Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/getzola/zola/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/getzola/zola/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: zola and zed share 8 technologies: axum, Tokio, console, markdown, image, pulldown-cmark, log, and env_logger. Both are written in Rust.

# zola vs zed

zola and zed share 8 technologies: axum, Tokio, console, markdown, image, pulldown-cmark, log, and env_logger. Both are written in Rust.

- [getzola/zola](https://seerepo.com/r/getzola/zola): A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
- [zed-industries/zed](https://seerepo.com/r/zed-industries/zed): Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: axum, Tokio, console, markdown, image, pulldown-cmark, log, env_logger
- Only in zola: anstyle, gh-emoji, kamadak-exif, tera, fast_image_resize, ammonia, csv, webp
- Only in zed: tower, aws-sdk-s3, db, sqlez, sqlx-postgres, libsqlite3-sys, aws-sdk-kinesis, lru, heed, moka, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, gpui_web, node_runtime, smol, objc2-foundation, wasmtime, objc2-app-kit, objc2-core-video, tiny_http, core-services, objc2-core-media, theme, theme_settings, font-kit, core-text, swash, command_palette_hooks, component, copilot_ui, git_ui_core, gpui_platform, menu, notifications, open_path_prompt, picker, picker_preview, platform_title_bar, tasks_ui, terminal, terminal_view, title_bar, ui, ui_input, vim_mode_setting, zed_actions, accesskit, wgpu, objc2-quartz-core, objc2-ui-kit, x11rb, core-graphics, etagere, wayland-client, alacritty_terminal, taffy, xkbcommon, accesskit_unix, objc2-metal, wayland-protocols-plasma, cosmic-text, dialoguer, lyon_path, notify-rust, objc2-user-notifications, wayland-cursor, file_icons, icons, emojis, sea-orm-macros, sqlez_macros, sea-orm, credentials_provider, oauth_callback_server, zed_credentials_provider, jsonwebtoken, rpassword, acp_thread, agent, agent_servers, agent_skills, agent_ui, ai_onboarding, cloud_llm_client, codestral, context_server, copilot_chat, edit_prediction, edit_prediction_context, edit_prediction_types, harbor, language_model, language_model_core, language_models, ollama, open_ai, prompt_store, zeta_prompt, agent-client-protocol, aws-sdk-bedrockruntime, html_to_markdown, markdown_preview, quick-xml, html5ever, tree-sitter-md, usvg, linkify, handlebars, mdbook, objc2-core-text, plist, resvg, ttf-parser, yaml-rust2, schemars, jsonschema, zlog, ztracing, tracing, tracing-subscriber, simplelog, perf-event, prometheus, tracing-tracy, tracy-client

## Side by side

| | zola | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 25,003 lines written, 93 code files | 1,852,865 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI | 0.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 3, 2026, 2,385 commits, 17,585 stars | Last push November 12, 2026, 37,638 commits, 94,758 stars |
| Tests | 11 test files | 140 test files. 18.4% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, zola or zed?

zed, with 1,852,865 lines written; zola has 25,003.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's code at commit 8a5cf7e](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/8a5cf7e23a7ce5797bb020a4b7be2ef1b7dc8f79)

### Which has more GitHub stars, zola or zed?

zed, with 94,758 stars; zola has 17,585.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed on GitHub](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed)

### Which has more tests, zola or zed?

zed, with 140 test files; zola has 11.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's code at commit 8a5cf7e](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/8a5cf7e23a7ce5797bb020a4b7be2ef1b7dc8f79)

### Which was updated more recently, zola or zed?

zed: its last push was on November 12, 2026, and zola's on November 3, 2026.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, zola or zed?

zed: an AI signed 0.5% of its commits, with Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Cursor.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in zed-industries/zed](https://seerepo.com/r/zed-industries/zed/ai)

## Sources

- getzola/zola: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 48d4e7a (https://github.com/getzola/zola/tree/48d4e7a9f63bbf5d838b977b6e0403949cac5698)
- zed-industries/zed: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit 8a5cf7e (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/8a5cf7e23a7ce5797bb020a4b7be2ef1b7dc8f79)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.