Agent skill · marketing growth · jeremylongshore
lokalise-cost-tuning
Optimize Lokalise costs through plan selection, usage monitoring, and
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific API commands and strategies for optimizing costs in Lokalise that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires curl, jq installed locally. Requires lokalise account access. About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 2,604 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
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 LOKALISEAPITOKEN 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 Step 2: Reduce Per-Seat Costs Seats are the largest cost driver. Strategies to minimize: Step 3: Maximize Translation Memory (TM) Hits TM matches reduce human translation volume. Keys with 100% TM match cost zero for translation. Step 4: Machine Translation Triage Pre-translate low-risk content with MT. Reserve human translation for critical strings. MT triage matrix — decide by key prefix: Key Prefix Content Type Translation Method Cost Impact ----------- ------------- ------------------- ------------- tooltip., help. Tooltips, help text Machine Translation Low risk, high volume savings log., debug. Log messages MT or skip These rarely face users ui.label., nav. UI labels, navigation Human Medium risk, must be natural marketing., cta. Marketing copy, CTAs Human (senior) High risk, brand-critical legal., tos. Legal text Human + legal review Compliance-critical Step 5: Clean Up Dead Keys Orphaned keys waste per-word costs and clutter the project. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills jeremylongshore/lokalise-cost-tuning--b01ccf