Trae is an agentic IDE from ByteDance forked from VS Code. It provides chat, multi-model switching, autocomplete, and TRAE SOLO — an autonomous mode that accepts a written spec, decomposes it into tasks, and executes them across files without step-by-step supervision. Desktop and web clients are available.
TRAE SOLO runs against concurrent cloud-task quotas: 2 on Free/Lite, 10 on Pro ($10/month), 15 on Pro+, 20 on Ultra. Multi-model switching covers Claude, GPT, and others with no per-model surcharge within the tier.
Independent security research (Unit 221B, March 2025) documented extensive telemetry including persistent connections to ByteDance servers, full file content transmission in some channels, hardware fingerprinting, and no opt-out mechanism. ByteDance's privacy policy retains personal data for 5 years and non-personal data indefinitely. No third-party compliance attestation exists for the Trae product.
