Zed is a code editor with AI-powered edit predictions, including predictions from its Zeta model. The supplied search answer says that effective October 7, 2026, Zed will move full edit-prediction access to paid Pro and Business plans while retaining 2,000 predictions per month on the free Personal plan; Zed’s pricing and documentation support that free access is limited and paid access is unrestricted. The snippets do not directly establish the October 7 date or explicitly attribute the change to ongoing inference costs, and the claim that predictions are entirely “leaving” the free plan conflicts with the stated 2,000-prediction allowance.
Zed’s free-tier cap is consistent with Scott’s AI Unit Economics lens and his practical use of cost-tiered model routing: recurring inference must be budgeted against delivered value. However, the supplied evidence neither establishes inference cost as the cause nor shows complete removal from the free plan, so this is only a routine example of an existing position rather than a material extension or challenge.
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queries asked of Scott's wikis
- hosted inference economics for developer tools
- free-tier limits for AI coding features
- BYOK versus bundled AI subscriptions
- coding-agent and editor monetization models
- local models for low-latency edit prediction
- cost per accepted prediction
now 0 pts/hpeak 0 pts/hcomments 0/hpeers p14momentum: steady2 platformsage 1052h
points/hour across evidence · reading as of 2026-10-12 02:59:37.977291+11:00 · deterministic, not a model opinion
2026-09-10T23:41:27Z
This check adds no substantive evidence: the reported future access change remains plausible, but its exact scope and inference-cost rationale are not independently established. Local replacement interest still shows intent rather than a demonstrated migration; keep the bounded pricing watch on a slower cadence pending documentation or implementation evidence.
2026-09-08T22:44:01Z
There is no new substantive evidence: the quoted customer email and replacement-seeking user support a reported policy change, but not its exact scope or a demonstrated migration to local models. Keep this as a bounded pricing watch; the cached free-tier allowance may describe the existing policy rather than disprove the future change.
2026-09-06T22:05:17Z
No new evidence since last staleness check; the reported October change remains an unverified customer-email claim with conflicting scope. Substitution discussion is speculative. Recheck near Oct 7 or upon first-party documentation change.
2026-09-04T21:31:01Z
The refreshed discussion identifies plausible small local substitutes—Qwen Coder, Gemma, and Sweep models—making the substitution path more concrete, but no one reports an actual migration or independently confirms Zed’s date, scope, or cost rationale.
2026-09-04T16:34:06Z
A second user’s move toward local autocomplete makes substitution pressure credible and advances the case beyond a lone email report. It still does not resolve whether free predictions disappear entirely or become capped, nor independently confirm the date and inference-cost rationale.
2026-09-04T15:22:59Z
evidence attached: reddit.post.1w76ozf — This user is actively seeking a local replacement after Zed removed free edit predictions, providing evidence of substitution pressure around the paid feature.
2026-09-03T22:37:27Z
Another staleness check produced no corroboration, so the reported October change remains an unverified customer-email claim with conflicting evidence about whether free access is removed or merely capped. Recheck near the effective date or when Zed publishes first-party pricing or documentation.
2026-09-01T21:47:01Z
No new evidence arrived at the staleness check, so the reported October change remains an uncorroborated pricing notice with unresolved free-tier scope. Its meaning remains a routine inference-cost example, with first-party confirmation more useful than frequent rechecks.
2026-08-30T21:30:20Z
Two days brought only negligible engagement and no independent or first-party confirmation, leaving the reported October plan change and its exact free-tier scope unsettled. This remains a routine, low-relevance unit-economics example rather than evidence of a broader shift.
2026-08-28T20:43:49Z
The minor engagement change adds no corroboration; this remains a single-user report of a future pricing change whose exact free-tier impact conflicts with current grounding. It is still a routine inference-economics example, not evidence of a broader shift.
2026-08-28T20:41:09Z
grounded: converges/low — Zed’s free-tier cap is consistent with Scott’s AI Unit Economics lens and his practical use of cost-tiered model routing: recurring inference must be budgeted a
2026-08-28T20:37:21Z
case created — The announced plan change is a bounded pricing event that directly exposes the operating economics of AI coding assistance.