# Zed — Rust-based code editor with a built-in agent panel, ACP external agents and Zed-hosted models. > Source: The Agents Index — https://theagentsindex.com/zed (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-29 Zed is an open-source, Rust-written code editor whose Agent Panel runs a native agent, ACP external agents such as Claude or Codex, and terminal agent CLIs. Models come from Zed's hosted service, your own API keys, or local servers. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://zed.dev | | Price | from $10/month | | Free tier | Yes | Personal plan is $0 forever with 2,000 accepted edit predictions and unlimited use with your own API keys or external agents; Zed-hosted models need Pro. Separately, a 14-day Pro trial gives $5 of GPT-5.6 Luna usage with no credit card, and converts to free when it ends. ## What it does **Writes code** · Yes — The Agent Panel authors and edits code from a written task description, with the agent gathering its own context and writing files through edit_file and write_file tools. > Describe the task, the agent does the rest: discovering context, editing files, and staying on track until it's done. > — https://zed.dev/ai · Feature card, 'Agentic Editing' **Debugs and fixes** · Yes — Vendor names debugging as a core Agent Panel use, and the agent has a diagnostics tool that pulls language-server errors per file or project-wide to drive the fix. > It's the core of Zed's AI code editing experience — use it for code generation, refactoring, debugging, documentation, and general questions. > — https://zed.dev/docs/ai/agent-panel · Intro paragraph, Agent Panel page **Reviews code** · Partly — Review is aimed at the agent's own diff, accepted or rejected hunk by hunk in a multibuffer; nothing in the docs describes reviewing a pull request another person wrote. > Review the agent's work in an editable unified diff. Accept or reject all changes before committing them. > — https://zed.dev/ai · Feature card, 'Review and Refine' **Whole-codebase work** · Partly — The agent searches the repository with grep and find_path and can spawn subagents for parallel investigation, but Zed asks you to supply context explicitly and documents no repository-wide index. > The agent can search your codebase to find relevant context, but providing it explicitly improves response quality and reduces latency. > — https://zed.dev/docs/ai/agent-panel · Adding Context section **Ships it** · Partly — There is no deployment feature; the agent stops at a reviewable diff, though its terminal tool can execute any shell command you permit, which is how a deploy script would run. > Executes shell commands and returns the combined output, creating a new shell process for each invocation. > — https://zed.dev/docs/ai/tools.md · Edit Tools section, `terminal` tool **Done-for-you service** · No — Zed sells software you download and run yourself; the plans page offers only self-serve subscriptions, with sales contact reserved for larger order forms. > No minimum. Business is self-serve and available to organizations of any size. Month-to-month plans are available to everyone. Order form contracts are available at 25+ seats > — https://zed.dev/pricing · Pricing FAQ, 'Is there a minimum seat count for Business?' _Not established: Writes tests_ ## How much it does unattended **Runs autonomously** · Partly — The agent works a task through to completion on its own, but permission-gated tool calls default to asking first, so unattended running requires setting tool_permissions.default to allow. > "confirm" (default) — Prompts for approval before running any tool action, including MCP tool calls > — https://zed.dev/docs/ai/mcp · Tool Permissions section, permission list **Multi-agent** · Yes — A parent agent can delegate to subagents with their own context windows, and separate threads run concurrently, optionally isolated in their own Git worktrees. > Spawns a subagent with its own context window to perform a delegated task. Useful for running parallel investigations, completing self-contained tasks, or performing research where only the outcome matters. > — https://zed.dev/docs/ai/tools.md · Other Tools section, `spawn_agent` **Agent permissions** · Yes — Permissions are per tool and pattern-based, with allow, deny and confirm rules, plus hardcoded rules for recursive deletes that no setting can override. > Configure which Agent Panel tools run automatically and which require your approval. > — https://zed.dev/docs/ai/tool-permissions.md · Tool Permissions page, opening line ## Which models it runs on **Claude** · Yes — Anthropic Claude models are served through Zed's own hosted plan with published per-million-token rates, and Claude is also reachable via your own Anthropic key. > | Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | Input | $2.00 | $2.20 | > — https://zed.dev/docs/account/zed-hosted-models.md · Zed-Hosted Models pricing table, Claude Sonnet row **GPT** · Yes — OpenAI GPT models are in the hosted catalogue with published token rates, and the Pro trial runs on a GPT model as its only hosted option. > | GPT-6 Sol | OpenAI | Input | $2.00 | $2.20 | > — https://zed.dev/docs/account/zed-hosted-models.md · Zed-Hosted Models pricing table, GPT-6 Sol row **Open models** · Yes — Open-weight models run locally through llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio, or any local OpenAI-compatible server; the docs walk through pulling and selecting such a model. > Use local models when you run the model on your machine or on infrastructure you control. > — https://zed.dev/docs/ai/use-a-local-model.md · Use a Local Model, opening line and provider table **Model choice** · Yes — You choose the model from a selector and can route through Zed hosting, your own API keys, an existing subscription, a gateway or a local server. > Use this page to choose which models power the Zed Agent and other Zed-owned AI features > — https://zed.dev/docs/ai/llm-providers.md · LLM Providers, intro and 'Choose a Model Access Path' table ## Where you use it **In your editor** · Yes — Zed is itself the editor: the agent lives in a panel beside the buffers, and edits stream into the same window you are working in. > Smoothly collaborate with agents in Zed, editing files, navigating code, and running tools at the speed of the editor itself. > — https://zed.dev/ai · Hero paragraph, 'AI coding at native speed' **On the command line** · Partly — The zed CLI opens files and can be driven from scripts, but it launches the editor rather than running an agent headlessly; agent CLIs instead run as Terminal Threads inside Zed. > Use Zed's command-line interface (CLI) to open files and directories, integrate with other tools, and control Zed from scripts. > — https://zed.dev/docs/reference/cli.md · CLI Reference, opening line **In your pipeline** · No — Zed's own inventory of agent paths is three, and each runs inside the editor's Agent Panel, Threads Sidebar or terminal; no pull-request or CI runner surface is offered. > Zed supports three agent paths. Choose the path based on how you want agentic work to run. > — https://zed.dev/docs/ai/agents.md · Agents page, intro plus 'Runs in' column of the agent path table **In a browser** · Partly — The only web surface is the organisation dashboard for admin controls, usage and billing; coding and the agent happen in the installed desktop app, not a browser. > Admin controls are available to owners and admins in the organization dashboard at dashboard.zed.dev. > — https://zed.dev/docs/business/admin-controls · Accessing admin controls section ## Whose machine it runs on **Self-hosted** · Partly — Models and edit prediction can run on hardware you control and the editor builds from source, but Zed's hosted AI, collaboration and org dashboard remain Zed-operated services. > Connect models through Ollama and keep everything on your hardware. Nothing leaves your machine. > — https://zed.dev/ai · Full control in full-speed section, 'Run locally' card **Open source** · Yes — The vendor states the editor, its Zeta edit-prediction model and the ACP agent protocol are all open source and developed in public on GitHub. > Zed, Zeta, and ACP are all open source. The editor, the model, and the protocol, built in public. > — https://zed.dev/ai · Full control in full-speed section, 'Open source, open protocol, open model' card ## What it costs to run **How it meters** · Yes — Two units at once: a per-seat monthly subscription, and hosted model usage metered per token at provider list price plus ten percent beyond the included credit. > Usage of Zed's hosted models is measured on a token basis, converted to dollars at the rates listed on Zed-Hosted Models (list price from the provider, +10%). > — https://zed.dev/docs/account/plans-and-pricing.md · Usage section **Free tier** · Yes — The Personal plan is free indefinitely with no call required: the full editor, a capped allowance of accepted edit predictions, and unlimited use of your own keys or external agents. > PERSONAL $0 forever The next-generation code editor. Free forever. > — https://zed.dev/pricing · Plan cards, Personal column **API access** · Partly — No public REST API for the product is documented; programmatic use is limited to the zed CLI from scripts and to extensions and ACP agent integrations built against Zed. > Use Zed's command-line interface (CLI) to open files and directories, integrate with other tools, and control Zed from scripts. > — https://zed.dev/docs/reference/cli.md · CLI Reference, opening line **MCP server** · No — MCP runs one way only: Zed is the client that consumes external MCP servers and forwards