Weglot alternatives: where to go and how to keep your translated pages
Eight destinations, sorted by platform and by the reason you want out, plus an eight-step exit plan.
The short answer. On WordPress, pick TranslatePress if you want the switch that feels most like Weglot (you translate by clicking on the live page), WPML for a large site or a WooCommerce catalog, and Polylang if you want a free base and don't mind more setup. On Shopify, start with Translate & Adapt, Shopify's own free app. On any other CMS, Linguise and ConveyThis work the same way as Weglot for a lot less per word, GTranslate doesn't count words at all, and Bablic bills by visit. One thing before you cancel: Weglot serves your translations. Export them, plan your redirects, and cancel last. We compared these eight destinations and checked their pricing pages in 2026.
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Why the Weglot bill eventually pinches
Weglot is still one of the easiest tools out there. Paste a snippet or install a plugin, and your site speaks another language within the hour. Customers rate it highly, and the machine translation quality rarely comes up as a complaint. People who leave almost all talk about the same two things: how the price is calculated, and what happens when they try to walk away. Here are six reasons, each checked against the official pricing page in 2026.
You pay per word, across every language
Weglot's quota counts unique translated words, added up across all your languages. A 30,000-word site translated into Spanish uses 30,000 words. Add French and German and you're at 90,000. Every new language multiplies your usage instead of nudging it. And the limit is fixed: it doesn't reset every month, it measures everything translated since day one.
Price tiers with no step in between
In dollars, the plans run Starter at about $17 a month (10,000 words), Business at about $32 (50,000 words, 3 languages), Pro at about $87 (200,000 words, 5 languages) and Advanced at about $329 (1 million words, 10 languages). There's nothing between 200,000 and 1 million words. Cross that line by a few thousand words and the bill nearly quadruples. Weglot bills in euros and labels its dollar prices as estimates, so your card statement will move with the exchange rate.
The counter climbs while you add nothing
Weglot creates a translation when a visitor or a search engine bot opens a translated page. Filtered category pages, internal search results and product variants nobody looks at all end up in the count. Weglot's team confirmed this to a WordPress user whose free plan overflowed right after launch. Shopify merchants tell the same story in their reviews: pushed to upgrade again and again without publishing anything new.
Translated URLs need the Pro plan
Getting addresses in the visitor's language ("/es/zapatos-rojos" instead of "/es/red-shoes") takes at least Pro, at about $87 a month. That matters for ranking in each market.
Over quota or canceled: the pages go dark
Your translations are stored and served by Weglot, not by your site. Go over your quota without the auto-upgrade option turned on, and the pricing page warns that translations are discontinued until you upgrade. Cancel, and the same logic applies. Pages Google had indexed in other languages stop returning a translation, and your rankings in those languages go with them.
Leaving only works if you planned the export
Exporting and importing translations (CSV or XLIFF) is only available from the Advanced plan, at about $329 a month. If you're on Starter, Business or Pro and want to keep years of reviewed translations, you'll need to move up a tier for the export. On Shopify, several merchants also report leftover code in their theme after uninstalling, and charges that kept coming after they removed the app.
You're leaving because… go to…
The right Weglot alternative depends on your platform first, then on what's pushing you out. Usually only one line applies. Each card jumps to the detailed profile below.
Yearly license from €99, translations stored in your WordPress database, visual editing like Weglot.
You run a big WordPress site or a WooCommerce catalogWPMLFrom €39 with a year of support and updates, AI translation words topped up at every renewal.
You want a free base and translate yourselfPolylangFree on WordPress.org, Pro from €99 a year before tax.
Your store runs on ShopifyTranslate & AdaptShopify's free app, machine translation for 2 languages.
You're not on WordPress and want to pay less per wordLinguise or ConveyThisSame approach as Weglot, much bigger word quotas for the money.
You never want to count words againGTranslate or BablicGTranslate: unlimited words. Bablic: billed by visit, not by word.
Weglot alternatives, tool by tool
For each tool: why move there, who it's for, its catch, how to migrate from Weglot, and what it costs. Prices are the ones shown in 2026, in dollars when the vendor shows dollars. TranslatePress, WPML and Polylang only publish euro prices, so we quote them in euros rather than guess a conversion. To keep things comparable, we use one example throughout: a 30,000-word site in 3 languages. That's 90,000 words on Weglot's counter, which means the Pro plan at about $87 a month.
