What Weglot really costs, and why the meter only runs up
The tier table looks simple. The word counting rules underneath it are where law firms get surprised. Everything below verified against weglot.com and Weglot's support documentation, July 2026.
The current Weglot pricing tiers
| Tier | Monthly | Per year | Word cap | Languages | Sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 2,000 | 1 | 1 |
| Starter | $17 | ~$204 | 10,000 | 1 | 1 |
| Business | $32 | $384 | 50,000 | 3 | 1 |
| Pro | $87 | $1,044 | 200,000 | 5 | 3 |
| Advanced | $329 | ~$3,950 | 1,000,000 | 10 | 10 |
| Extended | $769 | ~$9,228 | 5,000,000 | 20 | 20 |
The five rules that decide your real bill
- Words are cumulative and never reset. The counter only moves up as you publish. There is no monthly refresh.
- Invisible words count. Meta titles, descriptions and alt text are translated and billed, so your billable volume exceeds what readers ever see.
- Every language multiplies the count. A 50,000 word site in Spanish and Chinese is 100,000 billable words.
- Multi site plans pool one limit. Word counts from all sites on a plan draw from one shared cap, which is why Weglot's own agency guidance recommends a separate paid workspace per client.
- The cap fails silently. Exceed it and new content stops being translated with no error on your site. Your newest pages simply stay English.
What a typical law firm actually pays
An established firm site with a real blog easily carries 50,000 to 200,000 words. With metadata counted, a 50k word site sits exactly at the Business cap ($384 per year) with zero headroom, and a 200k word site sits at the Pro cap ($1,044 per year). Publish steadily and you will cross into the next tier; the only direction the meter moves is up.
Three year cost, one growing firm site: Business into Pro is roughly $384 + $1,044 + $1,044 = $2,472, for translations you never own and lose 3 months after cancelling. The underlying machine translation for that entire site costs a few dollars, once.
The part of the price that is not on the pricing page
Weglot's terminal cost is the exit. Translations are stored on Weglot's servers; cancellation deactivates them immediately, Google progressively deindexes your Spanish URLs, and the project is deleted after 3 months. Export is available only from the Advanced plan upward. Every human edit your staff made below that tier is not portable at any price. When you compare Weglot's price to alternatives, you are also pricing the cost of ever leaving.
The alternative pricing model
JurisLingo charges a flat monthly fee with unlimited words, currently $19.99 per month for the first 5 early access firms plus a one time $99 professional setup, because translations are produced once and stored in your own WordPress database. Cancel and everything keeps working; you only stop receiving new automatic translations. If you are comparing, start with the full JurisLingo vs Weglot comparison or see JurisLingo pricing.
Weglot pricing questions
How much does Weglot cost per month?
As of July 2026, Weglot runs from free (2,000 words, 1 language) through Starter at $17, Business at $32, Pro at $87, Advanced at $329 and Extended at $769 per month, billed by cumulative translated word count. Annual billing discounts these slightly. Most established law firm sites land in Business or Pro.
Does Weglot charge per visitor or per pageview?
No, and this is a common misconception. Weglot billing is based on cumulative translated words multiplied per target language, not traffic. The practical consequence is the opposite of what people expect: a low traffic site with lots of content pays more than a high traffic site with little content.
What counts toward Weglot's word limit?
Every word Weglot translates, including content invisible on the page: meta titles, meta descriptions, alt text and other metadata. Words are counted per target language, so 3 languages triples the count. Counts accumulate and never reset; words stay counted until you manually delete the translations.
What happens when you exceed the Weglot word limit?
Weglot stops translating new content until you upgrade or delete translations. Existing translations keep serving, but new pages, new blog posts and edited copy silently remain English on your Spanish site. On a growing site this quietly erodes exactly the fresh content your SEO depends on.
Can you export translations from Weglot?
Only on the Advanced plan (about $4,000 per year) and higher. Below that, your translations and your team's manual edits are not exportable, and after cancellation the project is deleted within 3 months.
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