helps when several people edit shared content.
Localization teams that work in spreadsheets
Grids offer filtering, bulk updates and formula automation in a spreadsheet-style view, so Google Sheets users adapt quickly. The audit trail makes mistakes easy to reverse.
Gridly plans and pricing
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic CMS | From €99 per month | Three seats with grids, automations, dependencies and views. The page shows it as a starting price for the content module. |
| Basic TMS | From €50 per month | One seat with task management, workflows, progress tracking and document translation. It is the lowest starting price listed, covering only the task and workflow module. |
| Basic CAT | From €140 per month | Ten seats with a CAT editor, AI suggestions, concordance search and a working translation memory. |
| Team CMS | From €249 per month | Five seats with branches and grids, 10,000 records per grid and a 14-day trial. The page lists a 14-day trial for this tier. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom limits, a CDN and CMS access from 10 seats. Pricing is agreed with the vendor, and limits are set per contract. |
Checked November 2026.
What Gridly does
- Grids
- Grids are a spreadsheet-style content view with filtering, bulk updates and formula automation, designed for structured records instead of free-flowing documents. This suits teams that think of content as rows and columns.
- Audit trail
- The audit trail tracks events in any cell, with history review and rollback, which makes it safer for writers and translators to edit the same grid.
- Translation memory and term bases
- Translation memories and term bases reuse existing translations, and the CAT module adds a CAT editor, AI suggestions and concordance search. The CAT module adds a CAT editor and concordance search on top.
- Localization Agent
- The Localization Agent is described as context-aware AI at scale, next to generative AI prompts through OpenAI models, machine translation, OCR and text-to-speech. The pages we read give no accuracy figures for the agent.
- API and roles
- The Gridly API reads and updates content from code, roles and permissions apply per user, and a ticket center tracks issue status until projects are complete.
How Gridly handles your data
The terms do not address AI training and refer to separate AI Terms that were not opened for this review. No retention period is specified, and some content may not be fully removed when it has been shared. No hosting region or certification is named on the pages we read, and the privacy policy URL returned 404 during the check, so the terms were used instead. Because generative AI prompts go through OpenAI models, a buyer should ask which sub-processors see content, whether it is stored and where servers sit before loading unreleased game text.
Where Gridly falls short in practice
- Capped Basic allowances. Basic tiers include 500,000 total records and a monthly cap on automated updates, and the API allowance is 3,000 requests a month against 10,000 on Team.
- Modules bought separately. CMS, TMS and CAT modules carry separate prices and seat counts, so a team that needs all three must add them up to find its real cost.
- Missing legal pages. The privacy policy returned 404 and the AI Terms were not opened, so training, retention and hosting questions need a written answer from the vendor.
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Gridly: common questions
How much does Gridly cost?
Pricing is per module and shown as starting amounts: Basic TMS €50 a month, Basic CMS €99, Basic CAT €140 and Team CMS €249, each with a base seat count. Extra seats and pay-as-you-go add-ons are sold separately, and Enterprise is custom.
Is there a free Gridly plan?
No free plan is listed. Team has a 14-day trial, and the other tiers start at a paid monthly amount. A studio that wants to test grids on game text should use the Team trial and watch the record and API caps.
Does Gridly work with Unity and Unreal Engine?
Unity and Unreal Engine are named among the integrations, alongside Google Sheets, OpenAI, DeepL, memoQ, Figma, Slack and JIRA. The pages we read do not describe how the engine connections work, so test one real project before relying on them.
What are the Gridly API limits?
The Basic API allowance is 3,000 requests per month and Team is 10,000. Basic tiers also cap total records at 500,000 and limit monthly automated updates. Estimate pipeline calls per build before choosing a tier. Estimate pipeline calls per build before choosing a tier.
Does Gridly use my content to train AI?
The terms do not address it and refer to separate AI Terms that we did not open. Generative prompts go through OpenAI models. Ask the vendor for the AI Terms and sub-processor list before loading sensitive content. Prompts also go through OpenAI models.