TranslatePress: the closest thing to Weglot on WordPress
WordPress, closest feelWhy move to TranslatePress. You keep what you liked about Weglot: open the page, click a sentence, fix its translation. The difference is where the work ends up. Translations are saved in your own WordPress database. You pay a yearly license instead of a per-word subscription, and a translation you already have stays yours.
Who it's for. Brochure sites, blogs and small WooCommerce stores that want visual editing without a word counter.
Who it's not for. Anything that isn't WordPress. It only exists as a plugin.
The catch. Machine translation isn't unlimited. Personal (€99 a year, 1 site) includes 50,000 AI-translated words, Business (€199 a year, 3 sites) 200,000 words plus DeepL, Developer (€349 a year, unlimited sites) 500,000 words. Word packs go from €24 for 100,000 words to €1,050 for 10 million. If you'd rather plug in Google or DeepL directly, you bring your own API key and pay those services.
How to migrate. Install TranslatePress, set the same languages and URL structure you had on Weglot ("/es/", "/fr/"), turn Weglot off, then run machine translation on the pages that matter. Keep your Weglot export next to you to paste back the passages you had reviewed. For our 90,000-word example, Business is enough: €199 a year instead of roughly $87 a month for Weglot Pro.
- Price
- from €99 a year
- AI words included
- 50,000 to 500,000
- Storage
- your WordPress database
- Catch
- WordPress only
WPML: for a large WordPress site or a WooCommerce catalog
Large WordPress sitesWhy move to WPML. It's the longest-running multilingual plugin for WordPress, built for sites with lots of post types, custom fields and products. You translate page by page and field by field, with a hand on every element. Its included-words logic is the opposite of Weglot's: AI translation words are topped up at each renewal and never expire.
Who it's for. Agencies and content-heavy sites (catalogs, directories, structured content) that want control more than magic.
Who it's not for. Anyone who wants the whole site translated in an afternoon with no setup. The learning curve is steeper than Weglot's.
The catch. AI quotas are small. Multilingual Blog (€39, 1 site) has none, Multilingual CMS (€99, 3 sites) has 22,500 words, Agency (€199, unlimited sites) 45,000. The price includes a year of support and updates. For our 90,000-word example the AI quota falls short: you translate part of it by hand, top up with an outside service, or spread the work over several renewals.
How to migrate. Install WPML, pick the same URL structure as on Weglot, then translate the pages that get traffic in other languages first (Search Console shows you which). Your Weglot export is the reference for reviewed copy. Budget time to rebuild menus and widgets per language.
- Price
- from €39 a year
- AI words
- 0 to 45,000, topped up yearly
- Best for
- catalogs, structured content
- Catch
- steeper learning curve
Polylang: the free base, if you do the translating
Free on WordPressWhy move to Polylang. The core plugin is free on WordPress.org, with no word quota. Each translated page is a real WordPress page linked to its original. If a person writes your translations (you, a translator, a colleague), it's the cheapest option over time.
Who it's for. Small sites, nonprofits and freelancers who translate by hand or have every page reviewed.
Who it's not for. Anyone expecting one-click machine translation of the whole site for free.
The catch. The free version translates nothing for you. Polylang Pro, from €99 a year before tax, adds DeepL translation, but with your own DeepL API key, billed separately, and this DeepL translation doesn't work with Elementor. For a store, the Business Pack with WooCommerce support costs €139 a year before tax.
How to migrate. Create your languages in Polylang, duplicate each page to translate, and paste in the reviewed copy from your Weglot export. It's the most manual migration on this list. Keep it for sites with a few dozen pages, or start with the pages that already pull in foreign traffic.
- Price
- free, Pro from €99 a year
- Machine translation
- DeepL with your key (Pro)
- Best for
- human translation
- Catch
- manual migration
Translate & Adapt: Shopify's free option
Shopify, freeWhy move to Translate & Adapt. It's Shopify's own app, and it's free. It machine-translates your store into 2 languages (8 in select countries), lets you edit every string, and lets you adapt content per market. For a store selling in one or two foreign languages, that's often all you need, and it removes a subscription line.
