Crowdin vs Weglot

Crowdin is a localization management platform founded in Ukraine in 2009 and now headquartered in Estonia. It is used by software companies, game studios and a long list of well-known open-source projects to translate apps, websites, documentation and help centers, and it offers both a standard cloud product and Crowdin Enterprise for larger organizations.

The platform supports more than a hundred file formats and syncs source strings automatically from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and CI pipelines, from design tools like Figma, and from CMSs and help desks through a marketplace of over 600 apps. Translators work in an editor with translation memory, glossaries, screenshots, in-context preview, QA checks and machine translation from engines such as DeepL and Google, plus AI translation with your own prompts. Crowdsourcing features let volunteers suggest and vote on translations. Pricing combines hosted words and seats, and Crowdin is free for qualifying open-source projects.

Crowdin suits teams with many file types, many integrations or a community that wants to help translate. Its interface can feel dense, and hosted word limits need watching as content grows. Lokalise is the main commercial rival with a cleaner UI for product teams, Phrase is strong in enterprise and agency workflows, and open-source alternatives such as Weblate and Tolgee can be self-hosted. For website-only translation without code, Weglot is simpler.

Weglot is a website translation service founded in 2016 in Paris. It translates an entire website automatically and serves each language in a way search engines can index, which makes it one of the fastest ways to launch a multilingual site without rebuilding it.

After connecting a site, Weglot detects its content, translates it with machine engines such as DeepL, Google and Microsoft, and serves translated pages under language subdirectories or subdomains with hreflang tags, translated metadata and translated URLs where supported. A visual editor lets you review and change translations in context, glossaries and rules enforce brand terms, and professional human translation can be ordered from the dashboard. Weglot works with WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace and any other site via JavaScript or DNS integration. Plans are priced by the number of translated words and languages, with a small free plan for testing and tiers from Starter up to Extended and Enterprise.

Weglot fits marketing teams, SaaS companies and e-commerce stores that need SEO-ready translations of an existing site quickly, including adding Turkish to a European or US site. Word-based pricing becomes expensive for large content sites, machine translation still needs human review on key pages, and you depend on Weglot's infrastructure. Lokalise, Crowdin and Phrase are the right tools for app and software string localization, and Localize and ConveyThis are direct website translation competitors.