The comparison
The comparison as Tranzly wrote it.
WPML has been around for years as a paid WordPress translation plugin, with yearly plans that bundle a fixed quota of AI-translated words. Tranzly takes another route: its edition on WordPress.org costs nothing, supports unlimited languages and keeps no word tally, since the translating is done through your own DeepL or AI account.
- Tranzly's strengths
- The edition on WordPress.org is free and covers unlimited languages, along with translated addresses, hreflang and sitemaps.
- Because there are no word caps, you settle up with your translation provider directly rather than purchasing word allowances.
- Each translated page adds two extra database queries at most, and no cookie is set, so your caching carries on working.
- Tranzly Pro can bring across your languages, translations and translated texts from WPML, and the import can be undone.
- WPML's strengths
- Its paid plans come with a yearly quota of AI-translated words, which means you do not have to set up a separate translation account.
- Alongside DeepL, Google Translate and Microsoft Translator, it ships with a translation engine of its own.
- Shared ground
- Every translation is kept as genuine WordPress content in each tool, and each one gets its own address.
- DeepL, Google and Microsoft are all options for machine translation in either plugin.
- Differences
- WPML offers no free version, whereas Tranzly has a free edition on WordPress.org.
- WPML's paid plans carry 22,500 or 45,000 AI-translated words, with none on the Blog plan, while Tranzly sets no limit on words.
- With Tranzly, AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can translate a whole site using 73 tools.
