Zed
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A native code editor written from scratch in Rust, built for speed and for collaboration between people and AI agents. Agents run inside the editor, and developers can use Zed-hosted models, their own API keys, or external agents.Editorial
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zed.dev/pricing: "$0 … Free forever." "Our Personal plan is for users who want a best-in-class code editor without AI capabilities, or for users who prefer to use their own keys/external agents."
https://zed.dev/pricing ↗zed.dev
zed.dev: "Zed is a minimal code editor crafted for speed and collaboration with humans and AI." "Written from scratch in Rust" and "Run agents in parallel".
https://zed.dev ↗zed.dev
zed.dev/pricing FAQ: "SSO, SAML, and SCIM are planned but not currently available."
https://zed.dev/pricing ↗zed.dev
zed.dev/pricing: Pro "$10 per month", "$5 of tokens included", "Usage-based billing beyond $5"; Business "$30 per seat, per month".
https://zed.dev/pricing ↗Pricing
Full pricing & history →| Plan | Price | Billing | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | $0/mo | Monthly | zed.devObservedHigh confidenceVerified 2 Oct 2026 Zed — official pricing page zed.dev/pricing: "$0" — "Free forever." https://zed.dev/pricing ↗ |
| ProEntry | $10/mo | Monthly | zed.devObservedHigh confidenceVerified 2 Oct 2026 Zed — official pricing page zed.dev/pricing: Pro "$10 per month", "$5 of tokens included". https://zed.dev/pricing ↗ |
| Business (per seat) | $30/mo | Monthly | zed.devObservedHigh confidenceVerified 2 Oct 2026 Zed — official pricing page zed.dev/pricing: Business "$30 per seat, per month". https://zed.dev/pricing ↗ |
| Personal | 7 May 2025 | $0 | Archived capture |
| Personal | 24 Aug 2026 | $0 | Archived capture |
| Personal | 2 Oct 2026 | $0 | Observed |
| Pro | 7 May 2025 | $20 | Archived capture |
| Pro | 3 Sept 2025 | $20 | Archived capture |
| Pro | 2 Oct 2025 | $10 | Archived capture |
| Pro | 24 Aug 2026 | $10 | Archived capture |
| Pro | 2 Oct 2026 | $10 | Observed |
| Business (per seat) | 12 Jun 2026 | $30 | Archived capture |
| Business (per seat) | 24 Aug 2026 | $30 | Archived capture |
| Business (per seat) | 2 Oct 2026 | $30 | Observed |
Steps hold a price until the next observation. Hollow points were read from archived captures of Zed’s own pricing page. All pricing changes →
7 logged changes over 548 days, verified 6 days ago.
- 0 verified changes · 30d
- 2 active days · 90d
- 1 kind of change: releases
- Latest change 37 days ago
- Recent active days · weight 70
- 25.3 / 70
- Kinds of change · weight 30
- 4.3 / 30
- 30 Oct 202633
- 31 Oct 202633
- 1 Nov 202632
- 2 Nov 202632
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- 4 Nov 202631
- 5 Nov 202630
- 6 Nov 202630
Recorded daily since 11 Oct 2026; earlier values are never reconstructed.
- Release
Zed 1.22 adds model choice for subagents and BYOK for GPT-6.1 Sol
This week's release adds BYOK support for GPT-6.1 Sol, on-the-fly model selection for new subagents, and automatic subagent compaction.
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ObservedHigh confidencePublished 30 Sept 2026Zed — stable release noteshttps://zed.dev/releases/stable/1.22.0 ↗ - Release
Zed 1.21 adds BYOK for Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 models
Adds BYOK support for Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, a language server command picker, and a setting that keeps the system awake during long agent turns.
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ObservedHigh confidencePublished 23 Sept 2026Zed — stable release noteshttps://zed.dev/releases/stable/1.21.0 ↗
- Recent changes
- 0 verified changes in the last 30 days · 0 in 7 · 2 in 90. Latest 30 Sept 2026 (37 days ago).
- 7d (evidence for recent changes)30d (evidence for recent changes)90d (evidence for recent changes)Latest (evidence for recent changes)
- vs segment · 30d
- Fewer than the AI code editors median of 2 per tool.
- Zed (evidence for vs segment · 30d)AI code editors (evidence for vs segment · 30d)
- List price
- Latest observed move: Pro: $20 → $10/mo, billed monthly, first observed 2 Oct 2025.
- Pricing history (evidence for list price)
- Release
Zed 1.22 adds model choice for subagents and BYOK for GPT-6.1 Sol
This week's release adds BYOK support for GPT-6.1 Sol, on-the-fly model selection for new subagents, and automatic subagent compaction.
zed.dev
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 30 Sept 2026Zed — stable release noteshttps://zed.dev/releases/stable/1.22.0 ↗ - Release
Zed 1.21 adds BYOK for Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 models
Adds BYOK support for Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, a language server command picker, and a setting that keeps the system awake during long agent turns.
