Manus AI
Autonomous general-purpose AI agent
Overview
General-purpose autonomous agent that plans and executes multi-step work — research, spreadsheets, web apps, data analysis — and returns finished deliverables rather than chat replies. Still independent after Chinese regulators blocked Meta's planned acquisition in April 2026.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- 300 daily refresh credits
- 5 concurrent tasks
- 4,000 credits/month
- 300 daily refresh credits
- 20 concurrent tasks
- 8,000 credits/month
- 300 daily refresh credits
- 20 concurrent tasks
- 40,000 credits/month
- 300 daily refresh credits
- 20 concurrent tasks
- Shared credit pool
- Admin controls
- Priority support
Use cases
What you can produce with Manus AI
- A fully sourced, multi-page competitive research report on a target market or industry, compiled autonomously from dozens of public web sources with citations
- A CSV or spreadsheet of structured data (e.g. apartment listings, flight prices, product comparisons) scraped and formatted from multiple websites in a single session
- A static landing page or SaaS dashboard prototype (HTML/CSS/JS) scaffolded and deployed in 15-60 minutes from a plain-language brief — suitable for internal demos, not production
- A data visualization memo: raw CSV or JSON input transformed into labelled charts with a written analytical summary, delivered as PDF or HTML
- An apartment or property shortlist matching specific criteria (location, price, features), gathered and ranked autonomously from multiple listing sites
- A business strategy or competitive-analysis document synthesising web research, news sources, and public filings into a structured report with an executive summary
- A web-scraping pipeline for publicly accessible data (e.g. pricing pages, job listings, product catalogues) with output delivered as structured JSON or Excel
ASEAN Perspective
Manus AI in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
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 connectors matured fast through 2026, and the company survived a blocked Meta acquisition intact. Two caveats decide whether it's usable. First, reliability drops hard on long multi-step tasks — agents loop, stall and burn credits on jobs they can't finish. Second, billing is the bigger risk: Trustpilot is thick with unresolved refund complaints and deleted credit balances, and support responses are templated. Treat it as a powerful experiment with a prepaid meter — keep balances small, verify outputs, and don't leave credits parked on a downgraded account.
What people say
The Trustpilot page tells the story the launch hype didn't: manus.im sits around 1.3 stars, with 70-plus complaints about vanished credit balances, refund requests answered by copy-paste bots, and one long-term customer who downgraded in January 2026 and returned in March to find 476,000 credits — about $2,380 — deleted without warning. G2 is scarcely kinder at roughly 2.2 stars from a handful of reviews.
The product underneath is genuinely capable. Manus, built by Singapore-registered, China-founded Butterfly Effect, went viral in March 2025 with a 2M-plus waitlist, and through 2026 it has shipped the 1.6 model family, a Web App Builder, Scheduled Tasks 2.0 and connectors for Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Gmail and Notion. Independent testers keep landing in the same place: short, well-scoped research and build tasks mostly succeed, while long multi-step jobs break often — JustPickAi logged about 70% full success across 15 tasks, and NxCode scored it 6.5/10. The recurring nightmare is the credit-drain failure mode: an agent loops on a task it can't finish, burns thousands of credits, and failed runs aren't refunded.
The corporate story is stranger than most. Meta's reported multi-billion-dollar acquisition was blocked by Chinese regulators in April 2026, leaving Manus independent. Pricing runs from a free tier with 300 daily refresh credits to a $200/month Extended plan; the $20 Standard tier is the sensible entry point. APAC buyers with data-sovereignty requirements should note the China-linked infrastructure question hasn't gone away. Impressive demos, real autonomy, untrustworthy billing — verify the outputs and the invoice.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
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