Overview#
Weglot and shipglobal.dev solve the same problem in two fundamentally different ways.
Weglot sits in front of your site. A script — or a reverse proxy — picks up the text on request, fetches the translation from Weglot and displays it. You never touch your content.
shipglobal.dev works on files. You export your content as XLIFF — on WordPress that comes from WPML or Polylang Pro — upload the file, get it back in up to 64 languages and import it. From then on the translations live in your database and belong to you.
The difference sounds technical, but it decides the price, the ownership, and what happens the day you stop paying.
At a glance#
| shipglobal.dev | Weglot | |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanism | File in, file out | JavaScript integration and reverse proxy |
| Where translations live | In your database, in your repo | With Weglot |
| Pricing model | €19/month per seat + €10/M tokens | Tiered by words and languages |
| Cost of one more language | Just the one-off usage | Usually the jump to the next plan |
| Languages | 64, no surcharge on the seat | 1 to 20, depending on plan |
| Extra plugin required | Yes (WPML or Polylang Pro) | No |
| Setup time | Export, upload, import | A few minutes |
| New content | You export again | Picked up automatically |
| After cancelling | Translations stay where they are | No longer served |
Pricing#
Weglot#
Prices are published openly at weglot.com/pricing (as of August 2026). The tiers move along two axes at once — words and languages:
| Plan | Month | Year | Words | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | €0 | 2,000 | 1 |
| Starter | €15 | €150 | 10,000 | 1 |
| Business | €29 | €290 | 50,000 | 3 |
| Pro | €79 | €790 | 200,000 | 5 |
| Advanced | €299 | €2,990 | 1,000,000 | 10 |
| Extended | €699 | €6,990 | 5,000,000 | 20 |
The second column is the expensive one. A small site that wants a sixth language jumps from Pro to Advanced — from €79 to €299 a month — without adding a single word of content.
shipglobal.dev#
- €19/month per seat, VAT included, cancellable monthly
- €10 per million tokens — you are billed for what was measured, not for what a plan allows
- Bring your own model key and the token cost disappears entirely
- All 64 languages are included in the seat. The twelfth language costs no more than the second — just usage, once
- Repetition is free: text you have already translated is not paid for again on the next run
Three worked examples#
Calculated against a real measurement: 172,402 characters cost €0.98 in usage for one language on shipglobal. An English word averages a little over five characters.
Scenario 1: Small site, one target language#
8,000 words, English into German
| Solution | Year 1 | Year 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Weglot Starter | €150 | €150 |
| shipglobal.dev | €228 + ~€0.30 usage | €228 |
Winner: Weglot. With one language and little text, our base fee is the bigger line item. If that is all you need, Weglot is cheaper — we would rather say so here than after you have signed up.
Scenario 2: Company site, three languages#
40,000 words, three target languages
| Solution | Year 1 | Year 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Weglot Business | €290 | €290 |
| shipglobal.dev | €228 + ~€4.44 usage | €228 |
Winner: shipglobal, narrowly. The gap is small in year one. It widens because from year two on you only pay for new paragraphs, while the Weglot plan falls due in full every year.
Scenario 3: Shop or portal, eight languages#
40,000 words, eight target languages
| Solution | Year 1 | Year 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Weglot Advanced | €2,990 | €2,990 |
| shipglobal.dev | €228 + ~€11.84 usage | €228 |
Winner: shipglobal, by a wide margin. Eight languages do not fit any Weglot plan below Advanced. Here the eighth language costs exactly what the second cost: usage once, and nothing else.
The break-even sits at roughly four languages. Below that Weglot is cheaper or level; above it the gap opens fast.
What happens when you cancel#
This is the part worth thinking about before you start, and the part most people read afterwards.
Weglot: If you cancel or pause, the translations stop being served on your project. The translated pages progressively drop out of Google's index. The project reverts to the Free plan and is deleted automatically after three months of inactivity. You can get your work out — Weglot offers a CSV or XLIFF export, and for up to six months after the subscription ends you can request a copy in writing from support. But that export is an active step you have to take before the deadline passes.
shipglobal.dev: The translations sit in your WordPress database or your repository from the start, because that is where you imported them. Cancelling takes away your access to the engine; it changes nothing about the content you already translated. There is nothing to export, because nothing was ever held anywhere else.
SEO#
Both routes can rank properly, but not in the same way.
Weglot puts language versions on their own URLs or subdomains and sets hreflang. That works. The translation, however, comes into existence at delivery time, which ties your indexation to an active subscription — see above.
shipglobal.dev hands you files; routing, URLs and hreflang tags are handled by your multilingual plugin, exactly as they would be if a human had typed the text. To Google it is an ordinary multilingual site with no extra layer.
Where Weglot is clearly better#
A comparison that only makes the other side look bad is advertising, not a comparison. Three things Weglot does that we do not:
- Setup in minutes, no prior knowledge. Add the script, pick languages, done. With us you need WPML or Polylang Pro and you have to understand what an XLIFF export is, once.
- New content is picked up automatically. If you publish daily, you do not want to export daily. Weglot catches new text on its own.
- No extra plugin. Weglot brings its own language management. Ours lives in the plugin you would need for a second language anyway.
Where shipglobal.dev is clearly better#
- Languages cost nothing extra. The number of languages is not a pricing axis here.
- The translations are yours from the moment you import them, with no export deadline.
- Repetition is free. On the second run you pay for the paragraphs that are new — not for the whole allowance again.
- No layer in the frontend. No extra script, no proxy in front of the site.
- Placeholders, plurals and structure survive intact, including languages with four plural forms.
Migrating from Weglot to shipglobal.dev#
- Export from Weglot — CSV or XLIFF, while the subscription is still running
- Set up a multilingual plugin — WPML or Polylang Pro, if you do not have one
- Import the existing translations so they count as translation memory and are not paid for a second time
- Translate what is missing — only the gaps
- Remove the Weglot script and cancel the subscription once the import is in place
Do not skip step 3. What you have already translated is free here — but only if we know about it.
Verdict#
Choose Weglot if you need one or two languages, want to be live today, publish new content constantly, and would rather not set up a multilingual plugin.
Choose shipglobal.dev if you want more than three or four languages, want to own the translations, and are not willing to pay for the same work again every year.
The question that decides it is not the monthly price but the one behind it: in three years, what do you actually hold if you stop paying? With Weglot, an export you had to remember to take. With us, a database in which the text is simply there.