Who it's for. Shopify stores targeting one or two foreign markets that want to stay native.
Who it's not for. A store that wants machine translation in many languages, or any site that isn't on Shopify.
The catch. Automatic translation stops at 2 languages in most countries. Beyond that, you translate by hand inside the app or keep a paid tool. Merchants rate it 4.4 out of 5 across nearly 1,400 reviews.
How to migrate. Before uninstalling Weglot, add the same languages in Shopify's settings, run automatic translation, then review your best-selling product pages. Next, uninstall Weglot, check that no Weglot code is left in your theme, and confirm on your next Shopify invoice that the charge is gone.
- Price
- free
- Machine translation
- 2 languages (8 in some countries)
- Best for
- Shopify, 1 or 2 markets
- Catch
- Shopify only
Linguise: Weglot's approach with far bigger quotas
Any CMS, cheaper per wordWhy move to Linguise. It works like Weglot (automatic site translation, an online editor, language subfolders), but its quotas change the math. Start is $15 a month for 200,000 words, Pro $25 for 600,000, Large $45 for unlimited words under fair use. Languages and pageviews are unlimited on every plan.
Who it's for. Sites that aren't on WordPress, or that want to stay with a hosted service, and are being squeezed by Weglot's tiers.
How it counts. The quota is your site's words multiplied by the number of languages, as with Weglot: our example comes to 90,000 words. The key difference: if you run out of quota, existing translations stay live and only new ones stop.
Who it's not for. Anyone who wants translations stored on their own server. It's a hosted service.
The catch. One plan covers one domain, and the Large plan has no trial.
How to migrate. Linguise gives you a one-month trial without a card, up to 600,000 words. That's enough to translate your whole site alongside Weglot and compare page by page. Keep the same URL structure, and compare the word count each tool reports for the same site. For our 90,000-word example, Start covers it: $15 a month instead of about $87.
- Price
- from $15 a month
- Words
- 200,000 to unlimited
- Trial
- 1 month, no card
- Catch
- still a hosted service
ConveyThis: a Weglot-style price list with four times the words
Any CMS, bigger free planWhy move to ConveyThis. Its plans line up with Weglot's almost tier for tier, but each one includes far more words. Starter is $12 a month for 60,000 words and 1 language, Business $24 for 200,000 words and 3 languages, Pro $64 for 800,000 words, 5 languages and 3 sites. The free plan keeps 10,000 words and one language, with no time limit and no card.
Who it's for. Small sites that want Weglot-level convenience on a tighter budget.
Who it's not for. A site that wants out of per-word pricing. Here you keep it, just with higher ceilings.
What's different from Weglot's counter. Bots aren't counted: only words shown to a visitor go into the quota. At the limit, pages already translated stay live. There are in-between tiers too, like Business+ at $40 a month for 400,000 words and 4 languages.
The catch. Translations stay on the vendor's servers. Added languages per plan are tight (1, then 3, then 5). Paying yearly gets you two months free.
How to migrate. Open the free plan, add your site and one language, and check the counter after a week. It tells you what your site really uses. For our 90,000-word, 3-language example, Business fits: $24 a month instead of about $87.
- Free
- 10,000 words, 1 language
- Paid
- from $12 a month
- Best for
- small site, tight budget
- Catch
- languages capped per plan
GTranslate: never count words again
Unlimited wordsWhy move to GTranslate. Every plan advertises unlimited words and pageviews. The climbing counter problem simply goes away: a 30,000-word site and a 3-million-word site pay the same.
Who it's for. Big sites, catalogs and directories whose word volume would blow up any per-word plan.
Who it's not for. Anyone hoping to rank in other languages on the free plan. It translates in the browser, with no indexable pages.
The catch. The free plan does nothing for search. Indexable pages start with Startup ($25 a month), and translated URLs need Business ($35 a month, or $350 a year). Enterprise is $50 a month.
How to migrate. Go with Startup at minimum, ideally Business if you had translated URLs on Weglot Pro. Keep the same URL structure, then check in Search Console that translated pages stay indexed over the following two weeks.
