# Weglot — Translation & Localization

Weglot by Weglot SAS holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-11-02. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Weglot SAS (https://www.weglot.com/)
- Category: [Translation & Localization](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/weglot
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/weglot/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/weglot/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-11-06 · evaluated 2026-11-02 · oldest source captured 2026-11-01

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Weglot SAS
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026

## The panel's verdict

Weglot is a website translation service from WEGLOT SAS, a simplified joint-stock company in Paris under French law. Strongest are machine translation and sovereignty, with five judges at 7, and pricing transparency at 6 to 7; weakest are workflow and review at 4 to 6 and portability and exit at 4 to 5, and one judge scored 0 on every criterion. Machine translation rests on three named engines — DeepL, Google Translate and Microsoft — selected automatically per language pair, a custom model on OpenAI and Gemini, and a published Nimdzi study finding 85% of 168 sampled segments very good or acceptable. Pricing runs from €0 /month to €699 /month excl. VAT with limits published per tier; Enterprise is price on request. The judges genuinely split on developer-facing needs — the app developer scored 4 on workflow and review and integrations and formats where other judges scored 5 or 6, CSV and XLIFF being the only documented exchange formats — while separately the terms grant Weglot a right to use translations data to improve the service, and the captured pages give different figures for hosting.

**Speaks for it:**
- Machine translation scored 7 from five of six judges, on three named engines with automatic per-pair selection and a published Nimdzi study that found 85% of 168 sampled segments very good or acceptable.
- Five public tiers from €0 /month for 2,000 total words and 1 translated language to €699 /month excl. VAT for 5,000,000 total words and 20 translated languages, with a 14-day free trial and 2 months free on annual billing.
- 70+ one-click integrations including WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Salesforce, Adobe Experience Manager and Zendesk, plus a JavaScript snippet for any custom site.
- Sovereignty scored 7 from five of six judges: a French simplified joint-stock company in Paris, French governing law, the CNIL named as supervisory authority, a published data processing agreement and a public subprocessor list with locations.
- A stated exit path — all translations exportable by format, language pairs, qualities and types or by URL, copyright kept by the user, and a six-month window after subscription end to request a copy.

**Held against it:**
- The terms of use grant Weglot itself a right to use translations data at no cost to improve the quality of the service, set beside commitments that OpenAI and Gemini do not store or train on client content.
- Translation memory is listed as an Extended-plan feature at €699 /month, and we found no public information on automated QA checks, review stages or per-language roles.
- CSV and XLIFF are the only documented import and export formats, and we found no public information on a CLI, Git repository sync, webhooks or over-the-air updates.
- We found no public information on translation memory export as TMX, glossary export as TBX, a migration path from another tool, or any self-hosted edition, and the judges scored portability and exit 4 to 5.
- Projects are deleted after 3 months of inactivity with 3 further months to recover them, and for the pageview and API-call limits that the terms name as plan differentiation criteria we found no public information on per-tier figures.

**Best for:**
- You run a marketing site or online store on a mainstream platform such as Shopify or WordPress and want machine translation with in-context editing and no developer required.
- You need pricing you can compute before talking to sales, with word, language and team-member limits published per tier.
- You are a European buyer who wants a French contracting entity under French law with a published data processing agreement and a public subprocessor list.
- You want professional translators orderable inside the product on any plan when machine output needs a human pass.

