--- title: "Weglot vs TranslatePress: hosted words or a yearly licence" description: "Weglot keeps translations on its servers and caps total words; TranslatePress stores them in WordPress on a yearly licence. Their 2026 prices, review and SEO." url: "https://www.langrelay.com/weglot-vs-translatepress" --- 1. [Home](https://www.langrelay.com/) 2. [Compare](https://www.langrelay.com/best-website-translation-software-compared-2026) 3. Weglot vs TranslatePress: hosted words or a yearly licence ComparisonCost and buying # Weglot vs TranslatePress: hosted words or a yearly licence Weglot keeps translations on its servers and caps total words; TranslatePress stores them in WordPress on a yearly licence. Their 2026 prices, review and SEO. [Chris Jayden](https://www.langrelay.com/about) Founder Published 7 October 2026 Reading time 6 min read ![A surfer and two children carry a board into the shallows while their mother watches from the sand, beside a row of beach huts, the first with a door of green and orange leaf tiles.](https://www.langrelay.com/img/vs/weglot-vs-translatepress/cover-1536.3e77936123.webp) On this page 1. Where the translations live 2. How each one counts and charges 3. Translating on the first visit 4. Checking before it shows 5. Engines, slugs and SEO 6. A worked example: three years on one WordPress site 7. Which one fits 8. 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. - 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. On a WordPress site, Weglot and TranslatePress look alike from the outside. Neither creates a post per language, both give each language its own URL such as `/fr/about/`, and both fill in a translation the first time someone opens a page in that language. The difference is where the translated text ends up and how you pay for it. Weglot keeps translations in its own database and sells a cap on the total words your site holds. TranslatePress writes them into tables in your WordPress database and sells a yearly licence with a quota of AI words. I build LangRelay, which is also a WordPress plugin; it comes up near the end. The Weglot and TranslatePress facts below are from their own sites, read on 7 October 2026. ## Where the translations live Weglot's technical presentation says translations are stored in Weglot's database. On WordPress, its plugin creates a URL for each language without creating pages in the WordPress backend and returns the translated content on those URLs. On other platforms Weglot's reverse proxy and CDN do the serving, through a subdomain or subdirectory integration. That is why one Weglot account can cover a Shopify store and a WordPress blog alike; Weglot lists integrations for WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace and Framer. TranslatePress saves each translated string in its own database tables and keeps one post per page. Your site serves the translations itself. Its FAQ says that when a licence expires, the plugin keeps working as configured, without TranslatePress AI, new features or downloads. TranslatePress is WordPress only; TranslatePress for Shopify is listed as a separate product. ## How each one counts and charges Weglot counts unique translated words across all your languages: its help center's example is an 8,000-word site in three languages, about 24,000 words. The total is a fixed limit that does not renew, and each plan also caps languages. Starter (€15 a month or €150 a year) allows one language and 10,000 words; Business (€29, or €290 a year) three languages and 50,000 words; Pro (€79, or €790) five languages and 200,000 words. Starter and Business cover one website and Pro up to three. Weglot's prices exclude VAT. TranslatePress sells a yearly licence by number of sites. Personal is €99 a year for one site with 50,000 AI words, Business €199 for three sites with 200,000, and Developer €349 for unlimited sites with 500,000. Each licence and each renewal includes its quota. AI words are counted per word, per language, and unused words carry over while the licence is active. More words can be bought from your account page, 100,000 for €24. Every paid plan includes the Multiple Languages add-on, so there is no language cap, and the SEO Pack. ## Translating on the first visit Both tools translate lazily. Weglot's help center says translations are generated progressively, when a visitor, you or a search engine opens a page in the translated language. TranslatePress's AI docs say a TranslatePress AI translation is made the first time a visitor opens the content in that language, and then stored in the database. After you edit a page, both treat the change the same way. TranslatePress's FAQ says an edited string counts as new and needs translating again; with automatic translation on, that happens on the next visit to the page in that language. Weglot translates new and changed text on the next visit too, and adds it to your word total. ## Checking before it shows Weglot gives you three switches. Its help center says languages are public by default, but you can keep a language in private mode, hide automatic translations per language so only edited or professional ones show, or turn off automatic content translation so new content waits for your approval. TranslatePress's AI page says of new content: "You won't need to manually review or translate it unless you prefer to." I found no approval step for a single translation. The Multiple Languages add-on can keep a whole language hidden until you publish it, and the front-end editor, included in the free plugin, shows a live preview while you correct strings. ## Engines, slugs and SEO Weglot uses DeepL when it supports the language pair and Google Translate or Microsoft otherwise. TranslatePress AI chooses among LLMs such as Gemini and GPT and DeepL or Google Translate per language pair and context; with your own key you can use Google Translate on any plan and DeepL on Business and Developer. Translated slugs need Weglot's Pro plan or above. In TranslatePress they come with the SEO Pack in every paid plan, set by hand or automatically. Weglot adds hreflang tags automatically (it does not add `x-default` by