Claude vs Zed

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Claude is the stronger AI pick in AI Coding Assistants: it has a visibility score of 47.5 versus 1 for Zed, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose Claude if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (47.5 vs 1)
AI answers describe it more positively (53% vs 50% positive)
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
You need SOC 2 Type I or SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001:2022 or ISO/IEC 42001:2023 or HIPAA coverage

Choose Zed if…

Ideal for small teams already on GitHub
Works with VS Code and JetBrains

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Claude	Zed
Visibility score	47.5%	1%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Coding Assistants	#3	#26
Share of voice	11%	0.4%
Mentions this run	54	2
Positive in AI answers	53%	50%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Claude 0pp · Zed 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Claude leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

62%

0.9%

AI Mode

36.7%

Perplexity

43.7%

ClaudeZed

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

1Claude ranked higher

0Zed ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Claude	Zed
Official website of the top AI coding assistant vendors	ChatGPT	#1	#16

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Claude	Zed
Pricing model	—	Per seat
Entry price	—	Free; paid from $10 per seat / mo
Free plan	—	Yes
Deployment	Claude Code can be deployed through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry, and self-hosted sessions run on the customer's own infrastructure.	Desktop editor on Windows, macOS and Linux, with remote development over SSH, WSL and dev containers. Users can run local Ollama models, and API keys for hosted providers are kept on the local machine.
Compliance	SOC 2 Type I, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, HIPAA	—
Founded	—	2021
Headquarters	San Francisco, California	Boulder, Colorado
Employees	—	11–50
Funding	Series G	Series B · $42M raised
Best for	—	Developers who want a fast editor with AI optional, and teams that need org-level control over AI features and data sharing through the Business plan.