Weglot's pricing page is unusually honest for the category: six plans, prices in the open, no "contact sales" until you reach the top. What it does not do is warn you which of the two numbers on each row is going to move you between plans.
This article takes the price list apart. Figures are as published in August 2026 — check the current page before you sign anything, because prices move.
The plans#
| Plan | Per month | Per 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 |
| Enterprise | on request | on request | custom | custom |
In USD the same rows read $17, $32, $87, $329 and $769 per month. Which currency you see depends on where you are.
Read the table by column and it looks like a normal volume ladder. Read it by row and the actual mechanism appears: every plan binds you twice. You need enough words and enough languages, and whichever limit you hit first decides your bill.
The word allowance is not what most people assume#
Two sentences from Weglot's own material sit awkwardly next to each other, and it is worth knowing both before you estimate.
The pricing page describes the allowance as "Total unique words translated across all your languages. This is a fixed limit and does not renew."
The help centre, in the article about choosing a plan, gives this formula for working out what you need:
Average words per page × number of pages × number of extra languages
The second one multiplies by languages. The first sounds like it does not. In practice, plan for the multiplication and treat anything better as a pleasant surprise: a 20-page site of 500 words per page is 10,000 words in one language, and by that formula 30,000 across three — which is the difference between Starter and Business before you have written anything new.
The other half of that sentence deserves attention too: does not renew. This is not a monthly bucket that refills. It is a ceiling on the body of text under translation. Adding pages moves you up the ladder permanently; deleting them does not automatically move you back down.
Where the cliffs are#
Price increases along the words axis are gradual. Along the languages axis they are not. Three jumps do most of the damage:
One language to two. Starter covers a single target language. The moment you want a second, you are on Business: €15 to €29 a month, a 93 % increase for one extra language, with a word allowance you probably did not need.
Five languages to six. Pro stops at five. Six means Advanced: €79 to €299 a month. That is 278 % more, and it can happen without a single new word of content — you simply added Dutch. Annually it is the difference between €790 and €2,990.
Ten to eleven. Advanced stops at ten, Extended costs €699. Another €400 a month.
If your language list is likely to grow, the plan you pick today is not the price you will pay. The sixth language is the one to plan around.
What you get for the money#
A fair reading has to say this out loud, because it is real and it is worth paying for in some situations:
- Setup measured in minutes. A script or a proxy in front of your site, pick languages, done. No export, no import, no plugin to configure.
- New content is picked up on its own. Publish a post and the translation appears. For a site that ships content daily, this is the whole product.
- Language routing, subdomains and hreflang are handled for you.
- Editing in place. A visual editor to correct a sentence where it appears, without going near a file.
If you publish constantly, run one or two languages, and have nobody in-house who wants to touch an export, Weglot is a reasonable purchase and we would say so on any day of the week.
What the price does not buy#
The translations are not held by you. They live with the vendor and are delivered at request time. If the subscription stops, the translated pages stop being served and gradually leave Google's index. An export exists — CSV or XLIFF — and there is a window after cancellation in which you can still ask for your data, but it is an active step with a deadline attached.
Every year costs the same. A subscription priced on total word volume charges you again in year two for text that has not changed since year one. Nothing in the model rewards a site that has settled down.
The language count is a pricing lever. In a file-based workflow, a language is a one-off translation cost. Here it is a permanent monthly one.
The same sites, priced the other way#
For comparison, our own model: €19 per seat per month including VAT, €10 per million tokens for what the engine actually measured, all 64 target languages included in the seat. A measured run of 172,402 characters costs about €0.98 in usage per language.
| Site | Weglot | ShipGlobal |
|---|---|---|
| 8,000 words, 1 language | €150 / year (Starter) | €228 / year + ~€0.30 once |
| 40,000 words, 3 languages | €290 / year (Business) | €228 / year + ~€4.44 once |
| 40,000 words, 8 languages | €2,990 / year (Advanced) | €228 / year + ~€11.84 once |
Two things to note before reading a winner out of that table.
First, at one language Weglot is cheaper and it does more for the money. Our base fee is the larger line, and it buys an engine you have to feed a file.
Second, compare like with like on tax. Our €19 includes VAT. Most SaaS list prices are quoted net, with VAT added at checkout for EU customers without a valid VAT number — that is roughly a fifth in Germany. Check which side of the line each number sits on before you build a spreadsheet out of them.
The crossover sits at about three to four languages. Below it Weglot is cheaper or level; above it the gap opens quickly, and at the sixth language it opens violently.
The question that actually decides it#
Not the monthly figure. This one: in three years, what do you hold if you stop paying?
With a subscription in front of your site: an export you had to remember to take, and a set of pages that stopped being served the day the card failed.
With files: a database, a repository or a CMS in which the translated text simply sits, because that is where you imported it. Cancelling costs you access to the engine and nothing else.
That is the whole difference, and it is worth more than the €14 a month between two plans.
If you want to move#
The full side-by-side comparison covers mechanics, SEO and a migration checklist. The short version: export from Weglot while the subscription is still running, import what you already have so it counts as translation memory and is not paid for twice, translate only the gaps, then remove the script.
If your content lives in WordPress, Drupal, TYPO3 or a headless CMS, the export you need is an XLIFF file — and the step-by-step guide walks the route from there without asking you to write any code.