LangRelayVSWeglot
The Weglot alternative for WordPress that asks before it publishes
Weglot translates almost any website through its proxy. LangRelay is narrower, built for WordPress, and puts your approval in front of every translation. Here is how they compare.
- Free plan, no card
- WordPress plugin
- Nothing publishes without you
- Built for
WordPress sites that keep changing
Almost any website platform, through its proxy
- Who decides what goes live
Nothing goes live until someone approves it
- Keeping translations current
The plugin reports each edit, and only the new text is translated
- Price
Free, or from €19 a month
Weglot translates almost any website. LangRelay translates WordPress and asks before it publishes.
Weglot is the safer pick if your site is not on WordPress: it works almost anywhere. On WordPress, LangRelay gives you more control: nothing goes live until it is approved, Relay drafts the changes you ask for, and you pay for the translation you do each month rather than the size of your translated site.
When to choose LangRelay, and when to choose Weglot
Choose LangRelay if
- Your site runs on WordPress and you want nothing published that nobody checked.
- You want to describe a change in a sentence and have an agent draft it for you.
- You run several sites and want them on one plan.
- You would rather pay for the translation you do each month than for the size of your translated site.
Choose Weglot if
- Your site runs on Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace or a custom stack and needs translations search engines can index.
- You want to order professional human translation from the same dashboard.
- You need a separate country domain per language.
- You want machine translation live the moment it exists, without a review step.
Weglot is simple until the word count grows
Weglot’s limit is the total translated words your site holds, with languages capped per plan. The other differences are about who stays in control.
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Who decides what goes live
Weglot’s help center describes machine translation going live as soon as it exists, unless you turn on manual approval or keep a language private; Weglot 2.0 adds a publishing workflow for each language. LangRelay holds every translation until someone approves it.
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AI that reviews, not only translates
Both use AI to translate. In LangRelay, Relay also drafts the changes you ask for, and a separate reviewer agent checks each one the way a language expert would. Weglot’s AI quality checker is a free tool you point at a URL.
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What you pay for
Weglot’s limit is the total number of translated words your site holds, and it does not renew. LangRelay’s allowance is the translation you do each month: text that has not changed, or is reused, costs nothing again.
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Where it works
Weglot works with more than 50 platforms through its proxy. LangRelay serves search-friendly translations on WordPress; on other sites its script embed translates in the browser, without SEO value. If you are not on WordPress, Weglot is the stronger fit today.
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Asking in plain language
Relay, LangRelay’s built-in agent, answers questions about your Site and drafts the changes you ask for, for you to approve. Weglot has announced an MCP so your own assistant can manage translations; LangRelay’s MCP is on the way.
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More than one site
Weglot’s Starter and Business plans cover one project. LangRelay’s paid plans include several Sites, so an agency can run a handful of client sites on one plan.
LangRelay and Weglot, 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. | Yes: Weglot’s reverse proxy and CDN, or its WordPress plugin, serve translated HTML on a subdirectory or subdomain. A JavaScript option translates in the browser. 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: Creates language URLs without creating WordPress posts. Translations are stored by Weglot. 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. | Yes: hreflang added automatically (x-default only by hand). Titles, meta descriptions, alt text and structured data translated. 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 Pro plan and up. 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: New and changed text is translated when a visitor or search engine opens the translated page. 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. | Partly Weglot’s help center: machine translations go live unless you approve new text by hand or keep a language private. Weglot 2.0 adds a publishing workflow. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
| 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: Edits translations on a preview copy of your site, with an SEO tags panel. 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. | Yes: “Always translate” and “never translate” rules of up to five words, on every plan. 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: DeepL first, then Google or Microsoft. An optional AI Language Model (OpenAI, Gemini) learns from your glossary and edits. 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. | Partly A free AI Translation Quality Checker scores a URL. No review step inside the product found. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
| 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 built-in chat 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. | Yes: Weglot MCP, part of Weglot 2.0, lets an AI assistant find projects, review translations and update content. Plans and setup are not published. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
| APIProgrammatic access for developers. | Planned On the way, for the Growth plan and up. | Yes: REST API with an API key. Which plans include it is not published. Source, checked 5 October 2026 |
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.