- Words
- unlimited on every plan
- Paid
- Startup $25 a month
- Translated URLs
- Business $35 a month
- Catch
- free plan not indexed
Bablic: priced by visits, not words
Priced per visitWhy move to Bablic. It's the only tool here that charges by monthly visits instead of words. And if you go over, Bablic says your site stays live and translated. That answers Weglot's two big worries head on: the counter and the cutoff.
Who it's for. Content-heavy sites with modest foreign traffic, like a 5,000-page catalog seen by a few thousand visitors.
Who it's not for. A site with heavy foreign traffic. There, visits become the expensive variable.
The catch. Languages are capped per plan: Go ($19 a month) has 1, Core ($49) has 5, Pro ($199) is unlimited. Check each plan's visit threshold on the pricing page before you choose.
How to migrate. Same as Weglot: add a snippet or connector, then set your languages and URL structure. Before switching, count your monthly visits on translated pages. They set your plan, not your words.
- Price
- from $19 a month
- Billing
- by visit
- Over the limit
- site stays translated
- Catch
- 1 language on Go
Weglot and its 8 alternatives, side by side
Our default picks: TranslatePress on WordPress, Translate & Adapt on Shopify, Linguise everywhere else. To see the gap, go back to the 30,000-word site in 3 languages. Weglot counts 90,000 words. Business caps at 50,000, so you need Pro at about $87 a month. The same site fits in TranslatePress Business (€199 a year), Linguise Start ($15 a month), ConveyThis Business ($24 a month) and GTranslate Startup ($25 a month), which doesn't count words at all. Over a year, the example costs about $1,044 on Weglot Pro billed monthly (12 × about $87), €199 on TranslatePress Business, $180 on Linguise Start (12 × $15), $240 on ConveyThis Business paid yearly (two months free) and $350 on GTranslate Business with translated URLs. If what you really need is software localization (app strings, developer workflows), that's a different category, with tools like Lokalise, Crowdin or Transifex; we didn't compare them here. One row per tool: on the left the billing model, on the right the first useful price and where your translations live.
| What you pay for | First price and where translations live | |
|---|---|---|
| WeglotWhere you start | Per word, all languages combined, fixed quota that doesn't reset | Starter about $17 a month (10,000 words, 1 language), Pro about $87 for translated URLs; translations on Weglot's servers |
| TranslatePressWordPress, closest feel | Yearly license, AI words included | Personal €99 a year (1 site, 50,000 AI words); translations in your WordPress database |
| WPMLLarge WordPress | Purchase with a year of updates, AI words topped up | Multilingual Blog €39, CMS €99 (22,500 AI words); translations in your WordPress database |
| PolylangFree, by hand | Free, or a yearly Pro license | Pro from €99 a year before tax, DeepL with your key; translations in your WordPress database |
| Translate & AdaptShopify | Free | Machine translation for 2 languages; translations in Shopify |
| LinguiseAny CMS | Per word, big quotas, unlimited languages | Start $15 a month (200,000 words); hosted service |
| ConveyThisAny CMS | Per word, languages capped per plan | Free 10,000 words, Starter $12 a month (60,000 words); hosted service |
| GTranslateUnlimited words | Flat plan, unlimited words and pageviews | Startup $25 a month, translated URLs from Business $35; hosted service |
| BablicBy visit | Based on monthly visits | Go $19 a month (1 language); hosted service, site stays translated over the limit |
Entry prices as shown by each vendor. Weglot and Polylang show prices before tax; TranslatePress and WPML don't say whether VAT is included. Weglot's dollar prices are its own estimates (it bills in euros). TranslatePress, WPML and Polylang publish euro prices only. Always check against your own word count and languages.
Leave Weglot in eight steps
Order matters. The classic mistake is canceling first and thinking second: translated pages go dark, and Google notices fast. Each step below protects something specific: your reviewed translations, your rankings in each language, your bill.
Measure what you have: words, languages, pages that earn
Day 1Write down your word count from the Weglot dashboard, your languages and your URL structure ("/es/" subfolders, subdomains, translated URLs). Then open Search Console and filter by language folder. You get the list of translated pages that actually get clicks. Those are the ones to protect first.
