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Comparison	Zed High-performance Rust code editor with agentic AI and open-source edit prediction Freemium	Cursor✓ The AI-native code editor with $1B+ ARR, 25+ models, and background agents on dedicated VMs Freemium	Windsurf✓ AI-native IDE with Cascade agents and SWE model family Paid
Category	AI-Powered IDE	AI-Powered IDE	AI-Powered IDE
Pricing	Personal: $0 Pro: $20/month Enterprise: Custom	Hobby: $0/month Pro: $20/month Pro+: $60/month Ultra: $200/month Teams: $40/user/month	Free: $0 Pro: $15/user/month Teams: $30/user/month Enterprise: Contact sales
AI Models	Zeta (open-source)ClaudeOpenAIAnthropicOllama+1 more	Claude Opus 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.6GPT-5GPT-5.2+4 more	SWE-1.5 (fast agent model)SWE-1SWE-1-mini (for autocomplete)BYOK: OpenAI model families (availability varies by account/provider routing)BYOK: Anthropic Claude (e.g., Sonnet/Opus/Haiku)+2 more
Context Window	Codebase-aware via agent	Up to 272K tokens (codebase-wide context via RAG indexing)	Fast Context retrieval; context size depends on chosen model
Capabilities	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File Voice Input	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File
Platforms	macOSLinuxWindows	macOSWindowsLinux	macOSLinuxWindows
Languages	All languages supported by Zed	All languages supported by VS Code	JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC++C#+7 more
Open Source	Yes	No	No
GitHub Stars	N/A	N/A	N/A
Users	N/A	1M+ daily active users	N/A
Rating	N/A	N/A	N/A
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