Zed
Open-source code editor with native and external agent workflows.
Zed is an open-source code editor from Zed Industries with a native coding agent, external agent integrations, terminal-backed agent threads, edit prediction, and multiplayer collaboration.
Overview
Zed can use hosted models, provider API keys, subscriptions, gateways, or local models. Its agent system supports native Zed Agent threads as well as external agents such as Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Copilot, and Cursor.
Tool details
- Platforms
- Macos, Windows, Linux
- Access
- Desktop App
- Launched
- —
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Freemium · USD 10 / Month
- Categories
- AI Coding, Open-source Coding Agents
Features
Zed Personal is free. Zed Pro is USD 10 per month and includes hosted AI access with monthly token credit.
Selectable or integrated models
These are documented as selectable or accessible, not necessarily the product's default models.
GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI's flagship GPT-5.6 model for complex professional work, with a 1.05-million-token context window and up to 128K output tokens.
GPT-5.6 Terra
GPT-5.6 Terra is an OpenAI model designed to balance capability and cost, with a 1.05-million-token context window and up to 128K output tokens.
API integrations
Claude API
Claude API is Anthropic's REST API for programmatic access to Claude models, including Messages, streaming, tool use, files, model listing, and related platform features.
DeepSeek API
DeepSeek API provides access to the current DeepSeek V4 models through OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible interfaces.
Gemini API
Gemini API provides programmatic access to Google's Gemini and related generative models through standard, streaming, real-time, batch, embeddings, and media endpoints.
Mistral API
Mistral API provides programmatic access to Mistral models, chat completions, agents, tool use, structured outputs, embeddings, document workflows, and batch processing.
OpenAI API
OpenAI API provides programmatic access to OpenAI models through the Responses API, Realtime API, batch processing, and other model and media endpoints.
OpenRouter API
OpenRouter API is an OpenAI-compatible model-routing API that exposes hundreds of models from many providers through a single endpoint and account.
xAI API
xAI API provides programmatic access to Grok models through OpenAI-compatible REST endpoints and xAI's gRPC interface, with text, tool, media, file, and batch APIs.
Alternatives
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