Trae Platform Integrates Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro for Web Development
The Trae platform has rolled out a significant update, now supporting Google's newly released Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview model. This integration strengthens Trae's position in front-end development and user interface design, offering developers advanced tools for creating dynamic web applications.
Benchmark Dominance Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview currently tops the WebDev Arena rankings with an Elo score of 1443 – a 35-point jump from its previous version. It outperforms competitors like Claude3.7Sonnet and GPT-4.1 in building visually appealing, functional web applications. The model excels in code generation, UI design, and responsive layouts, earning praise from developers worldwide.
Beyond front-end capabilities, the update enhances performance in code conversion, editing, and complex proxy workflows. Gemini 2.5 Pro also leads the LMArena coding leaderboard, demonstrating versatility across general programming tasks.
Multimodal Strengths The model shows remarkable abilities in video understanding (scoring 84.8% on VideoMME) and complex reasoning tasks like Aider Polyglot and GPQA. These features allow developers to create complete interactive web applications from single prompts – a game-changer for rapid prototyping.
Accessibility and Pricing Trae has made Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview freely available to users through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. The pricing structure remains unchanged at $1.25 per million tokens for input and $10 per million tokens for output, maintaining cost-effectiveness for enterprise applications.
Industry response has been overwhelmingly positive, with developers dubbing it the "best web UI generator." Adoption is growing rapidly on platforms like Cursor and Replit. Google plans further demonstrations at I/O2025, potentially sparking innovation in AI-driven blockchain and decentralized applications.
Key Points
- Trae now supports Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, boosting web development tools
- The model leads WebDev Arena with a 1443 Elo score
- Excels in video understanding (84.8% on VideoMME) and complex reasoning
- Free access through Google AI Studio with unchanged pricing
- Industry adoption growing on Cursor and Replit platforms