The comparison
The comparison as Tranzly wrote it.
Tranzly stands apart by costing nothing on WordPress.org, supporting unlimited languages and never counting words: translation runs through your own DeepL or AI account. WPML, a long-standing paid WordPress translation plugin, instead sells yearly plans that come with a fixed quota of AI-translated words.
- Tranzly's strengths
- The free edition on offer covers unlimited languages, translated addresses, hreflang and sitemaps.
- Since words are not capped, you settle up directly with your chosen translation service rather than purchasing word allowances.
- Each translated page triggers two extra database queries at most, and no cookie is set, which leaves caches working as normal.
- Tranzly Pro can bring across WPML's languages, translations and translated texts, and the import can be undone.
- WPML's strengths
- Each paid plan comes with a yearly quota of AI-translated words, which removes the need for a separate translation account.
- Alongside DeepL, Google Translate and Microsoft Translator, it has a translation engine of its own.
- Shared ground
- Translations in each plugin become genuine WordPress content, and every one gets a dedicated address.
- DeepL, Google and Microsoft machine translation can be connected to either tool.
- Differences
- No free version of WPML exists, whereas Tranzly's free edition sits on WordPress.org.
- WPML's paid plans bundle 22,500 or 45,000 AI-translated words, with none on the Blog plan; Tranzly sets no cap on words.
- With 73 tools, Tranzly allows AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT to translate a whole site.
