Zed

Zed is a code editor built from scratch in Rust by Zed Industries, the team behind Atom, Electron, and Tree-sitter, and it positions itself as a minimal editor crafted for speed and for collaboration with both humans and AI. The homepage stresses native performance, saying the editor is written to leverage multiple CPU cores and the GPU efficiently, with fast boot time, UI interaction, and typing latency as the qualities its quoted users praise most. Zed is open source, and a new version ships every week, according to the homepage. The editor itself is powerful out of the box. Multibuffer editing composes excerpts from across a codebase into one editable surface, remote development lets your machine run only the Zed UI while the codebase runs on a remote server, and first class Vim bindings cover modal editing with text objects and marks, alongside a Helix mode. Other built in features include dev containers, a built in REPL that runs code through Jupyter kernels, syntax aware selections, inlay hints, rainbow brackets, project wide diagnostics in a multibuffer, and a CLI. Collaboration is native rather than bolted on: you can chat with teammates, code together, and share your screen and project. An extensions ecosystem broadens language support and themes, with hundreds of extensions listed on the homepage. AI is integrated as a way of coding rather than a separate product. Zed says it does not lock you into one model and gives you a fast way to collaborate with any agent, running agents in parallel to edit files, navigate code, and run tools at native speed. Its pricing page explains that you can use Zed hosted models, bring your own API keys from providers such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, or run existing AI contracts through Zed, and that supported providers also include Amazon Bedrock, GitHub Copilot, DeepSeek, Google AI, LM Studio, Mistral, Ollama, OpenRouter, and Vercel. AI features can also be disabled entirely for users who want only the editor. Pricing is described qualitatively from the pricing page. The Personal plan is for users who want the editor without AI capabilities, or who prefer their own keys and external agents. The Pro plan is for individual developers and comes with Zed hosted models out of the box plus unlimited edit predictions, billed on a token basis for hosted usage at API list price plus a markup once included monthly credits are used, with a spending cap available and a free trial that needs no credit card. The Business plan is an org level layer on top of Pro rather than a replacement: it adds centralized controls over AI features, admin restrictions on hosted models and edit predictions, locked data sharing settings, and unified billing, with no minimum seat count and month to month self serve plans, while the pricing page notes that SSO, SAML, and SCIM are planned but not currently available.