Tiptap vs CKEditor 5: The Enterprise‑Ready Tiptap Alternative

Why choose CKEditor 5 over Tiptap?

Start strong, scale smarter

Launch with confidence. Our production-ready editor gives you everything you need from day 1 so you can launch quickly and later scale as your users’ needs evolve and your product grows.

Easy to integrate with endless features. CKEditor is a complete editor with polished UI, out-of-the-box. Plus, you’ll have the freedom to customize every part. Get real-time collaboration, document export tools - even the option to go headless - without building it yourself.

Accelerate your time to market. Tiptap offers flexibility, but no built-in UI. You’ll need to build everything from scratch: toolbars, dropdowns, dialogs, and interaction patterns for even the most basic tasks, like inserting a link or uploading an image.

Don’t start from scratch

CKEditor 5 includes the full experience your users expect and adapts to your workflow so that you save time and avoid hidden tech debt without sacrificing flexibility.

Integrate fast, extend on your terms

Build the exact setup you need, efficiently. CKEditor 5 adapts to your tech stack with a strong foundation, officially maintained framework integrations, and developer tooling that accelerates customization.

Create a fully tailored editor in minutes and evolve it using deep customization. Powerful APIs, CKEditor-maintained packages, and tools like the Online Builder help you generate tailored builds quickly and confidently.

Less technical debt. Less development burden. Faster deployment. Tiptap offers control, but long-term scalability and support fall entirely on your team. Extending it often means maintaining custom logic or stitching together third-party packages without official tooling or UI kits.

Skip the duct tape

CKEditor 5 delivers enterprise-grade reliability and ready-made tools that let you move fast, without losing control.

Built for standards, backed by experience

Serious products demand serious compliance. CKEditor 5 delivers enterprise-grade assurance with security and accessibility built into its core.

SOC 2 Type 2 certified, WCAG 2.2 compliant. Available as either a self-hosted or cloud deployment, CKEditor is backed by SLAs and expert support. Every integration is covered by audit-ready practices.

Less risk, more reward. Tiptap lacks formal certifications for security and accessibility. Each extension or integration must be reviewed and verified manually, adding risk and overhead when compliance is critical.

Compliance isn’t a checklist, it’s a commitment

Backed by 50+ engineers and 20+ years of experience, CKEditor delivers reliability, regular releases, and a roadmap you can trust.

Future-proof

Build on a platform that keeps pace with product evolution. CKEditor 5 helps you move fast today and stay ready for tomorrow’s needs.

A rich text editor on the cutting edge. CKEditor 5 isn’t just evolving with the future of rich text editing, it’s helping define it. Its modular architecture was purpose-built to support features like real-time collaboration, AI-assisted writing, and flexible content conversions at scale.

Clean, cohesive, and fully supported. Tiptap often relies on external, community-driven packages for key capabilities like collaboration or versioning, introducing fragmentation and dependency complexity.

Stay ahead without starting over

CKEditor’s adaptable architecture and internal logic are engineered for rapid iteration, enabling fast, feedback-driven development.

CKEditor vs Tiptap comparison

AI-Assisted Editing	CKEditor	Tiptap
AI Assistant

Collaboration	CKEditor	Tiptap
Comments		beta
Mention
Real-time Collaboration
Revision History
Track Changes

Compliance	CKEditor	Tiptap
Invisible Characters
Professionally Translated Language Packs
Read-only Mode
Restricted Editing
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
SOC2 Type 2
Spelling and Grammar Checker
Text Part Language
WCAG 2.2

Content Conversion & Embedding	CKEditor	Tiptap
Export to PDF
Export to Word
Export with Inline Styles
Import from Word
Markdown
Media Embed		partial support

Core Editing	CKEditor	Tiptap
Basic Text Styles
Block Quote
Bookmarks
Code Block
Code Block Lowlight		via 3rd party
Color Picker
Details
Details content
Details summary
Drag & Drop
Emoji
Enhanced Source Code Editing
Font Family, Size, and Color
Headings
Horizontal Line
Image Optimization
Image Upload
Images
Layout Tables
Link
Lists		partial support
Multi-level Lists
Source Code Editing
Table Caption
Table Cell Properties
Table of Contents
Table Properties
Tables
Text Alignment
To-do Lists
Undo and Redo

