Cheaper Weglot Alternative for Carrd Sites

If you've looked into translating your Carrd site, you've probably found Weglot. It's the most well-known website translation tool out there, and it does work with Carrd. But for a one-page Carrd site? It's overkill.

Weglot is built for large marketing sites and e-commerce stores. It routes all your traffic through a proxy server, creates separate translated URLs, and adds hreflang tags for multilingual SEO. That's powerful stuff — if you need it. Most Carrd users don't. They need visitors to read their landing page in Spanish or French. That's it.

And the pricing reflects Weglot's enterprise ambitions. Their cheapest paid plan starts at $15/month for one language and 10,000 translated words. Bump that to three languages and you're at $29/month. Five languages? $79/month. For a Carrd site that might have 500 words on it.

There are simpler, cheaper ways to make a Carrd site multilingual.

Why Weglot is expensive for Carrd

Weglot's pricing is based on two things: how many languages you want and how many words your site has. The word count includes everything — navigation, buttons, headings, body text, footer links. Even a minimal Carrd landing page hits 300–800 words easily.

Their free trial lasts 10 days. After that, you're on a paid plan or your translations stop working. There's no permanent free tier.

Here's what Weglot costs for a typical Carrd site:

• 1 language: $15/month ($180/year)
• 3 languages: $29/month ($348/year)
• 5 languages: $79/month ($948/year)

Compare that to your Carrd Pro subscription of $19/year. You'd be paying 9–50x more for translation than for the site builder itself.

The other thing: Weglot is a proxy. All your site traffic goes through their servers before reaching your visitors. For a simple Carrd landing page, adding a proxy layer is like hiring a moving truck to carry a backpack. It works, but why?

What to look for in a Carrd translation tool

Carrd is simple on purpose. Your translation tool should match that. Here's what actually matters:

Works via embed code. Carrd doesn't have a plugin system or app store. The only way to add third-party tools is through custom code injection (available on Carrd Pro). Any translation tool for Carrd needs to work with a script tag you paste into your site settings.

Doesn't route traffic through a proxy. For a one-page site, a proxy adds latency and complexity you don't need. A client-side widget that swaps text in the browser is faster and simpler.

Has a real free tier. Not a 10-day trial. An actual free plan you can use indefinitely to translate your Carrd site into at least one language.

Doesn't cost more than your site. If your Carrd Pro plan is $19/year, your translation tool shouldn't be $15–79/month.

OwOsy Translate vs Weglot for Carrd

Setup. Weglot requires creating an account, adding a JavaScript snippet, and configuring your project through their dashboard. OwOsy is the same basic flow — sign up, add your site, paste an embed code. Both take about five minutes. Neither is complicated.

How it works. Weglot intercepts your page through a proxy server and serves a translated version from a different URL. OwOsy translates your content once, caches it on Cloudflare's edge network, and serves cached translations directly in the browser when a visitor picks a language. No proxy, no separate URLs, no DNS changes.

Translation quality. Weglot uses a mix of translation engines (Google, DeepL, Microsoft) and lets you manually edit results. OwOsy uses context-aware translation that considers the full page content, plus a glossary for locking brand terms. Both produce solid translations for typical marketing copy. Neither replaces a professional human translator for legal or medical content.

SEO. Weglot creates separate URLs per language with proper hreflang tags. Google indexes each translated version independently. OwOsy does client-side translation — Google only indexes your original language. For a Carrd landing page, multilingual SEO is almost never relevant. Nobody is trying to rank their Carrd link-in-bio page in French Google results. But if that matters to you, Weglot has the edge here.

Pricing. This is where the gap is massive.

OwOsy's free plan covers most single-language Carrd translations permanently. Weglot's trial expires and everything stops working.

What Weglot does better. Multilingual SEO with real translated URLs. If you need /fr/ and /es/ subdirectories that Google indexes separately, Weglot does this and OwOsy doesn't. Weglot also has a larger team, more integrations, and has been around since 2016.

What OwOsy does better. Price. Permanent free tier. No proxy dependency. Faster page loads (cached edge responses vs proxy routing). Purpose-built for lightweight sites like Carrd instead of retrofitted from enterprise tooling.

How to set up OwOsy on Carrd

Quick version:

1. Sign up at app.owosy.com
2. Add your Carrd site URL and pick your languages
3. Hit "Scan Site" then "Translate"
4. Copy the embed script from Settings
5. In Carrd: click + → Embed → Type: Code → paste script → placement: Head
6. Publish

Requires Carrd Pro Standard ($19/year) for custom code. Full walkthrough in our step-by-step Carrd translation guide.

The bottom line

Weglot is a legitimate product that does what it promises. But it's priced and designed for large sites with multilingual SEO needs. If you're running a Carrd landing page and just want visitors to read it in their language, you don't need a $15–79/month proxy service.

A lightweight translation widget with a free tier gets you the same visitor experience at a fraction of the cost — or free, if one language is enough.

Disclosure: This guide is published by the OwOsy team. We build OwOsy Translate, so we have a financial interest in you choosing our product. We've tried to present all options fairly — including where Weglot genuinely wins.

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