Weglot Alternatives: How to Choose the Right One (September 2026)

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The right Weglot alternative depends on your platform and on where you want translations stored. If you run WordPress and want translations in your own database, look at TranslatePress, WPML or Polylang. On Webflow, if you’re happy to stay inside it, Webflow Localize is the native option. If you want the same kind of product as Weglot (a hosted service that works on any platform) but with a different price-to-words ratio, ConveyThis and GTranslate’s paid plans are the closest match.

We make ConveyThis, so read this with that in mind. Every competitor fact below was checked on the competitor’s own website on 28 September 2026, and we say where Weglot is the stronger choice.

Key takeaways

• As of September 2026, Weglot’s paid plans run from Starter at €15/month (10,000 words, 1 language) to Extended at €699/month (5 million words, 20 languages), priced in euros, with a 14-day free trial (Weglot pricing).
• Every hosted tool, ConveyThis included, caps several things at once: words, languages, sites and monthly translation requests. Compare all four at your real size.
• Weglot supports several websites from its Pro plan up (as “projects”), subdirectories, subdomains and custom domains, and 70+ integrations. Those are real strengths.
• The most common practical blocker when leaving is export: Weglot’s CSV/XLIFF export is available on the Advanced plan and above.
• You can move without losing work. Export what you can, import it into the new tool, and keep the same URL structure so search rankings carry over.

Why teams look for a Weglot alternative

When people tell us why they’re switching, it’s usually one of these:

1. Cost at their word count. Weglot counts “total unique words translated across all your languages” and describes this as “a fixed limit” (Weglot pricing). Weglot’s own example: 20 pages of 500 words in 2 languages come to 20,000 words, already twice the Starter plan’s 10,000.
2. Language count. Starter includes 1 translated language, Business 3, Pro 5, Advanced 10.
3. Export and portability. Weglot’s help centre says: “The import/export feature is available for Advanced and higher plans. If you’re on a lower plan, you will need to edit your translations one by one” (Weglot help).
4. Self-hosting. Some WordPress owners just want translations stored in their own database.

If none of these apply to you, staying on Weglot may be the right call.

Weglot’s plans at a glance (as of 28 September 2026)

Source: weglot.com/pricing. Weglot charges in euros and shows USD only as an estimate; yearly billing gives two months free. Enterprise pricing is on request.

The alternatives, by situation

TranslatePress (WordPress, self-hosted)

TranslatePress stores “all the translations… locally in your server’s database” and lets you translate visually from the front end. Plans are billed yearly: Personal €99 (1 site, 50,000 AI-translated words), Business €199 (3 sites, 200,000) and Developer €349 (unlimited sites, 500,000), with a 15-day refund window (TranslatePress pricing). AI words are counted per language (docs).

It suits WordPress-only sites that want to own the translation data. It can’t be used outside WordPress, and its site says translations from WPML “are not compatible”, so plan how you will bring existing work across.

WPML (WordPress, self-hosted)

Plans are €39/year (Multilingual Blog, 1 production site, no AI translation), €99/year (Multilingual CMS, 3 sites, 22,500 AI words) and €199/year (Multilingual Agency, unlimited sites, 45,000 AI words), with a 30-day money-back guarantee (WPML).

WPML is the usual pick for large WordPress or WooCommerce sites that want an established in-database system.

Polylang (WordPress, self-hosted)

The free plugin creates translated pages that you fill in yourself. Polylang Pro starts at €99/year and adds DeepL machine translation with your own DeepL API key (Polylang pricing).

If you have people to do the translating, or your own DeepL account, Polylang has the lowest ongoing cost.

Webflow Localize (Webflow only)

Webflow’s built-in option is priced per locale on top of a paid site plan: Essential is $9 per locale per month billed yearly (up to 3 locales, 10,000 AI-translated words per locale per month) and Advanced is $29 per locale per month billed yearly (up to 10 locales, 50,000 words per locale per month) (Webflow pricing).

