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GTranslate vs Proxylang: Widget Penerjemahan Gratis atau SEO Multibahasa Sejati? (2026)
Tim Proxylang · 17 Juli 2026 · 9 menit baca
GTranslate vs Proxylang: Perbandingan Mendalam untuk 2026
GTranslate adalah salah satu alat penerjemah situs web yang paling banyak diinstal, sebagian besar karena widget browser gratisnya tidak memakan biaya dan hanya butuh beberapa menit untuk ditambahkan. Proxylang adalah alat yang lebih baru yang dibangun dengan serangkaian kompromi yang berbeda: terjemahan kelas LLM dengan konteks halaman penuh, kumpulan kata seumur hidup alih-alih reset bulanan, dan HTML yang telah dirender sebelumnya untuk crawler mesin pencari.
Keduanya menerjemahkan situs Anda tanpa Anda harus menulis ulang konten apa pun. Keduanya berbeda dalam hal bagaimana terjemahan mencapai halaman, kualitas yang Anda dapatkan, dan bagaimana Anda ditagih.
Postingan ini membahas apa yang dilakukan masing-masing alat dengan baik, di mana batas kemampuan masing-masing, dan mana yang lebih masuk akal tergantung pada situasi Anda. Jika Anda juga sedang mempertimbangkan Weglot, kami telah menerbitkan perbandingan Weglot terpisah dengan struktur yang sama.
Perbedaan sebenarnya
Kedua alat tersebut mengukur penggunaan pada sumbu yang sepenuhnya berbeda, yang merupakan hal pertama yang perlu dipahami sebelum Anda membandingkan harga.
GTranslate mengukur berdasarkan fitur dan bahasa. Tidak ada batas kata. Paket Anda menentukan berapa banyak bahasa yang dapat Anda publikasikan dan kemampuan apa yang Anda buka, dan Anda dapat menerjemahkan konten sebanyak yang Anda suka dalam bahasa-bahasa tersebut. Untuk situs yang sangat besar — katalog dengan ratusan ribu kata — model tersebut benar-benar menarik.
Proxylang mengukur berdasarkan kata × bahasa. Anda mendapatkan kumpulan kata yang dapat diterjemahkan seumur hidup yang tidak direset setiap bulan, dihitung sekali per bahasa, ditambah jatah bulanan tampilan halaman yang diterjemahkan. Terjemahkan satu halaman ke dalam tiga bahasa dan Anda akan menghabiskan jumlah kata setara tiga bahasa dari kumpulan tersebut. Setelah sebuah halaman diterjemahkan, halaman tersebut akan tetap tersimpan dalam cache dan tidak ditagih ulang.
Tidak ada model yang secara universal lebih baik. GTranslate cocok untuk situs dengan jumlah teks yang sangat besar dan persyaratan kualitas yang moderat. Proxylang cocok untuk situs di mana kualitas terjemahan dan visibilitas pencarian lebih penting daripada volume mentah.
Perbedaan nyata di luar pengukuran adalah tiga hal: bagaimana terjemahan disampaikan, apa yang dilakukan mesin penerjemah, dan sejumlah fitur yang dimiliki satu alat tetapi tidak dimiliki yang lain.
1. Arsitektur dan instalasi
GTranslate menawarkan widget JavaScript gratis dan plugin WordPress. Widget gratis sepenuhnya berada di sisi klien: ia menerjemahkan teks di browser pengunjung menggunakan Google Translate. Paket berbayar menambahkan terjemahan sisi server, yang memerlukan perubahan DNS dan menghasilkan halaman yang dapat dirayapi oleh mesin pencari. Terjemahan URL tersedia pada tingkat yang lebih tinggi. Dokumentasi GTranslate sendiri mencantumkan konten SPA dan yang dirender dengan JavaScript sebagai fitur yang tidak didukung, sehingga situs React, Vue, dan Next.js berada di luar cakupan alat ini.
Proxylang menawarkan tiga metode instalasi, dan metode mana yang dapat Anda gunakan tergantung pada paket Anda:
- Script tag — one line of code, no DNS change, live in about 60 seconds. Available on every plan, including free. Works with Squarespace, Wix, Shopify, Cafe24, and anything else.
- Hybrid mode — one line of code plus a DNS change, available on the Start plan ($39/mo) and above. Visitors get instant client-side translation while search-engine crawlers receive pre-rendered HTML. You get the speed of client-side delivery and the indexability of server-side rendering from the same setup.
