Tranzly vs WPML
In Tranzly's own words.
WPML has been around for years as a paid WordPress translation plugin, with yearly plans that bundle a fixed quantity of AI-translated words. Tranzly takes another route: the plugin costs nothing on WordPress.org, supports unlimited languages and doesn't meter words at all, because translating runs through your own DeepL or AI account.
Where Tranzly stands out
The edition on WordPress.org costs nothing and covers unlimited languages, along with translated addresses, hreflang and sitemaps.
Since there is no word cap, your bill goes straight to the translation service you pick, rather than to bundles of word allowances.
Each translated page adds two database queries at most, and no cookie is set, which lets your caching carry on as normal.
Moving over from WPML is handled by Tranzly Pro, which brings across its languages, translations and translated texts, and the import can be reversed.
Where WPML is strong
Every paid plan comes with a yearly quota of AI-translated words, which means you can skip setting up a separate translation account.
Alongside DeepL, Google Translate and Microsoft Translator, WPML provides a translation engine of its own.
In common
Translated content in each plugin lives as genuine WordPress content, and every translation gets its own address.
Machine translation from DeepL, Google and Microsoft can be plugged into either one.
Differences
No free version of WPML exists, whereas Tranzly's free edition can be found on WordPress.org.
On WPML's paid plans the AI-translated words come to 22,500 or 45,000 (the Blog plan has none); Tranzly sets no limit on words.
AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can work through 73 tools in Tranzly to translate a whole site.