Move your team from Trae to Windsurf.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Windsurf — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Trae is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both are built-in agentic assistants that can plan before acting. Moving a TRAE SOLO workflow into Windsurf: drive work through Cascade and lean on its planning capability (a specialized planning agent plus an editable Markdown plan file, stored under ~/.windsurf/plans and re-mentionable to re-implement) in place of TRAE SOLO Coder's Plan mode, and Cascade's Code mode for the build/test/preview loop that SOLO runs end to end. TRAE's spec-driven requirements/design/tasks documents map onto Windsurf Memories and Rules plus a checked-in plan file. Re-point MCP servers from SOLO Coder into Windsurf's MCP config (mcp_config.json or the MCP marketplace), and choose an equivalent model in Cascade's picker (both expose Claude/GPT/Gemini/DeepSeek families).
- Warning: TRAE's SOLO Coder calls user-defined custom sub-agents in isolated contexts (those sub-agents can also be run standalone); Windsurf decomposes work within a single Cascade (flow awareness, checkpoints, up to 20 tool calls per prompt) rather than via separately authored sub-agents.
- Warning: Cost models differ: Windsurf meters most models by a per-token credit multiplier (free SWE models excepted) while TRAE (since its early-2026 switch to token-based billing) meters a per-task 'Basic Usage' balance at cost = tokens x model API rate, topped up pay-as-you-go — re-estimate spend per task.
- Warning: Windsurf concurrency uses git worktrees (multiple Cascades); TRAE's parallelism is SOLO Coder fanning out to callable sub-agents — not a 1:1 mapping.
- Warning: TRAE applies a documented regional restriction (some built-in models, reported to include the GPT series and certain Gemini/MiniMax models, are unavailable to US users); Windsurf's available lineup for US users differs, so the specific model you relied on may not transfer directly. The exact restricted list changes — verify in TRAE's models docs.