What is Weglot, the website translation tool?

Weglot gets a site into several languages in minutes. It detects your content automatically and translates it, and you review and adjust the result in its visual editor.

What is Weglot?

Weglot is a website translation plugin. You install it once, and it detects the text on your site, sends it out for translation, and displays the result in the languages you pick, each on its own URL.

It was founded in Paris in 2016, raised €45 million in early 2022, and has grown to more than 45 employees. Weglot reports over 70,000 websites using the product, including Microsoft and IBM.

Benefits of Weglot

1. Easy integration: connects to WordPress, Shopify, and most other platforms in a few steps.
2. Automatic translation: new pages get translated without extra work.
3. Manual editing: you can rewrite any translation by hand.
4. SEO support: translated pages get their own indexable URLs and metadata.
5. Content detection: new or edited text is picked up and translated automatically.
6. Language coverage: over 100 languages.
7. Simple setup: no coding needed for most platforms.
8. Lightweight: does not slow down page load.

Installing Weglot on your website

Weglot can be installed on various types of websites, offering both native integrations for specific platforms and a general JavaScript integration method for any website.

Here’s an overview of how to install Weglot:

General JavaScript Integration

For any website without a native integration, you can use Weglot’s JavaScript integration:

1. Create a Weglot account and obtain your API key.
2. Add the Weglot JavaScript snippet to your website’s <head> section.
3. Configure your original and target languages in the Weglot dashboard. This method works for most websites but may require additional steps for dynamic content in single-page applications.

Native Integrations

Weglot offers native integrations for several popular platforms, including:

• WordPress
• Softr
• Wix
• Shopify
• Magento
• Webflow
• Squarespace

Additional setup steps

Depending on your integration method, you may need to:

• Configure DNS settings for subdomain or subdirectory-based translations.
• Adjust settings in your content management system.
• Handle dynamic content separately. Test the integration before launch, and check that every feature still works in the translated versions.

Weglot pricing plans

Weglot’s pricing scales from a free plan to enterprise:

• Free Plan (€0/month): For testing small websites with 2,000 translated words, 1 language, and basic features like AI translation, glossary rules, and multilingual SEO. Limited support and no media translation.
• Starter Plan (€15/month): Includes 10,000 translated words, 1 language, media translation, and essential collaboration tools with basic support.
• Business Plan (€29/month): Offers 50,000 translated words, 3 languages, additional translation rules, and basic support.
• Pro Plan (€79/month): Supports 200,000 translated words, 5 languages, 3 projects, advanced statistics, and pro translators with premium support.
• Advanced Plan (€299/month): Provides 1,000,000 translated words, 10 languages, 10 projects, tone of voice tools, and premium support.
• Enterprise Plan (Custom pricing): Custom word counts, languages, and tailored solutions with dedicated account managers and advanced features.

Using AI Glot with Weglot (and any CMS)

Weglot displays the translation. AI Glot writes it. Rather than a Weglot plugin, it is a separate tool that takes the file Weglot (or any CMS) exports, translates it, and hands it back.

Where each tool sits

Weglot owns the live site: detecting new content, serving each language at its own URL, and keeping the language switcher working. AI Glot owns the file that comes out of it, for when the wording itself needs work before it goes back in. It is an export step, not an install step: nothing is added to your site, and the same step works on a Shopify catalogue or an app’s locale files too, since more than 35 file formats are accepted.

• Terminology is set once, in your workspace: a glossary fixes the terms that must not drift, one list per language pair, reused automatically on every file you send afterwards. That is what keeps your tenth export consistent with your first.
• You choose the spend per file: Standard for the pages that carry your positioning, and on paid plans Lite for bigger or less critical archives at roughly a third of the cost. Going past a few languages on a CMS’s own premium AI credits is where most budgets stop.

Multilingual SEO with Weglot

Weglot handles the mechanics: it gives each language its own URL, writes the metadata, and re-detects content whenever you publish something new. That covers indexing. It does not decide whether the wording itself reads well in each language, which is where a glossary and a second pass through AI Glot matter, especially on the pages you actually rank for. The routine is the same whether you are launching a new language or fixing an existing one: export the CSV from Weglot, run it through AI Glot, re-import.

If you are on Weglot’s Advanced Plan for CSV import and export, this costs nothing extra to try on one page first.

Conclusion

Weglot handles the live site: detection, URLs, the switcher. AI Glot handles the wording in the file that comes out of it. Get started with AI Glot.