Zed pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Personal: $0 forever
- Pro: $10 month
- Business: $30 seat, per month
- Worth noting: Business seats do not include a fixed AI credit allotment; Zed-hosted AI is billed at standard usage rates or bring your own API keys. Business has no free trial, and no minimum seat count applies. Sponsorships do not provide access to paid features.
Plans
Personal
$0 forever
- Free forever
- Unlimited use with your API keys or external agents like Claude Agent and Codex CLI
- Code editor with AI features can be disabled
Pro
$10 month
- Unlimited edit predictions
- $5 of tokens included
- Usage-based billing beyond $5 at API list price +10%
- Zed-hosted models included
Business
$30 seat, per month
- Org-wide AI model policies
- Data governance controls
- Unified spend visibility
- Unlimited edit predictions
- Role-based access controls
- Order forms available at 25+ seats
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Personal | Pro | Business |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multiplayer collaboration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bring your own API keys | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Zed-hosted AI models | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unlimited edit predictions | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free trial | — | ✓ | — |
| Admin controls over AI features | — | — | ✓ |
| Data governance controls | — | — | ✓ |
| Role-based access controls | — | — | ✓ |
| SSO, SAML, SCIM | — | — | — |
Zed pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zed | Free; paid from $10 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | — | |
| GitHub Copilot | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Cursor | — | — | — | Individual developers and engineering teams that hand coding tasks to AI agents, and larger organizations that need enterprise security and admin controls. | Compare → |
| Qodo | $30 / mo | No · 14-day trial | Usage-based | Engineering teams shipping code at the speed AI writes it and needing consistent review and governance | Compare → |
| Replit | Free; paid from $20 / mo | Yes | Flat tiers | Founders, product managers and non-programmers who want to turn ideas into apps, and commercial teams building professional apps on the Pro plan. | Compare → |
List prices as published on zed.dev/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.