Salesforce Agentforce vs ChatGPT vs Manus AI vs Microsoft Copilot
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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ChatGPT
The most widely used AI assistant — now on GPT-5.6, from OpenAI
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Manus AI
Autonomous general-purpose AI agent
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 9.2 / 10 | 7 / 10 | 8.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free: Agent Builder + 200,000 Flex Credits + 250,000 Data 360 Credits | GPT-5-class model with daily message limits | — | Free on Bing, Edge, Windows and the Copilot apps |
| Paid from | Flex Credits: $500 / 100k credits (standard action = 20 credits, ~$0.10); alt $2/conversation | $20/month (Plus); free, Go, Pro, and Team/Enterprise tiers also offered | Free (300 credits); Standard $20/mo; Customizable $40/mo; Extended $200/mo | Microsoft 365 Premium ~$19.99/mo; M365 Copilot $30/user/mo (Business from $18/mo promo) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | Salesforce enterprise install base | ~900M weekly active users (1B+ monthly active app users as of mid-2026) | Viral 2M+ waitlist at launch; opened to all users May 2025 | ~420M monthly active users across all Copilot surfaces (Microsoft, Q1 2026) |
| Founded | 2024 | 2022 | 2024 | 2023 |
| Maker | Salesforce | OpenAI | — | Microsoft |
| Verdict | Agentforce is Salesforce's bet that autonomous, CRM-grounded agents become a real budget line, not just a pilot. Its edge is context — agents act on your existing Salesforce data, workflows and guardrails, with a low-cod... |
ChatGPT is still the default AI assistant, and the July 2026 release of GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra and Luna tiers) keeps the flagship current across writing, coding and agentic work. No rival matches its feature breadth — voice... |
Manus does what few agents actually deliver: hand it a research brief, a data set or a small build and it frequently comes back with the finished artifact, not a chat answer. The 1.6 models, Web App Builder and messaging... |
Copilot is the AI most office workers meet first, simply because it's already inside Windows, Word, Outlook and Teams rather than living in a separate tab. The free tier covers basic chat and summarizing; Microsoft 365 C... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.