LangRelayVSGTranslate
The GTranslate alternative for WordPress where you approve what goes live
GTranslate’s free switcher translates in the browser, and its paid plans add a translating proxy with pages search engines index. LangRelay is built for WordPress and holds every translation for your approval. Here is how they compare.
- Free plan, no card
- WordPress plugin
- Nothing publishes without you
- Built for
WordPress sites that keep changing
Any HTML site, free in the browser or through a paid proxy
- Search engines
On WordPress: /fr/-style URLs with hreflang and a canonical per language
- Who decides what goes live
Nothing goes live until someone approves it
- Price
Free, or from €19 a month
GTranslate translates any HTML site, free in the browser or through its paid proxy. LangRelay translates WordPress and waits for your approval.
GTranslate is the better pick if your site is not on WordPress, or if a flat price with no word counting matters most: its paid proxy serves indexable pages on any HTML site. On WordPress, LangRelay gives you more control: nothing goes live until it is approved, Relay drafts the changes you ask for, and a glossary keeps your terms consistent.
When to choose LangRelay, and when to choose GTranslate
Choose LangRelay if
- Your site runs on WordPress and you want nothing published that nobody checked.
- You are moving off the free widget and want indexable /fr/-style pages on your WordPress site.
- You want to describe a change in a sentence and have an agent draft it for you.
- You want a glossary for your terms and a set formality for each language.
Choose GTranslate if
- Your site is not on WordPress and needs translated pages search engines can index.
- You want a flat monthly price with no word or page-view limit, subject to fair use.
- You need a subdomain or a separate country domain per language, or translated slugs on its Business plan and up.
- You run a personal or non-profit site and only need a free switcher, without SEO.
GTranslate is quick until you want a say in what goes live
GTranslate’s free and paid plans work in different ways, so the first difference is what search engines see. The rest are about who stays in control.
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What search engines see
GTranslate’s free plan translates in the visitor’s browser: the URL doesn’t change, translations aren’t stored, and its WordPress page says it gives no SEO advantage. Its paid plans are a proxy that serves each language at its own URL for search engines to index. LangRelay’s WordPress plugin serves each language under a subdirectory such as /fr/, with hreflang and a canonical per language.
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Who decides what goes live
We found no approval step on GTranslate’s site: paid plans serve machine translation live by default, and you refine it by hand afterwards. LangRelay holds every translation until someone approves it.
03
When the original changes
GTranslate’s proxy fetches your original page when a visitor opens a translation, so edits show up once its cache refreshes. Its help center adds that when original text changes, a manual edit made for it is replaced by automatic translation. LangRelay’s plugin reports an edit about a minute later; only the new text is translated, and it goes through the same review.
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AI that drafts and reviews
GTranslate’s WordPress page says its paid plans use Google’s neural translation, and it sells human post-editing as a service. In LangRelay, Relay drafts the changes you ask for, and a separate reviewer agent checks each one the way a language expert would. We found no assistant like this in GTranslate.
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What you pay for
GTranslate charges a flat monthly price with no word or page-view limit, subject to the fair-use terms, so the bill doesn’t grow with your content or traffic. LangRelay is a monthly plan with a word allowance; text that has not changed costs nothing again.
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Where it works
GTranslate works on any HTML site, and its paid plans offer a subdirectory, subdomain or separate country domain per language. LangRelay serves search-friendly translations on WordPress; on other sites its script embed translates in the browser, without SEO value, and it offers no proxy or domain per language. Off WordPress, GTranslate’s paid proxy is the stronger SEO option.
LangRelay and GTranslate, side by side
- No · Not offered
- Partly · With a limit
- Planned · Announced, not shipped
- Not found · Not on the vendor’s own pages when we checked
- Yes · Included
| Capability | LangRelay | |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery and SEOHow translated pages reach visitors and search engines. | ||
| How translated pages are servedHow the translated page reaches visitors: from your own server, through a proxy, or swapped in by the browser. | Yes: WordPress plugin serves translated HTML from your server. A script tag works on any other site, without SEO. | Partly Paid plans are a translating proxy on a subdirectory, subdomain or country domain. The free plan translates in the browser, with no SEO benefit. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
| WordPress: one post, no copies per languageWhether WordPress keeps one post per page, instead of a separate copy for every language. | Yes: Translates the rendered page. Your posts stay as they are. | Yes: Translates the finished HTML; translations are stored by GTranslate, not in WordPress. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
| hreflang and per-language URLsA URL per language with hreflang tags, so search engines find and index each language. | Yes: Subdirectories (/fr/), hreflang with x-default, a canonical per language, and translated titles and meta. | Partly Paid plans only: hreflang tags and translated meta descriptions. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
| Translated URL slugsURLs in the visitor’s language, like /fr/a-propos instead of /fr/about. | Partly Set by hand per page and language. Automatic slug translation is on the way. | Partly Business plan and up, or an add-on. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
| Workflow and reviewWhat happens when content changes, and who decides what goes live. | ||
| Picks up edits to the originalWhen you edit the original page, whether the tool notices and translates what changed. | Yes: The WordPress plugin reports an edit about a minute later, and only the new text is translated. Other sites can call a change hook from their CMS or deploy. | Yes: Paid plans fetch the original when a visitor opens a translated page, so changes show up once the cache refreshes. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
| Approve before it goes liveWhether a person can check a translation before visitors see it. | Yes: Nothing goes live until someone approves it. | Not found No approval step found. |
| Visual editorEditing translations on the page itself, rather than in a list of strings. | Yes: Click text on the rendered page to edit, at desktop, tablet and mobile widths. | Yes: Paid plans: pencil icons beside each text on the translated page. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
| GlossaryFixed translations for names and terms, applied every time they appear. | Yes: Per-language terms, “keep as source”, and match case. Paid plans. | Partly No glossary found. Paid plans can skip phrases, CSS selectors or pages. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
| AI and integrationsHow much of the work AI takes on, and how you reach it. | ||
| Machine translationThe machine or AI translation the tool uses. | Yes: AI translation that follows your glossary and each language’s formality. | Yes: Free: Google Translate. Paid plans: Google’s neural translation, with no per-word charge. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
| AI quality reviewAI that checks translations for mistakes, not only writes them. | Yes: A separate reviewer agent checks every change Relay drafts, the way a language expert would. Paid plans. | Not found No AI review found. |
| AI assistant in the productAn assistant inside the product that you can ask in plain language. | Yes: Relay, a chat agent that reads your Site’s pages and translations and drafts changes for your approval. | Not found No AI assistant found. |
| MCP server for your own AILets your own AI assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT, work with the tool directly. | Planned On the way: connect Claude or ChatGPT to your Sites. | Not found Not found on gtranslate.io. |
| APIProgrammatic access for developers. | Planned On the way, for the Growth plan and up. | Not found No public API for managing translations found. |
Translation that waits for your yes
The translating is the easy part. LangRelay is built around what happens next: checking it, changing it, and deciding when it goes live.
