| Price from | $119/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.0 (#44) | 9.0 (#4) |
| Spec score · Code editors | 8.0 (#26) | 8.9 (#4) |
| Editor type | desktop | It is a customizable text editor with an Emacs Lisp interpreter at its core. |
| Extensions | Espresso has a plug-in API for actions, syntaxes, formatting, and other extensions, and its plug-in documentation covers JavaScript, XML, CSS, and regular expressions. | It includes a packaging system for downloading and installing extensions. |
| Extension support | The listed plug-ins and syntax themes are not officially supported; the maker directs feature requests to their authors. | Yes |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Support | The maker offers documentation and email support at [email protected]. | Users can seek help through the help-gnu-emacs mailing list or gnu.emacs.help newsgroup, and report bugs with M-x report-emacs-bug. |