The rich text editor you buy once — not rent forever.
The editor market moved to subscriptions and “editor load” metering. RichTextEditor didn’t: every license is perpetual — from $129 one-time per domain, with the AI Toolkit, Yjs CRDT collaboration, track changes, and every plugin included. Your editor keeps working even if you never pay again.
Subscriptions compound. A purchase doesn’t.
No metering, ever
No “editor loads”, no per-seat counting, no surprise overage line items. Traffic spikes cost you nothing.
Everything included
AI Toolkit (BYOK), real-time collaboration, track changes, comments, revision history, exports — in every tier, not premium add-ons.
Budget once, own it
One purchase order, one approval. No recurring line item to defend every year, no vendor holding features hostage at renewal.
What does your editor cost over 3 years?
You would save $9,879–$15,063 with a perpetual license over 3 years.
Vendor list prices at annual billing — their cheapest published path, not their most expensive — quoted from tiny.cloud/pricing and ckeditor.com/pricing and re-verified 29 August 2026 (see source notes). AI is each vendor’s tier 1 add-on at $133/month. CKEditor’s $249/month Collaboration add-on is excluded, though track changes, comments and revision history are included in our licence. Excludes load overages, taxes, negotiated discounts, and your own AI provider’s model costs under BYOK. Check current competitor pricing before purchasing; list prices move.
Perpetual licensing, answered
What does a perpetual license mean for a rich text editor?
You pay once and the license never expires: the editor keeps working forever on the licensed domain, with no monthly fees, no usage metering, and no feature lock-outs if you stop paying. RichTextEditor licenses start at $129 for one domain.
Which rich text editors still offer perpetual licenses?
Most major commercial editors (TinyMCE, CKEditor 5, Froala) have moved to subscriptions or usage-metered pricing. RichTextEditor remains perpetual-first: every tier from the $129 domain license to the source-code license is a one-time purchase that includes the AI Toolkit and collaboration features.
Do I get updates with a perpetual license?
Yes - licenses include the current release line and updates during the included maintenance period, and the editor never stops working when that period ends. Upgrade pricing is available for major new versions.
Is there a free version?
Yes - a free community edition is available, and the npm package (@richscripts/richtexteditor) runs in trial mode without a key so you can evaluate everything before purchasing.