Warning: Trae IDE’s New Token Pricing Destroyed My Workflow Overnight – Don’t Get Caught Off Guard
Hey everyone, I've been a Trae IDE user for over a year now, relying on it for custom agents, coding (PHP, Python, JS, etc.), and even casual sanity-keeping chats. The old Pro plan ($10/mo) gave me 600 fast requests + unlimited slow ones, which easily lasted me 3+ weeks of moderate use. It felt like good value for an AI-powered IDE. But after their February 2026 switch to token-based pricing, it's a nightmare. Yesterday, I spent the day trying (and failing) to hook up a local LLM (via LM Studio) to bypass cloud costs – something that used to be easier with providers like Ollama, but that's disappeared from the list. Ended up burning through $38 in one day on just 127 requests. That's twice my monthly $20 Basic allowance on a fraction of my old usage... For context: Many of those requests w...









