--- title: "Weglot vs GTranslate: two translating proxies compared" description: "Weglot and GTranslate both translate any site through a proxy. How their word caps, flat prices, free plans and URL options differ, as listed in October 2026." url: "https://www.langrelay.com/weglot-vs-gtranslate" --- 1. [Home](https://www.langrelay.com/) 2. [Compare](https://www.langrelay.com/best-website-translation-software-compared-2026) 3. Weglot vs GTranslate: two translating proxies compared ComparisonCost and buying # Weglot vs GTranslate: two translating proxies compared Weglot and GTranslate both translate any site through a proxy. How their word caps, flat prices, free plans and URL options differ, as listed in October 2026. [Chris Jayden](https://www.langrelay.com/about) Founder Published 7 October 2026 Reading time 6 min read ![A boy carries a tray of bread up the steps of a blue-washed mountain town as a neighbour holds open a doorway framed in green and orange leaf tiles.](https://www.langrelay.com/img/vs/weglot-vs-gtranslate/cover-1536.3a56086e0c.webp) On this page 1. How each one meters the bill 2. The free plans work differently 3. Translation engine and editing 4. What happens after you change a page 5. Review before visitors see it 6. URLs, SEO and domains 7. A worked example: a 60,000-word site in five languages 8. Which one fits 9. Where LangRelay fits ## At a glance - Weglot Translating proxy for any platform €15 a month Unique translated words across all your languages: a fixed total that does not renew. Languages and projects are capped per plan. Prices exclude VAT. Free: 2,000 words, 1 language, 1 project. Checked 7 October 2026. What it does well - Works on almost any platform: Weglot says it connects natively to more than 70 platforms, including custom-built websites. - Server-side translation with hreflang and translated metadata, so search engines see every language. - Editing tools for teams: a visual editor, translators and teammates in the dashboard, and professional translation ordered inside Weglot. - A free plan for up to 2,000 words, and a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. - MCP-powered assistance in Weglot 2.0, so AI assistants can find projects, review translations and update content. - GTranslate Language switcher and translating proxy $12 a month A flat monthly price with no word or page-view limit, subject to fair use: the terms treat recurring traffic above 100,000 translated page hits in 24 hours as excessive. Prices in dollars. Free: A browser-only widget without SEO, for non-commercial use: personal, educational or internal testing. Checked 7 October 2026. What it does well - A free language switcher with more than 900,000 active WordPress installs. - No usage-based pricing: paid plans have no word or page-view limit, so the bill doesn’t grow with your content. - Works on any HTML site, with a subdirectory or subdomain per language on paid plans, and a country domain on Enterprise. Weglot and GTranslate sell the same kind of product. Both put a translating proxy between your site and its visitors, so neither cares much which platform the site runs on, and both serve each language at an address search engines can index. They meter different things. Weglot sells a fixed number of translated words and a fixed number of languages per plan. GTranslate's paid plans carry no word or page-view limit at all, and you choose a plan by the features you need, such as translated URLs or a domain per language. I build LangRelay, a WordPress translation plugin, and it appears near the end of this page. The Weglot and GTranslate facts come from their own sites and help centers, read on 7 October 2026. ## How each one meters the bill Weglot counts the total of unique words translated across all your languages, and its pricing page says that total is a fixed limit that does not renew. Its help center gives its own example: an 8,000-word site in three languages comes to about 24,000 translated words. Each plan also caps languages, projects and translation requests a month, which the pricing page describes as about equal to translated page views. Starter is €15 a month for one language, 10,000 words and 20,000 requests; Business €29 for three languages, 50,000 words and 50,000 requests; Pro €79 for five languages, 200,000 words and 200,000 requests; and Advanced €299 for ten languages, 1,000,000 words and 1,000,000 requests. Weglot's prices exclude VAT. GTranslate's paid plans are priced in dollars and charge nothing per word or per page view. Custom starts at $12 a month for one extra language, Startup is $25 a month for all languages, Business $35 adds URL translation, and Enterprise $50 adds hosting a language on its own domain. GTranslate's terms set a fair-use line: recurring traffic above 100,000 translated page hits in 24 hours counts as excessive and may be throttled. ## The free plans work differently Weglot's free plan covers 2,000 words in one language for one project, and its paid plans start with a 14-day trial. GTranslate's free version is a language switcher that translates in the visitor's browser with Google Translate. Its WordPress page says the free version gives no SEO advantage, because the URL does not change and translations are not stored. GTranslate's terms also limit it to personal, educational, internal testing, nonprofit or governmental use that does not directly generate revenue. A shop or a company site needs a paid GTranslate plan to stay within those terms. ## Translation engine and editing Weglot uses DeepL when DeepL supports the language pair, and Google Translate or Microsoft otherwise. Its AI Suggestions, generated with OpenAI, can rephrase or shorten a line. You