Trae
Shares rank 8 of 9 AI code editors by recommenders
People recommend it for its interface, planning and one-shot task completion. Critics say plan credits were cut from $400 to $100.
People recommend it for its interface, planning and one-shot task completion. Critics say plan credits were cut from $400 to $100.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong interface design
“Trae of Cursor offer much better interface, harness and plan”
Comment from 21 May 2026 in “Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch” “the best UI is probably bytedance's TRAE”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “Google Antigravity” Fast one-shot task completion
“TRAE one-shotted this for me in two minutes.”
Comment from 14 Nov 2025 in “I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla” Good planning and harness
“Trae of Cursor offer much better interface, harness and plan”
Comment from 21 May 2026 in “Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Plan credits cut sharply
“just last week trae.ai reduced its plan credits from 400$ to 100$”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API” “reduced from 400$ to 100$ credits”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “OpenAI halved the allowance of the $200 plan to 10x”
Other AI code editors people recommend
The four most recommended other AI code editors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor | 853 | 820 | 51% | 13 | 1 yr65 owners | — |
| Google Antigravity | 337 | 576 | 37% | 13 | 1 mo26 owners | — |
| Windsurf | 42 | 27 | 61% | 10 | — | — |
| AWS Kiro | 36 | 37 | 49% | 11 | — | — |
| TraeThis page | 5 | 2 | 71% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“specifically Z.ai [0], ByteDance Trae [1] and Alibaba Qwen [2]”
“reduced from 400$ to 100$ credits”
“just last week trae.ai reduced its plan credits from 400$ to 100$”
“grok curor is highly superior results to trae.ai”
“Trae of Cursor offer much better interface, harness and plan”
“a less well thought out imitation of Trae's Solo mode”
“the best UI is probably bytedance's TRAE”
“TRAE one-shotted this for me in two minutes.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.