Plate
Plate is a React framework for building rich-text editors.
What Plate is
Plate is a React framework for building rich-text editors. It provides a headless editor runtime, composable plugins, and optional UI components, with setup paths for Plate UI, Next.js, React, React Server Components, Node.js, and manual installation. Its plugins cover AI menus, copilot, comments, suggestions, blocks, code, tables, media, mentions, import and export, and collaboration. The AI package includes 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 integrate with UploadThing for images, video, audio, and files. Plate also provides an MCP server exposing templates, plugins, UI components, documentation, and API references. The npm package uses the MIT license. Free includes all plugins; Personal costs 299.00 EUR as a one-time payment, and Teams costs 799.00 EUR as a one-time payment. The provided UploadThing middleware is for local development only; production deployments need application session and permission checks.
Good
- Headless runtime with composable plugins and optional UI.
- Plugin ecosystem includes tables, media, and collaboration.
- Yjs supports remote cursors and custom providers.
- MIT-licensed npm package.
- Free plan includes all plugins.
Watch out
- Provided UploadThing middleware is for local development only.
- Production uploads require application session and permission checks.
- Personal and Teams plans require one-time payments.
Who it suits
Plate suits developers building rich-text editors in React and related environments. It is especially relevant for projects needing plugins, media handling, collaboration, or AI features.
Verdict
Plate gives developers a modular foundation for rich-text editors, with a wide set of plugins and several setup paths. Production use of the provided upload middleware needs additional application-level checks, and the paid licenses are one-time purchases.
Plans and prices
From Plate's own pricing page, checked 1 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | All plugins |
| Personal | €299, paid once | Per-developer license · Unlimited solo projects · Free updates · 100+ premium components · one-time payment |
| Teams | €799, paid once | Per-team license · Unlimited projects · Unlimited team members · Up to 5 users get all-access · Free updates · one-time payment |
The facts
Each one read from Plate's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI
- The AI package provides streaming AI menus, chat, AI-marked text, and API-route integration patterns.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Architecture
- Plate provides a headless editor runtime, composable plugins, and optional Plate UI components.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Yjs collaboration supports IndexedDB, Hocuspocus, WebRTC, awareness, remote cursors, and custom providers.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Import and export
- Plate supports HTML, Markdown, image, and PDF import or export features in its premium comparison.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Installation
- Official setup paths include Plate UI, Next.js, React, RSC, Node.js, and manual installation.checked 1 Oct 2026
- License
- The platejs npm package is licensed under MIT.checked 1 Oct 2026
- MCP
- Plate provides an official MCP server exposing editor templates, plugins, UI components, documentation, and API references.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Media integration
- The media feature integrates with UploadThing and supports uploading or embedding images, videos, audio, and files.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Plugin ecosystem
- Plugins cover AI menus, copilot, comments, suggestions, blocks, code, tables, media, mentions, import/export, and collaboration.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Security guidance
- The collaboration documentation recommends authentication and authorization hooks, document-level access control, wss transport, and secure TURN servers.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project directs users to GitHub and Discord for help and contributions.checked 1 Oct 2026
- UI installation
- Plate UI can be installed with the shadcn CLI or manually.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Upload limit
- The provided UploadThing upload middleware is for local development only and should be replaced with application session and permission checks in production.checked 1 Oct 2026
- What it does
- Plate is a React framework for building rich-text editors.checked 1 Oct 2026
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