A fast open-source editor with AI built in.
Written in Rust and noticeably quicker than Electron editors. Its agent panel can use Zed's hosted models, your own API keys, local models, or external agents such as Claude Code, and the editor itself is free.
Key info
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Platform
- macOS · Windows · Linux
- Category
- IDEs
- Best for
- Intermediate
- Free plan
- The editor is free, with 2,000 accepted AI edit predictions a month
- Paid plans from
- $10 a month (Pro), unlimited edit predictions
- Built on
- Its own open-source editor, written in Rust
- Models
- Zed's hosted models, or external agents such as Claude Code
- Your own API key
- Yes, on the free plan
- Local models
- Yes, through Ollama
- Good for
- A fast, lightweight editor that works with the agent you already use
Related reading
- Fundamentals
Reviewing code you did not write
You are going to merge a lot of code you did not type. Reviewing it is a different skill from writing it, and it is the one that actually keeps a vibe-coded…
Intermediate - Context engineering
Why your AI keeps forgetting what you told it
Models have a context window, a fixed budget of text they can consider at once. Everything competes for it: your instructions, the files you opened, the erro…
Intermediate