diff --git a/packages/editor/src/extensions/behavior/Clipboard/clipboard.ts b/packages/editor/src/extensions/behavior/Clipboard/clipboard.ts
index 359a72d1c..1082d450b 100644
--- a/packages/editor/src/extensions/behavior/Clipboard/clipboard.ts
+++ b/packages/editor/src/extensions/behavior/Clipboard/clipboard.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {isNodeSelection, isTextSelection, isWholeSelection} from 'src/utils/sele
 import {BaseNode, pType} from '../../base/BaseSchema';
 
 import {isInsideCode} from './code';
+import {detectMarkdown} from './markdown-detect';
 import {getSelectionContent} from './selection-content';
 import {trimTextSelection} from './trim-selection';
 import {DataTransferType, extractTextContentFromHtml, isIosSafariShare, trimContent} from './utils';
@@ -98,6 +99,11 @@ export const clipboard = ({
                         return true;
                     }
 
+                    if (pasteDetectedMarkdown(view, e.clipboardData, textParser)) {
+                        e.preventDefault();
+                        return true;
+                    }
+
                     if (
                         !e.clipboardData.types.includes(DataTransferType.Yfm) &&
                         (data = e.clipboardData.getData(DataTransferType.Html))
@@ -216,6 +222,28 @@ export const clipboard = ({
     });
 };
 
+function pasteDetectedMarkdown(
+    view: EditorView,
+    clipboardData: DataTransfer,
+    textParser: Parser,
+): boolean {
+    if (clipboardData.types.includes(DataTransferType.Yfm) || isInsideCode(view.state)) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    const doc = detectMarkdown(clipboardData.getData(DataTransferType.Text), textParser);
+    if (!doc) return false;
+
+    const slice = getSliceFromMarkupFragment(doc.content);
+    view.dispatch(
+        trackTransactionMetrics(view.state.tr.replaceSelection(slice), 'paste', {
+            clipboardDataFormat: DataTransferType.Text,
+        }),
+    );
+
+    return true;
+}
+
 function getSliceFromMarkupFragment(fragment: Fragment) {
     let start = 0;
     let end = 0;
diff --git a/packages/editor/src/extensions/behavior/Clipboard/markdown-detect.test.ts b/packages/editor/src/extensions/behavior/Clipboard/markdown-detect.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a60f94ffb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/editor/src/extensions/behavior/Clipboard/markdown-detect.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+import {EditorState} from 'prosemirror-state';
+import {builders} from 'prosemirror-test-builder';
+import {EditorView} from 'prosemirror-view';
+
+import {dispatchPasteEvent} from '../../../../tests/dispatch-event';
+import {ExtensionsManager} from '../../../core';
+import {Logger2} from '../../../logger';
+import {BaseNode, BaseSchemaSpecs} from '../../base/specs';
+import {TableSpecs} from '../../markdown/Table/TableSpecs';
+import {CellAlign, TableAttrs, TableNode} from '../../markdown/Table/const';
+import {YfmTableSpecs} from '../../yfm/YfmTable/YfmTableSpecs';
+
+import {detectMarkdown} from './markdown-detect';
+import {DataTransferType} from './utils';
+
+import {Clipboard} from './index';
+
+const MARKDOWN_TABLE = [
+    '| Name | Role | Office | Tenure |',
+    '| --- | --- | --- | --- |',
+    '| Sergey | Frontend | Belgrade | 5 years |',
+    '| Anna | QA | Moscow | 3 years |',
+].join('\n');
+
+const HTML_TABLE = `
+<table>
+    <thead>
+        <tr><th>Name</th><th>Role</th><th>Office</th><th>Tenure</th></tr>
+    </thead>
+    <tbody>
+        <tr><td>Sergey</td><td>Frontend</td><td>Belgrade</td><td>5 years</td></tr>
+        <tr><td>Anna</td><td>QA</td><td>Moscow</td><td>3 years</td></tr>
+    </tbody>
+</table>
+`;
+
+const {schema, textParser, plugins} = new ExtensionsManager({
+    logger: new Logger2().nested({env: 'test'}),
+    extensions: (builder) =>
+        builder.use(BaseSchemaSpecs, {}).use(TableSpecs).use(YfmTableSpecs, {}).use(Clipboard, {}),
+}).build();
+
+const {doc, table, thead, tbody, tr, th, td} = builders<
+    'doc' | 'table' | 'thead' | 'tbody' | 'tr' | 'th' | 'td'
+>(schema, {
+    doc: {nodeType: BaseNode.Doc},
+    table: {nodeType: TableNode.Table},
+    thead: {nodeType: TableNode.Head},
+    tbody: {nodeType: TableNode.Body},
+    tr: {nodeType: TableNode.Row},
+    th: {nodeType: TableNode.HeaderCell, [TableAttrs.CellAlign]: CellAlign.Left},
+    td: {nodeType: TableNode.DataCell, [TableAttrs.CellAlign]: CellAlign.Left},
+});
+
+describe('detectMarkdown', () => {
+    it('detects markdown table using existing parser', () => {
+        const markdownDoc = detectMarkdown(MARKDOWN_TABLE, textParser);
+
+        expect(markdownDoc).toMatchNode(expectedTableDoc());
+    });
+
+    it('ignores plain text and raw html', () => {
+        expect(detectMarkdown('plain text', textParser)).toBeNull();
+        expect(detectMarkdown(HTML_TABLE, textParser)).toBeNull();
+    });
+});
+
+describe('Clipboard markdown detection', () => {
+    it('prefers markdown table from text/plain over text/html', () => {
+        const view = new EditorView(null, {
+            state: EditorState.create({schema, plugins}),
+        });
+
+        dispatchPasteEvent(view, {
+            [DataTransferType.Text]: MARKDOWN_TABLE,
+            [DataTransferType.Html]: HTML_TABLE,
+        });
+
+        expect(view.state.doc).toMatchNode(expectedTableDoc());
+    });
+});
+
+function expectedTableDoc() {
+    return doc(
+        table(
+            thead(tr(th('Name'), th('Role'), th('Office'), th('Tenure'))),
+            tbody(
+                tr(td('Sergey'), td('Frontend'), td('Belgrade'), td('5 years')),
+                tr(td('Anna'), td('QA'), td('Moscow'), td('3 years')),
+            ),
+        ),
+    );
+}
diff --git a/packages/editor/src/extensions/behavior/Clipboard/markdown-detect.ts b/packages/editor/src/extensions/behavior/Clipboard/markdown-detect.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0793f8318
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/editor/src/extensions/behavior/Clipboard/markdown-detect.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import type {Parser} from '#core';
+import type {Node as PmNode} from '#pm/model';
+import {isTableNode} from 'src/table-utils';
+
+export function detectMarkdown(text: string, parser: Parser): PmNode | null {
+    if (!text.trim()) return null;
+
+    try {
+        const doc = parser.parse(text);
+        return hasTableNode(doc) ? doc : null;
+    } catch {
+        return null;
+    }
+}
+
+function hasTableNode(node: PmNode): boolean {
+    let found = false;
+
+    node.descendants((child) => {
+        if (isTableNode(child)) found = true;
+        return !found;
+    });
+
+    return found;
+}