title: Plans & Pricing description: Compare Zed's Free, Pro, and Business plans, and understand token-based usage metering, spend limits, and trial details.

Plans & Pricing

For costs and more information on pricing, visit Zed's pricing page.

Zed works without AI features or a subscription. No authentication is required for the editor itself.

Plans {#plans}

Zed Free {#free}

Zed is free to use. You can configure AI agents with your own API keys via Providers. Edit Predictions are available on a limited basis. Zed's hosted models require a Pro subscription.

Zed Pro {#pro}

Zed Pro includes access to all hosted AI models and Edit Predictions. The plan includes $5 of monthly token credit; usage beyond that is billed at the rates listed on the Models page. A trial of Zed Pro includes $20 of credit, usable for 14 days.

For details on billing and payment, see Individual Billing.

Zed Business {#business}

Zed Business gives every member access to all of Zed's hosted AI models, unlimited edit predictions, plus org-wide controls for administrators: which AI features are available, what data leaves your organization, and how AI spend is tracked. All seats and AI usage are consolidated into a single invoice.

For a full feature overview, see Zed Business. For billing details, see Billing.

Student Plan {#student}

The Zed Student plan includes all Zed Pro features: unlimited Edit Predictions, all hosted AI models except Claude Opus, and $10/month in token credits. Available free for one year to verified university students.

Usage {#usage}

Usage of Zed's hosted models is measured on a token basis, converted to dollars at the rates listed on the Models page (list price from the provider, +10%).

Monthly included credit resets on your monthly billing date. To view your current usage, navigate to the Billing page at dashboard.zed.dev. Usage data from our metering provider, Orb, is embedded on that page.

Spend Limits {#usage-spend-limits}

On your Billing page you'll find an input for Monthly Spend Limit. The dollar amount here specifies your monthly limit for spend on tokens, not counting the $5/month included with your Pro subscription.

The default value for all Pro users is $10, for a total monthly spend with Zed of $20 ($10 for your Pro subscription, $10 in incremental token spend). This can be set to $0 to limit your spend with Zed to exactly $10/month. If you adjust this limit higher than $10 and consume more than $10 of incremental token spend, you'll be billed via threshold billing.

Once the spend limit is hit, we'll stop any further usage until your token spend limit resets.

On Zed Business, administrators set an org-wide spend limit from the Data & Privacy page in the organization dashboard. See Organization Billing for details.

Note: Spend limits are a Zed Pro and Business feature. Student plan users cannot configure spend limits; usage is capped at the $10/month included credit.

Trials {#trials}

Trials automatically convert to Zed Free when they end. Trials do not include access to Anthropic's Opus models. No cancellation is needed to prevent conversion to Zed Pro.