Warp vs Zed
Warp (Warp) and Zed (Zed Industries) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Zed has 1.4x the GitHub stars of Warp (91.3K against 65.4K). Zed shipped 23 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Warp | Zed |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 54 | 59 |
| Overall rank | #28 | #19 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | — |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | — |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 65.4K | 91.3K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | 2,914 | 4,155 |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 28 | 91 |
| Latest stable release | 0.2026.06.03.09.4… · 4mo ago | 1.22.0 · 6d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 0 | 23 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | 61.2% · v2.0 | — |
| Price | Free + $20/mo | Free + $10/mo |
| License | AGPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | Desktop app, CLI | Desktop IDE |
| Models | Frontier and open-source models from OpenAI, Anthropic, z.ai and others, with an option to bring your own inference. | 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
Warp
Rust-based terminal that has grown into an agentic development environment, with a built-in coding agent, a standalone Agent CLI and the Oz cloud-agent platform. Its client was open-sourced in April 2026.
Pricing: Free $0 (bring your own inference, limited cloud agents); Build from $20/mo (1,500 credits, $20 of agent usage at API rates); Max from $200/mo (18,000 credits); Business from $50/user/mo (up to 25 seats); Enterprise custom.
Latest release 0.2026.06.03.09.49.stable:
- Warp Stable release
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)