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Agents tracked: 271 Downloads (7d): 219M up 6.1% GitHub stars: 5.5M VS Code installs: 151M Releases (7d): 291 Agent status: 2 with issues Updated Oct 8, 2026

Traycer by Traycer AI

Open-source desktop app for planning and orchestrating AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and others) in parallel, each in its own git worktree. Turns ideas into specs and tickets, supports agent-to-agent communication, code review of diffs, shared context across models, and team collaboration.

AI IDEs and editor agents New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 8, 2026Agent orchestration desktop appOpen source · MITFree to start
Price
Free + $16/mo
free tier available
Popularity
#15 in IDEs
Gid Score 31 / 100 · #131 of 271 overall
Trend
Growing fast
usage up 69.7% over 30 days
Development
Actively updated
latest 1.5.0, yesterday
Community
1,596 GitHub stars
VS Code rating 4.3 / 5

What Traycer does

Key facts

MakerTraycer AI
TypeAgent orchestration desktop app
LicenseMIT
InterfacesDesktop app, CLI, IDE extension, Mobile app
Main languageTypeScript
Open issues and PRs287

Pricing

Free plan ($0, bring your own coding agent); Sync for teams at $16/user/month billed yearly ($20 billed monthly); Traycer Credits for models run through Traycer and cloud sandboxes are billed extra.

Source: official pricing page, checked Oct 8, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.

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Quick answers

  • Free to start?Yes
  • Open source?Yes (MIT)
  • Where you use itDesktop app, CLI, IDE extension, Mobile app
  • Closest alternativeCursor · all alternatives

Get started with Traycer

npmnpm install -g @traycerai/cli
VS Codecode --install-extension Traycer.traycer-vscode

These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.

Compare Traycer with another agent

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8
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72 — — — — 33.3K+3/day — Free + $20/mo
9
GitHub CopilotGitHub (Microsoft)
71 — — — 78.7M — — Free + $10/mo
20
ZedZed Industries
59 — — — — 91.4K+52/day 1.23.2yesterday Free + $10/mo
30
WarpWarp
54 — — — — 65.4K+23/day 0.2026.06.03.…4mo ago Free + $20/mo
32
JunieJetBrains
54 327 down 54.9% — — 471+1/day 3704.1yesterday Free + $10/mo
43
Orca NewStably
50 — — — — 87K+712/day 1.4.222yesterday Free (OSS)

Traycer news

All AI agent news

  1. New on AgentGid AgentGid

    13 agents added to AgentGid

    CodeGPT, Traycer, Command Code, Lemonade, Vellum, Agent Zero, ZCode, openJiuwen, Do Browser, PostQode, Ito, Mira and 1 more

  2. Release GitHub Releases

    Traycer 1.5.0 released

    test(desktop): stop a replayed FSEvents edge racing the hysteresis test (#2210) (ca3b5bd); fix(desktop): make the pid.json start-gap test deterministic, log lost watcher edges (#2222) (78f0b36); fix(gui-app): no ghost cursor while a TUI paints a synchronized…

  3. Release GitHub Releases

    Traycer 1.4.2 released

    test(gui-app): order F21 manual read-back after automatic completion (#2262) (72f9380); fix(gui-app): avoid blocking audio setup during startup (#2260) (6094f5d); fix(gui-app): slide the landing terminal panel instead of resizing it (#2266) (1a954c9) (+2…

