Tranzly vs WPML

In Tranzly's own words.

Think of WPML as the old hand of WordPress translation: you pay for a yearly plan, and it comes with a fixed number of words that its AI will translate. Tranzly takes a different route. You can get it from WordPress.org at no cost, add as many languages as you like, and it does not count words at all, because the translating is done through your own DeepL or AI account.

Where Tranzly stands out

• The edition on WordPress.org costs nothing and covers any number of languages, along with translated addresses, hreflang and sitemaps.

• Since there is no word cap, you settle up with your translation service yourself rather than buying bundles of words.

• Each translated page adds two extra database queries at most, and no cookie is set, so your caching carries on as normal.

• If you are moving over from WPML, Tranzly Pro can bring across its languages, translations and translated texts, and you can reverse the import if you change your mind.

Where WPML is strong

• Each paid plan comes with a yearly amount 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 also provides a translation engine of its own.

In common

• Every translation is kept as genuine WordPress content and gets an address of its own, in both plugins.

• You can hook either one up to machine translation from DeepL, Google and Microsoft.

Differences

• WPML offers nothing at zero cost, whereas Tranzly has a version you can install straight from WordPress.org.

• On WPML's paid plans you get 22,500 or 45,000 AI-translated words (the Blog plan gets none), while Tranzly puts no limit on words.

• With Tranzly, AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can handle the translation of a whole site using 73 tools.