Cursor vs Zed
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| Cursor | Zed | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | Cursor is your coding agent for building ambitious software. cursor.com | Zed is a minimal code editor crafted for speed and collaboration with humans and AI. zed.dev |
| Starting at | $8 Plus / month free plan listed | $10 Pro / month free plan listed |
| Platforms | Not observed | Linux, Windows, macOS zed.dev |
| Integrations | GitHub, Slack, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, JetBrains, Linear, Google Drive, Gmail, Granola, Notion, Mixpanel, Braintrust, Firecrawl, PostHog, ClickHouse, Asana, Box, Hex cursor.com | Claude Agent, Codex, OpenCode, Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Deepseek, GitHub Copilot, Google AI, LM Studio, Mistral, Ollama, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Vercel, HTML, Git Firefly, TOML, Java, Catppuccin, Dockerfile, SQL, PHP, Vue, Ruby, Catppuccin Icons, XML, Material Icon Theme, macOS Classic Theme, SCSS & SASS, Tokyo Night Themes, Emmet, Make, Lua, Terraform zed.dev |
| Compliance | ISO 27001, SOC 2 cursor.com | Not observed |
| Free plan | Yes cursor.com | Yes zed.dev |
| Plans | Free, Plus, Premium, Super, Ultra, Pro cursor.com | Not observed |
| Open source | Not observed | Yes zed.dev |
| Models supported | Composer 2.5, Fable 5.1 Max, GPT-5.6 Sol, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.7, Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Haiku 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5 cursor.com | Zeta2, GPT-6 Luna zed.dev |
| Customers (their claim) | Trusted by over half of the Fortune 500 cursor.com | Not observed |
Where they differ
- Zed’s pages state that it is open source; AirStack has not found that on Cursor’s pages.
- Cursor claims ISO 27001 on its own pages; Zed’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
- Cursor claims SOC 2 on its own pages; Zed’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
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