head to head/AI Coding Assistants

Agent Island vs Zed

Neck and neck on boosts. Profiles, pricing and deals below.

Agent Island

status companion for your AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Grok, Cursor)

community boosts

0

pricing

Freemium

what it is

Free, open-source status companion for your AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Grok, and Cursor: live session state, your-turn alerts, quotas and cost, all computed locally. No telemetry.

Zed

The blazing-fast editor built in Rust, with AI aboard

community boosts

0

pricing

Open source

what it is

Zed is a from-scratch code editor engineered for speed - GPU-rendered, instant startup - with multiplayer editing and AI assistance built in. From the creators of Atom, open source and free.