A high-performance, multiplayer code editor with AI agent features, from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
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About Zed #
Zed is a high-performance code editor written in Rust by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, built for collaboration between people and AI. It supports agentic editing natively, runs several agent threads in parallel across projects and lets you bring the model or agent of your choice. It is available for macOS, Linux and Windows; the source is licensed primarily under GPL-3.0-or-later, with Apache-2.0 components where marked.
Zed is an open-source project written primarily in Rust, with 91k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
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Zed vs. the alternatives #
| Record | Stars | Pricing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zedthis listing | 91k | Rust | GPL-3.0-or-later | Open source |
| [OpenCode](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/opencode) | 210k | — | MIT | Open source |
| [gemini-cli](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/gemini-cli) | 107k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| [OpenHands](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/openhands) | 89k | — | MIT | Open source |
| [Cline](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/cline) | 69k | — | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| [openinterpreter](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/openinterpreter) | 68k | Rust | Apache-2.0 | Open source |