The comparison
The comparison as Tranzly wrote it.
WPML has been around for years. It is a paid WordPress translation plugin, and its yearly plans bundle a fixed number of AI-translated words. Tranzly costs nothing to install from WordPress.org. It supports unlimited languages and does not count words. You connect your own DeepL or AI account and translate there.
- Tranzly's strengths
Install the no-cost edition and add as many languages as you like. It also handles translated addresses, hreflang and sitemaps.
Tranzly sets no word caps. Your translation service bills you directly, so there are no word allowances to buy.
Each translated page triggers two extra database queries at most. Tranzly sets no cookie, so your caches carry on working.
Tranzly Pro brings in your languages, translations and translated texts from WPML. You can reverse the import.
- WPML's strengths
Each paid plan comes with a yearly allowance of AI-translated words. You need no separate translation account.
WPML runs its own translation engine. It also works with DeepL, Google Translate and Microsoft Translator.
- Shared ground
Each plugin saves every translation as genuine WordPress content with an address of its own.
Each plugin links to machine translation from DeepL, Google and Microsoft.
- Differences
WPML offers no free version. Tranzly's free edition sits on WordPress.org.
WPML's paid plans cover 22,500 or 45,000 AI-translated words, and the Blog plan covers none. Tranzly sets no word limit.
AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT can translate a site with Tranzly through 73 tools.
