Weglot pricing: what Weglot really costs per word, per language and over three years

Weglot costs between 0 and 699 euros a month, depending on two things: how many translated words your site has and in how many languages. Those are the amounts on Weglot’s pricing page, checked on 7 October 2026. The most important detail is not in that page’s headings: words count per language. Every language you add multiplies your usage, and every new page counts in every language. In this article you will see how the plans are built, what counts as a word, what Weglot costs over three years for a realistic B2B site and how that compares with translations you own in your CMS.

This article belongs with our Weglot review, which covers how it works and the SEO side. Here it is only about money.

What do the Weglot plans cost?

Weglot sells six public plans plus Enterprise on request. The prices in brackets apply with annual billing.

Source: Weglot’s pricing page, checked on 7 October 2026. According to Weglot, every plan includes 14 days of free access; projects under 2,000 words then move to the free plan.

In practice, two plan thresholds decide which plan you need, regardless of your word count:

• Translated URLs only come with Pro. Below that, your French page gets a French directory (/fr/), but with the Dutch slug behind it. For a Belgian site that wants to be found in French, that is a missed signal.
• Export and import only come with Advanced. Anyone who ever wants to take their translations to another solution needs that plan, even if only for the month of the switch.

What counts as a word at Weglot?

According to the Weglot Academy on word count, you calculate your usage like this: the number of words in your original language multiplied by the number of languages you translate into. Weglot gives the example of an 8,000-word site in three languages: 24,000 translated words. In addition:

• Invisible text counts too: meta titles, meta descriptions and image alt text.
• A sentence only counts once. According to the pricing page, a translated word is counted once, not each time it appears again. A footer that sits on every page does not cost you a hundred times.
• Removed content keeps counting. Weglot keeps translations until you delete them manually. An old blog post you take offline stays in your usage until you delete its translation in the dashboard.
• It adds up gradually. Weglot translates pages when they are visited, by visitors, by you or by search engines. Your usage therefore rises over the first weeks, not on the day of installation.

What if you go over your limit? According to the pricing page you get an email. If auto-upgrade is on, your account moves to the next plan. If it is off, new translations stop until you upgrade or delete translations.

Worked example: a B2B site over three years

Take an ordinary Belgian B2B site: 150 pages and blog posts averaging 600 words, metadata included. That is 90,000 words in Dutch.

Amounts with annual billing according to Weglot’s pricing page of 7 October 2026; monthly billing costs more (Pro: 79 euros x 36 months is 2,844 euros). The example assumes a site that does not grow. If you publish content every month, your usage grows in every language.

What this example shows: it is not the first language that makes Weglot expensive, it is growth. A site that adds content year after year and opens a third or fourth language moves up one or two plans, and the translations you have already paid for still live at Weglot.

What does owning your translations cost?

The alternative is the multilingual setup of your own CMS. You then pay no subscription per word, but a licence per site, or nothing at all if your CMS has multilingual support in its core (Drupal, Joomla). The prices below come from the vendors’ pricing pages, checked on 7 October 2026.

For the same B2B site in four languages, that means a WordPress plugin costs at most about 300 euros in licences over three years, however many words or pages you add. On Webflow Advanced, three extra locales cost 87 dollars a month with annual billing, a little over 3,100 dollars over three years, with translated slugs and no word limit in the licence. Which of the two suits a WordPress site, you read in our comparison Weglot vs WPML.

To be fair, that is not the full comparison. With Weglot, machine translation is included in the price; with a plugin you translate yourself, with the AI credits in your licence, with a translation service or with an AI agent that writes straight into your CMS. On top of that comes a cost that does not exist with Weglot: the switch itself.

What drives the cost of the switch?

A switch is a one-off project, not a subscription. We deliberately do not give an amount here, because it depends on your site. These are the factors that drive the effort:

• Number of pages and languages. Every language version has to exist as a real page in your CMS.
• URL structure. A Weglot setup in subdirectories (/fr/) is easier to take over than a setup on subdomains (fr.example.com), where DNS and redirects also come into play.
• Translated slugs. If you had translated URLs in Weglot Pro, they have to come back exactly or redirect with a 301.
• Page builder and strings. Menus, forms, buttons and theme text need string translation, and each page builder handles that differently.
• Whether you have the export. With an export from Weglot your existing translations serve as the source; without one you translate again.
• Quality pass. A switch is the ideal moment to have the pages that bring in leads rewritten by a native speaker.

The order of the switch, from export to cancelling, is in our guide on exporting your Weglot translations. If you want the switch done for you, our translation tool migration works with the same URLs or a complete redirect plan.

When is Weglot worth the money?

For a small site with one extra language, Weglot is hard to beat: 150 euros a year for Starter is less than a switch costs, and you have no installation or translation work. For a quick test in a new market, a monthly subscription is sensible too. The maths tips in three situations: you need translated URLs (Pro), you open a third or fourth language, or you want to be able to take your translations with you (Advanced). Which alternatives exist and how they score on ownership and URLs is in our comparison of Weglot alternatives.

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Work out your own situation

Not sure whether to stay on Weglot or bring your translations into your CMS? We count your words, languages and URLs together and tell you honestly whether a switch pays for itself on your site. Also read how to leave a translation tool without losing SEO. With our free hreflang checker you see straight away whether your site runs a translation tool and whether your hreflang is correct.

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