Zed
Fast open-source editor built in Rust, with agentic editing built in.
A high-performance, multiplayer code editor written in Rust. It ships agentic editing with your choice of models and can host external agents such as Claude Code or Gemini CLI through the Agent Client Protocol it created.
- Vendor
- Zed Industries
- Category
- Coding assistants
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Platforms
- macOS, Linux, Windows
- Launched
- 2023
- Website
- zed.dev
Features
- Agent panel
- Agent Client Protocol
- Edit predictions
- Real-time collaboration
Best for
- Coding
- Agents
Works with
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 — Anthropic. Anthropic’s mid-tier Claude for everyday building, debugging and documents.
- GPT-6.1 Sol — OpenAI. OpenAI’s mid-tier GPT-6 model for agentic coding and computer use.
More coding assistants
- Claude Code — Anthropic. Agentic coding in your terminal, IDE and browser.
- GitHub Copilot — GitHub (Microsoft). The most widely deployed AI pair programmer.
- Cursor — Anysphere. The AI-native code editor.
- Codex — OpenAI. OpenAI’s cloud and CLI coding agent.
- Cline — Cline. Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code.
- Windsurf — Cognition. Agentic IDE with the Cascade agent.
- Google Antigravity — Google. Agent-first IDE with a manager view for orchestrating many agents.
- Lovable — Lovable. Build apps by chatting with AI.