“We ran Weglot for years across our e-commerce clients, but the bill kept climbing and the SEO tags weren’t always right. Since switching to LangRelay we’re paying way less and our Dutch and German pages rank better.”
Tim Schouwink
Founder, Mediastap
Install the plugin and your site comes across
LangRelay doesn’t need an export from Weglot. Install the plugin, connect your Site, and LangRelay crawls your pages and translates them into the languages you choose.
What comes across
- Every page the crawl finds, translated into your languages
- Subdirectory URLs like /fr/, the structure Weglot’s WordPress plugin uses
- hreflang, a canonical per language, and translated titles and meta
Translations are made fresh, so the first crawl uses words from your allowance. Slugs you translated in Weglot are set again by hand.
What you pay, and what it counts
Unique translated words across all your languages: a fixed total that does not renew. Languages and projects are capped per plan. Prices exclude VAT.
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.
Weglot
€15a month
Starter, €15 a month or €150 a year: 1 language, 10,000 words, 1 project. Business, €29 a month: 3 languages, 50,000 words.
Free plan: 2,000 words, 1 language, 1 project.
Frequently asked questions
What people ask when they weigh Weglot against LangRelay: how each one stores and publishes translations, what the prices count, and what moving involves.
Something we missed? Book a demo or write to us.
Is LangRelay a Weglot alternative?
Yes, for WordPress sites. LangRelay translates your WordPress site without duplicating posts, like Weglot, but holds every translation for approval and adds an agent that drafts changes for you. For Shopify, Webflow, Wix or custom sites that need indexed translations, Weglot’s proxy is the better fit today.
Does Weglot duplicate WordPress posts?
No. Weglot’s developer docs say it creates a URL per language without creating pages in the WordPress backend, and stores translations on its own servers. LangRelay also keeps one post and translates the rendered page.
Does Weglot publish machine translations automatically?
Weglot’s help center says translated pages are published automatically unless you change that: you can turn off automatic content translation and approve each new item, keep a language private, or hide automatic translations. Weglot 2.0 also advertises a publishing workflow that controls when each language goes live. LangRelay works the other way round: nothing goes live until it is approved.
How does Weglot pricing compare with LangRelay?
They count different things. Weglot caps the total translated words your site holds: its own example is an 8,000-word site in three languages, about 24,000 words, which fits Weglot’s Business plan (€29 a month, 3 languages, 50,000 words). LangRelay counts the words it translates each month: the same first translation uses 24,000 words of the monthly allowance, and Starter (€19 a month) includes 150,000. After that, only new or changed text uses words.
Can I switch from Weglot to LangRelay?
Yes. Install the LangRelay plugin and connect your Site; LangRelay crawls and translates your pages, so you don’t need an export from Weglot to start. If you translated URL slugs in Weglot, set the same ones in LangRelay so existing links keep working.
Do Weglot and LangRelay support MCP?
Weglot has announced a Weglot MCP with Weglot 2.0 for managing translations from an AI assistant. LangRelay’s MCP is on the way; today you can ask Relay, LangRelay’s built-in agent, from inside the dashboard.
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Sources
Every Weglot claim on this page comes from Weglot’s own pages: its website, its documentation or its WordPress.org listing. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll correct it.
Weglot
- www.weglot.com/ai-translation (checked 5 October 2026)
- developers.weglot.com/api/reference (checked 5 October 2026)
- support.weglot.com/article/59-total-number-translated-words (checked 5 October 2026)
- www.weglot.com/technical-presentation (checked 5 October 2026)
- support.weglot.com/article/402-can-i-choose-my-translation (checked 5 October 2026)
- support.weglot.com/article/130-translations-exceptions (checked 5 October 2026)
- www.weglot.com/solutions/weglot-2-for-web-agencies (checked 5 October 2026)
- support.weglot.com/article/406-how-to-manage-automatic-translations (checked 5 October 2026)
- support.weglot.com/article/293-how-does-weglot-manage-the-seo (checked 5 October 2026)
- support.weglot.com/article/148-can-i-translate-my-urls (checked 5 October 2026)
- developers.weglot.com/wordpress/getting-started (checked 5 October 2026)
- support.weglot.com/article/409-how-to-use-the-visual-editor (checked 5 October 2026)
- www.weglot.com/pricing (checked 5 October 2026)
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