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.
