Trae by ByteDance vs Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Trae by ByteDance
AI-native IDE from ByteDance
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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 | 7 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 5,000 autocomplete completions/month; 10 fast + 50 slow premium model requests (Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o, DeepSeek R1, Gemini 2.5 Pro); 1,000 advanced requests/month | 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 | $3/month (Lite plan, introduced February 24, 2026) | USD 32/user/month (Enterprise Dedicated Edition, minimum 100 users) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 1.6M+ monthly active users; 6M+ registered users (as of December 2025) | Over 13 million plugin downloads total by May 2025 (was 9 million by January 2025) |
| Founded | 2024 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd., a division of Alibaba Group) |
| Verdict | Nothing else this cheap does this much. Trae's $10 Pro plan includes the SOLO agent (a standalone app since March 2026), unlimited autocomplete and frontier-model access, and native Linux builds finally shipped in March... |
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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