Discount with code applied — 50% off Pro or Max for 6 months
COMPARE · ZEST VS WAYDEV
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Waydev bills each active contributor, annually: Pro is $29 a month and Premium, with AI adoption and impact, $49, and a free Start Up plan covers 10 repositories.[1] Zest is priced per workspace with seats included, and works with GitHub only.
Waydev connects GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps and Gerrit, and its Enterprise plan can run self-hosted.[1] If your code is not on GitHub, or must stay on your own servers, Waydev fits and Zest does not.
Zest gets you:
Free for 3 seats · No credit card
Winding / Teams Last 30 days 
Zest
| Member | AI | PRs/wk | AI Task | Plan | Impl | Last Standup | AI Stack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22.8/wk | 28 min ago | ||||||
| 15.8/wk | 12 min ago | ||||||
| 4/wk | Aug 14 | ||||||
| — | 2 hours ago |
Demo setups use current model families. The pairings above are the combinations benchmarked by Artificial Analysis; rankings measure performance, not popularity.
Illustrative daily trends · Other totals: last 30 days. Build Hours: this week, model-estimated activity including overlap; not engineer hours.
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AT A GLANCE
 Zest | Waydev | |
|---|---|---|
| What you are billed for | The workspace, billed monthly: Pro includes 5 seats, more cost extra. | Each active contributor, an engineer who commits code, billed annually.[1] |
| Free plan or trial | Yes: Starter is free for 3 seats, no credit card. | Yes: A Start Up plan from $0 with 10 repos and 3 months of data; paid plans offer a trial on request.[1] |
| Self-hosting and on-prem Git | No: Zest is cloud-hosted and connects GitHub only. | Yes: Enterprise runs self-hosted or cloud-hosted, with on-prem GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Bitbucket.[1] |
| Git hosts | GitHub only, through the Zest GitHub App. | GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps and Gerrit; their on-prem versions on Enterprise.[1] |
| Comparing AI tools | Per session: each engineer's model, tokens and estimated cost in each agent, and which sessions ended in a merged pull request. | Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and Windsurf side by side on cost per commit, per PR and per feature.[2] |
| DORA metrics | No: Zest has no DORA metrics: pull request throughput and cycle time from GitHub only. | Yes: DORA metrics in its delivery reports.[1] |
Facts from each vendor's own pages and AWS Marketplace listings, dated in the sources below. ✓ listed, – partly, × not listed on the pages we read, which is not proof the product lacks it.
Waydev's AI adoption and impact reports come with Premium, priced per active contributor and billed for the year. Zest bills the workspace monthly, seats included. At list price:
| Engineers | Waydev Premium | Zest |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | $245/mo | $49/mo (Pro) |
| 10 | $490/mo | $144/mo (Pro) |
| 20 | $980/mo | $334/mo (Pro) |
Waydev's Enterprise plan runs self-hosted or cloud-hosted and connects the on-prem versions of GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket and Jira. Zest is cloud-hosted and connects GitHub through its GitHub App, nothing else. A team on GitLab or Bitbucket, or one that must host its own tools, should choose Waydev; DX and LinearB Enterprise also connect several Git hosts.
Waydev compares Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and Windsurf on cost per commit, per pull request and per feature; a tool that reports no cost, such as Copilot, counts as zero. Zest compares at the session: each engineer's model, tokens and estimated cost in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or Copilot Chat, and which sessions ended in a merged pull request. Copilot metrics covers what GitHub reports itself.
TRY IT ON YOUR TEAM
Starter is free (3 seats, no credit card). Pro is $49 a month with 5 seats and Max is $149 a month with 10 seats — priced per workspace, not per engineer, with extra seats at $19 a month.
A FEW THINGS TO KNOW
Waydev's pricing page lists a Start Up plan from $0, Pro at $29 and Premium at $49 per active contributor a month, billed annually, and a custom Enterprise quote (checked October 4, 2026).
Yes. Each engineer's sessions from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot Chat, Grok Build and Hermes land on one dashboard with their models, tokens and skills, next to the pull requests each session led to.
