AI IDEFree start

Trae

ByteDance

Trae is an AI IDE from ByteDance. It offers chat, inline edits, and a builder-style agent in a desktop app. Availability and price differ by region. Confirm both on trae.ai before you depend on it.

6.5

Preliminary

Editorial score out of 10. Not a benchmark.

What we tried

Installed the desktop app and asked for a component edit in a small project. It behaves like the other AI IDEs. We are not ranking it against Cursor on a shared suite.

Scores are preliminary editorial notes from a short hands-on pass. They are not benchmark results, not pass rates, and not for sale. A shared task suite is not published yet, so we do not print speed, cost, or success-rate figures.

Preliminary notes

Setup7/10
Editing7/10
Agent work6/10
Docs and control6/10

Good fit

Trying another AI IDE beside Cursor or Windsurf
Chat-to-edit in a desktop app

Limits

Region and plan limits are easy to misread
Docs and account rules are less familiar than GitHub or Anthropic

Often compared with

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Cursor
Anysphere
8.2
A desktop code editor with inline edits and agents that can change a repo and run commands.
Free Hobby plan and paid plans. Confirm the current price on cursor.com.
Preliminary · Free start
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Windsurf
Cognition
7.5
An AI IDE with inline edits and an agent. Cognition acquired the product in 2025.
Free tier and paid plans. Confirm the current price on windsurf.com.
Preliminary · Free start
AI IDE
Kiro
Amazon
6.8
Amazon's agentic IDE. It writes a spec before it edits, then works through tasks.
Preview access. Confirm price and availability on kiro.dev.
Preliminary

What we tried

Preliminary notes

Good fit

Limits

Often compared with

Cursor

Windsurf

Kiro