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By the toolist.ai editors. Read from Zed's pricing page, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 30, 2026.
Zed pricing
Zed's cheapest paid plan is Pro at $10 a month billed monthly.
Free plan: Personal (Zed Free) is the whole open-source editor, free forever and usable without signing in. Its AI runs only on what you bring: your own API keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Amazon Bedrock, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Mistral and more), a ChatGPT Plus or Pro or GitHub Copilot subscription, local models through Ollama or LM Studio, or external agents such as Claude Agent and Codex, each billed by its own provider. Zed-hosted models need Pro, and since October 7, 2026 Free no longer includes Zed's own Zeta edit predictions (it had 2,000 accepted predictions); other prediction providers such as GitHub Copilot or a local model still work. Real-time collaboration needs a GitHub sign-in.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal (Free) | free | not listed | The full open-source editor with no account needed; AI through your own API keys, ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot subscriptions, local models and external agents such as Claude Agent and Codex, billed by their providers; edit predictions only from other providers such as GitHub Copilot or a local model (Zed's hosted Zeta predictions ended on Free on October 7, 2026); no Zed-hosted models; collaboration with a GitHub sign-in |
| Pro | $10 | not listed | Zed-hosted models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google with $5 of token credit a month, then usage at provider list price plus 10% up to a monthly spend limit (by default $10 more); unlimited Zeta edit predictions; a 14-day free trial with $5 of GPT-6 Luna and no card needed. Billed monthly from the day you subscribe |
| Business | $30 | not listed | Price per seat, self-serve with no minimum, month to month; members get Zed-hosted models and unlimited edit predictions, with no AI credit included (hosted usage at provider list price plus 10%, or your own keys at no extra charge); org-wide controls over hosted models, edit predictions, collaboration and data sharing, an org spend limit, roles and permissions, and one invoice for seats and AI use; no free trial; order-form contracts and invoice billing from 25 seats through sales; no SSO, SCIM or SOC 2 yet |
| Cost per finished minute | Not measured by us, and the vendor does not publish an allowance we can divide by. |
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Prices last checked: 2026-10-30 on Zed's pricing page.
Price history
No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 21, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.
To price your own month on Zed and the tools like it, use the AI cost calculator.
Before you pay
- Pro includes only $5 of tokens a month, counted at Zed's prices (provider list price plus 10%, from $0.055 per million input tokens on GPT-5 nano to $198 per million output tokens on GPT-5.5 pro and GPT-5.4 pro). Past it, usage bills up to a monthly spend limit that defaults to $10 more (so $20 in all; you can set it to $0), with mid-month invoices for each $10 of extra usage, a threshold Zed may raise to as much as $100, and hosted models stop once the limit is reached. A failed payment also blocks hosted models.
- Since October 7, 2026 the free plan no longer includes Zed's hosted Zeta edit predictions, which it had offered as 2,000 accepted predictions (InfoWorld's 2025 test still describes them); Zeta now needs Pro, the trial, Student or Business, and free users must switch to another provider such as GitHub Copilot or a local model. Zed's pull request 65258, merged that day, states the change and updates the editor's messaging; we found no blog post announcing it.
- Fees are in US dollars, with tax added, and are non-refundable except where the law requires; self-serve plans bill monthly only (Zed publishes no yearly price; Business contracts of 25 or more seats go through sales), and subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel before the renewal date. Business has no free trial and no included AI credit, and its org-wide spend limit starts at $0, so an admin must raise it before members can use hosted models. The Pro trial lasts 14 days or until its $5 of GPT-6 Luna (the only hosted model in the trial) runs out, needs no card and turns back into Free on its own; that $5 is shared with Delta, Zed Industries' separate app for coding with agents and teammates.
- Zed charges nothing for external agents, but they bill through their own providers and can change: Anthropic announced in May 2026 that Claude Code used through ACP would draw on a separate Agent SDK credit rather than Claude Pro or Max limits, then told subscribers the change was not taking effect yet (Zed's update of June 16, 2026), and GitHub moved Copilot Chat, including Copilot Chat models used in Zed, to token-based billing on June 1, 2026.
- Zed says it keeps no prompts or code by default, and its contracts bar hosted-model providers from training on them and require zero data retention, except for Anthropic's Covered Models (including Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Fable 5), whose prompts and outputs Anthropic keeps for at least 30 days for safety review. Rating an AI response sends the whole thread to Zed, edit-prediction training data is collected only if you opt in and only from open-source projects, client-side usage metrics and crash reports can be turned off in settings, and server-side telemetry is collected whenever you use hosted AI or collaboration. With your own keys, subscriptions or external agents, the provider's own terms apply.
- Business has no SSO, SAML, SCIM or SOC 2 yet: Zed says it is working on them, and its SOC 2 page says it is working toward Type 1. Zed's AI service is for users aged 18 or over, and its terms include binding arbitration with a 30-day opt-out. The agent sandbox covers only Zed Agent's terminal and fetch tools, not external agents, Terminal Threads, language servers or your own terminal, and on Windows it needs WSL and may not stop every escape.
- Three of the four cited tests predate version 1.0 (April 29, 2026): InfoWorld's (version 0.212.4) and The New Stack's from late 2025, and XDA's January 2026 speed comparison, all before Parallel Agents, Terminal Threads, the Business plan and the end of free Zeta predictions. Only XDA's August 2026 piece covers Zed since 1.0, still before the end of free Zeta predictions, and both XDA pieces are one writer's accounts of personal use. None of the four tried Zed-hosted models on Pro or measured what the $5 of tokens covers.
See the full Zed review and how we research.
Sources
- Zed pricing (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed home page (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed for Business (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed for Students (education) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed Terms of Service (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Plans & Pricing (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Billing (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Zed-Hosted Models (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Authenticate with Zed (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: AI Quick Start (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Edit Prediction (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: External Agents (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Use an Existing Subscription (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: LLM Providers (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Parallel Agents (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Sandboxing (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: AI Privacy (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Feedback and Training Data (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Telemetry (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Collaboration (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: Zed Business (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed docs: SOC2 (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: Zed is 1.0 (April 29, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based (September 24, 2025) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: Introducing Zed for Business (May 6, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: Introducing Parallel Agents in Zed (April 22, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: Terminal Threads Are Live in Zed (May 20, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: We Rebuilt Zeta from the Training Data Up (March 25, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: Zeta2.1: 3x Fewer Tokens, 50ms Faster (May 8, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: Introducing Zed for Education (March 9, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: Windows When? Windows Now (October 15, 2025) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: Use Your ChatGPT Subscription in Zed (May 15, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: What Anthropic's New Claude Billing Means for Zed Users (May 14, 2026, updated June 16, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: What GitHub Copilot's Usage-Based Billing Means for Zed Users (June 1, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (March 2, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- Zed blog: Replace PRs with Delta – Now in Public Beta (September 16, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- GitHub: zed-industries/zed README (licensing and platforms) (checked 2026-10-21)
- GitHub: zed-industries/zed pull request 65258, Update edit prediction messaging for the Free plan (merged October 7, 2026) (checked 2026-10-21)
- XDA: I replaced VS Code with Zed, and after its latest update it's faster, lighter, and finally handles my AI agents too (checked 2026-10-21)
- XDA: Zed is the speed demon that makes VS Code and Antigravity feel sluggish (checked 2026-10-21)
- InfoWorld: Hands-on with Zed: The IDE built for AI (checked 2026-10-21)
- The New Stack: Fast, Rust-Based Zed Code Editor Finally Arrives on Windows (checked 2026-10-21)