- Full reverse proxy — no code on your site at all, just a DNS change, available on the Pro plan ($99/mo) and above. Every request, human or bot, is served translated from the edge.
Mode hybrid adalah bagian yang tidak memiliki padanan di GTranslate. Dengan GTranslate Anda memilih: widget sisi klien gratis, yang cepat tetapi tidak terlihat oleh mesin pencari, atau pengaturan sisi server berbayar. Mode hybrid Proxylang menjalankan kedua jalur secara bersamaan, memutuskan per permintaan apakah pengunjung tersebut adalah manusia atau crawler.
Ketiga mode Proxylang bekerja dengan React, Vue, Next.js, Nuxt, Svelte, SvelteKit, Angular, Astro, Hugo, Gatsby, Framer, IMWEB, dan Cafe24. Mode hybrid khususnya dibangun untuk single-page apps: ia menangani hidrasi dan rendering ulang sisi klien tanpa merusak aplikasi.
2. SEO Multibahasa
Di sinilah kedua alat tersebut paling berbeda, dan hal ini menentukan apakah halaman terjemahan Anda mendatangkan trafik atau hanya sekadar ada untuk pengunjung yang sudah menemukan Anda.
Widget gratis GTranslate tidak menghasilkan apa pun yang dapat diindeks. Terjemahan terjadi di browser setelah halaman dimuat. Google, Bing, Naver, dan Yandex merayapi HTML bahasa asli Anda dan tidak pernah melihat teks terjemahannya. Jika Anda menggunakan paket gratis GTranslate dan bertanya-tanya mengapa halaman bahasa Spanyol Anda tidak muncul di Google, inilah alasannya.
GTranslate’s paid plans do produce indexable translations, along with hreflang tags and translated meta tags. URL translation is reserved for the higher tiers. This is a real capability and it starts at a low price point, so GTranslate is a legitimate option if indexable SEO on the cheapest possible plan is your only requirement.
Proxylang includes automatic hreflang tags on every plan. Indexable, pre-rendered translations arrive with hybrid mode on the Start plan ($39/mo), which is also where localized URLs (/es/, /fr/, /de/), translated meta tags and structured data, the per-language SEO dashboard, and sitemap monitoring unlock. On the free and Lite plans, translation runs client-side only, so crawlers see the original language.
Two things distinguish Proxylang’s approach once you’re on a plan that renders server-side. First, crawlers receive real pre-rendered HTML rather than JavaScript they have to execute, which is the cleaner path for multilingual indexing. Second, Proxylang submits pages to Naver and Yandex alongside Google and Bing, which matters if you’re targeting Korean or Russian markets.
The honest summary: GTranslate reaches indexable SEO at a lower price. Proxylang reaches it with better rendering, better quality, and search engines GTranslate doesn’t submit to.
3. Translation quality and editing
GTranslate uses neural machine translation, which is the same lineage as Google Translate output. It’s serviceable for straightforward content, but it translates in isolated segments without reading the surrounding page, so brand names, product terminology, and industry jargon frequently come out wrong. Glossary and terminology rules are limited compared with the rest of the category. A visual editor is available on the paid plans.
Proxylang uses LLM-grade AI translation on every plan, including the free one — it’s the core engine, not an add-on or a credit meter. It reads the full page for context before translating, which produces more natural output than segment-by-segment machine translation, and it’s tuned for Asian↔Western language pairs. Glossary and no-translate rules are included so brand names and technical terms stay intact. The visual/live editor is available on the Start plan and above.
Proxylang also reassembles a sentence that’s been split across multiple HTML tags — a phrase broken up by <strong>, <a>, and <span> wrappers — into one coherent translation. Tools that translate each tag’s text separately produce disjointed results on richly formatted pages. GTranslate doesn’t do this.
4. Features one tool has and the other doesn’t
Image translation. Proxylang translates the text inside images (banners, menus, product graphics) automatically: you tag the image and the AI handles the rest across all your languages. It’s sold as an inexpensive add-on credit pack rather than being metered against your word quota. GTranslate does not publicly document any image translation capability. For image-heavy sites — e-commerce, restaurants, anything with graphic promotions — that’s a meaningful difference in manual work.
