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Zed
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark checked 2026-08-09 · unchanged since 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Zed is a code editor with multiplayer collaboration and optional AI assistance.
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 — 292 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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