**Avoid if:**
- You need to translate Word, PowerPoint, PDF or InDesign documents with their layout — the captured pages describe website translation, and we found no public information on document handling.
- Your pipeline relies on Git repository sync, a CLI, webhooks or JSON, Android XML or iOS strings — CSV and XLIFF are the only documented exchange formats.
- Your release process needs automated QA, approval stages or per-language roles before publishing — we found no public information on these, and translation memory starts at the Extended plan.
- You send confidential or contractual text through translation — the terms grant Weglot a right to use translations data to improve the service, and we found no public information on audit logs or customer-set retention.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The Localization Manager | The App Developer | The In-House Document Translator | The Data Protection Officer | The E-Commerce Marketer | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Machine translation & AI quality | 0/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Translation memory, terminology & review workflow | 0/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Integrations, file formats & developer tools | 0/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Confidentiality of translated content | 0/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| Data export, portability & self-hosting | 0/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 0/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 0/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **0/5** | **2.5/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** |

### The judges

- **The Localization Manager** (v1.0): Runs localization for a Hamburg software company whose product, help centre and marketing site ship in fourteen languages, with two agencies and a pool of freelancers. Every release brings a few thousand new strings and a deadline. Wants one translation memory and termbase across all content, machine translation that respects the glossary, review steps per language, QA checks that stop a broken placeholder before it ships, and cost and progress per vendor in one view.
- **The App Developer** (v1.0): Lead developer of a web app and two mobile apps at a Vienna start-up, with strings in JSON, xcstrings and Android XML. Has hand-merged translation files once and will not do it again. Wants a CLI and a GitHub sync that opens pull requests, over-the-air updates so a typo fix does not need an app store release, an API that does everything the interface does, and ideally an open-source edition they could run themselves if the vendor changes course.
- **The In-House Document Translator** (v1.0): Works in the legal and export team of a machine builder in Baden-Württemberg with customers in France, Italy, Poland and China. Translates contracts, operating manuals and supplier correspondence every day, with no translation management system and no wish for one. Needs translations that read like the company wrote them, the company's terms kept through a glossary, Word and PDF files back with their layout intact, and a written promise that a draft contract is not kept or used to train anything.
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Data protection officer of a health insurer whose staff translate letters to members, HR documents and internal guidelines. Found a free translator in the proxy logs and had to explain to the board what had been pasted into it. Reads the terms before the feature page: how long texts are kept, whether they train a model, which engines and LLM providers a platform passes them to, who the subprocessors are and where, and whether the contract names a European entity.
- **The E-Commerce Marketer** (v1.0): Runs marketing for a Shopify shop selling cycling apparel from Munich, live in German and English and due in French, Italian, Dutch and Spanish before the spring season. Has no developer and no translator on staff. Wants product pages, checkout and emails translated in days, a way to fix a bad product name by hand, multilingual SEO that search engines index, and a monthly price that does not double when the catalogue grows.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has seen "human quality" on an engine nobody has evaluated in public, "we never store your data" next to a TMS that forwards every segment to three LLM providers, and a translation memory built over six years that could only leave as a spreadsheet. Reads that a product is "enterprise-grade secure" and asks how long the text is kept, which models it reaches, and whether the memory and termbase export as TMX and TBX — and what leaving would cost.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting location | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting options | Not determined | — | — |
| Open source | Not determined | — | — |
| Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — |
| Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Architecture diagram: yes [S10]
- Caiq questionnaire: 2025 · yes · CAIQv4.0.3 [S10]
- Code of conduct: yes [S10]
- DPA available: yes [S10]
- Encryption: yes [S6]
- GDPR: yes [S10]
- Liability insurance: yes [S10]
- Oauth google: yes [S6]
- Pentest report: yes [S10]
- Rights channels: privacy@weglot.com [S8]
- SAML SSO: yes [S6]
- Security assessment: yes [S6]
- SOC 2 report date: 2025-01-10 [S10]
- SOC 2 type2: yes [S10]
- Subprocessor dpas: >OpenAI · Gemini · yes · no [S3]
- Supervisory authority: CNIL (France) [S8]
- Two factor auth: yes [S6]

