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Zed

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-15 — deterministic & reproducible

Zed is a code editor with multiplayer collaboration and optional AI assistance.

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Legit.Show scored Zed 83/100 on 2026-09-15, measured across 6 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/zed-dev/2026-09-15

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
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• 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 — 319 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

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from zed.dev's own website on 2026-08-03.

Operator

Zed Industries, Inc., as named in zed.dev's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-15.

Put together from public information, without Zed's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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