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
| TinyMCE | Lexical | |
|---|---|---|
| StackOverflow Questions – cumulative | 10,071 | 46 |
| StackOverflow Questions – last 30 days | 43 | 5 |
| Professional Support Options | Email, Phone ($) |  |
| Support SLA |  | |
Checked as of Feb 1, 2023
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Pros and Cons TinyMCE vs Lexical
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The Basics
| TinyMCE | Lexical | |
|---|---|---|
Cost  | Premium features from $450 per year | Free |
| Open Source License | GPL2+ | MIT |
| Commercial License | | |
| Self-hosted Deployment | | |
| Cloud Deployment | | |
| Users | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Developers | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Customization and Integration
| TinyMCE | Lexical | |
|---|---|---|
| API | | |
| Framework Integrations | Angular, AngularJS, Blazor, Bootstrap, Django, jQuery, Laravel, Node.js + Express, Rails, React, Svelte, Swing, Vue, Web Components | React, Svelte, Vue |
| Customizable UI | | |
| Skins and Icon Packs | | |
| Language Translations | 37 | 0 |
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Docs & Support
| TinyMCE | Lexical | |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| TinyMCE | Lexical | |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Formatting | | |
| Multi-Root Editing | | |
| Ordered / Unordered Lists | | |
| Tables | | |
| Image Insert | | |
| Emoticons / Emoji Picker | | |
Advanced Editing Features
| TinyMCE | Lexical | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | | |
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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 | Lexical | |
|---|---|---|
| MS Word | | |
| MS Excel | | |
| Google Docs | | |
Check out a detailed comparison of clean copy and paste features
Compliance
| TinyMCE | 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 | Lexical | |
|---|---|---|
| Mentions | | |
| Comments | | |
| Track changes | | |
| Revision history | | |
Check out a detailed comparison of comments features
Check out a detailed comparison of @mentions features
Security
| TinyMCE | Lexical | |
|---|---|---|
| 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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