**Data**
- Accounting retention: 10 [S8]
- Adwords email retention: 120 [S8]
- Adwords hashing: consent (GDPR 6.1.a) · yes [S8]
- Affiliate cookie retention: 60 [S8]
- Analytics cookies: legitimate interest (GDPR 6.1.f) · Google Analytics [S8]
- Applicant retention: 2 [S8]
- Bug data retention: 1 year following data collection [S8]
- Collected: Name · Email · IP · yes · yes [S10]
- CSV utf8: CSV files encoded in UTF-8 [S15]
- Deletion on exit: yes [S10]
- DPA: yes [S7]
- Export all: all translations · format · language pairs · qualities · types · yes [S15]
- Export by urls: by URLs · yes [S15]
- Export specific: specific translations · yes [S15]
- GDPR roles: yes · yes [S7]
- Import CSV xliff: CSV · XLIFF · yes [S15]
- Import options: create translations for new sentences · mark unchanged translations as reviewed [S15]
- Inactivity deletion: 3 · yes · 3 [S7]
- License grant to weglot: yes [S7]
- Litigation retention: 5 [S8]
- Newsletter retention: until objection or 3 years after last contact [S8]
- Privacy email: privacy@weglot.com [S7]
- Retention procedures: yes [S10]
- Reversibility: 6 [S7]
- Translation copyright: yes [S7]

**Hosting**
- EU servers: European Union [S8]
- Provider: Amazon Web Services [S7]
- Transfer mechanism: contractual clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission · Data Privacy Framework [S8]

**Integrations**
- AI site builders: AI site builder integrations: Lovable, Macaly, OpenBuilder, Durable, Bolt.new, Base44 [S4]
- API current version: API 2.0 coming soon; API 1.0 reference available [S13]
- App store rating: 4.4 · 810 [S14]
- Cms compatibility: yes [S2]
- Cms platforms: CMS integrations include Drupal, Ghost, Craft CMS, Sanity, TYPO3, Joomla-adjacent (EmDash) [S4]
- Course platforms: Course platform integrations: Thinkific, Learnworlds, Teachable, Kajabi, Podia [S4]
- Custom website guidance: General integration guide for custom-built websites [S4]
- Ecommerce platforms: Ecommerce integrations include WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Magento, SAP Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, Shopware, Shopwired, Big Cartel, Zoho Commerce, Square Online [S4]
- Enterprise platforms: Enterprise platform integrations: Salesforce, Adobe Experience Manager, SAP Commerce Cloud [S4]
- Footer featured: Footer highlights WordPress, Squarespace, Shopify integrations [S4]
- General any website: General integration: can be added to any website regardless of technology [S4]
- Helpdesk docs: Help Scout integration for docs [S4]
- Javascript: JavaScript snippet integration [S4]
- Marketing automation: HubSpot website integration [S4]
- Marketing stack: hundreds [S1]
- Named cms: WordPress · Squarespace · Shopify [S2]
- Named integrations: >WordPress · >Squarespace · >Shopify [S3]
- Native tools: 70+ tools [S3]
- Other notable: Additional integrations: Bubble, Jimdo, Elementor, Softr, Weebly, Unstack, Carrd, Duda, Dorik, Onepage, Heyflow, Format, Wix Studio, Big Cartel, Shopwired, BigCommerce [S4]
- Platforms footer: WordPress · Squarespace · Shopify [S11]
- Platforms footer: WordPress · Squarespace · Shopify [S7]
- Prestashop magento: PrestaShop and Magento integrations [S4]
- Shopify: Shopify app integration [S4]
- Squarespace: Squarespace integration [S4]
- Webflow: Webflow integration [S4]
- Wix: Wix integration [S4]
- Wordpress: WordPress plugin integration (Weglot 2.0 for WordPress) [S4]
- Zendesk: Zendesk help center integration [S4]

**Legal**
- Collection fee: 40 [S7]
- Effective date: 2026-04-22 · 2018-05-15 [S7]
- Entity: 7 cité Paradis 75010 Paris · Weglot SAS · société par actions simplifiée · 1443.96 · 818 164 964 [S7]
- Entity: 7 cité Paradis, 75010 Paris · WEGLOT · simplified joint-stock company [S8]
- GDPR responsibility: yes [S8]
- Governing law: French law [S7]
- Liability cap: total amount paid by the User during the year prior [S7]
- Managing editor: Augustin Prot [S7]
- Mediation: FEVAD · yes · yes [S7]

