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Lexical vs TinyMCE

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

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Basics

Customization/ Integration

Docs/ Support

Core Features

Advanced Features

Clean Copy/Paste

Compliance

Collaboration

Security

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\t\"\"\"\"

Checked as of Feb 1, 2023

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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

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Check out a detailed comparison of best React rich text editors

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 \"\"\"\"\"\"

See a mistake? Let us know.

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.

Easy integration with 12 + frameworks and hundreds of other tools

The TinyMCE code is totally customizable and works with the framework of your choice

Help when and where you need it

Enterprise-Grade Support

Responsive, in-house support to help you implement, customize and troubleshoot.

Learn more →

Community

Thousands of questions and answers updated daily on StackOverflow and Github.

Browse questions →

Documentation

Tutorials, quickstarts, code samples and videos to help you deploy faster.

Explore Docs →

Learn more →

Browse questions →

Explore Docs →

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

Some Tiny stats

350M+

downloads every single year

100M+

products powered by TinyMCE

35M+

hits on our CDN per day

23,000+

commits on GitHub

1.5M

developers worldwide use TinyMCE

400+

APIs

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Costs for least expensive premium plan (if available)

Type of free, open-source license if available

Whether a paid, commercial license is available

Whether or not the editor files are publicly available for inclusion on a Content Delivery Network

Number of users allowed to use your application with the least expensive commercial plan available

Number of developers allowed to work with the plugin editor and access support with the least expensive commercial plan available

Integrations, components or quickstarts to speed up implementation. Mix of vendor- and community-provided integrations

API properties, methods and events for extending and customizing editor functionality

Ability to customize UI elements to blend with your app

Pre-built themes to match the editor UI to popular design systems (i.e. Bootstrap, Material Design, Fluent, etc)

Number of UI language translations available with 90% or more translated. Can include vendor professional and community translations

Active forums or communities like Github and Stack Overflow

Paid support available from the editor author

Publicly documented support response times

Number of support tickets allowed per month (only applies to editors with paid plans). In most cases, # of tickets increases as the plan level increases.

Whether or not a dedicated Account Manager is provided for higher level plans

Bold, Italic, Underline, Headings, etc

Out-of-the-box UI to support creating tables

Vendor-provided tools available to manipulate images (crop, rotate, etc). May be in the form of add-ons

Add enriched media previews to from popular web sources (e.g. YouTube, SlideShare, Spotify)

Tools available to manage media files on your server or in the cloud

Control what type of content is allowed into the editor (for example, what HTML elements are allowed)

Copy and paste formatting from one location to another, such as font style and size

Apply a pre-defined format (for example, color, typeface and type style, font, etc.) to a new content, overriding the default values set for that content area

Tools to ensure content complies with WCAG and/or ARIA standards

Built-in ability to tag/mention people inside the editor

Built-in ability to insert comments

JWT user authentication tokens to the cloud are asymmetrically signed, so the editor vendor does not need your private signing key to verify them

Insert read-only merge tags (also known as tokens or mail merge fields) into your content.

Automatically apply typographic rules to text (e.g. spaces, dashes, and symbols)

No commercial plan available, therefore unlimited

No commercial plan available, therefore unlimited

Generate CSS-inlined HTML ready for email and other self-contained uses

Create, organize and edit reusable content snippets from within the editor

Create fully-templated documents with editable regions inside one editor instance.

HTML code editing functionality

Generative AI functionality, with the ability to provide customizable pre-written prompts to users.

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