Mentat vs Jina Reader vs Trae vs Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
| MT Mentat Terminal-based multi-file coding assistant Visit |
Jina Reader
Prefix any URL with r.jina.ai and get clean, LLM-ready markdown back.
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Trae
ByteDance's free AI IDE — capable agent mode, shaky privacy record
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Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
Alibaba's AI coding assistant — rebranded Qoder CN in May 2026
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.9 / 10 | 7.9 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Keyless use at 20 RPM; free API key adds 10M tokens | — | Permanently free Individual Edition (no Agent turn cap); Individual Pro Edition is free during a limited preview period and includes up to 50 Agent conversation turns per month |
| Paid from | — | Prepaid token packs (dashboard-priced) | — | USD 32/user/month (Enterprise Dedicated Edition, minimum 100 users) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | — | Over 13 million plugin downloads total by May 2025 (was 9 million by January 2025) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2020 | 2024 | — |
| Maker | — | Elastic | — | Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd., a division of Alibaba Group) |
| Verdict | Mentat (MentatBot) is an autonomous AI coding agent that works across multiple files with project context, taking on GitHub issues, reviewing pull requests, fixing CI failures, and resolving merge conflicts as a fleet of... |
Jina Reader is the lowest-friction way to turn live web content into LLM-ready input. It converts URLs — web pages, PDFs, Office documents, images with AI captioning — into clean markdown via a simple URL prefix, and its... |
Trae is ByteDance's most credible swing at an agent-native IDE, and being free changes the calculus versus Cursor or Windsurf subscriptions. The model roster is deep — Doubao, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Qwen, MiniMax — switcha... |
This is now Qoder CN — Alibaba retired the Tongyi Lingma name on May 20, 2026 and folded the assistant into its Qoder agentic-coding line, with credit-metered pricing arriving the same day. The free-for-everyone era is o... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.