Verbi vs Weglot: An Honest 2026 Comparison

Verbi and Weglot both translate your website automatically and handle multilingual SEO. The difference is the pricing model and the plumbing: Weglot caps a running total of translated words and your number of languages per tier, so costs climb as you grow — five languages costs $87/month, ten costs $329. Verbi charges a flat monthly price with languages that don't multiply your bill: ten languages on the $35 Growth plan, unlimited on the $79 Business plan. Weglot counters with far broader platform and language coverage and more mature translation-management tools. Here's the honest breakdown.

First, a disclosure you should expect from a page like this: we make Verbi. We also think Weglot is a genuinely good product — it earned its 110,000+ customers with fast setup and some of the broadest platform coverage in the category. If you read our guide to Weglot alternatives, you'll see we tell a chunk of readers to stay put. This page exists for the specific question the two of us get compared on: what you actually pay as your languages grow, and how each tool serves translated pages.

All Weglot figures below come from weglot.com/pricing and Weglot's own documentation, checked July 6, 2026. Pricing drifts — verify before you commit.

Verbi vs Weglot at a Glance

The Pricing Difference, Concretely

How Weglot's caps work

Weglot plans cap two things at once. The first is languages per tier: 1 on Starter ($17/mo), 3 on Business ($32/mo), 5 on Pro ($87/mo), 10 on Advanced ($329/mo), 20 on Extended ($769/mo). The second is a word count — and what that number counts matters. Per Weglot's documentation, it's the running total of words stored across all your language pairs, counted once per word per target language. An 8,000-word site translated into 3 languages consumes roughly 24,000 words of a 50,000-word plan — before you've written your next blog post.

The practical consequence is the cliff we described in our Weglot alternatives guide: the two caps rarely fill up evenly. Most sites hit one ceiling — usually languages — long before the other, and the fix is a full tier jump. Going from 5 languages to 6 means Pro ($87) to Advanced ($329): nearly 4x the price for one more language. Weglot even offers an opt-in auto-upgrade feature that moves you to the next tier automatically when you exceed a limit.

How Verbi's pricing works

Verbi charges a flat monthly price where languages don't multiply the bill: Starter is $15/month with 3 languages, Growth is $35/month with 10, and Business is $79/month with unlimited languages. Plans meter monthly translation volume in characters (50K/250K/1M), which renews each month — adding a language to an existing plan costs nothing until you outgrow the plan's volume.

The honest caveat in the other direction: Verbi supports 20+ languages, all DeepL-translated. If you need Hindi, Thai, or the long tail of Weglot's 110+ language list, Weglot covers ground we don't.

SEO: How Translated Pages Actually Get Served

Both tools handle the multilingual SEO table stakes — hreflang tags, translated metadata, sitemaps — automatically. The difference is in the URL structure and what it takes to get it.

Verbi works at the DNS level on any platform: point one CNAME at Verbi and every language serves as a subdirectory on your own domain (yourdomain.com/fr, /de), server-rendered and indexable, on every plan. That's the structure most practitioners prefer for consolidating SEO authority into one domain.

Weglot's URL structure depends on how you integrate. Server-side integrations like the WordPress plugin give you subdirectories natively. The generic integration for other stacks uses subdomains (fr.yourdomain.com) via CNAME records; standard subdirectory mode requires routing your site's DNS through Weglot's servers, and running subdirectories through your own reverse proxy is positioned as an Enterprise arrangement. Two features are also plan-gated: translated URL slugs start on Pro ($87/mo), and per-language top-level domains on Extended ($769/mo). One thing to avoid on any budget: Weglot's JavaScript-only mode is client-side, and Weglot's own technical docs note those translations aren't detected by search engines.

Translation Quality and Editing

Weglot auto-selects among DeepL, Google Translate, and Microsoft Translator per language pair (you don't choose), and in 2025 added a custom AI language model — trained on your tone, glossary, and past edits — included with paid plans. Its post-editing tooling is mature: a visual in-context editor, translation lists, and in-dashboard ordering of professional human translation.

Verbi is DeepL-only by design — DeepL consistently benchmarks among the strongest engines for European languages, which is most of Verbi's 20+ language catalog — with a glossary and exclusion rules for controlling brand terms, and the option to bring your own DeepL API key. Verbi also caches translated pages at Cloudflare's edge (300+ locations), so translated pages load fast without touching your origin.

If your workflow involves heavy human post-editing across a large team, Weglot's tooling is deeper. If your goal is accurate, SEO-correct translations that stay in sync without a workflow, that's the job Verbi is built for.

One Thing to Check Before Committing to Either

Both tools are hosted services: translations are generated and served by the vendor, and stop serving if you cancel. With Weglot, note two specifics from their documentation: cancelled projects are deleted after three months of inactivity, and self-serve export of your translations (CSV/XLIFF) is available on the Advanced plan ($329/mo) and above — on Starter, Business, or Pro, your edited translations have no documented bulk export path. If you expect to invest heavily in manual translation edits, factor that in whichever tool you pick.

Which Should You Choose?

Choose Weglot when:

• You're on a closed platform — Wix, Squarespace, or anywhere you can't add a DNS record. Weglot's plugin/snippet model works there; Verbi doesn't.
• You need languages beyond DeepL's coverage — Weglot's 110+ list is far longer than Verbi's 20+.
• Your team does serious human post-editing — the visual editor and pro-translation ordering are genuinely better.
• You're comfortable inside one tier's caps and don't expect to add languages. Within a tier, Weglot is a polished, proven product.

Choose Verbi when:

• Your costs need to stay flat as languages grow — 10 languages is $35/month, not $329.
• You want subdirectory URLs on your own domain without routing your whole site through the vendor or negotiating Enterprise.
• Your languages are European-market — you get DeepL quality on every page, plus edge caching.
• You own your DNS (SaaS marketing sites, WordPress, Framer, Next.js, custom stacks) and want setup to be one CNAME record with nothing to install.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Verbi cheaper than Weglot?

At more than a couple of languages, substantially. Three languages: $15/month on Verbi vs $32 on Weglot. Five: $35 vs $87. Ten: $35 vs $329. Twenty: $79 (unlimited languages) vs $769. At exactly one language on a small site, Weglot's Starter ($17) and free plan (2,000 words) are competitive with Verbi's Starter ($15) — the gap opens as you add languages. (Weglot prices are their monthly USD rates as of July 2026; Weglot bills roughly two months cheaper on annual plans.)

Does Weglot's word count reset every month?

No. Per Weglot's documentation, the word count is a running total of words stored across all language pairs — each word counts once per target language, and the quota frees up only if you delete translations. Verbi's character quota is a monthly volume that renews.

Can I use subdirectories (/fr, /de) with Weglot like with Verbi?

It depends on your stack. Weglot's server-side integrations (e.g. the WordPress plugin) support subdirectories natively. On other stacks the standard options are subdomains, routing your DNS through Weglot's servers for subdirectories, or an Enterprise custom reverse-proxy setup. Verbi serves subdirectories on your own domain on every plan, on any platform where you control DNS.

Can I try both?

Yes — both offer 14-day free trials. Weglot's trial gives you 10,000 words and 1 language, then drops to its free plan (2,000 words). Verbi's trial starts automatically on signup with no credit card, and you're never charged when it ends. Setting both up on a staging domain and comparing output for your actual languages is an afternoon well spent.