--- title: "TranslatePress alternatives: five options for WordPress" description: "Five TranslatePress alternatives, from WPML and Polylang to hosted services, with prices checked 7 October 2026 and a sample site's first translation." url: "https://www.langrelay.com/translatepress-alternatives" --- 1. [Home](https://www.langrelay.com/) 2. [Compare](https://www.langrelay.com/best-website-translation-software-compared-2026) 3. TranslatePress alternatives: five options for WordPress AlternativesCost and buying # TranslatePress alternatives: five options for WordPress Five TranslatePress alternatives, from WPML and Polylang to hosted services, with prices checked 7 October 2026 and a sample site's first translation. [Chris Jayden](https://www.langrelay.com/about) Founder Published 7 October 2026 Reading time 6 min read ![Passengers on a night ferry look at a harbour city's lit windows, the ferry's wheelhouse patterned in green and orange leaf tiles.](https://www.langrelay.com/img/alternatives/translatepress-alternatives/cover-1536.a092c69858.webp) On this page 1. What TranslatePress does, in its own words 2. Five alternatives and the gap each one fills 3. WPML: review controls, a post per language 4. Polylang: free, and manual 5. Weglot and ConveyThis: beyond WordPress 6. LangRelay: TranslatePress's model with checks before pages go live 7. A worked example: the first translation of a 40,000-word site 8. Choosing ## At a glance - TranslatePress WordPress plugin, translates the rendered page €99 a year A yearly licence by number of sites, renewed each year. Each licence and renewal includes a quota of AI words; more can be bought from your account. Free: Free plugin: one extra language, the visual editor, Google Translate with your own key and 2,000 AI words. Checked 7 October 2026. What it does well - Translates the whole page at once, output from shortcodes, forms and page builders included. - A front-end visual editor with live preview in the free plugin. - Translations live in your own database, and the plugin keeps working as configured if the licence expires. - Translated slugs, metadata and multilingual sitemaps with the SEO Pack, in every paid plan. - As many languages as you need on every paid plan, through the Multiple Languages add-on. - A glossary for TranslatePress AI, and search and replace across translations already stored. TranslatePress translates the page WordPress renders, keeps one post per page and stores every translation in your own database. Its front-end editor is free. Three gaps can still matter: no step I could find to approve a single translation before visitors see it, an AI word quota tied to the licence, or a site that is moving beyond WordPress. The five alternatives below are sorted by which of those they answer. I make LangRelay, the fifth option here. The other four vendors' facts and prices are from their own pages as published on 7 October 2026. ## What TranslatePress does, in its own words TranslatePress's AI page says of new content: "You won't need to manually review or translate it unless you prefer to." Its documentation says a TranslatePress AI translation is made the first time a visitor opens the content in that language, then stored in the database. With automatic translation on, an edited string counts as new and is translated again on the next visit. The free plugin on WordPress.org adds one translation language, the visual editor, Google Translate on your own API key and 2,000 AI words. Paid plans are yearly licences: Personal at €99 for one site with 50,000 AI words, Business at €199 for three sites with 200,000, and Developer at €349 for unlimited sites with 500,000. TranslatePress counts AI words per word and per language. Unused words carry over while the licence is active and cannot be used once it expires; the plugin itself keeps working as configured. Control works per language instead: the Multiple Languages add-on, in every paid plan, keeps a language hidden until you publish it. ## Five alternatives and the gap each one fills | If you want | Look at | What its own pages say | | --- | --- | --- | | An approval step per translation | WPML or LangRelay | WPML's AI engine, PTC, can hold drafts for a Translation Manager; LangRelay, when you choose Ask me first, holds every page until you approve it | | A free plugin with no language limit | Polylang | No limit on the number of languages on WordPress.org; translation by hand, or DeepL in Pro | | Sites beyond WordPress | Weglot or ConveyThis | Weglot lists WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace and Framer; ConveyThis lists 35+ integrations and a JavaScript snippet | | A visual editor on every plan, free included | ConveyThis | Click and edit on the live page, on every plan including the free one | Who each one is for, summed up from its own site: WPML, businesses and web agencies building multilingual WordPress sites; Polylang, sites from simple blogs to WooCommerce stores; Weglot, marketing teams without in-house language expertise; ConveyThis, sites from a small blog to a large online store that want