Zed

Pricing

• Personal - $0 forever: unlimited use with your own API keys or external agents like Claude Agent and Codex CLI
• Pro - $10/mo: unlimited edit predictions, $5 of tokens included, usage beyond that billed at API list price +10%; 14-day free trial with $5 of GPT-6 Luna usage, no credit card
• Business - $30/seat/mo: org-wide AI model policies, data governance controls, unified spend visibility, role-based access; order forms at 25+ seats

Install

brew install --cask zed

curl -f https://zed.dev/install.sh | sh

winget install -e --id ZedIndustries.Zed

Models

Pro and Business include Zed-hosted models from Anthropic (Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and older), OpenAI (GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Luna and the GPT-5.x line) and Google (Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3 Flash), billed at the provider list price plus 10%. Any plan can instead bring its own keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google AI, Amazon Bedrock, GitHub Copilot, DeepSeek, Mistral, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio and others, or run external agents such as Claude Agent and Codex CLI.

Recent changes

• Oct 21v1.25.2 stable shrinks Zed binaries (about 33% on macOS), adds GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5.5 to the Amazon Bedrock provider, and brings context compaction and session notices to external agents.
• Oct 14v1.24.2 stable adds Git tag creation, dragging Terminal tabs into the Agent Panel, and pre-filling the File Finder query with selected text.
• Oct 7v1.23.2 stable adds previewing JSONL and NDJSON files as tables.
• Sep 30v1.22.0 stable adds BYOK support for GPT-6.1 Sol, on-the-fly model selection for new subagents, and automatic subagent compaction.

Sources: Zed pricing, Zed installation docs, Zed-hosted models, Zed stable releases, zed-industries/zed releases

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