LATW Multilingual
LATW Multilingual vs Weglot: Free, Pro or Advanced, which one should run your site?
Weglot is a hosted translation service: your site's traffic is routed through Weglot's servers, and every plan is metered by a fixed word allowance you pay for regardless of which AI engine translates it. LATW runs entirely inside WordPress, keeps translations in your own database, and bills automatic translation straight to your own OpenAI key with no word cap.
At a glance
The handful of differences that actually decide most people's choice. Weglot pricing shown for annual billing.
Pricing and feature data verified July 2026 against public Weglot.com pricing and documentation; EUR figures converted for reference only. Plugins and pricing change - if you spot something outdated, let us know.
The real difference: a hosted proxy vs a self-hosted plugin
Weglot is a SaaS that sits in front of your site: your traffic is routed through Weglot's infrastructure, which detects and translates the visible text before serving the page back. LATW is a WordPress plugin that translates and serves content directly from your own database, with no external routing step.
Your site, translated somewhere else first
Weglot's WordPress plugin is a thin connector to a hosted service. Visible text is detected and machine-translated on Weglot's infrastructure, cached there, and served through a proxy - every word counted against a fixed quota that resets each billing period, regardless of which AI engine is used underneath.
Everything stays on your own server
LATW runs entirely inside WordPress. Translations are stored as an overlay in your own database and served directly, with no external proxy in the request path and no word quota to run out of - automatic translation is billed straight to your own OpenAI key.
Where LATW Multilingual pulls ahead of Weglot
No word quota to run into
Every Weglot plan - even Advanced at 1,000,000 words - has a hard word ceiling; once you cross it, translations stop showing until you upgrade. LATW has no word cap: you pay your AI provider for what you actually use.
Unlimited languages, free
Weglot Free is capped at one language, Pro at five, Advanced at ten - more languages always means a higher tier. LATW's Free plan has no language limit at all.
Your content never leaves your server
Weglot routes your traffic through its own infrastructure and stores translated content on its servers. LATW keeps every translation in your own WordPress database, with no external proxy in the request path.
A fraction of the price at scale
Weglot Pro runs about €790/year and Advanced about €2,990/year, and you have to keep upgrading as your word count grows. LATW's Pro plan is $35/year with no word cap to outgrow.
No attribution badge to buy your way out of
Weglot's Free plan keeps a "By Weglot" badge on the language switcher that only paid plans can remove. LATW never adds branding to your switcher, on any plan.
A translation inspector Weglot has no equivalent for
Click any piece of text on your site and LATW tells you exactly which layer produced it - post, term, menu, widget, theme option or plugin string - with a link straight to where to translate it.
Where Weglot is still the safer pick
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Not limited to WordPress: Weglot's proxy approach works on Shopify, static sites, headless frontends and virtually any CMS. If you manage translation across multiple platforms, not just WordPress, that reach is a real advantage LATW cannot match.
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Zero server-side setup: because translation and caching happen on Weglot's infrastructure, there is nothing to configure on your own server beyond installing the connector - appealing for non-technical teams.
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Traffic and translation statistics: Pro and Advanced include a dashboard of translation and visitor statistics per language, something LATW does not currently offer.
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Export/import and custom language variants at Advanced: useful if you need to move translations between systems or define non-standard language variants, both Advanced-only Weglot features.
Full feature comparison
Every capability that typically decides a multilingual plugin choice, side by side.
Weglot feature data based on publicly available Weglot.com pricing and documentation as of July 2026. Always confirm current details on the vendor's site before deciding.
Frequently asked questions
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Is LATW Multilingual better than Weglot?+
It depends on what you need. If you want a self-hosted WordPress plugin with unlimited words and languages, translations kept in your own database, and AI translation billed at cost, LATW is the better fit. If you manage translation across multiple platforms beyond WordPress (Shopify, a static site, a headless frontend), Weglot's cross-platform proxy has broader reach.
Is Weglot a WordPress plugin like LATW?+
Not really. Weglot's WordPress plugin is a thin connector to a hosted service - your site's traffic is routed through Weglot's servers, which detect and translate text on the fly and serve the translated pages back through a proxy. LATW instead runs entirely inside WordPress, translating and serving content directly from your own database with no external routing step.
Is Weglot's free plan usable long term?+
Only for very small sites. Weglot Free is capped at 2,000 translated words and one language, keeps the "By Weglot" badge on the switcher, and simply stops displaying translations once you exceed the word quota. LATW's Free plan has no word or language cap.
Is LATW Multilingual cheaper than Weglot?+
Yes, often by a wide margin once a site grows past a small word count. Weglot Pro runs about €790/year for 200,000 words and 5 languages, and Advanced is about €2,990/year for 1,000,000 words and 10 languages - and you need to keep upgrading as your content grows. LATW's Pro plan is $35/year with no word cap, because automatic translation is billed directly to your own OpenAI key.
Why does Weglot charge by word count and LATW does not?+
Weglot's subscription bundles machine translation into the plan price, metered by a fixed word allowance per tier - once you exceed it, translations for the excess stop showing until you upgrade. LATW's Pro plan instead bills automatic translation directly to your own OpenAI key, so there is no site-wide word cap to run into.
Does LATW Multilingual support WooCommerce like Weglot does?+
Yes, and it is included in the free tier. Weglot also translates WooCommerce content on every plan since it works by detecting visible text on the page, but every word translated still counts against your Weglot word quota.
See the difference on your own site
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