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Zed Industries
Zed
Release date unpublished
An open-source code editor with a built-in agent panel that runs hosted or bring-your-own-key models and external agents such as Claude Agent and Codex CLI.
- Interface
- IDE
- Pricing
- Bring your own key
- Models
- Any model
- Best Terminal-Bench
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- Open source
- Yes
- Licence
- GNU GPL v3 or later (Apache-2.0 components where marked)
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Open source (GPL-3.0-or-later, some Apache-2.0)
- Personal plan free forever with your own keys or external agents
- BYOK providers include Bedrock, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Ollama and GitHub Copilot
Weaknesses
- Zed-hosted model usage billed at API list price plus 10%
releaseDate null: no launch date for Zed's agent features found on a Zed page. license.kind 'restricted' used for copyleft (commercial use allowed).