The comparison
The comparison as Tranzly wrote it.
Tranzly sets itself apart by costing nothing on WordPress.org, covering unlimited languages and skipping word counts entirely, since you translate through your own DeepL or AI account. WPML, a long-standing paid WordPress translation plugin, instead sells yearly plans that bundle a fixed quantity of AI-translated words.
- Tranzly's strengths
- The edition on WordPress.org is free and covers unlimited languages, translated addresses, hreflang and sitemaps.
- Nothing caps your words. Your translation service gets paid directly, so no word allowances need buying.
- Each translated page adds two extra database queries at most, and no cookie is set, which lets caches carry on working.
- Tranzly Pro can bring across WPML's languages, translations and translated texts, and the import can be undone.
- WPML's strengths
- Each paid plan comes with a yearly quota of AI-translated words, so you do not need a translation account of your own.
- Its own built-in translation engine sits next to support for DeepL, Google Translate and Microsoft Translator.
- Shared ground
- Every translation is kept as genuine WordPress content that has an address of its own, in both plugins.
- Machine translation from DeepL, Google and Microsoft can be connected to either one.
- Differences
- WPML offers no free version, whereas Tranzly has a free edition on WordPress.org.
- WPML plans bundle either 22,500 or 45,000 AI-translated words, with none on the Blog plan, while Tranzly sets no word limit.
- Through 73 tools, Tranzly allows AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT to translate a whole site.
