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All visual editor and page builder libraries

EditorStack profiles 34 products in four groups, and the group a product belongs to decides most of the argument: an embeddable library, a commercial SDK, a headless CMS with visual editing, or a hosted platform you cannot embed at all.

Embeddable editor libraries (13)

Open-source engines and frameworks you install from npm and mount inside your own application. You own the data, the hosting and the editor UI.

  • 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.

    MPL-2.0 · from $195/mo · 386.1 kB gzip · verified 2026-09-17

  • CKEditor 5

    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.

    GPL-2.0-or-later OR commercial · from $144/mo · 161.2 kB gzip · verified 2026-09-17

  • Craft.js

    Craft.js is an MIT-licensed React framework for building your own page editor: it supplies the drag-and-drop layer, node tree and state management, and leaves the entire editor UI to you. First published to npm in December 2019.

    MIT · Free (open source) · 29.2 kB gzip · verified 2026-08-19

  • Editor.js

    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.

    Apache-2.0 · Free (open source) · 64.3 kB gzip · verified 2026-08-19

  • GrapesJS

    GrapesJS is a BSD-3-licensed, framework-agnostic web page builder engine that you embed in your own application and extend through plugins, first published to npm in January 2016.

    BSD-3-Clause · Free (open source) · 294.6 kB gzip · verified 2026-08-19

  • 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.

    MIT · Free (open source) · 104.9 kB gzip · verified 2026-08-20

  • 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.

    MIT · Free (open source) · 150.8 kB gzip · verified 2026-08-19

  • Puck

    Puck is an MIT-licensed visual editor for React that renders your own React components inside the canvas and stores page data as JSON, first published to npm in June 2023.

    MIT · Free (open source) · 90.4 kB gzip · verified 2026-08-19

  • 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.

    BSD-3-Clause · Free (open source) · 58.7 kB gzip · verified 2026-09-17

  • React Page

    React Page is an MIT-licensed, cell-and-row based content editor for React that ships a grid layout system and a plugin API, first published to npm in November 2019.

    MIT · Free (open source) · 377.2 kB gzip · verified 2026-08-19

  • Silex

    Silex is a free/libre website builder from the non-profit Silex Labs, dual-licensed GPL-3.0 or MPL-2.0 and built on top of GrapesJS, aimed at static sites with dynamic data.

    GPL-3.0 OR MPL-2.0 · Free (open source) · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • 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.

    GPL-2.0-or-later OR commercial · from $79/mo · 393.9 kB gzip · verified 2026-09-17

  • 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.

    MIT · Free tier, paid plans undisclosed · 123.3 kB gzip · verified 2026-08-20

Commercial editor SDKs (9)

Licence-key products that hand you a finished editor plus the infrastructure around it — storage, assets, tested output — in exchange for a subscription.

  • Beefree SDK

    Beefree SDK is a commercial embeddable email, page and popup builder for SaaS applications, published on npm under Apache-2.0 wrapper packaging since October 2023, with paid tiers starting at $350 per month.

    Proprietary · from $350/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • Builder.io

    Builder.io is a commercial visual development platform whose SDKs let non-developers edit pages built from your own components, and whose 2026 pricing is credit-based rather than seat-based.

    Proprietary · from $19/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • GrapesJS Studio SDK

    GrapesJS Studio SDK is the commercial, licence-key product from the GrapesJS team: a ready-made editor UI, project storage and asset handling built on the open-source engine, first published to npm in July 2024.

    Proprietary · Free tier, paid plans undisclosed · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • PageKit

    PageKit is a self-hosted, white-label website builder built on GrapesJS and sold by GJS.Market under one-time licence tiers, aimed at agencies and SaaS products that need a branded builder without a per-seat subscription.

    Proprietary · from $199 one-time · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • Plasmic

    Plasmic is a commercial visual builder for React applications that generates or loads components into your codebase, with a free tier and paid tiers that scale by collaborators and features.

    Proprietary · from $39/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • Stripo Plugin

    Stripo Plugin is the embeddable, white-label version of the Stripo email editor, sold separately from the Stripo web app with published plugin plans starting at $100 per month.

