Lexical vs ProseMirror
Lexical
lexical.devProseMirror
prosemirror.netSide by side
| Figure | Lexical | ProseMirror |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Rich Text Editor Software | 7.2 (#26) | 8.4 (#6) |
| Collaboration | Real-time collaborative editing with shared content and remote cursors is available through the Yjs integration. | It supports real-time collaborative editing, allowing multiple people to edit the same document simultaneously. |
| License | The GitHub repository identifies the project as MIT licensed. | The project is released under the MIT license and the homepage says users are legally free to use it commercially. |
| Support | The homepage directs questions, bug reports, and community sharing to the Lexical Discord server. | The project directs questions and discussion to its forum and bugs to its issue tracker, with a code of conduct for communication. |
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In their own words
ProseMirror
ProseMirror is a toolkit for developers building rich-text editors on the web. It supports structured documents through a WYSIWYG-style interface while letting applications define document shape and content. Instead of treating a document as an HTML blob, it gives application code control over a custom data structure. Schemas and plugins provide ways to customize that structure and extend editor behavior. Four core modules handle the document model, editor state, view, and transformations; additional modules offer commands, key bindings, undo history, input macros, collaboration, and a basic schema. Multiple people can edit together in real time. Examples cover Markdown, image uploads, custom schemas, menus, code editors, footnotes, and track changes. ProseMirror is free, open source, and legally usable commercially; it can be self-hosted and is installed through npm. It works in recent Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Edge versions, as well as Internet Explorer 11. It is a modular toolkit rather than a ready-made editor component, and implementation generally involves a bundler.