The comparison
The comparison as Tranzly wrote it.
WPML has been around for a long time and is a paid WordPress translation plugin, selling annual plans that come with a fixed quota of AI-translated words. Tranzly costs nothing on WordPress.org, supports as many languages as you like and does no word counting at all, because the translating happens through your own DeepL or AI account.
- Tranzly's strengths
- The free edition covers any number of languages, plus translated addresses, hreflang and sitemaps.
- Since there are no word caps, you settle up with your translation provider directly rather than purchasing word bundles.
- Caching carries on working normally: Tranzly sets no cookie and adds a maximum of two extra database queries to each translated page.
- With Tranzly Pro you can bring across WPML's languages, translations and translated texts, and roll the import back if you want to.
- WPML's strengths
- Each paid plan comes 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 has a translation engine of its own.
- Shared ground
- Each one saves every translation as genuine WordPress content that has its own address.
- Each one links up with machine translation from DeepL, Google and Microsoft.
- Differences
- WPML has no free version, whereas Tranzly offers a free edition on WordPress.org.
- Paid WPML plans bundle 22,500 or 45,000 AI-translated words (the Blog plan has none), while Tranzly sets no cap on words.
- AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can translate a whole site with Tranzly using 73 tools.