Also flag the translations you reviewed or fixed by hand. They're the only ones worth exporting. A fresh machine translation will redo the rest.
- Time
- one to two hours
- Tool
- Search Console, filtered by language
Export your translations before you touch the subscription
CriticalIn Weglot, go to Translations, then Languages, then Actions, then Export. You get one CSV or XLIFF file per language. Per the official pricing page, export is only available from the Advanced plan (about $329 a month). If you're below that, you have two options: move up a plan for the export and drop back down, or skip the export and run a fresh machine translation at your destination.
Do the math. If you've reviewed hundreds of pages, one month of Advanced costs less than paying for a second review. If you never edited anything, the export isn't worth $329.
- Formats
- CSV or XLIFF
- Plan needed
- Advanced
Keep exactly the same URL structure
If your Spanish pages lived under "/es/", they must stay under "/es/" at the destination. Same for translated URLs: if Weglot Pro served "/es/zapatos-rojos", the destination must serve that address or redirect it. Every alternative on this page handles language subfolders. Translated URLs sometimes require a specific plan (Business on GTranslate).
This is the step that decides whether you keep your rankings in other languages.
- Risk if rushed
- translated pages dropped from the index
Set up the destination in parallel, on a staging copy
No downtimeInstall the destination on a copy of your site (a staging environment at your host, or a development store on Shopify). Run machine translation, then paste back the reviewed copy of your key pages from your Weglot export. Save the CSV as UTF-8 so accented characters survive.
Until everything is ready, your live site keeps running on Weglot. No visitor sees the transition.
- Encoding
- UTF-8
- Visible downtime
- none
Review the pages that earn, not the whole site
Go back to your list from step 1 and review those pages first: headings, buttons, product pages, pricing pages. Check the translated title tags and meta descriptions too, which some tools' machine translation skips.
A page with no foreign clicks can wait. Review time goes to the pages that bring in sales or leads.
- Priority
- pages that get clicks
Check hreflang tags and prepare redirects
Before go-liveHreflang tags tell Google which version of a page to show in which country. Make sure your destination generates them. Open the source of a staging page and search for "hreflang": each language should point to its own version.
If an address changes anyway, set up a 301 (permanent) redirect from the old one to the new one. On WordPress, a redirect plugin does the job; on Shopify, use URL redirects in the admin.
- Check
- hreflang for every language
- Redirect
- 301 if a URL changes
Go live, then remove Weglot cleanly
Put the destination live, then turn Weglot off. Remove everything it left behind: the WordPress plugin, the snippet in your theme, or the Shopify app. Several Shopify merchants reported Weglot code still sitting in their theme after uninstalling, so search your theme files for "weglot" and delete any leftover calls.
Then walk through your key pages in each language in a private window.
- Search for
- "weglot" in theme files
Cancel last, then watch for two weeks
Final stepCancel your Weglot subscription only once everything works. On Shopify, check that the charge is gone from your next invoice: some merchants say they were billed after removing the app. Keep a screenshot of the cancellation.
For two weeks, watch indexed translated pages and 404 errors per language folder in Search Console. A sudden drop means a URL structure or a hreflang tag broke somewhere.
- Watch
- two weeks
- Keep
- proof of cancellation
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What makes a Weglot exit go wrong
The same mistakes come up again and again in reviews from merchants and site owners who left Weglot. None of them is really technical. They're about doing things in the wrong order, and each one can cost months of rankings in a language.
Canceling before you've switched
No subscription, no translations served. Your Spanish or French pages vanish overnight, and Google picks it up quickly. Switch first, cancel second, even if it costs you one more month.
Paying for an export you don't need
Moving up to Advanced (about $329 a month) only makes sense if you reviewed your translations. If everything is still raw machine translation, your destination will redo the same work, often with a comparable engine. Keep your money.
Changing URL structure mid-move
Going from "/es/" to a subdomain, or losing translated URLs, means starting from scratch in that language. If you must change, 301-redirect every old address and expect a few weeks of turbulence.
