Plate vs Quill

Plate is a React framework for building rich-text editors, with a headless runtime, composable plugins, and optional UI components. Setup paths cover Plate UI, Next.js, React, React Server Components, Node.js, and manual installation. Its plugin ecosystem includes AI menus, copilot, comments, suggestions, blocks, code, tables, media, mentions, import and export, and collaboration. The AI package provides streaming menus and chat, AI-marked text, and API-route integration patterns. Yjs collaboration supports IndexedDB, Hocuspocus, WebRTC, awareness, remote cursors, and custom providers. Media features support images, video, audio, and files, including embeds, uploads, drag-and-drop, clipboard paste, URL embedding, and captions. The package is MIT-licensed. The Free plan is free; Personal is €299, paid once and Teams is €799, paid once. The provided UploadThing middleware is intended for local development; production use requires application session and permission checks.

Quill is a free, API-driven rich text editor for developers. Its API exposes content, changes and events using JSON, with operations that access or modify content by indexes and lengths. The document model supports extensions for custom formats and embeds, including slide decks, interactive checklists and 3D models. Built-in formatting covers text styles, links, headings, lists, alignment, code blocks, images and video; formulas require KaTeX. Official modules provide configurable toolbar, clipboard, keyboard, history and syntax features. History supports undo and redo with adjustable delay, stack size and handling of programmatic changes. Clipboard matchers control copy, cut and paste, and the documentation warns that unsafe HTML handling can create cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. Developers can configure toolbar handlers or provide custom HTML. Quill includes Snow and Bubble themes, runs in modern desktop, tablet and phone browsers, and can be loaded from jsDelivr or npm with full and core builds. Slab maintains it under a BSD license for personal and commercial projects.