It makes sense when your whole site is on Webflow and you want per-locale design control inside the Designer. Our ConveyThis vs Webflow Localization comparison goes deeper.

GTranslate (any platform)

The free version translates in the visitor’s browser; GTranslate says that “with the free version, your website URL does not change and translations are not stored”. Paid plans, from $12/month, host each language on its own URL so it can be indexed (GTranslate).

The paid plans work if you want a hosted proxy and their features match your needs. Stick to the free version only when search traffic in other languages doesn’t matter to you.

ConveyThis (any platform)

ConveyThis works like Weglot: a hosted service with a WordPress plugin, a Shopify app and a script for any other platform, 210 languages, and each language on its own URL (subfolder, subdomain or ?lang; subfolders and subdomains are on the Business plan and higher) with automatic hreflang and translated meta tags and JSON-LD.

Here is how our plans line up with Weglot’s at similar tiers. The currencies differ: ConveyThis is priced in USD, Weglot in EUR.

Sources: Weglot pricing, ConveyThis pricing, both checked 28 September 2026.

ConveyThis fits best when your main constraint is words or languages per dollar, or when you want to import existing translations on any plan. Translation import (CSV or TMX, with a converter for Weglot CSV exports) is available on every ConveyThis plan, including Free (help centre). Words are counted only when translated content is shown to a visitor, and bots don’t count.

The limits: ConveyThis also caps words, languages, sites and monthly translation requests, and our Starter plan includes fewer monthly requests than Weglot’s (15,000 vs 20,000). Exporting translations requires our Pro+ plan or higher. There is no timed trial of paid plans; the Free plan is the way to test.

Where Weglot is the better choice

Weglot is ahead in several areas:

• Integrations. Weglot states it “natively connects to 70+ platforms” and says 110,000+ brands use it (Weglot). Our WordPress plugin, by contrast, has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org.
• Trials. Weglot’s paid plans start with 14 days free, and the free plan needs no credit card. ConveyThis has no timed trial of paid plans; instead its Free plan (5,000 words, 1 language) is permanent and needs no card.
• Top-level domains per language are available on Weglot’s Extended plan. ConveyThis offers second-level domains per language on its Extreme plan.
• Weglot lets you order professional translation from inside the dashboard, starting at €0.13 per word (Weglot).
• Some tiers include more monthly requests, as the table above shows.

How to switch without losing work or rankings

1. Export what you can. On Weglot’s Advanced plan or higher, export translations as CSV or XLIFF. On lower plans, Weglot’s own help says translations must be edited one by one, so decide whether a temporary upgrade to export is worth it for your site.
2. Keep your URL structure. If your German pages live at /de/, keep /de/ in the new tool. Changing URLs means redirects and a period of ranking volatility.
3. Import into the new tool and review the most important pages (home, pricing, checkout) in each language.
4. Swap the plugin or script, then check the HTML of translated pages for hreflang tags, translated titles and canonical tags.
5. Watch the language folders in Search Console over the following weeks.

Our step-by-step guide to switching from Weglot covers the ConveyThis import flow, and the alternatives overview compares more tools. For how we build comparisons, see our comparison methodology.

Frequently asked questions

Does Weglot support multiple websites? Yes. Weglot’s pricing page says “if you have at least a Pro plan you have the multisite feature”, with 3 projects on Pro, 10 on Advanced and 20 on Extended.

Is there a free Weglot alternative? Polylang is free if you translate yourself. GTranslate’s free version is free but doesn’t create indexable pages. ConveyThis has a Free plan with 5,000 words and 1 language for one site.

Which Weglot alternative is cheapest? It depends on your word count, languages and sites. Price your real numbers on each pricing page; the tables above are a starting point.

Next step

If a hosted service is the right model for you, create a ConveyThis account, import your existing translations and compare the result side by side before you cancel anything. Plans and pricing lists every tier.