Manus
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveAutonomous agent that runs tasks in its own sandbox
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $20/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
The pricing page renders no figures without JavaScript, so prices come from the vendor's help centre and team page: Free gives 300 credits refreshed daily and one concurrent task; Pro starts at $20/month for 4,000 credits or $40/month for 8,000 (with a 7-day trial), both with 20 concurrent tasks and a 17% annual discount; Team is from $20 per seat per month or $200 per seat per year with 4,000 credits per seat pooled across the team and add-on credits; Enterprise is quoted. The former Basic and Plus plans have been folded into Pro.
Use tool ↗About Manus
Manus takes a goal in plain language and works through it in its own cloud sandbox — a browser, a terminal and a file system — returning finished artifacts such as research reports, slide decks, spreadsheets or small deployed websites. Progress is shown step by step as a plan the user can inspect, sessions can be replayed, and credits are consumed as the agent runs and calls tools. A free tier refreshes 300 credits a day, Pro plans start at $20 a month for 4,000 credits, and Team pools 4,000 credits per seat across a workspace with bring-your-own model keys. The operator is Butterfly Effect Pte. Ltd. in Singapore.
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Vendor help centre: Free $0 with 300 daily refresh credits and 1 concurrent task; Pro from $20/month for 4,000 credits or $40/month for 8,000 with a 7-day trial and 20 concurrent tasks, 17% discount on annual billing; Team from $20 per seat per month; Basic and Plus renamed to Pro (15 October 2026)help.manus.im ↗
- Team page: from US$20 per seat per month or US$200 per seat per year, 4,000 credits per seat shared across the team, add-on credits with auto-purchase, bring-your-own API key, Enterprise by contact (15 October 2026)manus.im ↗
- Terms of service: agreement is with Butterfly Effect Pte. Ltd., governed by the laws of Singapore with SIAC arbitration (15 October 2026)manus.im ↗
Is Manus legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Amazon, valid until Mar 1, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Butterfly Effect Pte. Ltd., SingaporeOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of 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
Best for
- Knowledge workers who want a report, deck or small site produced end to end from a brief
- Teams that want pooled credits and shared workspaces on a per-seat plan
- Trying autonomous agents without setting up a sandbox yourself
Not for
- Tasks that need access to internal systems the sandbox cannot reach
- Anyone who needs predictable per-task cost — credit use varies with how long the agent runs
Watch out: A run that goes down the wrong path still burns credits; keep briefs tight and check the plan the agent proposes before letting it continue.
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