⚡ Translation in South Africa

Website translation software allows users to make content accessible in multiple languages, enabling sites to serve a global audience.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our statistics, translation software is detected on 4% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top translation software on websites in South Africa in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is GlotPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 62.9% share.
It is followed by GTranslate with 12.4% and Google Translate with 11.1%.

GlotPress 62.9%
GTranslate 12.4%
Google Translate 11.1%
WPML 6.8%
TranslatePress 4.1%
Weglot 2.6%
Polylang 2.6%
Google Cloud Translation 1%
i18next 0.4%
qTranslate-X 0.4%
MotionPoint 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top software that is more popular in South Africa than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. GTranslate ^(-3)
5. TranslatePress ^(-1)
6. Weglot ^(-1)
9. i18next ^(-2)
11. MotionPoint ^(-3)

✨ Best Translation Software

Below is a more detailed list of 11 translation software solutions used on sites from South Africa, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	GlotPress An open-source WordPress plugin that lets you set up your own collaborative, web-based software translation tool. FreeOpen source	62.9%
2	GTranslate Coral Springs, Florida, United States A service that makes websites multilingual by offering automatic machine translation. Free$9.99+/month	12.4%
3	Google Translate Mountain View, California, United States A free multilingual translation service that supports over 240 languages. Free	11.1%
4	WPML Hong Kong A multilingual WordPress plugin that helps users translate websites and WooCommerce stores into multiple languages from a single dashboard. €39+/year	6.8%
5	TranslatePress Timișoara, Romania A WordPress translation plugin that lets site owners create multilingual websites by translating all content directly from a front-end visual interface. FreeOpen source€99+/year	4.1%
6	Weglot Paris, France A website translation solution designed to automatically detect, translate, and display your website in over 110 languages. Free$17+/month	2.6%
7	Polylang Bourgoin Jallieu, France A WordPress plugin that helps users translate posts, pages, media, categories, tags, widgets, navigation menus, and more. FreeOpen source€99+	2.6%
8	Google Cloud Translation Mountain View, California, United States An AI-powered machine translation service offered by Google. Free tier$$$	1%
9	i18next An internationalization framework written in and for JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.4%
10	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%
11	MotionPoint Coconut Creek, Florida, United States A managed website translation platform that delivers concierge-level, end-to-end translation. $$$	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Translation in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.