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ByteDance · #6 most active of 24 in Coding

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A Cursor-style AI IDE from ByteDance with a builder mode and heavily subsidised pricing.

Current version

2.1

Entry cost

Free tier, Pro $3/mo in most markets

Changes / 30d

2

Capabilities

  • Builder mode
  • SOLO agent
  • Multi-file edits
  • MCP support
  • Rules files

Pricing

  • Free

    Free

  • Pro

    $3

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Claude Sonnet 4.5

    Anthropic

    disclosed

  • Doubao

    ByteDance

    disclosed

  • GPT-5.2

    OpenAI

    disclosed

Context window

model dependent

Public API

no

Multi-model routing

yes

Stack signals

  • VS Code fork
  • MCP
  • Volcano Engine backend

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • capability

    SOLO autonomous agent mode opened to free users

    Builder modeBuilder mode, SOLO agent

    source
  • pricing

    Pro tier repriced to $3/mo in most markets

    103

    source