edit in a visual editor that works on a preview copy of the site, with a panel for SEO tags, and "always translate" and "never translate" rules of up to five words each keep terms consistent. Weglot lists more than 110 languages. GTranslate's paid plans use Google's neural translation, and you correct a line by clicking the pencil icon beside it on the translated page. Instead of a glossary, paid plans can skip phrases, CSS selectors or whole pages. GTranslate lists 103 languages, and it sells professional and automated post-editing as a separate service. ## What happens after you change a page Weglot translates new and changed text when someone, a visitor or a search engine, opens the translated page, and adds the words to your total. GTranslate's proxy fetches your original when a visitor opens a translation, so changes appear once its cache refreshes. Before you spend time on manual corrections in GTranslate, note that its help center says that when the original text changes, an earlier manual edit of it is replaced by automatic translation. ## Review before visitors see it Weglot has controls for this. Its help center says languages are public by default, so translated pages are visible straight away. You can turn off automatic content translation, after which new content waits in a list until you approve it, or keep a language in private mode until you make it public. In Weglot 2.0, the AI Translation Quality Checker points your team to the content that deserves a closer look. I found no approval step on GTranslate's site. Its paid plans serve machine translation as it is made, and you refine it with the pencil icons afterwards. ## URLs, SEO and domains Weglot adds hreflang tags automatically, with `x-default` added by hand, and translates titles, meta descriptions, alt text and structured data. Translated URL slugs need Pro or above, and a top-level domain per language, such as an `.es` domain, is a plan feature listed from Extended (€699 a month). GTranslate adds hreflang tags and translated meta descriptions on paid plans. URL translation comes with Business and Enterprise, or as an option on a Custom plan, and a separate domain per language with Enterprise at $50 a month. ## A worked example: a 60,000-word site in five languages A worked example, priced from each vendor's page on 7 October 2026: a marketing site on Webflow with 60,000 words, translated into five languages, with translated URL slugs. | | Weglot | GTranslate | | --- | --- | --- | | What gets counted | 60,000 words times 5 languages, about 300,000 words | Nothing per word or page view, within fair use | | Plan that covers it | Advanced: 10 languages, 1,000,000 words. Pro has five languages but stops at 200,000 words | Business: all languages plus URL translation | | Price listed | €299 a month, or €2,990 a year, excluding VAT | $35 a month, or $350 a year | | Translated slugs | Included from Pro | Included from Business | | If the site doubles | About 600,000 words, still inside Advanced | No change to the price | If slugs do not matter, GTranslate's Startup plan at $25 a month covers the same five languages, and Weglot's plan is still set by the 300,000 words. The two prices are in different currencies, and Weglot's excludes VAT, so read them as each vendor printed them. Weglot's bill grows with the words on the site and with translated traffic, and GTranslate's with the features you add, up to its fair-use line. The comparison changes for a smaller site. At 8,000 words in three languages, Weglot's own example lands at about 24,000 words, which fits Business at €29 a month for three languages. ## Which one fits Weglot fits a team that wants DeepL where it is available, a glossary of always and never translate rules, editing on a preview copy, and the option to approve new content before it shows. Its word cap is the part to plan around, together with which plan includes translated slugs. GTranslate fits a site that is large, or grows often, and needs a predictable monthly price; and a site that needs a country domain per language, which GTranslate includes in Enterprise. The free widget fits personal and nonprofit sites that do not need search traffic in other languages. ## Where LangRelay fits Both proxies work on any platform. LangRelay does not: it serves search-friendly translations only on WordPress, and on other sites its script embed translates in the browser without SEO value. For the Webflow site in the example, Weglot or GTranslate is the choice. On a WordPress site, LangRelay works differently from both. Its plugin keeps one post per page, serves approved translations under `/fr/`-style paths with hreflang and a canonical per language, and reports an edit about a minute after you save it. Only the changed text is translated. 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. During the pilot it translates between nine languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese and Turkish. Plans are on the [pricing page](https://www.langrelay.com/pricing). The [LangRelay vs Weglot](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-weglot) and [LangRelay vs GTranslate](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-gtranslate) pages compare each one with LangRelay in detail, and [Weglot alternatives](https://www.langrelay.com/weglot-alternatives) and [GTranslate alternatives](https://www.langrelay.com/gtranslate-alternatives) list the other options. ## Weglot and GTranslate side by side From each vendor's own pages, on the dates in the sources below. | Tool | DeliveryHow translated pages are servedHow the translated page reaches visitors: from your own server, through a proxy, or swapped in by the browser. | No duplicate