translation without code. LangRelay is built for WordPress sites that keep changing. ## WPML: review controls, a post per language WPML is the alternative to pick if review is the problem and you are happy with a different storage model. Its own engine, PTC, can publish AI translations at once, hold them as drafts until a Translation Manager approves them, or publish them and queue them for review. Each translation becomes a WordPress post of its own, linked to the original, where TranslatePress stores strings against one post. That gives you posts you can edit in the block editor, and more posts to keep in step. WPML has no free plan, and its prices exclude VAT. Multilingual CMS, at €99 a year for three production sites, is the cheapest plan with AI translation (22,500 words included) and the Advanced Translation Editor. ## Polylang: free, and manual Polylang's free plugin has no limit on languages, which matters if TranslatePress's free tier, at one extra language, is what pushed you away. Like WPML it creates a post per language. Translation is yours to do: by hand, or in Polylang Pro (from €99 a year) with DeepL on your own API key, one post, page or product at a time. Polylang's DeepL guide says a later edit to the original does not update the translation. ## Weglot and ConveyThis: beyond WordPress If you are adding a Shopify store or a Webflow site next to WordPress, a hosted service covers both. Weglot's limit is the total number of translated words across all your languages, and its help center says Starter and Business cover one website, so two sites need Pro at €79 a month (up to three websites, five languages, 200,000 words). ConveyThis has a free plan and starts at $12 a month for one language, 60,000 words and 15,000 page loads a month; its plans cover one website until Pro, at $64 a month for three. ConveyThis shows translations as soon as they are made, and you can review in private mode and then publish the site. Its features page mentions approving changes, but I found no step that holds a single translation until someone approves it. ## LangRelay: TranslatePress's model with checks before pages go live LangRelay works the way TranslatePress does on the front end: one post, the rendered page translated, served from your own server under language paths such as `/de/`. The differences are in what happens around the translation. The plugin reports an edit to LangRelay a minute or so after you save, so translation does not wait for a visitor. By default a translation goes live as soon as it is ready, and free checks hold a page with untranslated text, the wrong language or a changed price. To approve every page yourself, choose Ask me first. Relay, LangRelay's built-in agent, drafts the changes you ask for. Relay reviews any page you ask it to, the way a language expert would, and tells you the cost in AI credits before it starts. LangRelay keeps translations in its own service, where TranslatePress keeps them in your database, and during the pilot it covers nine languages against TranslatePress's 160-plus. ## A worked example: the first translation of a 40,000-word site A worked example with round numbers: a 40,000-word WordPress site translated into two languages for the first time, so 80,000 words of translation, priced from each vendor's page on 7 October 2026. | Tool | Plan that covers it | Listed price | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TranslatePress | Personal, 50,000 AI words, plus a 100,000-word pack | €99 a year plus €24 | TranslatePress sells extra AI words from your account page; Business, at €199 a year, includes 200,000 | | WPML | Multilingual CMS, 22,500 AI words | €99 a year, excluding VAT | Then 57,500 pay-as-you-go words: about €114 at WPML's monthly volume bands, if all are translated in one month | | Polylang | Polylang Pro, one site | €99 a year | DeepL bills its own usage on your account | | Weglot | Pro, 200,000 words | €79 a month | Business allows three languages but only 50,000 words | | ConveyThis | Business, 3 languages, 200,000 words | $24 a month | Starter covers one language | The WPML figure assumes the included words are spent first and do not count toward the monthly bands; WPML's pricing page does not say either way. LangRelay counts the same 80,000 words against a monthly allowance that renews each month, so on a plan whose allowance covers it, a first translation is a one-month cost; the [pricing page](https://www.langrelay.com/pricing) lists each plan's allowance. After that, only new or changed text uses words. ## Choosing If you like how TranslatePress works and want a check before pages go live, the [LangRelay vs TranslatePress](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-translatepress) page sets the two side by side. If you want each language as its own post, read [TranslatePress vs WPML](https://www.langrelay.com/translatepress-vs-wpml). And if you are leaving a hosted service for a plugin, the [Weglot alternatives](https://www.langrelay.com/weglot-alternatives) page starts from the other side. ## TranslatePress and LangRelay side by side From each vendor's own pages, on the dates in the sources below. | Capability | [LangRelay](https://www.langrelay.com/pricing) | [TranslatePress](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-translatepress) | | --- | --- | --- | | 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:WordPress plugin. Translations are stored in your database and served by your site, with a language slug in the URL such as /fr/.