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Lexical vs TinyMCE

How do TinyMCE and Lexical compare, and which rich text editor is right for you?

Why TinyMCE is the Best Lexical Alternative

TinyMCE WYSIWYG
Rich Text Editor


TinyMCE is a feature-rich, customizable rich text editor available through either a free, open source license or a paid commercial license.

It is built and maintained by Tiny Technologies — a team of 80+ people with over two decades of rich text editor building experience.

TinyMCE’s public Roadmap is customer- and community-driven, which helps ensure new features align with your needs.

Lexical Text Editor Framework


Lexical is an extensible text editor framework created by Facebook (Meta). It is available under an open source license.

As a framework, you could leverage its existing features or build your own basic or advanced editor on top of it.

Its Roadmap is subject to Meta’s plans, and therefore may or may not be aligned with your needs depending on your use case.

While comparing an editor framework to an editor may feel awkward, we’ve done our best to provide useful information to help with your analysis. We recommend you complement this comparison with your own research.

Lexical support vs TinyMCE support

Newcomers to the rich text editing market bring fresh ideas and inspiration, which leads to competition and better products for users.

Lexical is a valuable addition to the text editing space, and we look forward to seeing where they go with their roadmap and the benefits they can add for users. That said, when considering the addition of any component to your app, time spent on setup and troubleshooting should be factored in.

With its paid plans, TinyMCE comes with access to our US-based support team, who is here to help you get set up, and is available for you to escalate any editor-related support tickets to. With this model, customers have reported reductions in dev time spent on editor troubleshooting and customization, freeing up resources to work on their app’s core functionality.

If you are comfortable working with and extending an editor framework on your own, Lexical may be right for you. If you’re looking for something more out-of-the-box that comes with professional support to help guide you along the way, TinyMCE might be the better choice.

Support & Community

TinyMCELexical
StackOverflow Questions – cumulative10,07146
StackOverflow Questions – last 30 days
435
Professional Support OptionsEmail, Phone ($)
Support SLA

Checked as of Feb 1, 2023

 

Pros and Cons TinyMCE vs Lexical

The Lexical vs TinyMCE comparison is updated twice-annually

The Basics

TinyMCELexical
Cost Premium features from $450 per yearFree
Open Source
License
 
GPL2+MIT
Commercial License 
Self-hosted Deployment
Cloud Deployment 
Users UnlimitedUnlimited 
Developers UnlimitedUnlimited 

Customization and Integration

TinyMCELexical
API 
Framework Integrations Angular, AngularJS, Blazor, Bootstrap, Django, jQuery, Laravel, Node.js + Express, Rails, React, Svelte, Swing, Vue, Web ComponentsReact, Svelte, Vue
Customizable UI 
Skins and Icon Packs 
Language Translations 370

Check out a detailed comparison of best Vue rich text editors

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Docs & Support

TinyMCELexical
Extensive documentation
Community Support 
Professional Support 
Support SLAs 
Number of support tickets per month 2 to Unlimited
Dedicated Account Manager 
Phone Support Available

Core Editing Features

TinyMCELexical
Basic Formatting 
Multi-Root Editing 
Ordered / Unordered Lists
Tables 
Image Insert
Emoticons / Emoji Picker

Advanced Editing Features

TinyMCELexical
AI Assistant
Code Editor
Image Editing 
Advanced Templates 
Enhanced Media Embed 
File Management 
Merge Tags 
CSS-inlined output 
Content Filtering 
Format Painter 
Permanent Pen 
Case Change
Accordions
Table of Contents
Checklists
Export to PDF
Markdown
Import from Word
Export to Word

Check out a detailed comparison of format painter feature


Clean Copy and Paste

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

TinyMCELexical
MS Word
MS Excel
Google Docs

Check out a detailed comparison of clean copy and paste features


Compliance

TinyMCELexical
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

TinyMCELexical
Mentions 
Comments 
Track changes
Revision history 

Check out a detailed comparison of comments features

Check out a detailed comparison of @mentions features


Security

TinyMCELexical
Asymmetric JWT Signing 

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All data in the table above (and supporting pages) was pulled from projects’ public websites on Feb 1, 2023

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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