Gloty vs. Weglot
Both translate your whole site automatically. The difference is where your translations live — and what happens when the bill grows or you stop paying.
The short answer
Weglot and Gloty both machine-translate an entire WordPress site automatically. The difference is custody: Weglot stores translations on its own servers and serves them from there, so the subscription keeps your pages online. Gloty writes translations into your own WordPress database, where they keep serving on any plan — its quota limits new translation, not delivery.
Weglot details verified against Weglot’s published pricing.
Weglot is a polished, platform-agnostic SaaS: install the connector, add an API key, and your site is machine-translated in minutes. But your translations live on Weglot's servers and you're billed by unique word count and number of languages — and if you cancel, the translated pages stop serving. Gloty does the same automatic translation, but stores everything in your own WordPress database, so what you have translated keeps serving regardless of plan.
Choose Gloty if…
- You want translations you own and keep — in your own database
- You'd rather pay to translate content once than subscribe to keep it online
- You want translated pages to keep serving even if you stop paying
- You want no remote dependency while a page is rendering
Choose Weglot if…
- You're not on WordPress (Shopify, Webflow, Wix, custom) — Weglot is platform-agnostic
- You want a fully managed service with zero database footprint
- You want the absolute fastest possible setup and don't mind the cloud
Credit where due
Where Weglot genuinely shines
- Genuinely fast setup — whole-site machine translation in minutes.
- Platform-agnostic: WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Webflow, Squarespace, custom code.
- Fully managed — Weglot hosts storage, editing, engine selection and delivery, so there's zero database bloat on your site.
- Polished visual editing experience and automatic best-engine selection (DeepL where supported).
Where Gloty differs
What you get with Gloty
Your translations, in your database
Weglot stores translations on its own servers and serves them through its infrastructure. With Gloty, every translation is written to your WordPress database — no third-party custody, no export-before-you-lose-it step.
You pay to translate, not to keep serving
Both products meter usage, but they meter different things. Weglot counts the unique words it holds, every month, and the number of languages you publish — so the bill recurs for content translated long ago, and crossing a tier can multiply it. Gloty's quota applies to characters translated in that month. Translate a page once and it is done; serving it costs nothing thereafter, on any plan.
Cancellation doesn't erase your site
Stop paying Weglot and the translated pages stop serving, then get de-indexed. Gloty's translations already live in your database, so they keep serving no matter what.
Weglot pricing, as published
Transcribed from Weglot’s own pricing page on . We publish the figures rather than characterising them so you can check the comparison yourself.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 words · 1 language |
| Starter | $17/mo | 10,000 words · 1 language |
| Business | $32/mo | 50,000 words · 3 languages |
| Pro | $87/mo | 200,000 words · 5 languages |
| Advanced | $329/mo | 1,000,000 words · 10 languages |
| Extended | $769/mo | 5,000,000 words · 20 languages |
Gloty vs. Weglot — FAQ
- Is Gloty a drop-in Weglot replacement?
- For WordPress, yes — Gloty covers the same essentials: automatic whole-site translation, language-prefixed URLs, hreflang, hand-editable translations, and WooCommerce. The main difference is that translations are stored and served locally from your own site instead of Weglot's cloud. Weglot also supports non-WordPress platforms, which Gloty does not.
- Will I save money switching from Weglot?
- It depends on how your content grows. Weglot's price climbs with the unique words it stores and the number of languages you publish, and it recurs for content translated long ago. Gloty's plans meter characters translated per month, so a large back catalogue costs you once rather than every month — but a site publishing heavily every month is metered on that new volume either way. Compare your own numbers with the translation cost calculator rather than assuming.
- What happens to my Weglot translations if I migrate?
- Export them from Weglot first (it offers import/export). You can then re-use that content, and Gloty will translate anything new automatically and store it in your database going forward.
Weglot is a monthly subscription metered on unique word count and number of languages, from a 2,000-word free tier up to $769/mo for 5,000,000 words across 20 languages. Because the meter counts unique words rather than translated pages, cost tracks how much content you publish — not how much traffic it earns. Weglot is a trademark of its respective owner and is referenced here for factual comparison only. Details verified ; competitor features and pricing change — always confirm on their official site.
Sources
Every factual claim about Weglot on this page is drawn from the primary sources below, each confirmed live on the date shown.
- Weglot Pricing — Weglot. Accessed .
- Tell Google about localized versions of your page — Google Search Central. Accessed .
- How to specify a canonical URL with rel="canonical" and other methods — Google Search Central. Accessed .
Own your translations. Start free.
Automatic AI translation, stored in your own database, with the provider you already trust.