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High-performance collaborative editor with built-in agents.

Current version

0.19x

Entry cost

Free editor, usage-based agent

Changes / 30d

0

The short answers

What is the latest version of Zed?
The current shipped version of Zed is 0.19x.
How much does Zed cost?
Zed has no published flat entry price. Free editor, usage-based agent
What AI model does Zed use?
Zed runs primarily on Claude Sonnet 4.5.

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Capabilities

  • Agent panel
  • Multiplayer editing
  • Edit prediction

Pricing

Free editor, usage-based agent

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Claude Sonnet 4.5

    Anthropic

    disclosed

  • Zeta

    Provider undisclosed

    disclosed

Context window

—

Public API

no

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • Rust
  • GPUI
  • MCP

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Elsewhere on the same models

Products in other segments that name one of Zed's models in their stack.

Manus

Manus

General-purpose autonomous agent

Version
2.0
Cost
from $19/mo
Model
Claude Sonnet 4.5

Change history

No changes recorded yet.

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Zed compared

Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Coding.

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How to cite this page

Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/zed

APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Zed — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/zed
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-zed,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {Zed — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/zed}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}