Quill vs TinyMCE

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)

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