Multilanguage options for Webflow 2023

Are you planning to expand your business to international markets in 2023?

If you’re looking to do business internationally and give your customers that warm, personalized feeling on every page, a multilingual site is a must in 2023.

In this article, we'll analyze:

✅ Main options for 2023

✅ Pros & cons

✅ Pricing

1. Webflow (Duplication)

Let's start with the current native way to translate Webflow projects into multiple languages, by duplicating Webflow pages.

The way this solution works is to duplicate all your website pages, and then create folders for each language.

yoursite.com/en

yoursite.com/es

yoursite.com/pt

Pros and cons of Webflow (Duplication)

Pros

✅ Work well for very small websites

✅ No extra costs

Cons

🚨 Time-consuming process

🚨 You will have to take care of translating the content of your website.

2. Polyflow

Polyflow is a native solution for Webflow users.

Polyflow syncs all your static and dynamic content, attributes, components, and images and allows you to translate into more than 120 languages.

Pros and cons of Polyflow

Pros

✅ Manual and AI-assisted translations

✅ SEO Friendly (Custom URLs, meta descriptions, ALT texts, Title & description)

✅ No page duplication is needed

✅ Custom content based on users' language

Cons

🚨 Initial Setup

🚨 Not for very small websites

💰 Pricing

For translating a 3 languages site with 250k words and CMS content:

CMS Plan $49

👉 Unlimited word count

👉 Custom Domain

👉 CMS translation

👉 Subdirectories for languages

👉 Show & hide content depending on the language version

More info here: https://polyflow.co/en/pricing

3. Webflow (Multi-language feature 2023)

Webflow will launch multi-language support by mid-2023. It will allow you to translate and manage content in multiple languages in the designer mode.

Pros and cons of Webflow (Multi-language)

Pros

✅ Native solution for Webflow

✅ SEO Friendly (Custom URLs, meta descriptions, ALT texts, Title & description)

Cons

🚨 No custom content based on user's language

🚨 Limited nº of languages

💰 Pricing

The Webflow community is expecting this and all the new features they announced at Webflow Conf, but in terms of pricing, no one knows if everything will be included in the current plans.

4. Weglot

Weglot works by scanning the content of your original page, detecting the content visible on the page, and replacing the content with the translations.

Pros and cons of Weglot

Pros

✅ Automatic translation

✅ No page duplication is needed

Cons

🚨 Wrong automatic translations

🚨 No location-based content

🚨 Word-count based pricing (If over limit, the translations will be discontinued until you upgrade your plan)

💰 Pricing

For translating a 3 languages site with 250k words and CMS content:

Pro $79  

👉 Up to 200k words

👉 Custom Domain

👉 CMS translation

👉 5 languages