[Source, checked 7 October 2026](https://translatepress.com/docs/settings/) | | 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:One post. Translations are saved per string in the plugin’s own database tables.[Source, checked 7 October 2026](https://translatepress.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions/) | | 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 for every page. Translated metadata and multilingual sitemaps need the SEO Pack, in every paid plan.[Source, checked 7 October 2026](https://translatepress.com/multilingual-seo/) | | Translated URL slugsURLs in the visitor’s language, like /fr/a-propos instead of /fr/about. | PartlySet by hand per page and language. Automatic slug translation is on the way. | PartlySEO Pack, in every paid plan: by hand or automatically.[Source, checked 7 October 2026](https://translatepress.com/docs/translation-editor/url-slug-translation/) | | 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:An edited string counts as new and needs translating again. With automatic translation on, it is translated when a visitor next opens the page in that language.[Source, checked 7 October 2026](https://translatepress.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions/) | | Approve before it goes liveWhether a person can check a translation before visitors see it. | Yes:When you choose Ask me first. By default pages go live as they are ready, and free checks hold a page with untranslated text, the wrong language or a changed price. Legal pages, pricing pages and sweeping changes always wait for you. | PartlyNo approval step per translation found. The Multiple Languages add-on, in every paid plan, can keep a whole language hidden until you publish it.[Source, checked 7 October 2026](https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/multiple-languages/) | | 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:Front-end editor with a live preview, in the free plugin.[Source, checked 7 October 2026](https://wordpress.org/plugins/translatepress-multilingual/) | | GlossaryFixed translations for names and terms, applied every time they appear. | Yes:Per-language terms, “keep as source”, and match case. Paid plans. | Yes:Applies to new automatic translations when TranslatePress AI is the engine.[Source, checked 7 October 2026](https://translatepress.com/docs/translation-glossary/) | | 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:TranslatePress AI picks between LLMs (such as Gemini and GPT) and DeepL or Google Translate per language pair and context. Google with your own key works on every plan, DeepL with your own key on Business and Developer.[Source, checked 7 October 2026](https://translatepress.com/pricing/) | | AI quality reviewAI that checks translations for mistakes, not only writes them. | Yes:Relay reviews any page you ask it to, the way a language expert would, quoted in AI credits first. It reviews legal pages, pricing pages and sweeping changes on its own while you have AI credits. | Not foundNo AI quality score or review queue 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 foundNo AI assistant found. | | MCP server for your own AILets your own AI assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT, work with the tool directly. | PlannedOn the way: connect Claude or ChatGPT to your Sites. | Not foundNot found on translatepress.com. | | APIProgrammatic access for developers. | PlannedOn the way, for the Growth plan and up. | PartlyPHP functions and hooks. No public REST API for managing translations found.[Source, checked 7 October 2026](https://translatepress.com/docs/translation-function/) | - 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 ### Where the table comes from TranslatePress - [translatepress.com/docs/translation-function/](https://translatepress.com/docs/translation-function/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [translatepress.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions/](https://translatepress.