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Someone has to count your words to sell them to you. We don’t.
Translation plugins usually resell you the translation with a margin, so they have to meter it: credits, word pools, plan limits. OctoLangWP resells nothing. Your server talks to your own translation engine, and we don’t even know how many words you translated.
| Question | Weglot | WPML | OctoLangWP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup | Minutes | Hours of configuration | Minutes |
| Automatic translation | Their engine, in the subscription | Their credits | Your key, engine of your choice |
| Where translations live | On their servers | In your database | In your database |
| A copy of each post per language | No | Yes | No |
| Bill grows with word count | Yes | Yes | No, you pay your provider at their prices |
| Adding a language | Higher plan | More credits | Tick it in settings |
| Your text passes through the plugin’s servers | Yes | For automatic translation | Never |
| When you stop paying | Translations disappear from the site | The site keeps working | The site keeps working, translations stay |
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40 products · about 20,000 words · 3 languages
About €7 a month for everything
Instead of $30–60 a month for translation alone. Less than the cheapest hosting this shop runs on.
20,000 words is an estimate for a typical small shop; count your own catalogue before comparing. On a bigger site the proportions hold: the licence is fixed, and you pay for text once, at your provider’s prices, with no margin from us.
- Translation, first monthDeepL’s free tier covers 500,000 characters a month. Three languages fit.
- €0
- Translation, every month afterOnly new and changed content. Every sentence is stored and never paid for twice.
- €0
- The pluginPro: WooCommerce, cart, checkout and order emails in the customer’s language.
- €79 / yr
- A fourth, fifth, tenth languageTick it in settings. No new plan, nothing extra to us.
- €0
Why this plugin exists
I built it because translation was eating my shop’s budget
I ran a small WooCommerce shop. Forty products, just starting, every cent counted. Translation alone cost me $30–60 a month, before the plugin licence. Every new language was another surcharge. Every new product pushed me closer to the next plan.
For a big company that’s small change. For a startup it’s an instalment that grows with every other one: hosting, payments, shipping, ads. At some point translating the site cost more than running it.
The market offered two options, and both hurt. Weglot: switch it on and it works, but they keep your translations and you pay every month for as long as you want your site in German. WPML: everything is yours, in your database, but setup is a project of its own, the database swells with copies of posts, and automatic translation still counts credits.
I wanted the speed of the first and the ownership of the second, without either one’s bill. That’s how OctoLangWP started.
Adrian, creator of OctoLangWP
Who it’s not for
If you need a team of translators, jobs and an editorial workflow per language, WPML with human translation will serve you better. OctoLangWP is for sites that should speak new languages today, on the money you have today.
Moving from WPML or Weglot?
There’s no content to migrate, because we keep no separate posts. Install, pick your languages, switch the old plugin off. On Agency we help you keep your URLs and rankings.
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