🆚 Google Cloud Translation vs. WPML
- 📈 WPML is much more popular than Google Cloud Translation.
- 🌍 WPML is more popular in Italy, Spain, and Germany.
- 🌍 Google Cloud Translation is more popular in India.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Translation software
Translation software
About
Google Cloud Translation is an AI-powered machine translation service offered by Google.
WPML is a multilingual WordPress plugin that helps users translate websites and
WooCommerce stores into multiple languages from a single dashboard.
It supports over 65 languages, offers manual, professional, and automatic translation options, provides language-specific URLs, manages translated strings and media, and includes SEO features such as hreflang tags and translated metadata.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Hong Kong
Pricing
Neural Machine Translation (NMT)
Free tier ✔️First 500K characters per month
Over 500K characters$20/1M
Large Language Model (LLM) Translation
Input characters$10/1M
Output characters$10/1M
Free version ❌
Multilingual Blog
(1 site, no AI translation)€39/year
(1 site, no AI translation)€39/year
Multilingual CMS
(3 sites, 90K AI credits)€99/year
(3 sites, 90K AI credits)€99/year
Multilingual Agency
(unlimited sites, 180K AI credits)€199/year
(unlimited sites, 180K AI credits)€199/year
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The WPML translation software is 18 times more popular than Google Cloud Translation.
Total websites
Market share
Translation
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
WPML is more popular in Italy, Spain, and Germany, while Google Cloud Translation is more popular in India.
Italy
Spain
Germany
France
United States
Netherlands
Canada
Switzerland
Greece
Belgium
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Translation category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Korea in the Translation category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Taiwan in the Translation category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Thailand in the Translation category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Australia in the Translation category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Translation category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Switzerland in the Translation category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Finland in the Translation category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Israel in the Translation category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Estonia in the Translation category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
WPML is more popular than Google Cloud Translation in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Software/Hardware
Blogs/Wiki
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

