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Zed vs Langfuse

High-performance code editor, built in Rust, with AI + collaboration
vs. Open-source LLM engineering platform — observability, prompts, evals

Zed editor ↗Langfuse website ↗

Pricing tiers

Zed

Free
$0. Full editor, extensions, collaboration. AI assistant with BYO API key or limited free tier.
Free
Zed Pro (trial)
$0 limited trial. Zed-hosted AI with Claude/GPT, 150 interactions/mo on Sonnet-tier models.
$0 base (usage-based)
BYO API Key
$0 for Zed. Full AI assistant with your own Claude / GPT / Gemini / Ollama keys — passthrough cost only.
$0 base (usage-based)
Zed Pro
$10/user/mo. 500 Claude Sonnet interactions + unlimited edit-predictions, priority routing.
$10/mo
Zed Business
$20/user/mo. 1,000+ Claude Sonnet interactions, org-level billing, priority support.
$20/mo
Zed editor ↗

Langfuse

Hobby (Cloud Free)
Free. 50k units/month included. 30 days data access. 2 users. Community support.
Free
Self-Hosted (OSS)
MIT-licensed. Docker Compose or Kubernetes deployment. Unlimited.
$0 base (usage-based)
Core
$29/month. 100k units included ($8 per 100k overage). 90 days retention. Unlimited users. In-app support.
$29/mo
Pro
$199/month. 100k units included + same overage. 3 YEARS retention. Unlimited annotation queues. High rate limits.
$199/mo
Teams Add-on
+$300/month. Adds Enterprise SSO + fine-grained RBAC + dedicated Slack support to Pro.
$300/mo
Enterprise
$2,499/month. Everything + custom rate limits, uptime SLA, dedicated support engineer. Yearly options.
$2499/mo
Langfuse website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Zed vs hobby on Langfuse.

MetricZedLangfuse
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Zed · 20 features

  • Agent Panel — Multi-step AI tasks with tool use.
  • AI Assistant — Inline edits + agent panel.
  • Channels (Multiplayer) — Real-time shared editing.
  • Editor — Core Rust-based editor.
  • Edit Prediction (Zeta) — Next-edit prediction model.
  • Extensions (WASM) — WASM-based extension system.
  • GitHub Copilot Support — Works alongside Copilot subscription.
  • Git Integration — Diff view, branches, blame.
  • Integrated Terminal — Built-in shell.
  • LSP Support — Works with all LSP language servers.
  • MCP Support — Connect to any MCP server.
  • Multibuffer — Edit multiple files in one view.
  • Remote Dev (SSH) — Edit remote filesystems natively.
  • Screen Share — Share editor view live.
  • Sub-16ms Latency — GPU-accelerated rendering.
  • Tasks — Configurable build/test/run tasks.
  • Themes — Built-in + community themes.
  • Tree-sitter Syntax — Incremental parsing for instant highlighting.
  • Vim Mode — First-class Vim/Helix bindings.
  • Voice Channels — Talk while pair programming.

Langfuse · 16 features

  • Annotation Queues — Human reviewers rate traces. Unlimited on Pro+.
  • Dashboards — Aggregate metrics, cost, quality across projects.
  • Datasets — Curate test sets from production traces. Run experiments.
  • EU Cloud Region — GDPR-compliant hosting in EU.
  • Evaluations — LLM-as-judge, manual scores, custom model-graded evaluators.
  • LLM Cost Tracking — Automatic cost calculation per provider/model.
  • OpenTelemetry Native — OTel SDK → Langfuse endpoint works out of box.
  • Playground — Test prompts + models + variables live.
  • Prompt Management — Version, tag, label prompts. Reference from code by label.
  • Public API — Full REST API for ingest, query, prompt management.
  • Python @observe decorator — One-line decorator to trace any function.
  • Self-Hosting — Docker Compose + k8s Helm chart.
  • Sessions — Group related traces (conversations, agent runs).
  • Tracing — Capture every LLM call, tool call, nested span with inputs/outputs/cost.
  • Users Tracking — Segment traces by user ID, track per-user cost.
  • Webhooks — Subscribe to trace completion events.

Developer interfaces

KindZedLangfuse
CLIzed CLI (shell integration)—
SDK—langfuse-js, langfuse-python
REST—Langfuse REST API
MCP—Langfuse MCP Server
OTHERCommand Palette (cmd+shift+p), Multiplayer / Channels, Remote Development (SSH), Zed AI Assistant, Zed Editor, Zed ExtensionsLangfuse Dashboard, OpenTelemetry endpoint
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