Is WPML free?

No free version, but a refund window

WPML doesn't have a free version. You won't find a current download on WordPress.org, either: its listing there was closed in 2017.

What you get instead is a 30-day refund window with your purchase. That's a paid purchase you can get refunded, not a free plan you can keep using.

Looking for a plugin you can start using without buying a license? WPML isn't that option. There are free alternatives below, including one with a small allowance for AI translation.

The three plans

As of November 2026, WPML has three plans, and each includes one year of support and updates. The differences include how many sites you can use it on, whether AI translation words are included, and whether it supports WooCommerce.

Multilingual Blog: €39

You can use this plan on 1 production site plus 3 development sites. It doesn't include any AI translation words, and it doesn't support WooCommerce.

That's the lowest-priced plan. Don't count on an included word allowance here.

Multilingual CMS: €99

This is the plan WPML labels "most popular." It covers 3 production sites plus 9 development sites, includes 22,500 AI translation words, and supports WooCommerce.

If you're comparing it with Blog, look at all of those differences rather than just the number of sites. The included words and WooCommerce support are part of what changes.

Multilingual Agency: €199

Agency covers unlimited sites and includes 45,000 AI translation words. WooCommerce support is included here, too.

You still get one year of support and updates, just as you do with the other plans.

Automatic translation credits

The plugin price and the automatic translation allowance are separate things to check. Blog includes no AI translation words, while CMS and Agency come with the allowances listed above.

WPML's automatic translation covers 60+ languages. For additional words, you can use pay as you go or buy a prepaid pack.

On pay as you go, you get 500 free words a month. After that, the price is €3.00 per 1,000 words for the first 2,000 words, falling to €0.40 per 1,000 at the highest volume band.

Prefer to prepay? The packs are:

• €50 for 10,000 words
• €100 for 22,500 words
• €180 for 50,000 words
• €420 for 125,000 words
• €800 for 250,000 words

And yes, there's a distinction worth keeping in mind: the 500 free words a month are an automatic translation allowance. They don't turn WPML itself into a free plugin.

WooCommerce

For WooCommerce, your WPML choices are Multilingual CMS or Multilingual Agency. Both include support for it.

Multilingual Blog doesn't. Even if its site allowance fits what you need, the €39 plan doesn't include WooCommerce support.

Free alternatives

Polylang has a free version on WordPress.org. Its Pro version costs €99 a year and adds DeepL.

TranslatePress also has a free plugin, with 2,000 AI words included. Paid plans start at €99 a year.

Want some AI words included without paying for a plugin first? TranslatePress has that allowance. Polylang's free version is another option to compare, but DeepL is part of its Pro offering, not the free one.

Cutting the cost of machine translation

For a sense of scale, 22,500 English words is roughly 120,000 characters. That's an estimate, not a fixed conversion. On Translinga's Quality tier, that amount comes to about $0.60.

Translinga is a translation API made by Bitgate for Shopify stores, WordPress sites and apps. Its WordPress plugin translates posts, pages, WooCommerce products and theme strings, leaving HTML, shortcodes and attributes alone. TranslatePress, Polylang Pro and Loco Translate can use DeepL; the plugin sends those requests to the API instead.

Before translating, it takes out Liquid tags, HTML and placeholders. It then checks every reply tag by tag and retries any string returned with a missing tag.

There are two tiers: Fast at $2.50 per million characters and Quality at $5.00 per million. Every character counts, including spaces, once per target language.

Credit is prepaid from $5 and never expires. The first $1 is free, about 400,000 characters on Fast, and you don't need a card for a key. It's in early access (you request a key through the Get early access button on translinga.com).