them to agents, and the docs describe no MCP server exposing Zed to another agent. > Zed uses the Model Context Protocol to interact with context servers. > — https://zed.dev/docs/ai/mcp · Model Context Protocol page, opening line and Supported Features **Bring your own key** · Yes — Bring-your-own-key is a first-class path on every plan including the free one, with keys stored in the system keychain rather than settings.json. > We currently support Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, Deepseek, Google AI, LM Studio, Mistral, Ollama, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Vercel, and more. > — https://zed.dev/pricing · FAQ, "I don't want to pay for Zed, can I use my own keys?" ## Buying it for a team **A company can buy it** · Yes — The Business plan is bought by an organisation, is self-serve with no seat minimum, and order-form contracts open up at twenty-five seats and above. > No minimum. Business is self-serve and available to organizations of any size. Month-to-month plans are available to everyone. Order form contracts are available at 25+ seats > — https://zed.dev/pricing · FAQ, 'Is there a minimum seat count for Business?' **Seat model** · Yes — Business is priced per seat per month with no floor and no published ceiling; Billing Manager is a role that does not consume a paid seat. > BUSINESS $30 per seat, per month > — https://zed.dev/pricing · Plan cards, Business column price cell **Pooled budget** · Partly — Business pools AI spend under one org-wide limit and a single invoice, but seats carry no bundled credit allotment, so the shared pool is spend, not an allowance. > Business seats don't bundle a fixed LLM credit allotment. You can use Zed-hosted AI at standard usage rates, or bring your own API keys > — https://zed.dev/pricing · FAQ, 'Do Business seats include AI credits?' **Admin controls** · Partly — Business admins can disable hosted models by model, turn off edit predictions and lock data sharing, but the controls do not reach BYOK, gateways, local models, external agents or extensions. > These controls don't cover bring-your-own-key (BYOK) configurations, gateways, local or self-hosted models, External Agents, Terminal Threads, or third-party extensions > — https://zed.dev/docs/business/admin-controls · Admin Controls, opening paragraph **Audit log** · No — Zed's own account of Business admin capability covers AI feature availability, data egress and spend tracking; no administrative audit or activity log is documented anywhere in the Business docs. > Administrators control which AI features are available, what data leaves your environment, and how AI spend is tracked. > — https://zed.dev/docs/business/overview · Zed Business page, opening paragraph and What's included list **Single sign-on** · No — Zed states plainly that enterprise identity is not there yet; members authenticate via GitHub after accepting an invitation instead. > SSO, SAML, and SCIM are planned but not currently available. > — https://zed.dev/pricing · FAQ, 'What admin controls are available in Business?' ## What happens to your code **Opt out of training** · Yes — Nothing is retained or trained on unless you rate a response or opt into training collection; on Business both are off by default and members cannot opt in. > Zed only retains AI data when you explicitly share feedback or opt in to training data collection. > — https://zed.dev/docs/ai/privacy-and-security · AI Privacy, intro paragraph **Data residency** · Yes — Zed's websites, software and service are hosted in the United States, with EEA/UK transfers under Standard Contractual Clauses. > Our websites, products, and services are hosted in the United States > — https://zed.dev/privacy-policy · Privacy Policy, International Visitors section **Getting out** · Partly — Threads can be opened and copied out as Markdown, and monthly included credit resets rather than accumulating, but no bulk account data export is documented. > Monthly included credit resets on your monthly billing date. > — https://zed.dev/docs/account/plans-and-pricing.md · Usage section **Certifications** · No — Certification is in progress rather than held: Zed reports working toward SOC2 Type 1 and points compliance questions at sales, with no ISO or GDPR attestation published. > Zed is working toward SOC2 Type 1 certification. > — https://zed.dev/docs/soc2.md · SOC2 page, only sentence ## Platform record (as of 2026-08-30) Reported by the code-hosting platform, not by the vendor. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Stars | 89447 | | Forks | 10332 | | Last push | 2026-08-30 | ## Provenance 1 of 38 sources behind the facts above are independent of the vendor. ## Coverage elsewhere Pages about this product that the vendor does not control. 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