Tranzly vs WPML
The comparison Tranzly published with its listing, against its main competitor, WPML.
Teams that translate a WordPress site often find that pricing tied to word counts makes costs hard to predict. WPML is a long-standing paid WordPress translation plugin whose yearly plans come with a set number of AI-translated words. Tranzly takes a different route: its edition on WordPress.org costs nothing, covers any number of languages and does not count words, because translation runs through your own DeepL or AI account.
Tranzly stands out
- The edition on WordPress.org has no price and supports unlimited languages, along with translated addresses, hreflang and sitemaps.
- Since there is no word cap, you settle up with your translation service directly rather than purchasing word allowances.
- Each translated page triggers two extra database queries at most, and no cookie is set, so caching carries on working.
- Tranzly Pro can bring across WPML's languages, translations and translated texts, and the import can be reversed.
WPML is strong
- Each paid plan bundles a yearly quota of AI-translated words, which removes the need to open a separate translation account.
- Alongside DeepL, Google Translate and Microsoft Translator, WPML supplies a translation engine built by its own team.
Both
- Each tool saves every translation as genuine WordPress content that has its own address.
- Each can link up with machine translation from DeepL, Google and Microsoft.
Where they differ
- WPML comes with no free version, whereas Tranzly offers a free edition on WordPress.org.
- WPML paid plans bundle 22,500 or 45,000 AI-translated words, and the Blog plan bundles none; Tranzly sets no word limit.
- With 73 tools, Tranzly allows AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT to carry out the translation of a site.
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