quickwit vs zed

quickwit and zed share 12 technologies: aws-sdk-s3, sqlx, aws-sdk-kinesis, lru, AWS S3, Tokio, tower, dialoguer, tracing, prometheus, tracing-subscriber, and env_logger. Both are written in Rust.

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What they share and what sets them apart

quickwit-oss

quickwit

Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability

Rust11.8kRead on November 12, 2026, at commit ea02864What is quickwit built with?

Only in quickwit

In common

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.

Rust94.8kRead on November 12, 2026, at commit 8a5cf7eWhat is zed built with?

Only in zed

Side by side

SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
quickwit320,267 lines written645 code files
zed1,852,865 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.
quickwit2% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code and Cursor
zed0.5% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Cursor
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
quickwitLast push November 11, 20263,905 commits11,787 stars
zedLast push November 12, 202637,638 commits94,758 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
quickwit60 test files19.2% of its code files have a test that imports them
zed140 test files18.4% of its code files have a test that imports them

Frequently asked questions

Which is bigger, quickwit or zed?
zed, with 1,852,865 lines written; quickwit has 320,267.

The proof: zed-industries/zed's code at commit 8a5cf7e

Which has more GitHub stars, quickwit or zed?
zed, with 94,758 stars; quickwit has 11,787.

The proof: zed-industries/zed on GitHub

Which has more tests, quickwit or zed?
zed, with 140 test files; quickwit has 60.

The proof: zed-industries/zed's code at commit 8a5cf7e

Which was updated more recently, quickwit or zed?
zed: its last push was on November 12, 2026, and quickwit's on November 11, 2026.

The proof: zed-industries/zed's commits on GitHub

Which has more commits signed by AI, quickwit or zed?
quickwit: an AI signed 2% of its commits, with Claude Code and Cursor; in zed, 0.5%.

The proof: the commits each tool signed in quickwit-oss/quickwit

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