The matchup desk
Cursor or Zed
Two tools, read side by side from their own public pages.
Cursor
Coding agent
Cursor is a coding agent that helps developers plan, build, and review software across desktop, CLI, Slack, and other surfaces.
- Autonomous agents
- Parallel agents
- Codebase search
- Codebase understanding
- Team rules
- Plan mode
- Code review
- CLI
Zed
AI IDE
Zed is a minimal code editor built for speed and collaboration with humans and AI.
- Parallel agents
- Debugger
- Agentic editing
- Native Git support
- Edit prediction
- Remote development
- Multibuffer editing
- Vim bindings