default) and translates metadata. TranslatePress outputs hreflang on every page and translates metadata and builds multilingual sitemaps through the SEO Pack. ## A worked example: three years on one WordPress site A worked example, priced from each vendor's page on 7 October 2026. A WordPress site has 12,000 words, translated into French and German, and adds about 2,000 words of new content a year. | | Weglot | TranslatePress | | --- | --- | --- | | Words counted in year one | 12,000 times 2 languages, 24,000 | 24,000 AI words | | Words added each year after | About 4,000 to the total | About 4,000 AI words | | Plan that covers it | Business: 3 languages, 50,000 words (Starter has one language) | Personal: 1 site, 50,000 AI words per licence year | | Price per year | €290 paid yearly, excluding VAT | €99 | | Three years | €870, and the total reaches about 32,000 words, inside Business | €297 | The example favours TranslatePress on price at this size, and it also leaves out what each price buys. Weglot hosts and serves the translations and covers non-WordPress sites on the same account; TranslatePress puts the work on your own server and database. If you add a Shopify store later, Weglot's Starter and Business plans cover one website, so two sites move you to Pro at €79 a month. The picture also changes for a large site. A 120,000-word site in the same two languages needs 240,000 words, past Pro's 200,000, so Weglot Advanced at €299 a month. TranslatePress Personal would need its 200,000-word pack (€40, listed at 15% off) on top of its 50,000, €139 in year one, or Business at €199 a year with 200,000 plus one 100,000-word pack. ## Which one fits Weglot fits a team running sites on more than one platform, or one that does not want translations in its WordPress database, and that wants an approval option for new content. TranslatePress fits a single WordPress site where translations should stay in your own database and a yearly licence suits the budget, with the visual editor available even in the free plugin. ## Where LangRelay fits LangRelay sits between the two on storage: like TranslatePress it keeps one post per page and translates what WordPress renders, and it keeps translations in its own service, which its plugin serves from your server under `/fr/`-style paths with hreflang and a canonical per language. It does not wait for a visitor. The plugin reports an edit about a minute after you save it, and 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. Relay, its built-in agent, drafts the changes you ask for in plain language. During the pilot LangRelay translates between nine languages (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese and Turkish). Its plans are on the [pricing page](https://www.langrelay.com/pricing). For each vendor against LangRelay, see [LangRelay vs Weglot](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-weglot) and [LangRelay vs TranslatePress](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-translatepress). The [TranslatePress alternatives](https://www.langrelay.com/translatepress-alternatives) and [Weglot alternatives](https://www.langrelay.com/weglot-alternatives) pages cover the other options. ## Weglot and TranslatePress 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. | | [TranslatePress](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-translatepress) | : WordPress plugin. Translations are stored in your database and served by your site, with a language slug in the URL such as /fr/. | : One post. Translations are saved per string in the plugin’s own database tables. | : hreflang for every page. Translated metadata and multilingual sitemaps need the SEO Pack, in every paid plan. | Partly: SEO Pack, in every paid plan: by hand or automatically. | | 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. | | [TranslatePress](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-translatepress) | : 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. | Partly: No approval step per translation found. The Multiple Languages add-on, in every paid plan, can keep a whole language hidden until you publish it. | : Front-end editor with a live preview, in the free plugin. | : Applies to new automatic translations when TranslatePress AI is the engine. | | 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. | | [TranslatePress](https://www.langrelay.com/langrelay-vs-translatepress) | : 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. | Not found: No AI quality score or review queue found. | Not found: No AI assistant found. | Not found: Not found on translatepress.com. | Partly: PHP functions and hooks. No public REST 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) 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; 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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. Where the translations live 2. How each one counts and charges 3. Translating on the first visit 4. Checking before it shows 5. Engines, slugs and SEO 6. A worked example: three years on one WordPress site 7. Which one fits 8. 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-translatepress) - [Share on X (opens in a new tab)](https://x.com/intent/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.langrelay.com%2Fweglot-vs-translatepress&text=Weglot%20vs%20TranslatePress%3A%20hosted%20words%20or%20a%20yearly%20licence) 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 - TranslatePress - translation plugins ## 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 ### [TranslatePress alternatives: five options for WordPress](https://www.langrelay.com/translatepress-alternatives) Five TranslatePress alternatives, from WPML and Polylang to hosted services, with prices checked 7 October 2026 and a sample site's first translation. - Comparison ### [TranslatePress vs WPML: one post or a post per language](https://www.langrelay.com/translatepress-vs-wpml) TranslatePress keeps one post and stores translated strings; WPML adds a post per language. Editors, review, AI words and prices, checked 7 October 2026. 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