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [translatepress.com/docs/settings/](https://translatepress.com/docs/settings/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [translatepress.com/pricing/](https://translatepress.com/pricing/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [translatepress.com/docs/translation-glossary/](https://translatepress.com/docs/translation-glossary/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [translatepress.com/docs/addons/multiple-languages/](https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/multiple-languages/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [translatepress.com/multilingual-seo/](https://translatepress.com/multilingual-seo/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [translatepress.com/docs/translation-editor/url-slug-translation/](https://translatepress.com/docs/translation-editor/url-slug-translation/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [wordpress.org/plugins/translatepress-multilingual/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/translatepress-multilingual/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [translatepress.com/](https://translatepress.com/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [translatepress.com/docs/addons/seo-pack/](https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/seo-pack/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [translatepress.com/ai/](https://translatepress.com/ai/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [translatepress.com/docs/automatic-translation/translatepress-ai/](https://translatepress.com/docs/automatic-translation/translatepress-ai/) (checked 7 October 2026) Product names and logos belong to their owners; shown to identify them for comparison, no affiliation or endorsement. ## Sources The pages this one cites, with the day each was read. 1. 01[TranslatePress, Pricing](https://translatepress.com/pricing/)translatepress.com, checked 7 October 2026 2. 02[TranslatePress on WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/plugins/translatepress-multilingual/)wordpress.org, checked 7 October 2026 3. 03[TranslatePress, AI](https://translatepress.com/ai/)translatepress.com, checked 7 October 2026 4. 04[TranslatePress documentation, TranslatePress AI](https://translatepress.com/docs/automatic-translation/translatepress-ai/)translatepress.com, checked 7 October 2026 5. 05[TranslatePress, Frequently asked questions](https://translatepress.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions/)translatepress.com, checked 7 October 2026 6. 06[TranslatePress documentation, Multiple Languages add-on](https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/multiple-languages/)translatepress.com, checked 7 October 2026 7. 07[WPML, Purchase](https://app.wpml.org/purchase)app.wpml.org, checked 7 October 2026 8. 08[WPML documentation, Automatic translation pricing](https://wpml.org/documentation/automatic-translation/automatic-translation-pricing/)wpml.org, checked 7 October 2026 9. 09[WPML documentation, AI translation settings](https://wpml.org/documentation/customizing-wpml/ai-translation-settings/)wpml.org, checked 7 October 2026 10. 10[Polylang on WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/)wordpress.org, checked 7 October 2026 11. 11[Polylang, Polylang Pro pricing](https://polylang.pro/pricing/polylang-pro/)polylang.pro, checked 7 October 2026 12. 12[Polylang documentation, How to use DeepL machine translation with Polylang Pro](https://polylang.pro/documentation/support/guides/how-to-use-deepl-machine-translation-with-polylang-pro/)polylang.pro, checked 7 October 2026 13. 13[Weglot, Pricing](https://www.weglot.com/pricing)weglot.com, checked 7 October 2026 14. 14[Weglot, Integrations](https://www.weglot.com/integrations)weglot.com, checked 7 October 2026 15. 15[ConveyThis, Pricing](https://www.conveythis.com/pricing)conveythis.com, checked 7 October 2026 16. 16[ConveyThis, Control and collaboration](https://www.conveythis.com/control-and-collaboration)conveythis.com, checked 7 October 2026 17. 17[Weglot, AI translation quality](https://www.weglot.com/product/ai-translation-quality)weglot.com, checked 7 October 2026 18. 18[Polylang, Home](https://polylang.pro/)polylang.pro, checked 7 October 2026 19. 19[ConveyThis, Home](https://www.conveythis.com/)conveythis.com, checked 7 October 2026 20. 20[Weglot Help Center, Weglot on multiple websites](https://support.weglot.com/article/105-weglot-multiple-websites)support.weglot.com, checked 7 October 2026 21. 21[ConveyThis, Features](https://www.conveythis.com/features)conveythis.com, checked 7 October 2026 [Chris Jayden](https://www.langrelay.com/about) Founder, LangRelay Chris Jayden is the founder of LangRelay. Chris has worked on websites of every size, from large e-commerce stores to small sites with a handful of pages, and started LangRelay after years of translating them the hard way. On this page 1. What TranslatePress does, in its own words 2. Five alternatives and the gap each one fills 3. WPML: review controls, a post per language 4. Polylang: free, and manual 5. Weglot and ConveyThis: beyond WordPress 6. LangRelay: TranslatePress's model with checks before pages go live 7. A worked example: the first translation of a 40,000-word site 8. Choosing Share - [Share on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.langrelay.com%2Ftranslatepress-alternatives) - [Share on X (opens in a new tab)](https://x.com/intent/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.langrelay.com%2Ftranslatepress-alternatives&text=TranslatePress%20alternatives%3A%20five%20options%20for%20WordPress) See it on your site A 30-minute walkthrough on one of your pages. 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