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Nothing goes live unapproved
Every translation waits for someone to approve it. Then activate one page, or everything approved at once.
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Ask Relay in a sentence
Relay reads your Site’s pages and translations and drafts the change you describe, for you to approve. It can never approve or publish on its own.
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A second agent checks Relay’s work
Every change Relay drafts goes to a separate reviewer agent, which checks it the way a language expert would.
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Edit on the rendered page
Click any text in the visual editor to change it, at desktop, tablet or mobile width, with titles and meta in the same panel.
Your original pages are the starting point
GTranslate keeps its translations on its own network, so LangRelay starts from your original pages. Install the LangRelay plugin, connect your Site, and LangRelay crawls and translates it into the languages you choose.
What comes across
- Every page the crawl finds, translated into your languages
- Theme, menu and page-builder text, from the rendered page
- hreflang, a canonical per language, and translated titles and meta
From the free widget there are no translated URLs to redirect. From a paid subdirectory setup, /fr/-style URLs line up; from a subdomain or country domain, add redirects. Translations are made fresh, so the first crawl uses words from your allowance, and translated slugs are set again by hand.
What you pay, and what it counts
A flat monthly price with no word or page-view limit, subject to fair use. Prices in US dollars.
LangRelay Starter
€19a month
3 Sites, 3 languages per Site and 150K words a month. A word is a source word translated into one language; unchanged and reused text uses none.
Or start free: 1 Site, 1 language, 10K words a month.
GTranslate
$12a month
Custom, from $12 a month for one extra language. Startup, $25 a month for all languages.
Free plan: A browser-only widget for personal, non-commercial sites, without SEO.
Frequently asked questions
What people ask when they weigh GTranslate against LangRelay: how each one stores and publishes translations, what the prices count, and what moving involves.
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Is LangRelay a GTranslate alternative?
Yes, for WordPress sites. LangRelay translates the rendered WordPress page, serves each language under its own URL, and holds every translation for approval. For a site that is not on WordPress and needs translations search engines index, GTranslate’s paid proxy is the better fit today.
Does the free GTranslate plugin help SEO?
No. GTranslate’s WordPress page says its free version doesn’t give any SEO advantage: it translates in the visitor’s browser, the URL doesn’t change and translations aren’t stored. Its paid plans serve translated pages that search engines index. GTranslate’s terms also limit the free plan to non-commercial use, such as personal or non-profit sites.
Does GTranslate publish machine translations automatically?
By default, yes. We found no approval step on GTranslate’s site: paid plans serve machine translation live, and you refine it in the editor afterwards. Its help center also says that when original text changes, an earlier manual edit for it is replaced by automatic translation. In LangRelay, nothing goes live until it is approved.
How does GTranslate pricing compare with LangRelay?
GTranslate’s paid plans are flat monthly prices in US dollars: Custom from $12 a month for one extra language, Startup $25 a month for all languages, Business $35 a month adding URL translation, and Enterprise $50 a month adding language hosting. None counts words or page views, subject to fair use. LangRelay is a monthly plan with words included each month; see the pricing comparison above.
Can I switch from GTranslate to LangRelay?
Yes, on WordPress. Install the LangRelay plugin and connect your Site; LangRelay crawls and translates your pages, so you don’t need an export from GTranslate. If you used a subdomain or country domain per language, add redirects to LangRelay’s /fr/-style subdirectories, and set translated slugs again by hand.
Does GTranslate have a glossary or an MCP server?
Not that we could find. GTranslate’s paid plans can skip phrases such as brand names, CSS selectors or whole pages, and you can edit each translation by hand. LangRelay’s paid plans include a glossary with per-language terms, and translation follows each language’s formality. We found no MCP server on gtranslate.io either; LangRelay’s MCP is on the way.
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Sources
Every GTranslate claim on this page comes from GTranslate’s own pages: its website, its documentation or its WordPress.org listing. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll correct it.
GTranslate
- gtranslate.support/en/articles/1871130-how-caching-works-in-gtranslate-network (checked 5 October 2026)
- gtranslate.io/ (checked 5 October 2026)
- wordpress.org/plugins/gtranslate/ (checked 5 October 2026)
- docs.gtranslate.io/en/articles/1349930-how-to-skip-translations (checked 5 October 2026)
- gtranslate.support/en/articles/1348921-how-to-edit-translations (checked 5 October 2026)
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