Pick Continue if
developers who want the OSS extension and will point it at their own model.
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Pick Continue if developers who want the OSS extension and will point it at their own model. Pick Zed if developers who want a fast native editor and will either paste a key (Personal) or pay $10 for Zed-hosted models. Skip Continue if people who want a maintained commercial IDE agent (Cursor, GitHub Copilot). Skip Zed if people who want a VS Code fork with Tab (Cursor) or a browser workspace (Replit).
Best for
Continue An OSS Copilot-shaped sidebar you configure yourself
Zed Edit a repo from an agent thread next to the buffer
Free plan
Continue $0 · apache 2.0. You pay the model provider
Zed $0 · forever. Unlimited use with your API keys or external agents
Lowest paid
Continue Not published by the vendor
Zed Pro $10
Next step up
Continue
Zed Business $30
Coding agent
Continue User Settings
Zed Codex
Runs where
Continue Hosted
Zed Hosted
Watch out
Continue The repo is read-only
Zed $10 is Pro, not Personal
Last checked
Continue 2026-10-19 · continue.dev
Zed 2026-10-21 · zed.dev/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Zed if
developers who want a fast native editor and will either paste a key (Personal) or pay $10 for Zed-hosted models.
Read the Zed page