Junie vs Zed
Junie (JetBrains) and Zed (Zed Industries) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Zed has 194.7x the GitHub stars of Junie (91.3K against 469). Zed shipped 23 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Junie | Zed |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 51 | 59 |
| Overall rank | #36 | #19 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 318 | — |
| Downloads, 7-day change | down 58.6% | — |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 469 | 91.3K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | 4,155 |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 14 | 91 |
| Latest stable release | 3651.1 · yesterday | 1.22.0 · 6d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 23 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free + $10/mo | Free + $10/mo |
| License | Proprietary | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | IDE plugin, CLI, Web, GitHub, GitLab | Desktop IDE |
| Models | LLM-agnostic: Claude Opus/Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro and 3.8 Flash, GPT-6 models and Grok 4.7 among 10+ models via bring-your-own-key, plus a free Junie Lite model. | Zed-hosted models (a GPT-6 Luna trial is offered) plus your own API keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and others) and external agents such as Claude Agent and Codex CLI. |
Trends
Junie
JetBrains' LLM-agnostic coding agent, available inside JetBrains IDEs, as a terminal CLI, in JetBrains Air and in CI through GitHub and GitLab integrations. It supports bring-your-own-key models and a free Junie Lite tier.
Pricing: Junie Lite is free and bring-your-own-key is billed at provider rates with no markup; hosted usage comes with JetBrains AI Pro at $10/mo ($100/yr, 10 AI credits per 30 days) or AI Ultimate at $30/mo ($300/yr, 35 credits).
Zed
High-performance open-source code editor written in Rust, with multiplayer editing, an agent panel, edit predictions and support for external agents through the Agent Client Protocol. Version 1.0 shipped in April 2026.
Pricing: Personal $0 (2,000 accepted edit predictions; unlimited with your own API keys or external agents); Pro $10/mo (unlimited edit predictions, $5 of tokens included, usage billing beyond); Business $30/seat/mo.
Latest release 1.22.0:
- Added an optional model parameter to spawnagent to choose a model for that spawn instead of using the configured subagent model or inheriting the parent model, with the active model shown in its…
- Added BYOK support for GPT-6.1 Sol with an OpenAI API key. (#64968; thanks ktKongTong)
- Added Grok 4.7 to the SuperGrok and xAI providers and made it their recommended default. (#64567; thanks raphaelluethy)
- Added the agent.threadssidebar.autoopen setting to control whether opening a folder in an existing window also opens the Threads Sidebar. (#64259, #64395; thanks jackhwalters and joshkent94)