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Open source

The core is MIT-licensed and free forever.

Editbar's self-hosted core — the widget, the server, the storage — is open source under the MIT license. No artificially crippled features, no usage cap, no "free tier" that quietly expires.

What's in the core

A floating admin bar, a single shared token, flat-file storage, and the same client-side widget every hosted plan ships. Plain text editing, any framework.

What's hosted-only

Managed multi-tenant infrastructure, real per-account login, rich content, draft/publish with version history, and the submit → review → approve workflow. Additions, not restrictions.

Embed it in your product

The core is designed to be embedded, not just self-hosted standalone — we're integrating it directly into our own CMS product. If you're building something and want inline text editing as a feature, start from the same code.

Self-hosting in short

  1. Clone the repo and run the server package — flat-file storage, one EDIT_TOKEN environment variable, no database to provision.
  2. Point the widget script tag at your own server instead of the hosted one.
  3. Mark up your site's editable text with data-edit-id — see the docs.

That's the entire self-hosted footprint: no accounts system, no billing, nothing hosted plans add. It's meant to stay that simple.

License and source

MIT-licensed, publicly readable, no CLA required to contribute. The hosted product is a separate, additive layer in the same repository family — never a fork with features removed.

MITlicense, no strings
1script tag to install
$0forever, self-hosted
embeddable in your product

Start editing your site in five minutes.