The comparison
The comparison as Tranzly wrote it.
WPML is a long-standing paid WordPress translation plugin that sells yearly plans with a set number of AI-translated words. Tranzly is free on WordPress.org with unlimited languages and never counts words: you translate on your own DeepL or AI account.
- Tranzly's strengths
- A free edition with unlimited languages, translated addresses, hreflang and sitemaps.
- No word limits: you pay your translation service directly instead of buying word allowances.
- At most two extra database queries per translated page and no cookie, so caches keep working.
- Tranzly Pro imports WPML's languages, translations and translated texts, and can undo the import.
- WPML's strengths
- Paid plans include a yearly allowance of AI-translated words, so no separate translation account is needed.
- Offers its own translation engine as well as DeepL, Google Translate and Microsoft Translator.
- Shared ground
- Both store each translation as real WordPress content with its own address.
- Both connect to DeepL, Google and Microsoft machine translation.
- Differences
- WPML has no free version; Tranzly's free edition is on WordPress.org.
- WPML's paid plans include 22,500 or 45,000 AI-translated words (none on the Blog plan); Tranzly has no word limit.
- Tranzly lets AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT translate a site through 73 tools.
