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TRAE Lite

TRAEentry
$8
$7 billed annually
Last checked: 2026-10-27
Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Türkiye, Malaysia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Nigeria price
First limit you hit
8 USD of Basic Usage per month
Equivalent API value
$8Priced on GPT-5.4
Value multiple
1.00×
When it runs out
Billed by token at the provider's standard API pricing, charged "each time the accumulated amount reaches $3".
Scenario
Interactive use only

Allowances

8USD of Basic Usage per month
›The vendor's own wording
The plan table gives the Lite column "Recurring monthly price" "$8/month", "Annual price" "$80/year (approximately $6.70/month)" and "Dollar Usage quota" "$8/month".
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Models included

ModelCapabilityBurn rate
GPT-5.4untiered—Not sold to US users: "The following AI models are not available to users in the United States: GPT series and MiniMax series."
GPT-5.2untiered—Not sold to US users: "The following AI models are not available to users in the United States: GPT series and MiniMax series."
Dola-Seed-2.0-Codeuntiered—
MiniMax-M3untiered—Not sold to US users: "The following AI models are not available to users in the United States: GPT series and MiniMax series."
MiniMax-M2.7untiered—Not sold to US users: "The following AI models are not available to users in the United States: GPT series and MiniMax series."
Kimi-K2.5untiered—
Gemini-3.1-Pro-Previewuntiered—
Gemini-3-Flash-Previewuntiered—

Subscription versus your own API key

This compares two ways of working the same way — in an IDE or CLI, where BYOK tools make a direct API key a real option. It is not a claim that subscriptions are cheaper than the API in general.

ModelEffective price / 1M tokensvs API rateBreakeven
MiniMax-M3untiered$0.531.0015.2M
MiniMax-M2.7untiered$0.261.0030.4M
Gemini-3-Flash-Previewuntiered$0.51.0016.1M

Usage terms

Quoted from the vendor's own terms. We do not give legal advice.

What the plan grants is a balance, not an endpoint: "Dollar Usage — The core billing concept in TRAE, referring to actual US dollar currency, which is used as the final deduction unit for each user's chat. All token-generated costs are internally converted to Dollar and then deducted." Models TRAE does not host arrive on your own credentials — the custom-model flow asks you to supply "the API format, request URL, model ID, and authentication information". Spending past the balance is a switch on the same account rather than a second product: "Only Lite, Pro, Pro+, and Ultra users can use the On-demand Usage feature."

Change history

  1. 2026-10-14Recorded from the seed file
  2. 2026-07-29Recorded from the seed file