postsWordPress: one post, no copies per languageWhether WordPress keeps one post per page, instead of a separate copy for every language. | hreflanghreflang and per-language URLsA URL per language with hreflang tags, so search engines find and index each language. | Translated slugsTranslated URL slugsURLs in the visitor’s language, like /fr/a-propos instead of /fr/about. | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [LangRelay](https://www.langrelay.com/pricing) | : WordPress plugin serves translated HTML from your server. A script tag works on any other site, without SEO. | : Translates the rendered page. Your posts stay as they are. | : Subdirectories (/fr/), hreflang with x-default, a canonical per language, and translated titles and meta. | Partly: Set by hand per page and language. Automatic slug translation is on the way. | | [Weglot](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-weglot) | : Weglot’s reverse proxy and CDN serve translated HTML on a subdomain or subdirectory. A JavaScript option translates in the browser, which search engines do not see. | : The WordPress plugin creates a URL per language without creating pages in the WordPress backend. | : hreflang added automatically (x-default only by hand). Titles, meta descriptions, alt text and structured data translated. | Partly: Pro plan and up. | | [GTranslate](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-gtranslate) | 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. | : Translates the finished HTML; translations are stored by GTranslate, not in WordPress. | Partly: Paid plans only: hreflang tags and translated meta descriptions. | Partly: Business and Enterprise plans, or as an option on a Custom plan. | | Tool | Follows editsPicks up edits to the originalWhen you edit the original page, whether the tool notices and translates what changed. | Approval stepApprove before it goes liveWhether a person can check a translation before visitors see it. | Visual editorVisual editorEditing translations on the page itself, rather than in a list of strings. | GlossaryGlossaryFixed translations for names and terms, applied every time they appear. | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [LangRelay](https://www.langrelay.com/pricing) | : 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. | : 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. | : Click text on the rendered page to edit, at desktop, tablet and mobile widths. | : Per-language terms, “keep as source”, and match case. Paid plans. | | [Weglot](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-weglot) | : New and changed text is translated when a visitor or search engine opens the translated page. | Partly: With automatic content translation turned off, new content waits in a list until you approve it; then its translation shows. | : Edits translations on a preview copy of your site, with an SEO tags panel. | : “Always translate” and “never translate” rules of up to five words each. | | [GTranslate](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-gtranslate) | : Paid plans fetch the original when a visitor opens a translated page, so changes show up once the cache refreshes. | Not found: No approval step found. | : Paid plans: pencil icons beside each text on the translated page. | Partly: No glossary found. Paid plans can skip phrases, CSS selectors or pages. | | Tool | Machine translationMachine translationThe machine or AI translation the tool uses. | AI reviewAI quality reviewAI that checks translations for mistakes, not only writes them. | AI assistantAI assistant in the productAn assistant inside the product that you can ask in plain language. | MCPMCP server for your own AILets your own AI assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT, work with the tool directly. | APIAPIProgrammatic access for developers. | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [LangRelay](https://www.langrelay.com/pricing) | : AI translation that follows your glossary and each language’s formality. | : 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. | : Relay, a chat agent that reads your Site’s pages and translations and drafts changes for your approval. | Planned: On the way: connect Claude or ChatGPT to your Sites. | Planned: On the way, for the Growth plan and up. | | [Weglot](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-weglot) | : DeepL when it supports the language pair, otherwise Google Translate or Microsoft. AI Suggestions, generated with OpenAI, rephrase or shorten a translation. | Partly: In Weglot 2.0, the AI Translation Quality Checker points your team to the content that deserves a closer look. People do the review. | Not found: No built-in chat assistant found. | : Weglot 2.0 lists MCP-powered assistance: an AI assistant can find projects, review translations and update content. Plans and setup are not published. | : REST API with an API key. Which plans include it is not published. | | [GTranslate](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-gtranslate) | : Free: Google Translate. Paid plans: Google’s neural translation, with no per-word charge. | Not found: No AI review found. | Not found: No AI assistant found. | Not found: Not found on gtranslate.io. | Not found: No public API for managing translations found. | - 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 Weglot - [www.weglot.com/solutions/weglot-2-for-web-agencies](https://www.weglot.com/solutions/weglot-2-for-web-agencies) (checked 7 October 2026) - [developers.weglot.com/api/reference](https://developers.weglot.com/api/reference) (checked 7 October 2026) - [support.weglot.com/article/59-total-number-translated-words](https://support.weglot.com/article/59-total-number-translated-words) (checked 