First things first: we still offer, and always plan to offer, multiple ways to use AI in Zed without paying us.
So what's changing? We're moving Zed AI from prompt-based limits to token-based pricing. For new users, this pricing is live today. For current users, we're providing advance notice and migration will happen over the next three months. We’re also adding GPT-5 (and mini/nano), Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Gemini 2.5 Flash to Zed’s hosted offering, in addition to the Anthropic models already available.
Why? We want our pricing to reflect the real cost of running AI. Token-agnostic prompt structures obscure the cost and are rife with misaligned incentives. This change lets us invest sustainably in the editor features that make Zed fast and reliable. Our short-term revenue growth strategy is to sell enterprise features to businesses, and our long term vision is to earn money by fundamentally improving how developers collaborate. We have to charge for AI features which we get charged for, but it's never been our plan to build a business on LLM token math.
What's Changed $20 $10 per month We've simplified our pricing and reduced costs while adding access to more AI models. Key Improvements 50% price reduction
Token-based billing
More AI models included New Models GPT-5
Grok 4
Gemini 2.5 Free Old Pricing 2,000 accepted edit predictions
50 Zed-hosted prompts per month New Pricing 2,000 accepted edit predictions Pro Old Pricing Unlimited accepted edit predictions
$20/month
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