Trae

Trae is an AI-first editor from ByteDance that bundles chat, an agent, and premium models like Claude and GPT into a familiar VS Code-style interface, with a genuinely usable free tier. It is a low-cost way to get a Cursor-style experience, with paid plans starting around $10 a month. The tradeoff is ByteDance ownership, which raises data and privacy questions for some teams, and heavier AI use is still metered by usage on the paid tiers.