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Zed

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark checked 2026-08-14 · unchanged since 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible

Zed is a code editor with multiplayer collaboration and optional AI assistance.

83/100

Top 32% of 10,188 measured · #3 of 10 in ai code editor

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 6 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Is Zed production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Zed 83 out of 100 — the simple average of its 6 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Zed (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Discoverability. 6 of the seven frames returned a score; Accessibility was not measurable on this service and is recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 80/100
Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
Security — 70/100
Privacy — 100/100
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 75/100
Discoverability — 70/100

What we measured

Security headers present: CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
No HSTS.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 1094 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
Has a reachable privacy policy.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

Nathan Sobo (@nathansobo) · product account @zeddotdev

Who it's for

Individual developers · Teams · Organizations · AI-assisted programmers · Collaborative teams

Pricing

Personal: Free forever; Pro: $10/month with $5 token credits included; Business: $30 per seat/month

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