Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based
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#2Entirely predictable and what should've been done from the start instead of this bait-and-switch mere months after introducing agentic editing.
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#3How much are companies spending per developer on tokens? From what I read it seems like it might be quite high at $1,000 or more per day?
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#4Entirely predictable and what should've been done from the start instead of this bait-and-switch mere months after introducing agentic editing.
is this effectively what Cursor did as well? I seem to remember some major pricing change of their in the past few months.
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#5Now I see little value in subscribing to Zed Pro compared to just bringing my own API key. Am I missing something?
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#6Entirely predictable and what should've been done from the start instead of this bait-and-switch mere months after introducing agentic editing.
is this effectively what Cursor did as well? I seem to remember some major pricing change of their in the past few months.
In a way I would say they were even worse, instead of outright saying "we've increased our prices", they "clarified their pricing".
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#7Token based pricing generally makes a lot of sense for companies like Zed, but it sure does suck for forecasting spend.
Usage pricing on something like aws is pretty easy to figure out. You know what you're going to use, so you just do some simple arithmetic and you've got a pretty accurate idea. Even with serverless it's pretty easy. Tokens are so much harder, especially when using it in a development setting. It's so hard to have any reasonable forecast about how a team will use it, and how many tokens will be consumed.
I'm starting to track my usage with a bit of a breakdown in the hope that I'll find a somewhat reliable trend.
I suspect this is going to be one of the next big areas in cloud FinOps.
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#8Now I see little value in subscribing to Zed Pro compared to just bringing my own API key. Am I missing something?
Presumably the tab based edit-prediction model + $5 of tokens is worth the (new) $10 / mo price.
Though from everything I've read online, Zed's edit prediction model is far, _far_ behind that of Cursor.
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#9Now I see little value in subscribing to Zed Pro compared to just bringing my own API key. Am I missing something?
Their burn agent mode is pretty badass, but is super costly to run.
I'm a big fan of Zed but tbf I'm just using Claude Code + Nvim nowadays. Zed's problem with their Claude integration is that it will never be as good as just using the latest from Claude Code.
Re: Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based
#10Token based pricing generally makes a lot of sense for companies like Zed, but it sure does suck for forecasting spend. Usage pricing on something like aws is pretty easy to figure out. You know what you're going to use, so you just do some simple arithmetic and you've got a pretty accurate idea. Even with serverless it's pretty easy. Tokens are so much harder, especially when using it in a development setting. It's…
This is partially why, at least for LLM-assisted coding workloads, orgs are going with the $200 / mo Claude Code plans and similar.