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ObservedHigh confidencePublished 23 Sept 2026Zed — stable release noteshttps://zed.dev/releases/stable/1.21.0 ↗ - Plans
Zed launches Zed for Business at $30 per seat
Zed introduced a business plan with org-wide privacy controls and admin controls, generally available at $30 per seat per month.
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- Release
Zed declared version 1.0 of its Rust-built editor, citing broad language, Git, SSH remoting and debugger coverage across platforms.
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- Availability
Zed becomes available on Windows
Zed shipped a stable Windows release, making Windows a fully supported platform with weekly updates.
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ObservedHigh confidencePublished 15 Oct 2025Zed — bloghttps://zed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-here ↗ - Pricing
Zed moves hosted AI from prompt limits to token-based pricing
Zed switched Zed AI from prompt-based limits to token-based pricing, live immediately for new users with existing users migrated over three months.
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ObservedHigh confidencePublished 24 Sept 2025Zed — bloghttps://zed.dev/blog/pricing-change-llm-usage-is-now-token-based ↗ - Plans
Zed launches Pro plan with 500 prompts for $20 per month
With its agentic editing launch, Zed introduced hosted AI plans: 50 prompts/month free and a new Pro plan with 500 prompts for $20/month.
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Verification log7 days with observations · 10 fact and 11 price observations
- 31 Oct 20262 facts verified
- 2 Oct 20268 facts verified · 3 prices observed
- 24 Aug 20263 prices read from an archived capture
- 12 Jun 20261 price read from an archived capture
- 2 Oct 20251 price read from an archived capture
- 3 Sept 20251 price read from an archived capture
- 7 May 20252 prices read from an archived capture
A verification re-reads a first-party page. It refreshes freshness and is listed here; only a dated, sourced event becomes a change.
Evidence
8/9 facts verified · 12 sourcesFacts ledger
zed.dev
zed.dev: "Zed is a minimal code editor crafted for speed and collaboration with humans and AI." "Written from scratch in Rust" and "Run agents in parallel".
https://zed.dev ↗zed.dev
zed.dev/download offers macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows (Intel/AMD), and a Linux install script.
https://zed.dev/download ↗zed.dev
zed.dev/pricing: Pro "$10 per month", "$5 of tokens included", "Usage-based billing beyond $5"; Business "$30 per seat, per month".
https://zed.dev/pricing ↗zed.dev
zed.dev/pricing: "$0 … Free forever." "Our Personal plan is for users who want a best-in-class code editor without AI capabilities, or for users who prefer to use their own keys/external agents."
https://zed.dev/pricing ↗zed.dev
zed.dev/pricing FAQ: "SSO, SAML, and SCIM are planned but not currently available."
https://zed.dev/pricing ↗zed.dev
zed.dev/pricing: Business adds "org-wide controls over AI features, data sharing policies, and unified billing across every seat"; "Order form contracts are available at 25+ seats".
https://zed.dev/pricing ↗zed.dev
Zed's documentation, linked as Docs from zed.dev.
https://zed.dev/docs ↗zed.dev
Zed's stable release notes, linked as the changelog from zed.dev/download.
https://zed.dev/releases/stable ↗github.com
README "Licensing": "Zed source code is licensed primarily under GPL-3.0-or-later, with Apache-2.0 components where marked." zed.dev/docs: "Zed is an open-source code editor".
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed ↗zed.dev
zed.dev "Clone source" links to github.com/zed-industries/zed.
https://zed.dev ↗Sources · first-party pages read for this record
| Source | Type | Backs |
|---|---|---|
| Zed — official pricing pagezed.dev/pricing | official site | 7 |
| Zed — stable release noteszed.dev/releases/stable | official site | 3 |
| Zed — blogzed.dev/blog/zed-for-business | official site | 1 |
| Zed — blogzed.dev/blog/zed-1-0 | official site | 1 |
| Zed — blogzed.dev/blog/zed-for-windows-is-here | official site | 1 |
| Zed — blogzed.dev/blog/pricing-change-llm-usage-is-now-token-based | official site | 1 |
| Zed — blogzed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor | official site | 1 |
| Zed — official documentationzed.dev/docs | official docs | 1 |
| Zed — official download pagezed.dev/download | official site | 1 |
| Zed — official repositorygithub.com/zed-industries/zed | github | 1 |
| Zed — official sitezed.dev | official site | 1 |
| Zed — official sitezed.dev | official site | 1 |
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