**Pricing**
- Advanced: 1000000 · 10 · 299 · 25 · yes [S6]
- Agency partner benefits: 3 · 15 [S6]
- Auto renewal: yes [S7]
- Billing options: monthly · annually · 2 months free [S6]
- Billing periods: monthly · annual [S7]
- Business: 50000 · 3 · 29 · 5 · yes [S6]
- Currency: EUR [S6]
- Enterprise price: yes [S6]
- Extended: 5000000 · 20 · 699 · 50 · yes [S6]
- Free plan: 2000 · 1 · 0 · 5 [S6]
- Free trial: 14 [S1]
- Free trial: 14 [S6]
- Free trial: yes [S7]
- Free trial hint: Free trial / get started for free offered [S4]
- No commitment free tier: yes [S1]
- Payment provider: credit card · automatic withdrawal · Stripe · no [S7]
- Plan differentiation: number of web applications · translated words · pageviews (API calls) · additional languages · support level [S7]
- Pro: 200000 · 5 · 79 · 10 · yes [S6]
- Right of withdrawal excluded: yes [S7]
- Trial days: 14 [S3]
- Upgrade auto migration: yes [S7]
- Upgrade proration: yes [S6]
- VAT treatment: yes · yes [S6]

**Product**
- Advanced extra features: everything_in_pro · tone_of_voice · custom_languages · export_and_import [S6]
- AI act classification: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 · limited-risk AI systems [S7]
- AI providers: DeepL · Microsoft · Google Translate [S2]
- AI transparency feature: yes [S7]
- API translation: yes [S7]
- Auto content detection: yes [S3]
- Auto translation updates: yes [S1]
- Auto upgrade: yes [S6]
- Bug cookies scope: yes · dashboard.weglot.com [S8]
- Build time translation: build time · Weglot 2.0 project [S5]
- Carbon footprint disclosure: 59 [S6]
- Custom AI model: yes [S1]
- Custom AI model: yes [S3]
- Custom AI model: yes [S2]
- Custom model provider detail: >OpenAI · >Gemini [S3]
- Customer languages example: customer uses NMT in 37 languages [S11]
- Data encryption: yes [S10]
- Data wg merge attribute: data-wg-merge · yes [S12]
- Demo: 2 · yes [S14]
- Demo available: yes [S3]
- Description: all-in-one website translation solution [S10]
- Dictionary: Weglot servers · yes [S7]
- Disaster recovery: yes · 32 · yes · yes [S10]
- Dynamic translation API: tDynamic · tDynamicAll · tDynamicHtml [S5]
- Editing control: yes [S1]
- Engine upgrade via support: at your own risks · yes [S12]
- Engine v2 merged tags: ABBR · ACRONYM · B · BDO · BIG · CITE · EM · I · KBD · Q · SMALL · STRONG · SUB · SUP · U · 2 [S12]
- Engine v3 merged tags: A · BDI · BR · DEL · DFN · INS · S · SPAN · April 4, 2019 · 3 [S12]
- Engine version per project: yes · 3 [S12]
- Enterprise: yes [S7]
- Enterprise features: advanced security · custom integrations · guaranteed uptime [S11]
- Enterprise offering: yes [S1]
- Enterprise offering: advanced security · custom integrations · guaranteed uptime [S2]
- Enterprise offering: Enterprise plan claims advanced security, custom integrations, guaranteed uptime [S4]
- Env API key: pk_ · WEGLOT_API_KEY [S5]
- Expert directory: yes [S3]
- Extended extra features: everything_in_advanced · translation_memory · top_level_domain · premium_support [S6]
- Extra merged selectors: extra_merged_selectors · yes [S12]
- First layer providers: >Google Translate · >DeepL · >Microsoft [S3]
- Free plan features: AI Translation · Editing control · Visual editor · Translation exclusions · Glossary · Multilingual SEO & GEO · Auto-redirection · Media translation [S6]
- Free tools quality checker: yes [S3]
- Glossary: yes [S2]
- Glossary builder template: yes [S3]
- Glossary rules: yes [S3]
- Infrastructure security controls: 20 · yes · yes · yes [S10]
- Integration wordpress: WordPress · Squarespace · Shopify [S1]
- Interactive demo: yes · 2 [S2]
- Language specific urls: yes [S1]
- Language switcher: yes [S14]
- Languages: 110 [S1]
- Languages count: 110+ [S3]
- Languages count: 110 [S2]
- Localized customer journey: yes [S2]
- Machine translation providers: DeepL · Google Translate · Microsoft Translator [S7]
- Manual edit propagation: yes [S3]
- Mcp server upcoming: coming soon · coming soon [S5]
- Mt conclusions expand: Challenge: managers need to understand true MT capabilities [S11]

