Trae (incl. SOLO) · ByteDance
ByteDance's VS Code-based AI IDE, notable for aggressive pricing (free tier plus $3-$100/mo token-based tiers, restructured Feb 2026) and the SOLO mode (standalone app since March 31, 2026) that acts as an end-to-end 'context engineer' handling requirements, code, terminal, browser testing and deployment, with MCP (stdio/SSE/streamable HTTP) and custom agents — but persistent privacy/telemetry concerns.
Identity
| Homepage | https://www.trae.ai/ |
|---|---|
| License | proprietary |
| Domain | coding |
| Form factor | ide · desktop-app |
Model support
| Model-agnostic | partial |
|---|---|
| Native models | Doubao (ByteDance) · Claude (Anthropic) · GPT (OpenAI) · Gemini (Google) |
| Local models | ? unknown |
| Pricing | freemium |
Extensibility
| MCP client | ✓ yes |
|---|---|
| Agent Skills support | ? unknown |
| Plugins / hooks | ✓ yes |
Execution & safety
| Sandboxing | unknown |
|---|---|
| Autonomy spectrum | supervised → semi-autonomous → autonomous-local |
| Subagents | ? unknown |
| Parallel sessions | ? unknown |
| Context management | codebase-indexing |
Integration & evidence
| Headless / API | ? unknown |
|---|---|
| GitHub integration | ? unknown |
| Sources |
✓ profile last verified 2026-07-08 · benchmark figures are vendor-reported unless a source states otherwise