Overview
Manus is a general-purpose AI agent that executes multi-step tasks rather than only answering questions, including creating slides, building websites, producing video and design work, and running wide research. It is available on web, desktop and mobile, offers scheduled automations, and has a REST API for running agent tasks with webhooks. Plans are credit-based, with a free tier that refreshes daily credits.
Label: Vendor-described — Captured from the vendor's own materials. Not independently verified.
Best for
- Owners who want an agent to produce research, decks or sites end to end
- Marketers delegating multi-step content and research tasks
Key features
- Autonomous multi-step task execution
- Slides, websites and design generation
- Wide Research
- Scheduled automations
- Developer API with webhooks
What it does
- Executes multi-step tasks autonomously
- Creates slides, websites, games, video and designs
- Wide Research across many sources
- Scheduled automations
- REST API for agent tasks with file attachments and webhooks
- Team plan with SSO and access controls
Use cases
Not mapped to a use case yet.
Drawbacks & cautions
- Credit-based usage; complex tasks consume credits
- Free plan allows only 1 concurrent task and 2 scheduled automations
- Data-training opt-out is listed as a Team plan feature
What users say
Trustpilot reviews are overwhelmingly negative, focused on billing surprises, credit burn and hard-to-reach support; Trustpilot notes the company does not invite reviews. A minority of reviewers say the agent itself can be impressive.
What people like
- Underlying agent can be impressive at building apps and systems uk.trustpilot.com
Common complaints
- Support is mostly bots and hard to reach a human uk.trustpilot.com
- Unexpected charges and difficulty cancelling or getting refunds uk.trustpilot.com
- Credits drain fast, including on the agent's own errors uk.trustpilot.com
Scores are shown as each site published them on the date checked. They come from those sites' reviewers, not from us, and they never affect our rankings. Ratings based on fewer than 10 reviews are left out. The summaries are our own words, gathered Oct 22, 2026; follow the links to read the reviews.
Alternatives
- Activepieces — Open-source workflow automation and AI agents with 760+ integrations, cloud or self-hosted
- Botpress — Platform for building AI agents for customer support across webchat, WhatsApp and helpdesks
- Chatbase — Build AI agents trained on your content to answer customers across chat, email and voice
- Genspark — AI workspace with agents for slides, sheets, research, phone calls and a desktop agent
Evidence
| Fact | Label | Source | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| capabilities | Vendor-described | manus.im | Oct 22, 2026 |
| hasApi | Vendor-described | open.manus.ai | Oct 22, 2026 |
| pricing | Vendor-described | help.manus.im | Oct 22, 2026 |
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