Introduction
Zasper is an open-source, high-performance IDE for working with Jupyter notebooks. It’s built from scratch to be:
- Fast to start and fast to run
- Highly concurrent, with a small resource footprint
- Resilient under heavy load
It is cross-platform:
- Fully supported: macOS and Linux
- Limited support: Windows — for the best experience, use via WSL
Benchmarks
How is Zasper better than JupyterLab?

- Up to 5X less CPU usage
- Up to 40X less RAM usage
- Higher throughput
- Lower latency
- Highly resilient under very high loads
The full benchmark report, methodology and raw results are in the zasper-benchmark repository.
Screenshots
Editor

Terminal

Launcher

Jupyter Notebook

Version Control

Command Palette

Dark Mode