7 October 2026) - [www.weglot.com/technical-presentation](https://www.weglot.com/technical-presentation) (checked 7 October 2026) - [support.weglot.com/article/402-can-i-choose-my-translation](https://support.weglot.com/article/402-can-i-choose-my-translation) (checked 7 October 2026) - [support.weglot.com/article/130-translations-exceptions](https://support.weglot.com/article/130-translations-exceptions) (checked 7 October 2026) - [support.weglot.com/article/406-how-to-manage-automatic-translations](https://support.weglot.com/article/406-how-to-manage-automatic-translations) (checked 7 October 2026) - [support.weglot.com/article/293-how-does-weglot-manage-the-seo](https://support.weglot.com/article/293-how-does-weglot-manage-the-seo) (checked 7 October 2026) - [support.weglot.com/article/148-can-i-translate-my-urls](https://support.weglot.com/article/148-can-i-translate-my-urls) (checked 7 October 2026) - [developers.weglot.com/wordpress/getting-started](https://developers.weglot.com/wordpress/getting-started) (checked 7 October 2026) - [support.weglot.com/article/409-how-to-use-the-visual-editor](https://support.weglot.com/article/409-how-to-use-the-visual-editor) (checked 7 October 2026) - [www.weglot.com/pricing](https://www.weglot.com/pricing) (checked 7 October 2026) - [www.weglot.com/product/ai-translation-quality](https://www.weglot.com/product/ai-translation-quality) (checked 7 October 2026) - [www.weglot.com/documentation/available-languages](https://www.weglot.com/documentation/available-languages) (checked 7 October 2026) - [www.weglot.com/integrations](https://www.weglot.com/integrations) (checked 7 October 2026) - [www.weglot.com](https://www.weglot.com/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [www.weglot.com/features](https://www.weglot.com/features) (checked 7 October 2026) - [support.weglot.com/article/238-what-is-the-private-mode](https://support.weglot.com/article/238-what-is-the-private-mode) (checked 7 October 2026) - [support.weglot.com/article/266-how-to-disable-automatic-translations](https://support.weglot.com/article/266-how-to-disable-automatic-translations) (checked 7 October 2026) - [www.weglot.com/integrations/translation-plugin-for-wordpress](https://www.weglot.com/integrations/translation-plugin-for-wordpress) (checked 7 October 2026) - [support.weglot.com/article/105-weglot-multiple-websites](https://support.weglot.com/article/105-weglot-multiple-websites) (checked 7 October 2026) - [support.weglot.com/article/198-how-to-order-professional-translations](https://support.weglot.com/article/198-how-to-order-professional-translations) (checked 7 October 2026) GTranslate - [gtranslate.support/en/articles/1871130-how-caching-works-in-gtranslate-network](https://gtranslate.support/en/articles/1871130-how-caching-works-in-gtranslate-network) (checked 7 October 2026) - [gtranslate.io/](https://gtranslate.io/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [wordpress.org/plugins/gtranslate/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gtranslate/) (checked 7 October 2026) - [gtranslate.support/en/articles/1349930-how-to-skip-translations](https://gtranslate.support/en/articles/1349930-how-to-skip-translations) (checked 7 October 2026) - [gtranslate.support/en/articles/1345138-how-to-choose-a-paid-plan](https://gtranslate.support/en/articles/1345138-how-to-choose-a-paid-plan) (checked 7 October 2026) - [gtranslate.support/en/articles/1348921-how-to-edit-translations](https://gtranslate.support/en/articles/1348921-how-to-edit-translations) (checked 7 October 2026) - [gtranslate.support/en/articles/1746984-how-to-enable-url-translation](https://gtranslate.support/en/articles/1746984-how-to-enable-url-translation) (checked 7 October 2026) - [gtranslate.io/terms](https://gtranslate.io/terms) (checked 7 October 2026) Product names and logos belong to their owners; 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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. How each one meters the bill 2. The free plans work differently 3. Translation engine and editing 4. What happens after you change a page 5. Review before visitors see it 6. URLs, SEO and domains 7. A worked example: a 60,000-word site in five languages 8. Which one fits 9. Where LangRelay fits Share - [Share on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.langrelay.com%2Fweglot-vs-gtranslate) - [Share on X (opens in a new tab)](https://x.com/intent/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.langrelay.com%2Fweglot-vs-gtranslate&text=Weglot%20vs%20GTranslate%3A%20two%20translating%20proxies%20compared) See it on your site A 30-minute walkthrough on one of your pages. [Book a demo](https://www.langrelay.com/book-a-demo) - Weglot - GTranslate - website translation software ## Keep reading - Alternatives ### [Weglot alternatives: six options and who each one fits](https://www.langrelay.com/weglot-alternatives) Six Weglot alternatives for WordPress and other platforms, with the prices their own sites listed on 7 October 2026 and the kind of site each one suits. - Alternatives ### [GTranslate alternatives: six options compared for 2026](https://www.langrelay.com/gtranslate-alternatives) Six GTranslate alternatives, from hosted proxies to WordPress plugins, with where each keeps translations, how review works and prices listed in October 2026. - Comparison ### [Weglot vs WPML: a hosted proxy or a WordPress plugin?](https://www.langrelay.com/weglot-vs-wpml) Weglot translates through a hosted proxy and bills monthly by translated words; WPML is a yearly WordPress licence. How they differ, priced October 2026. 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