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neon vs zed
neon and zed share 11 technologies: axum, tower, aws-sdk-s3, Postgres, AWS S3, Tokio, jsonwebtoken, tracing, tracing-subscriber, env_logger, and log. Both are written in Rust.
What they share and what sets them apart
neondatabase
neon
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Rust23.3kRead on November 4, 2026, at commit fa50421What is neon built with?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.
Rust92.7kRead on November 4, 2026, at commit e21ff1bWhat is zed built with?In common
Only in neon
Only in zed
- lru
- sqlx
- GitHub
gpui
- gpui_tokio
- smol
objc2-foundation
- tiny_http
- core-services
- swash
- gpui_platform
accesskit
- wgpu
- x11rb
- core-graphics
- wayland-client
taffy
- xkbcommon
- console
- cosmic-text
- dialoguer
rpassword
- markdown
- image
- quick-xml
- pulldown-cmark
- html5ever
- linkify
- handlebars
- plist
- resvg
- ttf-parser
- schemars
- jsonschema
Side by side
neonzed
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
neon379,885 lines written659 code files
zed1,835,785 lines written1,779 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
neon0.1% of its commits signed by AIWith Devin
zed0.5% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
neonLast push August 31, 20268,459 commits23,296 stars
zedLast push November 4, 202637,547 commits92,679 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
neon281 test files12.4% of its code files have a test that imports them
zed140 test files18.1% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, neon or zed?
zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; neon has 379,885.
The proof: zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b
Which has more GitHub stars, neon or zed?
zed, with 92,679 stars; neon has 23,296.
The proof: zed-industries/zed on GitHub
Which has more tests, neon or zed?
neon, with 281 test files; zed has 140.
The proof: neondatabase/neon's code at commit fa50421
Which was updated more recently, neon or zed?
zed: its last push was on November 4, 2026, and neon's on August 31, 2026.
The proof: zed-industries/zed's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, neon or zed?
zed: an AI signed 0.5% of its commits, with Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI; in neon, 0.1%.
The proof: the commits each tool signed in zed-industries/zed
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