Polylang vs TranslatePress
Polylang
polylang.pro
TranslatePress
translatepress.comSide by side
| Figure | Polylang | TranslatePress |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | €8.25/mo | €8.25/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 10 |
| Spec score · Website Translation Software | 8.8 (#3) | 8.6 (#6) |
| Developer extensibility | Developer resources cover PHP functions, filters, hooks, custom Gutenberg blocks, wpml-config.xml, PHP constants, REST endpoints and a Polylang CLI. | Developer documentation covers hooks, custom languages, custom switchers, translated URL retrieval, language-specific content, migration and translation exclusions. |
| Language switcher | The switcher can use flags or text and appear in menus, widgets, footers, blocks or theme code. | The plugin provides floating, shortcode or Gutenberg-block, menu-item and Elementor language switchers. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.7 out of 5 from 3 reviews. | 4.8 out of 5 from 10 reviews. |
| Rating on Trustpilot | 2.5 out of 5 from 5 reviews. | 4.8 out of 5 from 236 reviews. |
| Rating on WordPress.org | 4.7 out of 5 from 2,999 reviews. | 4.7 out of 5 from 1,664 reviews. |
| What it does | Polylang is a WordPress plugin for creating multilingual websites by translating posts, pages, media, taxonomies, custom post types, menus, widgets, products and URLs. | TranslatePress is a WordPress multilingual plugin with a visual front-end editor that lets users translate pages as visitors see them. |
| WooCommerce | The WooCommerce add-on translates products, emails, categories, shop and checkout pages, tags and attributes, with stock and prices synchronized between product translations. | TranslatePress supports WooCommerce content and email translation, including products and customer or administrator emails. |
Plans
Polylang
- PolylangFree
- Polylang for WooCommerce€99 a year
- Polylang Pro€99 a year
- Polylang Pro — 1 site€99 a year
- Polylang Business Pack€139 a year
- Polylang Pro — 3 sites€198 a year
- Polylang Pro — 5 sites€297 a year
- Polylang Pro — 25 sites€495 a year
TranslatePress
- Personal€8.25 a month
- Personal annual€99 a year
- Business€16.59 a month
- Business annual€199 a year
- Developer€29.09 a month
- Developer annual€349 a year
- FreeFree
- Personal€99 a year
- Business€199 a year
- Developer€349 a year
In their own words
Polylang
Polylang is a WordPress plugin for building multilingual websites and translating WordPress content. It handles pages, posts, media, categories, tags, custom post types, menus, and widgets, with language URLs arranged as subdirectories, subdomains, or separate domains. Polylang Pro supports manual translation and DeepL machine translation using the customer's own API key. Pro also offers language switchers, browser-language detection, translated URL slugs, hreflang and Open Graph tags, and language-specific meta tags. It integrates with the WordPress block editor and Site Editor and supports the REST API and XLIFF translation-project import and export. Listed integrations include WooCommerce and Yoast SEO. The free WordPress plugin costs nothing; Pro licenses start at €99 a year, ex VAT. A multilingual WooCommerce shop also needs the Polylang for WooCommerce add-on. DeepL is not currently compatible with Elementor and some builders, and there is no one-click translate-everything feature.
TranslatePress
TranslatePress has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.