What is Trae?
Trae is listed under AI IDEs & Editors, in the Code & Development category on Flocci AI Tools. ByteDance's free AI IDE. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at trae.ai.
What Trae does
- ByteDance's free AI IDE
- SOLO agent builder mode
- Access to frontier models
- Generous free usage
Trae — straight answers
Is Trae free?
Trae is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 426 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
Can I use Trae in a browser, or is there an app?
Trae needs to be installed or self-hosted — it doesn't run in a browser tab. It is available on Mac, Windows and the web.
What can Trae do?
Trae does 4 things the catalog singles out: Bytedance's free ai ide; solo agent builder mode; access to frontier models; generous free usage.
What is the best free alternative to Trae?
Eclipse Theia IDE is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI IDEs & Editors sub-category and is free. Kiro, CodeBuddy (Tencent) and Cursor also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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