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Cursor vs Zed
Pricing, founders, indie status and curated alternatives compared from our directory — all data points sourced from each tool's public site or press materials.
At a glanceCursorZed
- Pricing
- $20/mo (Pro)
- Free
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Freemium
- Founded
- 2022
- —
- Location
- San Francisco, USA
- —
- Bootstrapped
- —
- —
- Open source
- —
- Yes
- Category
- AI Coding Agents
- —
- Indie alternatives
- 10
- 0
- Founders
- Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, Aman Sanger
- Nathan Sobo
Key differences
Funding
Zed is bootstrapped / open source; Cursor is venture-backed.
Open source
Zed is open source; Cursor is closed source.
Indie alternatives
Cursor has 10 curated indie alternatives in our directory; Zed has 0.
Differences are derived directly from the data on each tool's page. Empty fields mean we haven't verified a value yet — never that one tool lacks the capability.
Founders of Cursor
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