Trae
A Cursor-style AI IDE from ByteDance with a builder mode and heavily subsidised pricing.
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Trae vs Tongyi Lingma
Trae (ByteDance) and Tongyi Lingma (Alibaba) both sit in Coding. Tongyi Lingma is the cheaper entry point at Free for individuals and enterprise basic usage.. Tongyi Lingma shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (9 vs 3). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Trae ByteDance | Tongyi Lingma Alibaba |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Coding | Coding |
| Version | 2.1 | 2.0 |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $20/mo | Free for individuals and enterprise basic usage. |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · Pro $20 · Pro+ $60 · Ultra $200 | Personal Edition (个人版) free · Enterprise Standard Edition (企业标准版) / Qoder CN free |
| Model stack | Claude 3.5 Sonnet · Claude Sonnet 4.5 · Claude/GPT/custom models · disclosed models not mentioned in pricing text · Doubao · GPT-4o · GPT-5.2 · TraeCode · Unspecified AI models | Qwen · Qwen3-Coder · Tongyi Qianwen · Tongyi Qwen |
| Context window | model dependent | 1M tokens (repo indexing) |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 3 | 9 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Builder mode, SOLO agent, Multi-file edits, MCP support, Rules files, Unlimited Autocomplete, TRAE IDE - SOLO mode, Concurrent cloud tasks | Agent mode, Repo-level context, Unit test generation, Qoder IDE, Code completion, AI chat, Multi-file editing, Image to code |
Tongyi Lingma
IDE plugin plus agent mode built on Qwen-Coder, widely deployed inside Chinese enterprises.
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