The comparison
The comparison as Tranzly wrote it.
WPML has been around a long time and is a paid WordPress translation plugin, with annual plans that come with a fixed amount of AI-translated words. Tranzly costs nothing on WordPress.org, supports as many languages as you like, and doesn't count words at all, because the translating happens through your own DeepL or AI account.
- Tranzly's strengths
The edition on WordPress.org costs nothing and covers any number of languages, plus translated addresses, hreflang tags and sitemaps.
Since there are no word caps, your translation provider bills you directly and you skip buying word packs.
Each translated page adds two extra database queries at most, and no cookie is set, which lets your caching carry on as normal.
If you move over from WPML, Tranzly Pro can bring in its languages, translations and translated texts, and the import can be reversed.
- WPML's strengths
Each paid plan comes with a yearly bundle of AI-translated words, so you don't have to set up a separate translation account.
Besides DeepL, Google Translate and Microsoft Translator, it runs a translation engine of its own.
- Shared ground
Each one saves every translation as genuine WordPress content that has its own address.
Each can hook into machine translation from DeepL, Google and Microsoft.
- Differences
WPML offers no free version, whereas Tranzly's free edition sits on WordPress.org.
WPML's paid plans bring either 22,500 or 45,000 AI-translated words (the Blog plan has none), while Tranzly sets no word limit.
With Tranzly, AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can translate your site using 73 tools.
