Where does the lower total cost of ownership (TCO) come from?

Isn’t TCO just the price of a tool?

TCO is not only the price of a tool, but the full economic footprint of running and evolving your localization stack over time: licenses, volume‑based charges, integrations you build, the maintenance those integrations need, and the costs each time you change systems. Below we break TCO into its drivers and show how BeLazy reduces each one so you can make a comparison.

All integrated in one platform

Mix and match pre-built connections from any vendor—without switching costs or technical overhead.

When choosing translation management systems, you shouldn’t have to compromise on core functionality just because one system integrates with your software while another doesn’t. Not all systems integrate with the tools you need. Even when integrations exist, they vary dramatically in quality and cost. With BeLazy, you can mix and match any integration built by any vendor in our network without additional setup or technical complexity. This means you can choose your translation management system based on its actual translation capabilities and merit, then find the most cost-effective, highest-quality integration for your specific tech stack from the complete range of pre-built connections.

Unparalleled focus on preventing failures and their costs

BeLazy invests 40% of its R&D into testing across countless setups, so your workflows run reliably from day one without costly trial and error.

Building automation between translation systems often fails because companies underestimate the complexity. What seems like a simple connection between two systems actually requires extensive (and expensive) planning, layered with robust error handling and organizational processes around failures that drive costs even higher. Many point-to-point integrations are built with only one specific configuration in mind. When another team or client tries to use the same integration with custom settings, workflows, or requirements, the original solution breaks down and needs to be rebuilt from scratch.
At BeLazy we like forward-thinking, that is why we invest an unparalleled 40% of our R&D budget into testing and experimentation across diverse configurations and use cases, solving these problems before our customers encounter them. This means your automations work reliably from day one regardless of your specific setup, eliminating the costly trial-and-error phase that typically derails automation projects.

Eliminate costly in-house integration maintenance

Eliminate integration breakages, downtime, and costly fixes. BeLazy replaces the need for expensive in-house maintenance.

Translation management systems and content management systems regularly update their interfaces, often breaking existing integrations without warning. When your custom automation stops working due to a software update, you face downtime, emergency fixes, and developer costs to rebuild connections. BeLazy continuously monitors and maintains all integrations, automatically adapting to system updates so your workflows never break. You are sharing and pooling specialized, high-quality resources of BeLazy with other BeLazy customers, so you don’t have to maintain a costly in-house team for monitoring, maintaining and updating integrations. This eliminates the ongoing maintenance costs and upkeeping of an in-house team that make many automation projects unsustainable and costly over time.

Fewer licenses, more automation

BeLazy optimizes your license usage by automating repetitive work and separating roles intelligently

Automation in itself means that you need fewer user licenses proportionally for more content, and BeLazy’s intelligent automation also separates roles. For example, LSP salespeople will need CRM licenses but won’t need business management system licenses.

No vendor lock-in

TMS vendors may change the rules, but BeLazy ensures your integrations always stay compatible.

Translation management systems may drive up prices and change their pricing models, so even if you found the right match once, you never know how long it remains the right match. Therefore, all automations and developments become useless all of a sudden if you want to use another tool. If you integrate with BeLazy, we guarantee that we will not charge more than the contracted price for any incoming content, and you only need to create content management systems integrations once.

Works where APIs are not enough

Goes beyond APIs to connect every system and user in your localization supply chain.

At BeLazy we believe that automation can only be successful if it is available for everyone in the supply chain, from the largest enterprises to the individual translators. Many systems don’t even provide APIs that match the functionality on the user interface. In such cases, we rely on the internal web communication for interoperability. Besides offering better functionality, it also has another perk: BeLazy’s integration only needs one user license.

Bypass managed word charges

Free your automation from per-word pricing limits.

Most translation management system providers charge you for managed words, even though you might only need basic functionality. If you want to route content to automatic processing, you just need a TMS to import and export files. Use a basic TMS for file import/export (avoiding per-word charges) while BeLazy handles the actual workflow automation and routing for fully automated workflows.