Reverse Search Translation. Proxylang-only, also an add-on pack. When a visitor searches your site in their own language, Proxylang translates the query, runs it against your original-language content, and returns the results translated. No other tool in this category offers it.
New content. Both tools pick up fresh pages automatically, though GTranslate users have reported glitches with dynamically loaded content — related to the same SPA limitation noted above.
Right-to-left languages. Both handle Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian with automatic page mirroring.
Harga
| Proxylang | GTranslate | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | $0 — 2K words, 1 language, same engine as paid | Widget only, not indexable by search engines |
| Lowest paid | $15/mo — Lite: 20K words, 5 languages | ~$10/mo (varies by source) |
| Indexable SEO from | $39/mo — Start: 100K words, all 77 languages, 3 indexed, hybrid mode | Lowest paid plan |
| Full proxy from | $99/mo — Pro: 500K words, all 77 languages, 10 indexed | Paid plans |
| Usage model | Lifetime word pool × languages, monthly page-view allowance | Features and languages, no word caps |
| Languages | 77 | 103 |
Proxylang’s full paid ladder runs Lite $15 · Start $39 · Pro $99 · Business $399 · Global $699, going up to 10M words with 50 languages indexed by search engines, with Enterprise quoted individually.
GTranslate is cheaper at the entry point and has no word ceiling, so a very large site can translate everything without watching a counter. Proxylang costs more per plan and caps words, but the words you buy are translated by a stronger engine, stay cached permanently, and are counted once rather than every month.
Features at a glance
| Feature | Proxylang | GTranslate |
|---|---|---|
| Script-tag install | All plans | Yes |
| Pre-rendered HTML for crawlers | Start plan and up | Paid plans |
| Full reverse-proxy mode | Pro plan and up | Paid plans |
| Hybrid mode (visitors + crawlers) | Start plan and up | Not offered |
| Automatic hreflang tags | All plans | Paid plans |
Localized URLs (/es/, /fr/) | Start plan and up | Top tiers |
| Naver and Yandex submission | Yes | Not documented |
| LLM translation engine | All plans, full-page context | Neural machine translation |
| Multi-element sentence reassembly | Yes | No |
| Glossary and no-translate rules | Included | Limited rules |
| Visual / live editor | Start plan and up | Paid plans |
| Image translation | Automatic (add-on pack) | Not publicly documented |
| Reverse Search Translation | Yes (add-on pack) | No |
| React, Vue, Next.js and other SPAs | Full support, built for it | Docs list JS-rendered as unsupported |
| Word caps | Lifetime pool per plan | None |
| Languages available | 77 | 103 |
Who should choose which
GTranslate makes sense if:
- You need more than 77 languages.
- Your site has a very large volume of text and you don’t want a word ceiling.
- You want indexable translations at the lowest possible monthly price.
- Machine-translation quality is good enough for your content.
- Your site is server-rendered and you don’t need SPA support.
Proxylang makes sense if:
- You want translation quality that reads naturally, with full-page context rather than isolated segments.
- You’re on React, Vue, Next.js, Nuxt, or another modern JavaScript framework.
- You want visitors to get instant client-side translation and crawlers to get pre-rendered HTML, from one setup.
- You need automatic image translation or Reverse Search Translation.
- You’re targeting markets where Naver or Yandex indexing matters.
- You want brand names and terminology locked with glossary and no-translate rules.
Intinya
GTranslate’s free widget is the easiest possible way to put a language switcher on a site, and its paid plans deliver indexable translations cheaply with no word limits. That combination explains why so many sites run it.
What the free widget doesn’t do is generate anything a search engine can read, and what the paid plans don’t do is cover single-page apps, reassemble sentences broken across HTML tags, translate the text inside images, or match LLM translation quality.
Proxylang costs more and counts words, but every plan runs the same LLM engine, hybrid mode gives visitors and crawlers each the delivery they need at once, and the extras — image translation, Reverse Search Translation, Naver and Yandex submission — have no GTranslate equivalent.
Both offer a free plan. The most reliable way to decide is to run both on your own site and compare the output quality, the setup experience, and what your real costs would be at the scale you’re planning for.
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Competitor information is based on publicly available pricing pages, documentation, and major review platforms, verified as of July 2026. Where a vendor doesn’t publish a data point we say so rather than guessing. GTranslate’s entry price is approximate and varies by source. All product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Found something outdated? Let us know and we’ll correct it.