Zed
High-performance collaborative editor with built-in agents.
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Zed vs Windsurf
Zed (Zed Industries) and Windsurf (Cognition) both sit in Coding. Windsurf shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (14 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Zed Zed Industries | Windsurf Cognition |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Coding | Coding |
| Version | 0.19x | 3.10.27 |
| Entry cost | Free editor, usage-based agent | Free tier available, sign up for free. Paid plans exist (mention of paying users, Teams, and Enterprise ACU limits) but pricing is not published in the source. |
| Pricing tiers | — | Free free |
| Model stack | Claude Sonnet 4.5 · Zeta | Cascade · Claude · Claude Fable 5.1 · Claude Sonnet 4.5 · Devin · Devin Local · Fast · Fusion · Gemini · GPT · GPT 5.2 Mini · GPT-5.2 · GPT-5.6 · Haiku · Kimi K2.5 · OpenAI frontier models · SWE 1.7 · SWE-1.5 · Ultra |
| Context window | — | Varies by model |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 14 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Agent panel, Multiplayer editing, Edit prediction | Cascade agent, Supercomplete, Live previews, Memories, Deploys, Devin Local Agent, Devin Cloud Agent, Cascade Agent |
Windsurf
An IDE whose Cascade agent tracks your actions and edits across the codebase.
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