Devin vs Manus

Devin

Devin is the agent to hand a whole ticket to and walk away from, and the $20 Pro tier makes that affordable to try for the first time. The quota is the catch: a long autonomous session can exhaust a plan quickly, and once it does you are paying API rates, so it suits teams that batch well-scoped tasks rather than developers who want a tireless pair programmer in the loop.

Pros

• +End-to-end autonomy: plans, codes, tests and opens the pull request from its own cloud machine
• +Fans one large task out across parallel agents and manages them itself
• +Native Slack, Linear, Jira and GitHub integration plus Desktop and CLI clients
• +Entry price dropped to $20 a month, far below the original enterprise-only positioning

Cons

• −Quotas are described only qualitatively ('light', 'generous'), so cost per task is hard to predict
• −Overage is billed at API pricing, which is where a runaway agent session gets expensive
• −Team tier adds a flat $80 a month on top of $40 per full user
• −Pages are heavily client-rendered; the terms live on cognition.com, not devin.ai

Manus

Manus is for delegating a whole task — research a market, build a small site, clean a dataset — and reading the result later, with a replayable trail of what the agent did. It is strongest on bounded, verifiable jobs and weakest when the task needs judgement calls mid-way, and the credit meter makes long multi-step runs expensive to repeat: a failed run costs the same as a good one.

Pros

• +Runs in its own cloud sandbox with browser, terminal and files, so nothing is installed locally
• +Step-by-step progress and session replay make the agent's work auditable
• +Published plans: Free with daily credits, Pro from $20, Team from $20 a seat with pooled credits
• +Bring-your-own API key is supported on Team for model access

Cons

• −Credits are consumed by run time and tool calls, so cost per finished task is hard to predict
• −The original Basic and Plus plans were folded into Pro, and the pricing page itself shows no figures without JavaScript
• −Operator is a Singapore entity with disputes under SIAC arbitration, which matters for enterprise procurement

Is Devin cheaper than Manus?

Both publish the same entry price, $20/mo. The difference is what each plan includes, which the fact table above sets side by side.

Does Devin or Manus have a free tier?

Both: Devin has a free tier, and Manus has a free tier.

Which has a public API, Devin or Manus?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.