Best WYSIWYG HTML editors: TinyMCE Alternatives Comparison

Choosing a rich text editor (RTE) to use within your SaaS product, web application, CMS, LMS, email marketing or internal workspace, isn’t a simple decision.

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Basics

Customization/ Integration

Using these side-by-side comparisons, you’ll find the best features for your needs, understand the pros and cons of setup, support and ongoing maintenance. It’ll help you identify the WYSIWYG HTML editor that works best with your current developer resources, and easily scales as you grow.

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Froala vs TinyMCE

CKEditor vs TinyMCE

Quill vs TinyMCE

Slate vs TinyMCE

Tiptap vs TinyMCE

Lexical vs TinyMCE

How TinyMCE is different from the alternatives

Unmatched domain experience

Every day, the world’s biggest enterprise brands and growing startups rely on TinyMCE for their mission-critical editing needs. For the last two decades, we’ve consistently innovated to create the acknowledged best-in-class rich text editor, that lets developers and creators do more with less by providing:

Smooth, lightweight code that achieves both speed and flexibility across every major browser

A consistent and reliable release process, providing headache-free upgrades

A reliable enterprise-grade editor that's easily customized and also available through an open-source license

Reusable, modular components, 400+ APIs and 14+ framework integrations

Reliable, responsive and future-facing

Every day, our Engineering team solves issues the right way, our Product team encourages perfect results (even if launch dates occasionally slip) and the Customer Success team delivers support that’s reliable, fast and friendly. We’re proud of:

Maintaining industry-leading response rates across dedicated SLAs

96% support ticket customer satisfaction* (Based on Zendesk ratings)

2.84 hr average response time* (August 2021 data)

Collaborative team that grows with you

We let companies focus on their core business, so they don’t have to worry about rich text editing. Product teams can delight their users and creators can work smarter, faster and more productively. Our modus operandi is to be:

Helpful

WYSIWYG and easy to work with

Consultative, partnering with you throughout your stages of growth

Champions of open source and the dev community who make it all possible

TinyMCE vs Alternative WYSIWYG HTML Editors

The TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor alternatives comparison is updated twice-annually

The Basics

	TinyMCE	CKEditor 4	CKEditor 5	Froala	Quill	Slate	Tiptap	Lexical
Cost	Premium features from $960 per year	Premium features from $960 per year	Premium features from $960 per year	From $199 per year	Free	Free	Free Premium features from €348 (~$390) per year	Free
Open Source License	MIT	GPL, LGPL or MPL	GPL		BSD 3-Clause	MIT	MIT	MIT
Commercial License
Self-hosted Deployment
Cloud Deployment
Users	Unlimited	From 5 Users	From 5 Users	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Developers	Unlimited	From 2 Developers	From 2 Developers	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited

Customization and Integration

	TinyMCE	CKEditor 4	CKEditor 5	Froala	Quill	Slate	Tiptap	Lexical
API
Framework Integrations	Angular, AngularJS, Blazor, Bootstrap, Django, jQuery, Laravel, Node.js + Express, Rails, React, Svelte, Swing, Vue, Web Components	Angular, jQuery, React, Vue, Webpack	Angular, jQuery, React, Vue	Angular, AngularJS, Aurelia, CakePHP, CraftCMS, Django, Ember, Gatsby, Ionic, Knockout, Meteor, Rails, React, Sencha, Symfony, Vue, Yii	Angular, AngularJS, Blazor, Flutter, Vue	React, Yjs	Alpine.js, Next.js, Nuxt.js, React, Svelte, Vue	React, Svelte, Vue
Customizable UI							Does not come with a pre-built UI (headless)
Skins and Icon Packs
Language Translations	37	39	12	38	0	0	N/A (No UI)	0

Check out a detailed comparison of Vue rich text editors

Check out a detailed comparison of React integrations

Docs & Support

	TinyMCE	CKEditor 4	CKEditor 5	Froala	Tiptap
Extensive documentation
Community Support
Professional Support
Support SLAs
Number of support tickets per month	2+	2+	2+	0+	0+
Dedicated Account Manager
Phone Support Available

Core Editing Features

	TinyMCE	CKEditor 4	CKEditor 5	Froala	Quill	Slate	Tiptap	Lexical
Basic Formatting
Ordered / Unordered Lists
Tables
Image Insert
Emoticons / Emoji Picker
Templates

Advanced Editing Features

	TinyMCE	CKEditor 4	CKEditor 5	Froala	Quill	Slate	Tiptap	Lexical
Code Editor
Image Editing
Enhanced Media Embed
File Management
Merge Tags
Content Filtering
Format Painter
Permanent Pen
Case Change
Checklists
Export PDF
Markdown
CSS-inlined output

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Clean Copy and Paste

Functionality that processes and cleans up pasted content from apps, ensuring compliant and easy-to-edit HTML

	TinyMCE	CKEditor 4	CKEditor 5	Froala	Quill	Slate	Tiptap	Lexical
MS Word
MS Excel
Google Docs

Note: Faded check marks indicate partial functionality

Check out a detailed comparison of clean copy and paste features

Compliance

	TinyMCE	CKEditor 4	CKEditor 5	Froala	Quill	Slate	Tiptap	Lexical
Customizable Spell Checker
Spelling Autocorrect
Accessibility Checker
Broken Link Checker
Footnotes
Advanced Typography

Check out a detailed comparison of spell checking features

Check out a detailed comparison of accessibility features

Collaboration

	TinyMCE	CKEditor 4	CKEditor 5	Froala	Quill	Slate	Tiptap	Lexical
Mentions
Comments

Check out a detailed comparison of comments features

Check out a detailed comparison of @mentions features

Security

	TinyMCE	CKEditor 4	CKEditor 5	Froala	Quill	Slate	Tiptap	Lexical
Asymmetric JWT Signing

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All data in the table above (and supporting pages) was pulled from projects’ public websites on June 17, 2022.

Features listed vary by plan (open-source, free or paid). If information on a specific feature or topic cannot be found on the editor’s website, it is not included. Only features released by the editor author are listed.

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Trusted by the hottest startups and biggest brands

“TinyMCE satisfied our needs at a competitive cost, and we were able to integrate it without restructuring our product.”

Chris Burd | Vice President of policyIQ

“TinyMCE should be at the top of any list if you’re looking for a visual text editor. It’s flexible, integrates well with different systems and is extremely stable.”

Rob Wells | Vice President of policyIQ

“We’re very satisfied with TinyMCE’s features, functionality, ease of integration, and the impeccable support team.”

Paul Alexandrescu | Technical Director

Chris Burd | Vice President, policyIQ

Rob Wells | CEO

Paul Alexandrescu | Technical Director

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