Weglot

Weglot translates an entire website without touching the code, which is a different product from the translation engines elsewhere in this category. DeepL translates text you give it; Weglot detects everything on your site, translates it, serves it at language-specific URLs and keeps it in sync as the site changes.

The part that decides whether a multilingual site is worth building is SEO, and it is where do-it-yourself approaches quietly fail. Translated pages need their own indexable URLs and correct hreflang tags, or search engines treat them as duplicates and the translation earns nothing. Weglot handles that automatically, which is the difference between a site that ranks in five markets and a site that merely displays in five languages.

It works with any CMS or framework rather than requiring a particular one, combines machine translation with the ability to edit or order professional translation for the pages that matter, and reports more than 110,000 users from small Shopify shops to large enterprise sites. Weglot SAS operates from Paris, founded in 2016, with EU processing under GDPR. Pricing is by translated word count with a free tier — and the word-count model is the thing to model carefully, because a large catalogue site can be considerably more expensive than the entry plan suggests.

What Weglot does well

• Translates a whole website with no code changes
• Language URLs and hreflang handled automatically for SEO
• Works with any CMS or framework
• Machine translation editable, with professional translation available
• French company, EU processing, free tier available

Where Weglot falls short

• Word-count pricing gets expensive on large catalogues
• Translation quality is machine-first unless you pay to edit
• Adds a dependency in front of your site
• Not a general-purpose translation tool

Standout feature. Correct hreflang and language URLs without touching the code — the part that decides whether translation earns anything.