Weglot (weglot.com) is a website translation and localization solution that enables businesses to create multilingual versions of their websites without touching code. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, France, Weglot works by detecting all text content on a website automatically — including dynamically generated content — translating it using a combination of AI machine translation engines (DeepL, Google Translate, and others), and serving the translated versions on language-specific subdomains or subdirectories that are fully indexed by search engines.
Weglot integrates with virtually every website platform via a single JavaScript snippet or dedicated plugins for WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, and others. After the initial translation is generated automatically, teams can refine translations in Weglot's visual in-context editor, which shows the live website with editable translation overlays, or in the translation list interface. Weglot also supports professional translation orders through its marketplace, and handles hreflang tags, translated sitemaps, and language-specific meta titles and descriptions automatically for multilingual SEO.
How Weglot Works
Users install Weglot by adding a JavaScript snippet to their website's header or by installing the platform-specific plugin (WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, etc.) and entering their Weglot API key. Weglot then crawls the website, detects all translatable strings, and generates machine translations automatically. A language switcher widget is added to the site for visitors to select their language. Teams access the Weglot dashboard to review, edit, and approve translations — using either the visual editor (which shows the live page with highlighted editable strings) or the list view (which shows source and translated text side by side). Translated pages are served on language-specific URLs (e.g. fr.example.com or example.com/fr/) with automatically generated hreflang tags to signal language variants to search engines.
Key Features
- AI automatic translation — uses DeepL, Google Translate, and other engines to generate instant machine translations for all detected website content
- Visual in-context editor — edit translations directly on a live preview of the website with highlighted editable overlays
- 110+ languages supported — translate websites into over 110 languages with right-to-left language support included
- Multilingual SEO — automatic hreflang tags, translated sitemaps, and language-specific meta titles and descriptions for search engine indexing
- Platform integrations — dedicated plugins for WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, BigCommerce, and JavaScript snippet for any other platform
- Subdomain and subdirectory routing — serve translated content on language-specific subdomains (fr.example.com) or subdirectories (example.com/fr/)
- Translation memory — stores approved translations to ensure consistency and avoid re-translating repeated strings
- Professional translation orders — order human translations from Weglot's professional translation marketplace within the dashboard
- Dynamic content support — detects and translates dynamically loaded content including JavaScript-rendered text and e-commerce product data
- Team collaboration — invite translators and reviewers with role-based access to review and approve translations in the dashboard
Weglot Pricing
Weglot offers a free plan alongside five paid tiers. Annual billing provides meaningful savings across all plans.
- Free — 1 language, up to 2,000 words translated, full feature access including the visual editor, hreflang tags, and language switcher. Ideal for small or low-content sites evaluating Weglot.
- Starter — $17/month (annual: $14/month) — 1 language, up to 10,000 words.
- Business — $32/month (annual: $27/month) — 3 languages, up to 50,000 words, team collaboration.
- Pro — $87/month (annual: $73/month) — 5 languages, up to 200,000 words, priority support.
- Advanced — $329/month (annual: $275/month) — 10 languages, up to 1,000,000 words, dedicated support.
- Extended — $769/month (annual: $641/month) — 20 languages, up to 5,000,000 words, enterprise support.
The free plan is permanently available with no credit card required. Word counts refer to the number of translated words stored in Weglot, not monthly usage. Always verify current rates at weglot.com/pricing.
Who Should Use Weglot?
Weglot is an excellent fit for marketing teams, e-commerce stores, SaaS companies, and content-driven websites that need to go multilingual quickly without a development project. Its no-code installation and automatic translation generation mean a monolingual website can be live in multiple languages within hours. The free plan is useful for evaluating the tool on a real site before committing. Paid plans scale by language count and word volume, making Weglot most cost-effective for sites with moderate content volumes and a clear set of target languages. Very large content platforms with hundreds of thousands of pages may find the per-word pricing model expensive at scale — enterprise localisation platforms like Phrase or Transifex may offer better economics for those volumes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Weglot free to use?
Yes. Weglot offers a permanently free plan that includes translation into 1 language, up to 2,000 translated words, full access to the visual editor, hreflang tag generation, and the language switcher widget. No credit card is required to sign up. The free plan is functional enough to evaluate Weglot on a real website, though the 2,000-word limit makes it suitable only for very small or low-content sites as a long-term solution.
How does Weglot translate website content?
Weglot detects all translatable text on a website — including page content, menu items, buttons, form labels, e-commerce product data, and dynamically loaded JavaScript content — and sends it to AI machine translation engines including DeepL and Google Translate to generate initial translations automatically. Teams then review and refine these translations in Weglot's visual in-context editor or list view. Approved translations are stored in Weglot's translation memory to ensure consistency and avoid re-translating recurring strings.
Does Weglot support multilingual SEO?
Yes. Weglot automatically handles the technical SEO requirements for multilingual websites: it generates hreflang tags to signal language and regional variants to Google, creates translated XML sitemaps for each language, and serves translated content on language-specific URLs (subdomains or subdirectories) that search engines can crawl and index independently. Translated pages can also have language-specific meta titles and descriptions edited in the Weglot dashboard.
Which platforms does Weglot integrate with?
Weglot offers dedicated plugins and integrations for WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, BigCommerce, Framer, and Adobe Commerce (Magento). For any platform not covered by a dedicated plugin, Weglot can be installed by adding a single JavaScript snippet to the website's header — making it compatible with virtually any web platform or custom-built site.
How much does Weglot cost?
Weglot's paid plans start at $17/month ($14/month annually) for the Starter plan (1 language, 10,000 words), rising through Business at $32/month, Pro at $87/month, Advanced at $329/month, and Extended at $769/month for 20 languages and up to 5 million words. Annual billing saves approximately 15–18% across all plans. The free plan covers 1 language and 2,000 words at no cost.
