Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/quickwit-oss/quickwit/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/quickwit-oss/quickwit/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: 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.

# 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.

- [quickwit-oss/quickwit](https://seerepo.com/r/quickwit-oss/quickwit): Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability
- [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: aws-sdk-s3, sqlx, aws-sdk-kinesis, lru, AWS S3, Tokio, tower, dialoguer, tracing, prometheus, tracing-subscriber, env_logger
- Only in quickwit: rdkafka, aws-sdk-sqs, mini-moka, opendal, azure_storage, azure_storage_blobs, pulsar, quick_cache, Google, Kafka, warp, Vite, React, React Router, tabled, indicatif, sea-query, azure_identity, google-cloud-auth, reqsign-core, metrics, OpenTelemetry, tracing-opentelemetry, opentelemetry-otlp, aws-sdk-lambda, aws-runtime, azure_core, console-subscriber, google-cloud-googleapis, metrics-exporter-prometheus, opentelemetry-appender-tracing, @emotion/styled, MUI, monaco-editor, react-number-format, Swagger, @mui/icons-material
- Only in zed: axum, db, sqlez, sqlx-postgres, libsqlite3-sys, heed, moka, Postgres, 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, console, cosmic-text, 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, markdown_preview, image, quick-xml, pulldown-cmark, html5ever, tree-sitter-md, usvg, linkify, handlebars, mdbook, objc2-core-text, plist, resvg, ttf-parser, yaml-rust2, schemars, jsonschema, zlog, ztracing, log, simplelog, perf-event, tracing-tracy, tracy-client

## Side by side

| | quickwit | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 320,267 lines written, 645 code files | 1,852,865 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and Cursor | 0.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 11, 2026, 3,905 commits, 11,787 stars | Last push November 12, 2026, 37,638 commits, 94,758 stars |
| Tests | 60 test files. 19.2% of its code files have a test that imports them | 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, quickwit or zed?

zed, with 1,852,865 lines written; quickwit has 320,267.

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

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

zed, with 94,758 stars; quickwit has 11,787.

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

### 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](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/8a5cf7e23a7ce5797bb020a4b7be2ef1b7dc8f79)

### 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](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/commits)

### 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](https://seerepo.com/r/quickwit-oss/quickwit/ai)

## Sources

- quickwit-oss/quickwit: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit ea02864 (https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit/tree/ea02864a8b388b68d3a1a17602a6aba18ce592bc)
- 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.