Customization & Configurations	CKEditor	Tiptap
Balloon Toolbar
Baloon Block Toolbar
Bottom Toolbar
Builder
Button Grouping
Classic Toolbar
Deletion Events
Document Toolbar
Editing View Decorations
Email Configuration Helper
Floating Menu
Inline Toolbar
JSX Support
Menu Bar
Multi-root Editor
Ready-to-use Editor Builds
Right-to-left (RTL) support
Server-side editor API
TypeScript Support
UI Language

Page Management	CKEditor	Tiptap
Document Outline
Page Break
Pagination

Productivity	CKEditor	Tiptap
Automatic Text Transformartion
Case Change
Enhanced Paste from Excel
Enhanced Paste from Word
Find and Replace
Fullscreen
Math Equations
Merge Fields
Placeholder
Slash Commands		experimental
Special Characters
Templates
Word Count

Trusted by software companies

Millions of agents actively use the composer in Zendesk across multiple channels, and CKEditor is at the core of it.

We opted for CKEditor 5 due to its superior flexibility. Our writers are able to save approximately 10 hours per month after adopting Blooksy with CKEditor.

Most people who look at our product don’t believe that we built it in the time frame we built it.

Optimized for engineering teams

Easy to Integrate

CKEditor 5 offers official integrations for frameworks like React, Vue, Angular, and many more. The Online Builder and UI presets make it easy to generate and configure custom builds that drop seamlessly into your product.

Now in TypeScript

CKEditor 5’s codebase is now available in TypeScript, along with complete typings. This delivers an improved developer experience and better performance in large, complex projects.

Powerful APIs

A broad selection of APIs provides greater flexibility and control while making it easier to configure, extend, and create custom plugins, all supported by extensive documentation.

Rock-solid

Software quality is in our DNA. CKEditor 5 has 100% code coverage and our developers and QA engineers spend over 50% of their time on testing code and writing documentation.

Ready for developers’ favorite technologies

Native integrations with the most popular libraries will save you time, money and effort.
CKEditor 5 is compatible with any JavaScript framework.

Explore official CKEditor integrations

CKEditor vs Tiptap: Choose the editor that’s built to scale

Why choose CKEditor 5 over Tiptap?

Start strong, scale smarter

Integrate fast, extend on your terms

Built for standards, backed by experience

Future-proof

CKEditor vs Tiptap comparison

AI Assistant

Comments

Mention

Real-time Collaboration

Revision History

Track Changes

Invisible Characters

Professionally Translated Language Packs

Read-only Mode

Restricted Editing

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act

SOC2 Type 2

Spelling and Grammar Checker

Text Part Language

WCAG 2.2

Export to PDF

Export to Word

Export with Inline Styles

Import from Word

Markdown

Media Embed

Basic Text Styles

Block Quote

Bookmarks

Code Block

Code Block Lowlight

Color Picker

Details

Details content

Details summary

Drag & Drop

Emoji

Enhanced Source Code Editing

Font Family, Size, and Color

Headings

Horizontal Line

Image Optimization

Image Upload

Images

Layout Tables

Link

Lists

Multi-level Lists

Source Code Editing

Table Caption

Table Cell Properties

Table of Contents

Table Properties

Tables

Text Alignment

To-do Lists

Undo and Redo

Balloon Toolbar

Baloon Block Toolbar

Bottom Toolbar

Builder

Button Grouping

Classic Toolbar

Deletion Events

Document Toolbar

Editing View Decorations

Email Configuration Helper

Floating Menu

Inline Toolbar

JSX Support

Menu Bar

Multi-root Editor

Ready-to-use Editor Builds

Right-to-left (RTL) support

Server-side editor API

TypeScript Support

UI Language

Document Outline

CKEditor vs Tiptap:
Choose the editor
that’s built to scale