ByteDance merges TraeWork into TRAE and closes the old app 23 October

ByteDance merges TraeWork into TRAE and closes the old app 23 October

10 October 2026: ByteDance has merged TraeWork, its office AI agent, and TraeCode, its coding tool, into a single product called TRAE, and the standalone TraeWork service will close on 23 October 2026. TechNode reported the change on 10 October, saying ByteDance announced it on 9 October.

Not yet independently verified. The 23 October shutdown date rests on a TechNode report that cites TRAE's Chinese-language announcement. TRAE's documentation site carries a notice of the merger but we could not read its detail, and trae.ai itself shows only download and web links. We could not locate the Pandaily report. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

One app that plans, writes and codes

The combined app brings task planning, content creation and software development into one place. Until now the office agent and the coding tool were separate products.

TechNode describes two ways of working inside it. Agent mode manages tasks across projects. IDE mode, named after the integrated development environment developers write code in, handles detailed coding and debugging.

Desktop, web and mobile, with tasks that follow the user

The report says TRAE is available on desktop, web and mobile. A user can start a task on a computer and then follow its progress, or add instructions, from a phone. TRAE's homepage, read on 10 October, offers a download button and a web version, which links to work.trae.ai.

What carries across, and what the report leaves open

Existing TraeWork users can bring their chat history, account information and local data across through an in-app upgrade. TechNode links to a TRAE documentation page on migrating TraeWork data to TraeCode, written in Chinese. The report contains no quotation from a ByteDance executive and gives no pricing or plan changes.

It also does not say how existing TraeCode settings and projects carry over into the merged app. TRAE's documentation site, read on 11 October, shows a notice that TraeCode and TraeWork are merged into the all-new TRAE, which confirms the merger from the company's own side, though not the shutdown date.

Counting down to 23 October

For teams that adopted TraeWork for non-coding work, the date matters more than the feature list: anything kept only inside the standalone service has until 23 October to be moved or exported, and the in-app upgrade is the route the report names for chat history, account information and local data. Teams already on TraeCode are covered by the same merger notice, although the report does not set out what changes on screen.

The 23 October date comes from the report's account of TRAE's Chinese-language announcement, so a team that depends on TraeWork should check the notice inside the app itself.

Our AI coding assistant software category lists six products.

TRAE's homepage describes the product as "Collaborate with Intelligence" and carries the headline "Ship Faster with TRAE".

Sources

• TechNode: ByteDance merges TraeWork and TraeCode into unified TRAE platform, 10 October 2026
• TRAE documentation: notice that TraeCode and TraeWork are merged into the all-new TRAE (read 2026-10-11), 11 October 2026