Forgetting hreflang
Without it, Google may show your English page to a Spanish visitor, or treat your versions as duplicate content. Check the tags on a staging page before go-live, not after.
Leaving code and a charge behind
Shopify especially: uninstalling the app doesn't always clean the theme or stop the billing. Search the theme code for "weglot" and check next month's invoice.
Leaving when you only needed to slow the counter
If you like Weglot but the bill keeps climbing, try three settings first: exclude URLs that don't need translating (internal search, filtered pages, customer account), exclude repeated blocks, and delete inactive translations. Weglot's own team recommends them. To compare with other tools, see our ranking of the best translation software and of AI translation tools. If the engine is your real question, read our DeepL alternatives page.
- Word count, languages and URL structure written down
- Translated pages with clicks listed from Search Console
- CSV or XLIFF export saved if your translations were reviewed
- Same URL structure set at the destination
- Destination installed and translated on staging
- Key pages, title tags and meta descriptions reviewed
- Hreflang tags checked, 301 redirects ready
- Weglot turned off and its code removed from the theme
- Subscription canceled last, proof kept
- Indexing and 404 errors watched for two weeks
Weglot alternatives: frequently asked questions
Is there a free Weglot alternative?
Yes, depending on your platform. On WordPress, Polylang is free if you translate by hand. On Shopify, Translate & Adapt is free with machine translation for 2 languages. On other sites, ConveyThis keeps 10,000 words and one language free with no time limit, against Weglot's 2,000 words. GTranslate's free plan has unlimited words but isn't indexed by search engines.
Why is Weglot so expensive?
Because it charges per translated word, added up across every language, on a quota that never resets. Three languages triple your usage, and bots browsing translated pages add words too. There's also no tier between 200,000 words (Pro, about $87 a month) and 1 million (Advanced, about $329). Excluding search pages and deleting inactive translations slows the counter down.
Can I export my translations from Weglot?
Yes, as CSV or XLIFF, from Translations, Languages, Actions, Export. According to the official pricing page, export is available from the Advanced plan. Below that, you either upgrade for a month or let your destination retranslate the site. Only pay for it if you reviewed your translations by hand.
What happens to my SEO if I cancel Weglot?
Your translated pages stop showing translations, because Weglot is the one serving them. Indexed URLs in other languages lose their content and your rankings there drop. That's why you switch to the destination first, with the same URL structure and hreflang tags, and cancel last. Our ranking of SEO crawlers helps you audit hreflang after the move, and our SEO tools ranking tracks rankings per language. If WordPress slows down with a translation plugin, see our WordPress hosting ranking.
Is TranslatePress better than Weglot?
For a WordPress site that's grown past a few tens of thousands of words, it's usually cheaper: €199 a year for Business against about $87 a month for Weglot Pro, with translations stored in your own database. Weglot stays simpler, works on any platform, and needs nothing on your server. If your site isn't on WordPress, TranslatePress isn't an option.
Does machine translation need a human review?
For a blog or help docs, often not. For pricing pages, top product pages and terms of sale, yes: an awkward sentence costs sales. Weglot offers professional translators from €0.13 per word; with the other tools you bring your own. If you translate content in bulk through automation, our DeepL and n8n integration shows how.
What's the best Weglot alternative for Webflow, Wix or Squarespace?
Pick a service that works by snippet on any site: Linguise, ConveyThis, GTranslate or Bablic. Webflow also has its own localization feature, whose pricing we didn't verify, so check it before deciding. If it's the platform itself you want to leave, see our Wix alternatives, Squarespace alternatives and our Webflow review.
What's the best Weglot alternative for WooCommerce?
WPML if your catalog is large and structured, TranslatePress if you want to translate by clicking on the page, Polylang with its Business Pack (€139 a year before tax) if you translate by hand. If you're unsure about staying on WooCommerce, read our WooCommerce alternatives and our WordPress review. Need hands-on help? Our WordPress agency also builds multilingual sites.
How do I count the words on my site before choosing?
Multiply the word count of your site in its original language by the number of target languages. That's what Weglot will count: 30,000 words in 3 languages makes 90,000. For a real figure, start the destination's free trial on your site. Its counter includes product and category pages you might forget.
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