What changed: recent Traycer releases

26 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog

1.5.0
  • test(desktop): stop a replayed FSEvents edge racing the hysteresis test (#2210) (ca3b5bd)
  • fix(desktop): make the pid.json start-gap test deterministic, log lost watcher edges (#2222) (78f0b36)
  • fix(gui-app): no ghost cursor while a TUI paints a synchronized frame (#2224) (5226395)
  • fix(gui-app): let a failed host update be dismissed from Settings (#2225) (31c32c1)
  • fix(gui-app): the provider sign-in dialog leaves its pending state when the login start is refused (#2227) (892c95d)
  • fix(cli,desktop): stop reporting expected states to Sentry (#2228) (60a9e38)
1.5.0
  • Traycer Host 1.5.0.
1.5.0
  • fix(gui-app): no ghost cursor while a TUI paints a synchronized frame (#2224) (5226395)
  • fix(cli,desktop): stop reporting expected states to Sentry (#2228) (60a9e38)
  • fix(gui): stop worktree stream version feedback loop (#2229) (2498382)
  • chore: raise in-range catalog floors (#2231) (ce93adf)
  • feat(gui-app): Customize visual layout editor (experimental) (#2021) (ab95223)
  • protocol: sync released baseline surface fixture (#2236) (f0e81eb)
1.4.2
  • test(gui-app): order F21 manual read-back after automatic completion (#2262) (72f9380)
  • fix(gui-app): avoid blocking audio setup during startup (#2260) (6094f5d)
  • fix(gui-app): slide the landing terminal panel instead of resizing it (#2266) (1a954c9)
  • fix(gui-app): stop the Start Page scrolling sideways behind a collapsed panel (#2273) (851df36)
  • fix(gui-app): replace the removed Codex --full-auto suggestion (#2276) (b01b900)
  • fix(desktop): allow registration after host bootout (#2278) (fbc14bf)
1.4.2
  • Traycer Host 1.4.2.
1.4.2
  • fix(notifications): link a parked shell-output delivery row to its chat (#2279) (ef379d8)
  • test(shared): make the contender fixtures' barrier writes race-free (#2285) (bee45c6)
  • fix(providers): scope login cancellation to the owning attempt (#2283) (78643c8)
  • fix(cli,protocol): gate repeated CLI failures per machine; keep the released lease on request-ended errors (#2286) (8a67298)
  • fix(protocol): keep a marking span's first two attempts in the fold region (#2287) (f3df0e6)

Traycer popularity and usage data

Traycer was downloaded 498 times from npm in the week ending Oct 5, 2026, up 126.4% on the week before and up 69.7% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. Its VS Code extension has 42.4K installs and average 4.3 out of 5 across 7 marketplace ratings. The GitHub repository has 1,596 stars, 223 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.5.0, published Oct 7, 2026; there were 16 stable releases in the past 30 days.

Downloads per daynpm, 7-day average 71/day
GitHub starsrunning total 1,596
VS Code installsVisual Studio Marketplace, daily snapshots 42.4K
Website rankTranco list; a lower rank means more traffic #137,004

Download the raw daily series: traycer.csv

Gid Score breakdown

Adoption29
Community8
Attention—
Momentum85

Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.

Traycer FAQ

How much does Traycer cost?

Free plan ($0, bring your own coding agent); Sync for teams at $16/user/month billed yearly ($20 billed monthly); Traycer Credits for models run through Traycer and cloud sandboxes are billed extra.

Is Traycer open source?

Yes. Traycer is open source, released under the MIT license.

How popular is Traycer?

Traycer was downloaded 498 times from npm in the week ending Oct 5, 2026, up 126.4% on the week before and up 69.7% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. Its VS Code extension has 42.4K installs and average 4.3 out of 5 across 7 marketplace ratings. The GitHub repository has 1,596 stars, 223 of them added in the last 30 days.

What is the latest version of Traycer?

The latest stable release we track is 1.5.0, published on Oct 7, 2026.

What are the alternatives to Traycer?

The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Zed, Warp.

For the makers of Traycer badges, corrections

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AgentGid: #15 in IDEs Gid Score: 31/100

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Where these numbers come from

npm: @traycerai/cli. GitHub: traycerai/traycer. VS Code Marketplace: Traycer.traycer-vscode. Site rank: traycer.ai on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.

Product facts and pricing were checked against: traycer.ai, docs.traycer.ai, github.com, raw.githubusercontent.com, marketplace.visualstudio.com.