GitHub Copilot vs Zed
Read from each vendor’s own pages last night, so it does not go stale the way a written comparison does.
IDE
GitHub Copilot
The incumbent inline-completion and chat assistant, bundled into VS Code and the JetBrains IDEs.
Free, then $10 / mo
IDE
Zed
Rust-native editor with an agent panel. Free to use, open source, paid hosted inference.
Free, then $10 / mo
| Compared on | GitHub Copilot | Zed |
|---|---|---|
| Asserted — what each vendor publishes about itself | ||
| Category | IDE | IDE |
| Vendor | GitHub (Microsoft) | Zed Industries |
| Status | Active | Active |
| How it charges | Subscription | Hybrid |
| Entry price | Free, then $10 / mo | Free, then $10 / mo |
| Plans |
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| Default model | None — you choose | None — you choose |
| Your own key | No — bundled only | Yes |
| Source | Proprietary | Open source · GPL-3.0 |
| Measured — counted on the last nightly run | ||
| Stars | not measured | 87.9K |
| Maintenance | not measured | 94/100 |
| Days since last push | not measured | 0 |
| Top model in it | not measured | not measured |
| Its volume | not measured | not measured |
What has changed on either of them
2 entries| What changed | Kind | Was, and is now | Confidence | Occurred |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot changed the quota wording on its pricing pageGithub Copilot | Quota change | limits 1,000 credits, 2,000 completions, 2000 completionslimits 1,000 credits, 2,000 completions, 2.9x+ included usage, 2000 completions, 4x+ included usage, unlimited code completion and next edit, unlimited max plan unlimited copilot, unlimited pro, unlimited with every paid plan | low | |
| Zed changed the quota wording on its pricing pageZed | Quota change | limits 5 tokenlimits 5 token, unlimited accepted edit predictions, unlimited edit predictions, unlimited edit predictions role-based, unlimited use with your api keys or | low |