**Subprocessors**
- AI commitments: no [S7]
- Aws: Amazon Web Services · Infrastructure Hosting · EU · US · yes [S10]
- Cloudflare: Cloudflare · Cloud security and networking · Global · yes [S10]
- Datadog: Datadog · Logging & Monitoring · US · yes [S10]
- Deepl: DeepL · Machine translations · EU · yes [S10]
- Trust URL: https://trust.weglot.com/ · yes [S8]

**Support**
- Channels: support@weglot.com · integration and implementation only · no [S7]
- G2 rating: 4.9 [S3]
- Help center: Resources include Help Center, Developers docs, Guides [S4]
- Languages: >English · >French [S3]
- Languages: English · French [S14]
- Languages: English · French [S2]
- Plan levels: Free plan · paid plans [S7]
- SLA: paid plans · 99 [S7]
- Table items: Documentation · API status · Email and website support · Account manager & Solution engineer · SLA & MSA & DPA · Wire transfer and currency payment [S6]
- Translation partner terms: https://fr.textmaster.com/conditions-generales-utilisation-client · TextMaster [S7]

57 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/weglot

## Questions

### Is Weglot European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Weglot as EU-Made.

### Where does Weglot store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026.

### Does Weglot have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Weglot?

As of 2 Nov 2026, the panel rates [SimpleLocalize (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/simplelocalize), [LILT (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/lilt) and [Phrase Localization Platform (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/phrase) highest among the other 12 Translation & Localization products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [SimpleLocalize](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/simplelocalize) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Weglot alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/translation/weglot/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 14 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 7 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://www.weglot.com/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S2] Features page: https://www.weglot.com/features (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S3] Features page (AI translation quality): https://www.weglot.com/product/ai-translation-quality (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S4] Integrations page: https://www.weglot.com/integrations (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S5] API documentation: https://developers.weglot.com/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S6] Pricing page: https://www.weglot.com/pricing (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S7] Terms of service and legal notice: https://www.weglot.com/terms (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S8] Privacy policy: https://www.weglot.com/privacy (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S9] Security / trust page: https://www.weglot.com/security (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S10] Security / trust page (trust centre): https://trust.weglot.com/ (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S11] Machine translation & AI quality — found from sitemap: https://www.weglot.com/machine-translation-accuracy (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S12] Machine translation & AI quality — found from sitemap: https://developers.weglot.com/cms/javascript/advanced-concepts/translation-engines (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S13] Integrations, file formats & developer tools — found from sitemap: https://developers.weglot.com/api-reference (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S14] Integrations, file formats & developer tools — found from sitemap: https://www.weglot.com/integrations/shopify-translation-app (checked 2026-11-01)
- [S15] Data export, portability & self-hosting — found from sitemap: https://www.weglot.com/academy/import-export-translations (checked 2026-11-01)

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