Trae

TRAE is the AI development platform from ByteDance, combining the TRAE IDE (a fork of VS Code optimized for AI workflows) with TRAE SOLO, the autonomous coding agent that operates on web and desktop. Launched in 2024, TRAE has grown rapidly as a competitive challenger to Cursor and Windsurf. Its strengths are parallel autonomous task execution and aggressive pricing that undercuts the established AI IDE tier. Pricing is freemium across five plans. A permanently free plan provides the TRAE IDE with limited monthly usage, standard queue, and 5,000 autocompletions per month. Lite at $3/month, or $2.25/month billed annually, provides $5 in basic and bonus usage credits, unlimited autocomplete, and up to 2 concurrent cloud tasks in TRAE SOLO. Pro at $10/month (7-day free trial) provides $20 in basic and bonus usage, full TRAE IDE with SOLO mode, and up to 10 concurrent cloud tasks. Pro+ at $30/month adds 3.5x more usage than Pro and up to 15 concurrent cloud tasks. Ultra at $100/month adds 20x more usage than Pro, model early access, and up to 20 concurrent cloud tasks. Annual billing offers 25% savings across all tiers. TRAE differentiates from Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code through the multi-agent SOLO architecture. TRAE SOLO supports multiple concurrent cloud tasks running in parallel: a developer can launch 10 to 20 agentic tasks simultaneously and review them as they complete. This is materially more efficient than single-task sequential tools. The Lite tier at $3/month is cheaper than any major competitor, making TRAE accessible for developers evaluating AI IDE tools at lower commitment. TRAE supports MCP via stdio, SSE, and Streamable HTTP transport types. The platform supports Claude, GPT, and Gemini through the IDE. Data practices: user chat data including code snippets may be stored and used for analytics, product improvement, and model training unless Privacy Mode is enabled. Codebase files are temporarily uploaded for embedding computation then permanently deleted. TRAE is backed by ByteDance with substantial engineering investment. ByteDance ownership creates geopolitical procurement considerations for some US enterprise buyers. G2 reviews are limited (5 reviews at 3.5/5) providing minimal third-party sentiment data. Teams requiring established enterprise procurement workflows may find Cursor ($20/month) or GitHub Copilot ($19/month) more mature. As of Q3 2026, TRAE has added Design Mode for generating design drafts and exporting design to code, Voice Chat with web search, and Global Memory for retaining context across past interactions.