Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based

Post by jimmydoe » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 9:58 PM UTC

jeltz wrote: post #136

hmokiguess wrote: post #68

Zed was supposed to be the answer to Atom / Sublime Text in my opinion, and I kinda do want to use it as my main driver, but it just isn’t there yet for me. It’s shameful because I like its aesthetics as a product more than the competition out there. Just this other day I tried using it for something it sort of advertised itself as the superior thing, which was to load this giant text file I had instantly and let me…

My experience with Zed was that it was a buggy mess with strange defaults. I had high hopes until I tried it but it was not even close to working for my pretty normal use case of coding C so I went back to Sublime.

Post by efskap » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 10:12 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #50

dinobones wrote: post #42

Making this prediction now, LLM pricing will eventually be priced in bytes. Why: LLMs are increasingly becoming multimodal, so an image "token" or video "token" is not as simple as a text token. Also, it's difficult to compare across competitors because tokenization is different. Eventually prices will just be in $/Mb of data processed. Just like bandwidth. I'm surprised this hasn't already happened.

> Why: LLMs are increasingly becoming multimodal, so an image "token" or video "token" is not as simple as a text token. For autoregressive token-based multimodal models, image tokens are as straightforward as text tokens, and there is no reason video tokens wouldn’t also be. (If models also switch architecture and multimodal diffusion models, say, become more common, then, sure, a different pricing model more tied t…

Post by scuff3d » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

potlee wrote: post #62

scuff3d wrote: post #43

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Also seems like a great idea to create a business models where the companies aren't incentivised to provide the best product possible. Instead they'll want to create a product just useful enough to not drive away users, but just useless enough to temp people to go up a tier, "I'm so close, just one more prompt and it will be right this time!" Edit: To be clear, I'm not talking about Zed. I'm talking about the compani…

While Apple is incentivized to ship a smaller battery to cut costs, it is also incentivized to make their software efficient as possible to make the best use of the battery they do ship

Post by ibejoeb » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 10:25 PM UTC

drdaeman wrote: post #139

morgankrey wrote: post #13

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(I work at Zed) No, you aren't. We care about you using Zed the editor, and we provide Zed Pro for folks who decide they'd like to support Zed or our billing model works for them. But it's simply an option, not our core business plan, and this pricing is in place to make that option financially viable for us. As long as we don't bear the cost, we don't feel the need (or the right) to put ourselves in the revenue path…

I’m curious if there’s any way to completely disable/remove `zed.dev` provider from Zed, while keeping others available?

Post by ibejoeb » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 10:32 PM UTC