Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/vectordotdev/vector/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/vectordotdev/vector/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: vector and zed share 14 technologies: axum, aws-sdk-s3, lru, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, Tokio, tower, quick-xml, handlebars, jsonschema, tracing, log, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

# vector vs zed

vector and zed share 14 technologies: axum, aws-sdk-s3, lru, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, Tokio, tower, quick-xml, handlebars, jsonschema, tracing, log, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

- [vectordotdev/vector](https://seerepo.com/r/vectordotdev/vector): A high-performance observability data pipeline.
- [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, aws-sdk-s3, lru, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, Tokio, tower, quick-xml, handlebars, jsonschema, tracing, log, tracing-subscriber
- Only in vector: sqlx-postgres, tokio-postgres, Redis, MongoDB, aws-sdk-kinesis, opendal, Kafka, warp, Tailwind CSS, crossterm, Ratatui, indicatif, aws-sdk-sts, azure_identity, parquet, csv, metrics, azure_core, tracing-core, aws-sdk-iam
- Only in zed: GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, smol, objc2-foundation, objc2-app-kit, tiny_http, core-services, swash, gpui_platform, accesskit, wgpu, objc2-quartz-core, objc2-ui-kit, x11rb, core-graphics, wayland-client, taffy, xkbcommon, console, cosmic-text, dialoguer, jsonwebtoken, rpassword, markdown, image, pulldown-cmark, html5ever, linkify, plist, resvg, ttf-parser, schemars, env_logger

## Side by side

| | vector | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 472,373 lines written, 1,238 code files | 1,835,785 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.9% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI |
| Activity | Last push November 4, 2026, 14,656 commits, 22,799 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 37,547 commits, 92,679 stars |
| Tests | 242 test files. 28% of its code files have a test that imports them | 140 test files. 18.1% 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, vector or zed?

zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; vector has 472,373.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

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

zed, with 92,679 stars; vector has 22,799.

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

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

vector, with 242 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: [vectordotdev/vector's code at commit 1bac1b8](https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/tree/1bac1b840fd5071a35cb8a1c66a857c3a555c9ca)

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

Both got their last push on November 4, 2026.

The proof: [vectordotdev/vector's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/commits)

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

vector: an AI signed 0.9% of its commits, with Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot; in zed, 0.5%.

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

## Sources

- vectordotdev/vector: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit 1bac1b8 (https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/tree/1bac1b840fd5071a35cb8a1c66a857c3a555c9ca)
- zed-industries/zed: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit e21ff1b (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

## 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.