We present the discovery and characterisation of the exoplanets WASP-113b and WASP-114b by the WASP survey, {it SOPHIE} and {it CORALIE}. The planetary nature of the systems was established by performing follow-up photometric and spectroscopic observations. The follow-up data were combined with the WASP-photometry and analysed with an MCMC code to obtain system parameters. The host stars WASP-113 and WASP-114 are very similar. They are both early G-type stars with an effective temperature of $sim 5900,$K, [Fe/H]$sim 0.12$ and $T_{rm eff}$ $sim 4.1$dex. However, WASP-113 is older than WASP-114. Although the planetary companions have similar radii, WASP-114b is almost 4 times heavier than WASP-113b. WASP-113b has a mass of $0.48,$ $mathrm{M}_{rm Jup}$ and an orbital period of $sim 4.5,$days; WASP-114b has a mass of $1.77,$ $mathrm{M}_{rm Jup}$ and an orbital period of $sim 1.5,$days. Both planets have inflated radii, in particular WASP-113 with a radius anomaly of $Re=0.35$. The high scale height of WASP-113b ($sim 950$ km ) makes it a good target for follow-up atmospheric observations.
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