This FAQ covers common questions about Lokalise Vantage and how it works. If you're looking for a quick start tutorial, please refer to the Lokalise Vantage onboarding guide.

Lokalise Vantage is the fastest, most intuitive workspace for localising marketing and creative content such as blogs, websites, and documentation.

It combines AI translation, quality checks, and optional human review in one place, helping teams create, manage, and scale multilingual content without complex workflows.

Lokalise Vantage is designed for teams that regularly work with marketing and creative content and need to publish it in multiple languages.

Typical users include:

Vantage is particularly useful for teams that want fast localisation workflows without technical setup or developer integrations.

Lokalise offers two experiences designed for different types of localisation workflows.

In short:

Many organisations use both experiences depending on the type of content they need to translate.

No. Lokalise Vantage is available within your existing Lokalise team subscription. Vantage projects are created inside the same team workspace, so they use the same subscription and team settings as your other Lokalise projects.

Some Vantage usage is governed by the quotas defined in your team’s Lokalise subscription plan. For example, quotas apply to:

Usage of processed words and Pro AI is tracked together for both products. You can view the combined usage (Expert + Vantage) in the Usage overview and Usage overtime sections within the Expert experience (under Team settings).

For more details, see the Team quotas article.

Yes. Vantage includes AI-powered translation (known as Pro AI) as part of the localisation workflow. AI translation usage is counted against your team’s Pro AI word usage quotas, which depend on your current Lokalise subscription plan.

If you need higher limits, you may need to adjust your subscription or contact your CSM.

No. The base language cannot be changed after a project is created. If you need a different base language, create a new Vantage project.

You can add new target languages at any time by clicking the Add a language button in the project editor.

Vantage will automatically translate the project into the newly added languages. However, target languages cannot be removed once added.

No. Vantage uses a shared team-level Glossary and Translation memory (TM).

Once these assets are added, they are automatically applied across all Vantage projects. You can manage assets under the corresponding tab:

You can upload the following formats:

Additional integrations and formats may be added over time.

Yes. Uploaded files must be 50 MB or smaller.

Once a file is uploaded, Vantage:

This process runs automatically without additional setup.

Yes. You can review, edit, rephrase, and approve translations directly in the Vantage editor. The source text cannot be edited.

Can I edit translations outside of tasks?
Yes. You can edit any segment in the editor, even if it is not part of a task. If needed, remove the task filter to view all segments. You can then update translations and unapprove previously approved segments to make changes.

No. The source text cannot be edited directly in the Vantage editor. If you need to update the source content, upload a new version of the file with the same name from the Files tab. Learn more in the Files guide.

Vantage will detect the changes and translate only the updated segments, while keeping the rest of the existing translations unchanged.

When the AI + human review workflow is chosen, Vantage evaluates translation quality and sends segments that may need attention to reviewers.

Review tasks are created and assigned automatically.

Yes. In the editor, open the segment actions menu and select Translation history.

You can view previous versions of the translation, copy them, or restore a previous version if needed.

Vantage allows you to preview translated content directly in the editor so you can see how translations appear in the original layout.

To display documents in the browser, Vantage may simplify some layout elements during preview. Your exported files keep the full original formatting.

The preview uses system fonts, not the fonts from your original document. This may cause small visual differences such as text wrapping or spacing. Your exported file will use the original fonts, so formatting will appear as expected.

This depends on the application used to open the file. Different platforms (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote) render PPTX files differently. For the most reliable results, open the translated file in the same platform used to create the original.

Track Changes remains enabled, but the full edit history is not preserved.

Not currently. Vantage translates the entire file. If you need mixed languages, you can edit the document manually after export.

Not yet. Alt text in DOCX and PPTX files is currently not imported or preserved.

Yes. Speaker notes in PPTX files are supported and will be translated along with the rest of the content.

Yes. When creating a project, you can assign contributors for specific languages. After the project is created, you can manage collaborators from the Contributors tab, where you can add or remove users at any time.

Refer to the onboarding guide and the Contributors article to learn more.

Yes. Global search (found in the projects dashboard) works across both Lokalise Expert projects and Vantage projects.

Some areas are still being improved, so certain items such as tasks or analytics may occasionally show partial results.

Analytics and activity logs in the Lokalise Expert experience do not currently include Vantage tasks or workflows. Vantage activity is visible within Vantage itself.

No. Tasks created in Vantage projects are not shown in the Lokalise Expert task view. Vantage and Lokalise Expert use separate task systems, so tasks are only visible within the product where they were created.