Own your Spanish site, or rent it forever
Weglot is a well built product with one structural catch: it keeps your translations, and therefore keeps you. Here is the full comparison for law firms, with sources.
| JurisLingo | Weglot | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | WordPress plugin. Translations served from your own database | SaaS proxy. Translations served from Weglot's cloud |
| Where translations live | Your WordPress database, forever | Weglot's AWS servers |
| If you cancel | Everything keeps working. You keep every translation and edit | Translations deactivate, Google deindexes your Spanish URLs, project deleted after 3 months |
| Export your data | It is already in your database | Gated to Advanced plan, roughly $4,000 per year |
| Billing model | Flat monthly, unlimited words | Cumulative word tiers from 2,000 to 5,000,000, metadata counted, never resets |
| Hitting a limit | There are no limits | New content silently stops being translated |
| Translation quality | Frontier AI with legal instructions, es-US variant and attorney glossary | DeepL, Google or Microsoft per segment; generic output |
| Legal glossary | Curated legal glossary included, unlimited rules, firm overrides | Glossary rules capped at 5 words each; no legal content |
| Compliance parity for disclaimers | Built in | Not offered |
| Spanish URL slugs | Automatic, reviewed, with redirects. Included | Plan gated, semi manual |
| Uptime dependency | None. English fallback, no external calls at request time | Weglot outage breaks every translated page |
| Page cache and CDN | Fully compatible, each language is cacheable HTML | Documented conflicts with common cache setups |
| Lead and call attribution by language | GA4 events, lead tagging, CallRail number swap, ROI dashboard | Not offered |
| Migration path in | Autopilot imports your entire Weglot corpus, verified page by page | n/a |
| Typical cost, 200k word firm site | Early access $19.99 per month, flat | $87 per month (Pro), rising as content grows |
Weglot claims verified against weglot.com pricing and support documentation, July 2026.
The verdict
For a WordPress law firm, JurisLingo wins on ownership, cost structure, legal translation quality and analytics, and it removes the one thing keeping firms on Weglot: the fear of losing years of translations. The Migration Autopilot brings all of it with you, verified, while Weglot is still running. Weglot remains the reasonable choice only for non WordPress platforms or very high language counts.
Weglot switching questions
Can I really keep my Weglot translations if I switch?
Yes, and this surprises people. Your translated pages are publicly served by your own website today. While your subscription is still active, our importer reads each English page and its live Spanish counterpart, aligns them structurally, and stores every pair in your database. Your human edits come across too, because they are part of the served pages.
What does Weglot actually delete when you cancel?
Per Weglot's own support documentation: translated pages stop being served immediately when your subscription ends, translated URLs progressively drop out of Google, and the project with all translations is permanently deleted after 3 months. Export requires the Advanced plan or higher.
Is Weglot's translation quality bad?
No, it is competent generic machine translation. The problem for law firms is what generic means: literal renderings of practice areas that Spanish speakers never search for, simplified disclaimers, and no awareness of es-US legal phrasing. JurisLingo's model is instructed for exactly this content.
When is Weglot the better choice?
If you need 20+ languages on a non WordPress platform like Shopify or Webflow, Weglot's breadth is real and JurisLingo does not serve those platforms. For a WordPress law firm targeting Spanish speaking clients, the comparison is not close.
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