Zed
A high-performance, multiplayer code editor with AI agent features, from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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Developers who want a fast native editor with AI assistance built in rather than bolted on.
About Zed
Zed is a high-performance code editor written in Rust by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, built for collaboration between people and AI. It supports agentic editing natively, runs several agent threads in parallel across projects and lets you bring the model or agent of your choice. It is available for macOS, Linux and Windows; the source is licensed primarily under GPL-3.0-or-later, with Apache-2.0 components where marked.
Zed is listed in this index written primarily in Rust, with 93k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in November 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.
Zed and related category tools
Alternatives guide →| Record | Stars | Pricing | ||
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| Zedthis listing | 93k | Rust | GPL-3.0-or-later | Costs not checked |
| OpenWiki | — | — | MIT | MIT CLI; configured model, connector and optional tracing costs |
| Cline | 71k | — | Apache-2.0 | Model usage or local runtime costs |
| grok-cli | 3.5k | TypeScript | MIT | Costs not checked |
| command-code | 4.2k | — | — | Costs not checked |
| OpenCode | 224k | — | MIT | Provider usage; optional model plans |
