WPGlotty versus TranslatePress
Looking for a TranslatePress alternative?
TranslatePress sells you an allowance of words and keeps half its features behind the middle plan. WPGlotty is a WordPress translation plugin that sells you all of it, and lets you buy the translating from Anthropic or OpenAI at their price instead of ours.
Where they differ
The differences that decide it.
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An allowance is a ceiling with a nicer name
TranslatePress gives you fifty thousand AI words a year on Personal, two hundred thousand on Business, five hundred thousand on Developer. A shop with a few thousand products reaches the first of those before it has finished its first language, and the answer is always the next plan up.
WPGlotty has no ceiling at all. The translating runs on your own Anthropic, OpenAI or DeepL account at their rate, with nothing added by us, so a site that doubles in size costs more to translate and not a cent more to license.
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Half the plugin is behind the middle plan
On TranslatePress, DeepL is an addon that needs the Business plan at €199 a year. So does automatic language detection, so does a separate domain per language, and so do translator accounts. The €99 plan is not the plugin, it is the trailer.
WPGlotty has one feature list and every licence gets all of it. No plan unlocks a provider, an editor or an SEO field, because there is only one version of the plugin and you already have it.
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A frontier model beats a translation engine
TranslatePress AI translates a sentence. That is all a translation engine is built to do, and on your headlines, your calls to action and your product copy it shows: the words are correct and they are not the ones you would have chosen.
WPGlotty sends your text to Claude or GPT with your glossary and your tone of voice attached, and lets you pick a different model per language when one suits a market better. You are translating with the same models people write the original copy with.
Side by side
WPGlotty and TranslatePress, line by line.
| What | WPGlotty | TranslatePress |
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| Who does the translating | Claude, DeepL or OpenAI, on your own account | TranslatePress AI, or DeepL and Google on the Business plan and up |
| What a translated word costs | Whatever your provider charges you. We add nothing on top | Included, up to the plan allowance |
| Words a year | No limit from us. You set your own monthly ceiling | 50,000 · 200,000 · 500,000 by plan |
| Languages | 108, on every plan | Unlimited, with the Multiple Languages addon |
| Sites per licence | 1 · 5 · unlimited by plan | 1 · 3 · unlimited by plan |
| Price | €36 to €180 a year | €99 · €199 · €349 a year |
| Features held back for a higher plan | Nothing. Every feature on every licence | DeepL, language detection, one domain per language and translator accounts need Business |
| Where translations are stored | In your own database and your own language files | In your own WordPress database |
| If you stop paying | They keep being served, in every language, for as long as the site exists | Existing translations keep being served |
| Edit a translation on the page | Click any sentence on your own site and rewrite it | Yes, a visual editor over your own site |
| SEO output | hreflang, translated slugs and sitemaps, included | In the SEO Pack addon |
Figures for TranslatePress from translatepress.com/pricing, checked on 3 September 2026. If something here has gone out of date, tell us and it gets corrected.
What changes
What you get the day you move.
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The word count stops mattering
No allowance to watch, no renewal that arrives with a bigger number on it because the site grew. Publish as much as you like and the licence never moves.
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DeepL on the smallest licence
And Claude, and GPT, and switching between them per language. Nothing waits for a plan upgrade, because there is only one version of the plugin.
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Translations that sound like your brand
Your glossary and your tone of voice go with every request, to a frontier model rather than a translation engine. The difference shows up in the sentences a machine usually gets grammatically right and commercially wrong.
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A bill you can read
The translating is charged by your own provider, in euros, itemised. You can work out what a language costs before you press the button.
Before you move
What people ask.
- Can I run both while I decide?
- Yes, but not on the same site. Two plugins rewriting the same page will fight over it. Try WPGlotty on a staging copy, which takes a licence slot you can release again from your dashboard the moment you are done.
- Do my TranslatePress translations come across?
- Not automatically. They live in TranslatePress tables in a shape only that plugin reads. In practice retranslating is faster than importing: the whole site goes through in one run, and it costs a few euros at your provider.
- Is it cheaper?
- For most sites, yes, and it stays cheaper as the site grows. The licence is comparable, and the translating is bought at provider cost with no margin on it. The bigger difference is that nothing here forces you onto a higher plan: on TranslatePress a busy site upgrades because it ran out of words, and here it never does.
See the difference on your own site.
Install it on a staging copy, translate one language, and read the result. Five minutes and a euro of provider credit is the whole cost of finding out, and the translations you make are written into your own database from the first sentence.