Build a Visual Page Builder for Your SaaS

This is what the end user of your SaaS actually gets — the part they see, use and stay for.

A visual editor looks like one feature on a roadmap. It is not. Each of these is a subsystem your team would own, test and maintain for as long as the product lives.

Spend your engineering time on your SaaS — not on rebuilding an editor.

The official demo — the open-source editor with no preset applied. This is the baseline your SaaS would start from.

The same editor core supports very different products. Pick the one closest to yours.

The editor is one layer, not the system. Everything that matters commercially — accounts, data, limits, publishing — stays yours.

Want the integration detail rather than the shape? Read the embeddable page builder guide

Two steps to a working editor. Everything after this is your product, not editor plumbing.

import grapesjs from 'grapesjs';
import 'grapesjs/dist/css/grapes.min.css';

// The editor core. Mount it anywhere inside your customer dashboard.
const editor = grapesjs.init({
  container: '#editor',
});

const editor = grapesjs.init({
  container: '#editor',

  // Each customer's page is a row in your database, behind your own auth.
  storageManager: {
    type: 'remote',
    autosave: true,
    options: {
      remote: {
        urlStore: `/api/customers/${customerId}/pages/${pageId}`,
        urlLoad: `/api/customers/${customerId}/pages/${pageId}`,
        fetchOptions: { credentials: 'include' },
      },
    },
  },
});

// Publishing stays on your side — your domains, your CDN, your workflow.
async function publish() {
  await fetch(`/api/customers/${customerId}/pages/${pageId}/publish`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
    body: JSON.stringify({ html: editor.getHtml(), css: editor.getCss() }),
  });
}

This is the editor core. Add the functionality your SaaS needs through plugins and your own integrations.

Every listing below is a real product on GJS.Market, priced live from the catalogue. Where a capability is part of the GrapesJS core rather than a plugin, it is described in the architecture section above instead of sold to you here.

Storage

Persist projects in your own backend.

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Storage

Grapesjs Firebase Storage

Persist customer projects to Firebase instead of writing a storage adapter yourself.

FreeView plugin

Storage

Directus Storage

Back the editor with Directus when your content model already lives in a headless CMS.

FreeView plugin

Blocks

Add ready-to-use sections and components.

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Blocks

Plugin Blocky for Tailwind CSS

Ship a Tailwind block library on day one, so customer pages match your design system.

$59.00View plugin

Blocks

Plugin Basic Blocks

The essential section blocks every builder needs before anything custom.

FreeView plugin

Templates

Give customers starting points instead of a blank canvas.

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Templates

Templates Manager

Give customers a template library, and give yourself a place to curate what they can start from.

$39.00View plugin

Preset

Webpage Preset

A ready web-page editing preset — a sane default configuration to build your product on.

FreeView plugin

White label

Customize the editor experience so it reads as your product.

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White label

Grapesjs Paneless

Replace the default editor shell with a reworked interface that stops looking like a generic tool.

$299.99View plugin

Preset

DevFuture Preset 2.0 — Next-Gen Visual Builder Preset

A modern preset to start from when the stock editor UI does not fit your product.

FreeView plugin

Pages

Manage multi-page projects inside one editor.

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Pages

Pages Manager

Add multi-page projects so customers can build a site, not just a single page.

$25.00View plugin

Assets

Connect your media infrastructure.

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Assets

Grapesjs Cloudinary

Wire the asset manager to Cloudinary so customer uploads get transformed and served properly.

FreeView plugin

Uploads

Grapesjs Uppy

Give the asset manager a real upload experience, including drag-drop and progress.

FreeView plugin

Export

Connect output to your publishing workflow.

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Export

Export Zip

Export a finished project as a ZIP — useful for handoff, backups and migration paths.

FreeView plugin

Analytics

Track editor adoption and usage.

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Analytics

Grapesjs GA

Let customers attach Google Analytics to the pages they publish.

FreeView plugin

AI

Add AI-powered functionality where it earns its place.

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AI

Grapesjs GPT Plugin

Add GPT-backed content generation inside the editor for first drafts.

FreeView plugin

Email

Turn the same editor into an email builder.

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Email

MJML Preset

Switch the editor into MJML mode so email output renders across real clients.

FreeView plugin

Email

GrapesJS Email Blocky – Premium Responsive Email Blocks

A premium responsive email block set for a customer-facing email builder.

$69.00View plugin

Four starting combinations, priced live. Each one is GrapesJS plus the plugins that particular product actually needs.

Prices come from the live catalogue and can change. Free plugins stay free.

What changes for your product once customers can edit for themselves.

One way to package editing across plans. This is an illustration of the shape, not a recommendation of specific prices.

1. 01

   Basic

   Templates and core editing.

2. 02

   Pro

   Advanced blocks and additional functionality.

3. 03

   Business

   Advanced permissions and collaboration.

4. 04

   Enterprise

   Custom integrations and advanced workflows.

Example SaaS packaging. Your pricing model can be built around the features and workflows your customers need.

The page builder doesn't have to be just a feature — it can increase the value of your SaaS plans.

The same decision looks different depending on where you sit.

GrapesJS is framework-agnostic — it mounts on a DOM container, so it fits whatever you already run.

This page covers the product decision. Two neighbouring guides go deeper on the parts it only touches.

The honest version: you are not avoiding all the work, you are avoiding the part that is identical in every page builder ever written.

"Start in days" describes standing up a working editor, not shipping a finished product — your SaaS-specific work still takes as long as it takes.

Everything on this page points at something you can inspect yourself. Figures verified 2026-08-27.

Three ways forward, depending on how much of this you want to do yourself.