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Localess vs d9: catalog facts
Localess	d9
Free Free and open source under MIT; you pay only for the Firebase infrastructure you deploy it…	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Translation workflow and content management in one tool Translation memory and AI-assisted translation	Drop-in replacement for Directus 9 with the same schema Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, CockroachDB, MariaDB and MS-SQL
Tied to Firebase and Google Cloud for deployment Small project with a modest community	Based on the older Directus 9 codebase rather than current Directus Smaller maintainer team than the original project
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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