    Proprietary · from $100/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • TeleportHQ

    TeleportHQ is a low-code front-end platform that turns a visual canvas into exportable React, Vue or Angular code, with an MIT-licensed open-source code generator on npm since September 2019 and a free tier plus paid plans from $9 per editor per month billed annually.

    Proprietary · from $9/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • Topol Plugin

    Topol Plugin is an embeddable white-label email editor priced per prepaid end-user account rather than per seat, with published plans from $60 per month.

    Proprietary · from $60/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • Unlayer

    Unlayer is a commercial embeddable email and page builder for SaaS products, whose React wrapper react-email-editor has been on npm since October 2017 and whose embed plans start at $250 per month.

    Proprietary · from $250/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

Headless CMS with visual editing (4)

Content platforms whose visual editing gives your own content team click-to-edit preview of a front end your developers built. Not editors you ship to end users.

  • Contentful Studio

    Contentful Studio is Contentful's visual experience builder, sold as a paid add-on on top of the CMS platform; its React SDK has been on npm under MIT since March 2024 and there is no built-in visual editing without the add-on.

    MIT · Quote only · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • Directus

    Directus is a self-hostable data platform and headless CMS licensed under BSL 1.1, free to self-host for organisations under $5M in annual revenue, with visual editing delivered as live-preview and editable-overlay features rather than a drag-and-drop page canvas.

    BSL-1.1 · from $99/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • Sanity Visual Editing

    Sanity is a headless content platform whose Presentation tool adds click-to-edit visual editing over a live preview of your front end; the @sanity/visual-editing package has been on npm under MIT since February 2024 and visual editing is available on every plan including the free tier.

    MIT · from $15/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • Storyblok

    Storyblok is a headless CMS whose visual editor renders a live preview of your own front end and lets editors click a component to edit its fields, with a free Starter plan and paid plans from about €99 per month per space.

    Proprietary · Free tier, paid plans undisclosed · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

Hosted platforms (build vs buy reference) (8)

Products you cannot embed. They are in the dataset because every build-versus-buy conversation eventually compares against them.

  • Brizy

    Brizy is a website builder sold to agencies and SaaS companies as a white-label platform, with a vendor-published White Label plan from $159 per month and an enterprise tier that offers on-premise hosting.

    Proprietary · from $159/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-20

  • Duda

    Duda is a hosted website platform built for agencies, with vendor-published plans from $19 per month and a White Label tier at $149 per month that removes Duda's branding from the client-facing product.

    Proprietary · from $19/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-20

  • Elementor

    Elementor is a WordPress page builder plugin sold as an annual licence from about $59 per year for one site, included here because agencies routinely weigh it against building a builder into their own product.

    GPL-3.0 · from $59/yr · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • Framer

    Framer is a hosted design-and-publish website platform, included as a build-versus-buy reference point: its editor cannot be embedded in another product, and 2026 pricing runs from a free tier to about $10 per month for Basic and $30 per month for Pro on annual billing, plus per-editor seats.

    Proprietary · from $10/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • Sitejet

    Sitejet is a hosted website builder aimed at agencies and web professionals, with a vendor-published Agency plan reported at $89 per month and additional hosted sites charged per site.

    Proprietary · from $89/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-20

  • Webflow

    Webflow is a hosted visual website platform, included here as the build-versus-buy reference point rather than as an embeddable library: you cannot mount its editor inside your own product, and its 2026 pricing splits into per-site plans from $15 per month and per-workspace seats.

    Proprietary · from $15/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19

  • Wix Studio

    Wix Studio is Wix's platform for agencies and designers, priced per site on vendor-published tiers from $19 to $159 per month, and included here as a build-versus-buy reference point rather than as an embeddable option.

    Proprietary · from $19/mo · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-20

  • Zillapage

    Zillapage is a self-hosted PHP landing page and e-commerce builder sold as a one-time-licence script through code marketplaces, rather than a library you embed in an application.

    Proprietary · Undisclosed · Not measurable · verified 2026-08-19