ProseMirror vs RichTextEditor
ProseMirror
prosemirror.net
RichTextEditor
richtexteditor.comSide by side
| Figure | ProseMirror | RichTextEditor |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Rich Text Editor Software | 8.4 (#6) | 7.9 (#12) |
| Collaboration | It supports real-time collaborative editing, allowing multiple people to edit the same document simultaneously. | Its optional per-node Yjs CRDT supports concurrent typing, presence cursors, and per-author undo with a self-hosted Yjs provider. |
| Purpose | ProseMirror is a toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web. | RichTextEditor is a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor for adding rich text authoring to web applications. |
| Support | The project directs questions and discussion to its forum and bugs to its issue tracker, with a code of conduct for communication. | Paid licenses include standard, premium, or ultimate support depending on tier, and the support page states a 1–2 business day response expectation. |
Plans
RichTextEditor
- Domain$129, paid once
- Small Business$299, paid once
- Enterprise$999, paid once
- Source Code$3,999, paid once
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.
RichTextEditor
RichTextEditor has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.