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Zed vs PlanetScale

High-performance code editor, built in Rust, with AI + collaboration
vs. Serverless MySQL (Vitess) and Postgres at scale

Zed editor ↗PlanetScale 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 ↗

PlanetScale

Postgres EBS single-node — PS-5
Single-node EBS, 512 MiB RAM, arm64. Entry point for Postgres.
$5/mo
Postgres EBS HA — PS-5
3-node (primary + 2 replicas), 512 MiB, arm64.
$15/mo
Vitess (non-Metal) — PS-10
Vitess MySQL sharded cluster, 1 GiB RAM.
$39/mo
Postgres Metal — M-10
3-node Metal, 1 GiB RAM + 10 GiB local storage. Much higher IOPS.
$50/mo
Vitess Metal — M-160
Vitess Metal, 16 GiB RAM + 110 GiB storage.
$609/mo
Enterprise
Custom agreements, dedicated regions, 99.99% SLA.
Custom
PlanetScale website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Zed vs pg-ebs-nonha-starter on PlanetScale.

MetricZedPlanetScale
ha—0 nodes
ram mib—512 MiB

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.

PlanetScale · 12 features

  • Backups — Automated daily backups with retention.
  • Database Branching — Git-like branches of your DB schema (not data). Create, diff, merge via deploy r…
  • Deploy Requests — Schema changes in a feature branch get reviewed + auto-applied to main with zero…
  • HIPAA — HIPAA-compliant deployments (Enterprise).
  • Metal (NVMe) — Dedicated NVMe local storage. 10x IOPS vs EBS, latency-critical workloads.
  • PgBouncer Pooler — Managed PgBouncer for Postgres clusters. Optional dedicated pooler.
  • PlanetScale Boost — Query result cache with sub-ms reads.
  • Point-in-Time Recovery — Restore cluster to any point within retention window.
  • Postgres on PlanetScale — PostgreSQL 15+ with the same branching + deploy-request flow. Launched 2024.
  • Query Insights — Per-query performance analytics, slow query tracking, explain plans.
  • Read-only Regions — Route reads to the nearest region for lower latency.
  • Vitess (MySQL at scale) — Horizontally-sharded MySQL (YouTube-scale) — original PlanetScale offering.

Developer interfaces

KindZedPlanetScale
CLIzed CLI (shell integration)PlanetScale CLI (pscale)
SDK—@planetscale/database
REST—Management API
MCP—PlanetScale MCP
OTHERCommand Palette (cmd+shift+p), Multiplayer / Channels, Remote Development (SSH), Zed AI Assistant, Zed Editor, Zed ExtensionsMySQL Wire Protocol, Postgres Wire Protocol
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