How much does Zed cost?

Zed publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $10/month for Plus. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Free and Plus on Zed?

Plus costs $10/month against Free, and adds multiplayer collaboration, cloud ai assistance, advanced features, priority support.

Which software development tools can I use without paying?

2 of the 8 software development tools listed alongside Zed have a free tier: Bun, Cursor.

What am I actually paying for with Zed?

The record lists 29 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for collaborative coding, high-performance editing, real-time pair programming.

Does Zed charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Zed prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Zed against before paying?

The closest software development tools in this directory are Devin, Bun, Augment Code, Braintrust. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Zed covering price, platforms and features.

Software Development · pricing

Zed pricing

Zed publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free, then $10/month
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Zed plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Zed pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	4	Entry tier
Plus	$10/month	4	+$10/month, 4 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free

The entry tier. It covers single-player editing, local ai assistance, fast performance, rust-based engine.

Plus

$10/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

Multiplayer collaboration
Cloud AI assistance
Advanced features
Priority support

Where Zed stops being free

Free, Free

Single-player editing
Local AI assistance
Fast performance
Rust-based engine

Plus, $10/month

The first thing you pay for:

Multiplayer collaboration
Cloud AI assistance
Advanced features
Priority support

What the product covers

The full Zed feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Real-time collaboration
AI code completion
Lightning-fast performance
Rust-based architecture
Multi-language support
Integrated terminal
Git integration
Vim keybindings

Integrations

Git
GitHub
Language servers
Tree-sitter
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-4
Copilot

Security

End-to-end encryption
Secure collaboration

Deployment

Desktop deployment

Platform

Macos support
Linux support
Windows support

Localization

Rust language support
JavaScript language support
TypeScript language support
Python language support
Go language support
C++ language support
Java language support
Swift language support

People bring Zed in for collaborative coding, high-performance editing, real-time pair programming, systems programming, web development. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Zed are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Software Development

Too few software development tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Zed entry price against other Software Development tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Zed (this page)	Free, then $10/month	freemium	-
Devin	On request	subscription	-	vs Zed
Bun	Free	open-source	-	vs Zed
Augment Code	On request	subscription	-	vs Zed
Braintrust	On request	usage-based	-	vs Zed
Cline	On request	usage-based	-	vs Zed
Amp	On request	usage-based	-	vs Zed

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Zed badges page.

Before you pay for Zed

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $10/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Zed runs on macos, linux, windows, and is published by Zed Industries of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Zed review, and the rest of the category is under best software development tools.

Zed pricing on the vendor's own site

Zed pricing questions

How much does Zed cost?: Zed publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $10/month for Plus. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Zed have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers single-player editing, local ai assistance, fast performance. Paying starts at $10/month for Plus.
What is the difference between Free and Plus on Zed?: Plus costs $10/month against Free, and adds multiplayer collaboration, cloud ai assistance, advanced features, priority support.
Which software development tools can I use without paying?: 2 of the 8 software development tools listed alongside Zed have a free tier: Bun, Cursor.
What am I actually paying for with Zed?: The record lists 29 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for collaborative coding, high-performance editing, real-time pair programming.
Does Zed charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Zed prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Zed against before paying?: The closest software development tools in this directory are Devin, Bun, Augment Code, Braintrust. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Zed covering price, platforms and features.