# Rich-Text Editor Libraries Compared

*Source: https://www.editorstack.cc/categories/rich-text — last updated 2026-09-17. Licensed CC BY 4.0 with attribution to EditorStack.*

8 products in this dataset are rich-text or block document editors — the component behind a comment box, an article body or a knowledge-base page — rather than page builders with a layout canvas.

A rich-text editor edits a document: paragraphs, headings, lists, inline formatting, embeds. It has no canvas, no breakpoints and no style manager, and a requirement that mentions columns or brand colours belongs with a page builder instead. Within the category the real split is licensing — MIT and MPL frameworks you assemble yourself against GPL-or-commercial editors that arrive finished — and that split decides more than any feature list.

| Product | Type | Licence | Frameworks | Bundle (min+gzip) | Price from | Self-hosted | White label | Score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [BlockNote](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/blocknote) | library | MPL-2.0 | React, Vue | 386.1 kB gzip | from $195/mo | Yes | Yes | not scored |
| [CKEditor 5](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/ckeditor) | library | GPL-2.0-or-later OR commercial | Any (framework-agnostic) | 161.2 kB gzip | from $144/mo | Yes | Unverified | not scored |
| [Editor.js](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/editorjs) | library | Apache-2.0 | Any (framework-agnostic) | 64.3 kB gzip | Free (open source) | Yes | Yes | 7.7 |
| [Lexical](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/lexical) | library | MIT | Any (framework-agnostic) | 104.9 kB gzip | Free (open source) | Yes | Yes | 7.4 |
| [Plate](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/plate) | library | MIT | React | 150.8 kB gzip | Free (open source) | Yes | Yes | 8 |
| [Quill](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/quill) | library | BSD-3-Clause | Any (framework-agnostic) | 58.7 kB gzip | Free (open source) | Yes | Yes | not scored |
| [TinyMCE](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/tinymce) | library | GPL-2.0-or-later OR commercial | Any (framework-agnostic) | 393.9 kB gzip | from $79/mo | Yes | Unverified | not scored |
| [Tiptap](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/tiptap) | library | MIT | Any (framework-agnostic) | 123.3 kB gzip | Free tier, paid plans undisclosed | Yes | Yes | 8.3 |

- [BlockNote](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/blocknote) — BlockNote is a Notion-style block editor for React built on ProseMirror and Tiptap, shipping slash menus, drag handles and formatting toolbars ready-made; its core is MPL-2.0, while AI, multi-column and export packages are GPL-3.0 or commercially licensed.
- [CKEditor 5](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/ckeditor) — CKEditor 5 is a finished rich-text editor with a toolbar, a plugin architecture and first-party React, Vue and Angular integrations, dual-licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later for self-hosted use or under commercial terms, with collaboration, AI and email tooling sold as premium features.
- [Editor.js](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/editorjs) — Editor.js is an Apache-2.0 licensed block-style content editor that outputs clean JSON instead of HTML, aimed at article and document authoring rather than page layout. First published to npm in February 2019.
- [Lexical](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/lexical) — Lexical is Meta's MIT-licensed extensible text editor framework, published to npm as version 0.1.0 in January 2022 and built around an immutable editor state with a plugin architecture rather than a supplied interface.
- [Plate](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/plate) — Plate is an MIT-licensed React rich-text editor framework built on Slate, shipping headless plugins plus copy-in shadcn/ui components for editors that need document editing rather than page layout. First published to npm in July 2021.
- [Quill](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/quill) — Quill is a BSD-3-Clause rich-text editor maintained by Slab, with a built-in toolbar and themes, a Delta document format and a module API; version 2.0, rewritten in TypeScript, shipped in April 2024, and every framework wrapper for it is community-maintained.
- [TinyMCE](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/tinymce) — TinyMCE is a long-established WYSIWYG editor whose licence moved from MIT in version 6 to GPL-2.0-or-later in version 7, and since 8.3 to GPL-2.0-or-later or Tiny's self-hosted commercial terms, with every self-hosted TinyMCE 8 install required to set a licence key.
- [Tiptap](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/tiptap) — Tiptap is an MIT-licensed headless rich-text editor framework built on ProseMirror, shipping no UI of its own and exposing extensions instead; its React binding first appeared on npm in February 2021.