CKEditor AI (early access)

By integrating AI writing assistance directly into the editing experience, CKEditor AI empowers authors with real-time AI writing support, streamlines content creation, and enhances editorial workflows across a wide range of use cases – from productivity boosts and proof-reading to content quality and consistency.

The CKEditor AI early access allows you to extensively test the feature while it is still in the pre-production phase. Please note that early access versions may contain unpolished elements and that part of it are subject to change based on community feedback. If you wish to test CKEditor AI, the access to it is enabled on the free trial.

• Chat – Use the AI Chat in the side panel to create and edit content on the go with natural language. For example, ask in the chat to add emojis to headings in the content.
• Chat History – Check history for past conversations in the document.
• Quick Actions – Select content and use the balloon toolbar dropdown for Quick Actions and choose from predefined commands.
• Review – Run the review with the improve clarity command.

CKEditor AI is an AI-powered writing assistant that integrates directly into our rich-text editor, CKEditor 5, providing instant text rewriting, summarization, correction, and contextual chat help based on internal style guides. The platform includes automated review tools and enterprise-ready functionality that plugs into existing systems without requiring custom infrastructure.

Teams can implement a full suite of AI writing tools in weeks rather than months, delivering streamlined, compliant content workflows that maintain brand consistency and integrate seamlessly with existing document management systems.

The core components of CKEditor AI are:

• CKEditor 5: A modern rich text editor with dozens of features that improve writing workflows, including collaboration.
• AI Service: A state-of-the-art backend AI engine that incorporates multiple models and delivers high-quality content. Currently available only in Cloud setup, with on-premises deployment coming soon. The AI Service also provides a REST API.

There are three main features of CKEditor AI. You can test them all during the early access.

The AI Chat is a conversational AI that can be used to aid content creation and editing. It introduces a dynamic chat interface designed to facilitate rich, multi-turn interactions between users and AI. This capability moves beyond single-prompt content generation, enabling a more interactive and collaborative experience within writing workflows. It also provides context setting and model selection to better suit the needs of specific content and holds chat history for quick reference of previous work.

The Chat is also capable of using the web for more up-to-date information and reasoning to think more deeply about the answers and changes it is allowed to make.

AI Quick actions streamline routine content transformations by offering one-click AI-powered suggestions directly within the editor. You can also ask questions about your selected text in the Chat to get instant AI insights and analysis. This feature enhances speed, relevance, and usability, particularly for repeatable or simple tasks, while preserving deeper chat-based functionality when needed.

The AI Review feature provides users with AI-powered quality assurance for their content by running checks for grammar, style, tone, and more. It also introduces an intuitive interface for reviewing and managing AI-suggested edits directly within the document, ensuring content meets professional standards with minimal manual effort.

CKEditor AI relies on an external service to provide AI-generated responses. The feature currently supports integration with multiple AI API providers: OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini. You will also be able to integrate future versions with custom models.

Read the CKEditor AI integration guide to learn more.

• Real-time collaboration setups may experience some content mismatches. Active efforts are in progress to improve this.
• AI responses may not work correctly in cases when there is General HTML support for block elements enabled. It will be addressed in a future update.
• Inline images may not be processed correctly by commands within the Review feature. A solution is currently under development.
• Applying quick action responses may result in the loss of comment and suggestion markers. This issue will be addressed in a future update.

Here are some more CKEditor 5 features that can help you boost productivity:

• Automatic text transformations – Automatically change predefined text fragments into their improved forms.
• AI Assistant – AI Assistant is the previous version of the AI implementation. It provides a way to boost your editing efficiency and creativity through the use of AI models, and allows connecting to the third-party APIs.

The AI features register the following UI components: