Weglot
Weglot translates a website you already have. It detects the content on the page, machine-translates it, serves each language on its own URL for search engines, and gives you an editor to correct anything the machine got wrong. Installation is a snippet or a platform app rather than a rebuild.
That is a narrower job than a translation model performs and a more operational one. The hard part of a multilingual site is not translating a sentence, it is keeping every page, product and menu item translated as the site changes, and serving each language somewhere Google will index it. Weglot exists for that maintenance problem.
Pricing is by translated words and languages, with a free tier that stays free while a site keeps under 2,000 words in one language. It is a subscription that grows with the site rather than a one-off cost, which is the trade against translating content once and managing it yourself.
- Cost
- Freemium (Free tier + paid plans)
- Ease
- Model
- Hosted service
- Checked
- August 2026
Prices, plans and model versions change fast: this is a mid-2026 snapshot; check the tool's official site for the latest.
Best for
- Making an existing site multilingual without rebuilding it
- Indexable per-language URLs rather than a browser translate button
- Keeping translations current as the site changes
- Editing machine output where it matters and leaving the rest
- Shops selling across language markets
Less suited to
It is a layer over your site, not part of it, and it charges by translated words as the site grows. A large catalogue moves through the word tiers quickly, and the honest comparison is against building localisation into the platform itself.
Quality is machine translation with a human editor available, not a translation service. Anything legally or commercially load-bearing still needs a professional reading, and Weglot's value is that it makes the other ninety per cent cheap rather than that it makes the last ten per cent unnecessary.
Costs & data, in short
A small free tier for evaluation, then a ladder priced by translated words and number of languages, monthly or as an annual total. The cost scales with the site rather than with the team, so a large catalogue moves up the tiers quickly and the honest comparison is against building localisation into the platform itself.
Your page content passes through a translation service to be rendered in another language, which matters if any of it is confidential before publication. For a public marketing site that is usually a non-issue; for gated or pre-launch content, check what is retained and for how long before pointing it at those pages.
Plans
| Free | Free |
|---|---|
| Starter | $17per month$170 per year if billed annually |
| Business | $32per month$320 per year if billed annually |
| Pro | $87per month$870 per year if billed annually |
| Advanced | $329per month$3290 per year if billed annually |
| Extended | $769per month$7690 per year if billed annually |
| Enterprise | Price on applicationno list price published |
Prices as of August 2026. Prices and plans change regularly. Check with the provider before you buy.
In practice
How Weglot is used, area by area.
Jobs
E-commerce & retail
A shop is the hardest kind of site to keep multilingual
A shop is the hardest kind of site to keep multilingual, because the content is generated: every product, variant, collection and checkout string. Weglot handles that by translating what the page renders, which means new products arrive translated rather than needing a separate step, and each language sits on its own URL so the market can actually find it in search. For a UAE retailer selling across Arabic and English markets that is the practical shape of the problem. The cost model follows the catalogue: word tiers, so a deep catalogue is a bigger subscription, which is worth pricing against the revenue the second language is expected to bring.
Example tasks
- Translate a product catalogue as it is published
- Serve each language market on its own indexable URL
- Correct product names and key selling copy by hand
- Keep checkout and menu strings translated automatically
- Test a second language market before localising properly
Limits
Currency, payment methods, shipping rules and local tax are commerce-platform problems and Weglot touches none of them. A market entry that needs those handled needs the platform configured, not a translation layer.
Compares
| vs | Pick Weglot when | Pick the other when |
|---|---|---|
| DeepL | Weglot is the operational layer that keeps a live shop translated where DeepL is the quality benchmark for translating a document once | the artefact is a contract, a proposal or correspondence rather than a site that keeps changing |
Marketing
Entering a new language market is usually blocked on operations rather than on translation quality. Weglot removes the blockage: the existing site becomes multilingual without a rebuild, each language gets its own indexable URL with the right tags, and new content is picked up as it is published rather than needing a separate localisation project. The editor lets a marketer fix the handful of strings that matter, campaign headlines, product names, calls to action, and leave the rest to the machine. For a small team this is the difference between a multilingual site that stays current and one that was translated once in 2024.
Example tasks
- Make an existing site multilingual without rebuilding it
- Serve each language on its own indexable URL
- Correct the handful of strings that carry the campaign
- Keep translations current as pages are published
- Add a language market to test demand before investing
Limits
It is not a substitute for market-specific copywriting. Translated copy is still the original campaign in another language, and a market that needs its own positioning needs a writer rather than a translation layer.
Compares
| vs | Pick Weglot when | Pick the other when |
|---|---|---|
| DeepL | Weglot owns the website maintenance problem, serving and re-serving every page in each language on its own URL as the site changes | the job is translating documents and correspondence at the highest quality rather than keeping a site in sync |
Where to start
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Common questions
Is Weglot free?
There's a free tier to start; paid plans add capacity and features.
Where does Weglot fit best?
Weglot fits best in Marketing and E-commerce & retail; see its practice notes for how.
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Last checked: August 2026