WPML Pricing Overview

When I started using WPML in 2020 it was good and simple it was "just working" which was great, there was the ease of use and even chat support that agency customers could reach

Nowadays, i dislike everything in WPML: - Support is horrible 1- No chat support for agency customers like they used to be. They just ask for you to change the theme or upgrade the server. - Bugs: I have seen it all, from Russian translation on the Arabic pages to sudden category changes, to links pointing to the wrong language - Automatic translation: Don't get me started here, it's horrible, We send 10 posts for translation they get lost and stuck between wpml server and our server and we need to flush cache and refresh the translation process just to get the translation we paid for. The pricing system is insane, so you can prepay 40,000 credit for 50 dollars or you can just use Pay-as-you-go system and pay 25 dollars for the same 40K credit!! literally you pay more money to get prepaid credit! and it should be the opposite, if i pay a front payment, i should get a discount, not pay double!

Nothing really, WPML keep releasing updates but i never really felt any change same old bugs, and the auto-translation prepaid pricing is same absurd as before i jsut stopped using the auto-translate all over, although i was a heavy user.

It is easy to install, use and has a lot of documentation online and is compatible with most commercial wordpress themes including woocomerce. It has a reasonable price for what it offers. They have an economic mode for simple blogs making it accessible to all the public

Previously they offered a lifetime subscription without having to pay annual fees in exchange for updates. That option has disappeared.

I to convert websites that are in a single language into websites that are in several languages, reaching more public than before.

While Polyglot and qTranslate are certainly viable, even good options, WPML is still the first choice when doing localization within WordPress. It is powerful, it is extensible, it is highly customizable. And if you're in education or NGO/non-profit, it is free. If you're a commercial user, you know you're getting the best solution, albeit at a price. In my projects I have actively switched from the free options to WPML because the level of support is noticeably higher and the overall robustness of the solution is more complete.

WPML is big, no doubt. Are you properly speccing your host or hosting environment for everything your website is doing and for the concurrent connections you will have? If there is one cost to having the best, it is also having the heaviest. That said, you can certainly mitigate this by being selective in your localizations and how you apply them with your theme of choice.

WPML is the best-so-far solution for providing a multilingual website with the ability to easily switch between localizations and to stay within that localization as an end-user browses the site.

I think the module is good and very popular but it is heavy for the users. The good thing is that there is a lot of documentation and support. The 1 for 1 translation feature is also very useful.

This module is often in conflict with other modules. There is also a performance issue which prevents from getting a good grade on GT Metrix and Page Speed. The cost of licensing is also often an irritant

Making a unilingual website multilingual

All in all, WPML worked well for me for a few years. It does the job. There were some major technical problems all the time like media files duplicating and having unexplainable translation jobs in weird places but everything started going seriously bad when the automatic translation was introduced.

Automatic translation worked like a wonder when I first used it. The problem is that WPML is trying to scam its customers by overcharging them. The bills for the first month were fine. I paid 17 dollar and another 72 dollars. When the next month, it showed 72 dollars with 0 credits used, I got suspicious but didn't think anything bad. I set the limit from 500.000 to 100.000 credits, which would mean I am limited to consuming 17 dollars of credits. The system didn't respect my limit but went to 110.000 credits still showing 72 dollar but not allowing me to use any credits anymore. When I talked to support, they tried to blame me for spending 10.000 credits too many and told me, they will charge me for 500.000 credits at the beginning of next month. I tried to explain how their flawed system is overcharging me and they told me, their tech team will investigate. Now is the 1st of December, I used 0 credits, and my account shows I am due to pay 72 dollars at the beginning of January. Upon that, I immediately canceled my subscription to automatic translation but got an invoice of over 72 dollars for last month. Their tech team didn't investigate anything. I got scammed by WPML and wish there would be some way to change to another translation software. I am afraid there isn't. Think twice, if you are considering to use WPML, especially their automatic translation.

Translating my website. It works most of the time. Except for when it doesn't and duplicates all the media files, creates really confusing translation queues or steals your money.

i really the multilingual like blog version and multilingual cms . i think it s the best in wordpress multilingual site

i think the installation is a bit complicated and also the cost is somewhat high but nothing more

highly recommended because it helps to translate from the administration panel

Is easily one of the best wordpress plugins, has the best translation features including e-commerce, also offers a great translation management platform

So far I have not had any problem with this plugin, it works very well and also its price is very good compared to other similar

It has helped us to translate all the pages that we created automatically, in a very easy and fast way and it works correctly in the language we want

They are very patient with our though questions yet they tried to solve our technical problems as best as they could. There is no long delay to be taken for them to answer every question. We see they were trying to find what kind of root problem that caused and give us a best solutions we can implement.

We have to read all along about the technical and documentation parts of how to configure their product. At first it's very difficult but after sometimes you spend on it, you can understand how their product works on your business.

WPML gives us more value in translating from native language to any languages required to our prospect customers.