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.
50,000 translation characters once, on one site. No card required. New translation pauses when the allowance is used; saved translations keep serving.
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, subject to the limits of your active plan, including its small free tier. 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 serving depends on staying within the active plan limits. 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, within an active plan’s word and language limits. With Gloty, every translation is written to your WordPress database and served from there — the Gloty service keeps a copy to avoid re-translating, but your site never depends on it to render a page, and there's 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 new characters translated, with monthly subscriptions and one-time allowances. Translate a page once and it is done; serving it costs nothing thereafter, on any plan.
Saved translations keep serving locally
Weglot's free plan covers up to 2,000 words in one translated language; larger projects need a paid plan to keep serving through its service. 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 | €15/mo | 10,000 words · 1 language |
| Business | €29/mo | 50,000 words · 3 languages |
| Pro | €79/mo | 200,000 words · 5 languages |
| Advanced | €299/mo | 1,000,000 words · 10 languages |
| Extended | €699/mo | 5,000,000 words · 20 languages |
Gloty vs. Weglot — FAQ
- Can Gloty replace Weglot on WordPress?
- Gloty provides automatic translation, language-prefixed URLs, hreflang, manual translation editing and WooCommerce support on WordPress. A switch requires separate setup and testing of your theme, content and language URLs. Existing Weglot translations are not imported automatically. Test representative pages on staging before replacing the live language setup. Gloty does not support other website platforms.
- Will I save money switching from Weglot?
- It depends on your content, languages and ongoing changes. Weglot meters translated words and language count, with request limits. Gloty meters new translation characters through monthly allowances or a one-time pack; saved translations keep serving locally. Gloty can exhaust an allowance before renewal, and a pack added to a monthly plan expires at its next reset. Estimate your own volume and compare current terms rather than assuming a saving.
- What happens to my Weglot translations if I migrate?
- Weglot's export feature currently requires an Advanced or higher plan. Preserve an export where available before changing services. Gloty's CSV/XLIFF importer updates existing Gloty row IDs; it is not an automatic converter for Weglot exports. Reusing those translations needs a separate, verified mapping workflow. Test on staging and budget for any new translation rather than assuming existing vendor content will transfer.
Weglot is a monthly subscription metered on unique word count and number of languages, from a 2,000-word free tier up to €699/mo for 5,000,000 words across 20 languages. Prices are charged in euros and exclude VAT. Plans also have monthly translation-request limits, so both content volume and traffic can matter. 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 .
- Can I import/export my translations? — Weglot Help Center. 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.
Try 50,000 translation characters once on one site, with no card required. Translation uses the Gloty service; saved translations keep serving from your own database after the allowance is used.