WeGlot Pro = €79/month. WP AI API Translate Personal = €79/year.
!That’s 12× cheaper — for virtually the same functionality!
This isn’t a small discount. This is a fundamentally different pricing model. And once you understand why that difference exists, you’ll never want to go back.
In this article, we’ll explain why WeGlot costs so much, what you’re really paying for, and how you can migrate fully automatically to WP AI API Translate — without taking a single page offline and without losing SEO.
What does WeGlot actually cost?
WeGlot uses a subscription model based on word count and number of translated languages. Looking at their pricing page, you’ll see this:
- Free: €0/month — but only 2,000 words, 1 language. Unusable for a real site.
- Starter: €15/month — 10,000 words, 1 language.
- Business: €29/month — 50,000 words, 3 languages.
- Pro: €79/month — 200,000 words, 5 languages.
- Advanced: €299/month — 1,000,000 words, 10 languages.
- Extended: €699/month — 5,000,000 words, 20 languages.
For an average WordPress site with multiple languages, you’ll quickly end up on the Pro plan: €79 per month, or €948 per year. Every single year. Even if you don’t add new content.
WeGlot Pro over 3 years = €2,844. WP AI API Translate Personal (3 years) = €79 + €79 + €79 = €237 — including all future updates.
Why does WeGlot charge so much?
WeGlot hosts your translations on their own servers. Every page request in another language goes through their infrastructure. That costs them money, and they scale that model onto you.
But there’s a second, less-mentioned reason: vendor lock-in is the business model.
Your translations live in their database. There’s no standard export. Cancel your subscription, and you lose everything — or you start over. WeGlot simply has no incentive to make leaving easy.
Your URL structure is tied to their system. Those /en/ and /de/ routes are generated by WeGlot. Switching means, in theory: dealing with all indexed URLs again, or you’ll lose your SEO rankings.
You’re paying for translations that are already done. Did you translate your site a year ago? You’re paying the exact same amount this year, even if nothing new has been added.
How does WP AI API Translate work differently?
WP AI API Translate is a standalone WordPress plugin. No external server, no SaaS, no monthly fee based on word count.
You purchase a license — once per year — and connect your own AI API key. That’s called Bring Your Own Key (BYOK). You only pay for the translation calls you actually make.
What does a translation cost then? For a site with 500 pages translated into three languages, you’ll typically pay between €3 and €10 via the Claude or GPT-4o API — one time. After that, only for new or changed content.
And your translations? They’re stored right in your own WordPress database. As custom post types. Exportable, backupable, yours.
The concrete comparison
Scenario: multilingual site, 3 languages, ~100,000 words
- WeGlot Business (50k words, 3 languages): €29/month = €348/year
- WeGlot Pro (200k words, 5 languages): €79/month = €948/year
- WP AI API Translate Personal (5 languages): €79/year + ~€5 API = €84 total first year
- WP AI API Translate year 2: €79 + €0 (translations already done) = €79
- WP AI API Translate year 3: same, €79
After 3 years: WeGlot Pro = €2,844 | WP AI API Translate = €242. Difference: €2,602 — in your pocket.
‘But I can’t just switch, can I?’
This is the biggest barrier WeGlot users face. And rightfully so — without tools, a migration is risky. You’re dealing with:
- Existing translations you don’t want to lose
- URL structures that have been indexed by search engines (/en/, /de/, /es/)
- Hreflang tags that need to stay correct
- Backlinks to translated pages that can’t break
That’s exactly why WP AI API Translate is building an automated migration assistant. No manual copying, no lost rankings.
How the automatic migration works
Step 1: Crawling your existing multilingual site
The migration assistant crawls your live website while WeGlot is still active. It automatically maps all active language versions — including the complete URL structure of pages, posts, categories, and custom post types.
Step 2: Scraping existing WeGlot translations
For each URL in each language, the tool retrieves the existing translation via your site’s live display. No API integration with WeGlot needed. Text, titles, meta descriptions, and translated slugs are fully extracted.
Step 3: Importing as native WordPress content
The scraped translations are imported as ait_translation custom post types — WP AI API Translate’s own storage structure. Your translations are now part of your own WordPress database. No more external dependency.
Step 4: Comparing URL structure and creating redirects
The tool compares WeGlot’s URL structure with that of WP AI API Translate. Is the structure identical (/en/page/ stays /en/page/)? Then you don’t need to do anything. Are there differences? Automatic 301 redirects are created.
Step 5: Deactivating WeGlot
Only after everything is verified do you deactivate WeGlot. Your site stays online the entire time. Visitors won’t notice anything. Search engines won’t either — except that your hreflang tags are now generated by your own plugin, from your own server.
What you keep after migration
- All existing translations in your own WordPress database
- The same URL structure for all language versions
- Correct hreflang and canonical tags (Yoast/RankMath integration)
- Complete SEO continuity — no lost rankings
- Choice between Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini for future translations
- Glossary management for consistent terminology
- Bulk translation function for new content
- No vendor lock-in — everything is yours
When will the migration feature be available?
The WeGlot migration assistant is planned as part of Phase 4 of WP AI API Translate. Future versions will also support migration from WPML and TranslatePress.
Want first access as soon as the migration feature goes live? Sign up for the waitlist at te-pd.nl.
Conclusion: €79 per month or €79 per year — the choice is simple
WeGlot is a good product. But it’s built on a model where you pay every year for something that’s already done, and where leaving is deliberately made difficult.
WP AI API Translate chooses the opposite. One-time annual license costs. You pay for the AI calls you make — not for infrastructure you can’t see. And your translations? Right in your own database.
The automatic migration assistant removes the final barrier. No manual work, no downtime, no SEO loss.
Start for free. Install WP AI API Translate alongside WeGlot. Migrate. Deactivate WeGlot. Save €800+ per year.
