Manus AI

Manus runs tasks inside a persistent cloud sandbox with internet access and the ability to install software, rather than just generating a chat reply — each task gets its own environment and can browse the web, run code, and deploy output (manus.im/features/webapp). That sandbox is what lets it hand back a deployable website, a slide deck, or a Windows/Mac desktop app from a single prompt, not just a description of one. A newer "My Computer" feature lets the agent operate your own machine for local steps while orchestration still runs in Manus's cloud (help.manus.im/articles/14134826).

Manus publishes real self-service prices. Free is $0/month: 1,000 credits at signup plus a 300-credit daily refresh, one concurrent task, two scheduled automations. Pro starts at $20/month for 4,000 credits, stepping up to $40/month for 8,000 credits (the $40 tier includes a 7-day free trial); both unlock 20 concurrent tasks and 20 scheduled automations, and both save 17% if billed annually (help.manus.im/articles/11711111). A third Pro tier offering 40,000 credits/month is confirmed on manus.im/pricing, but its exact monthly price renders through an animated counter that didn't resolve to plain text under any fetch method we had available this session; applying the other two tiers' consistent $0.005-per-credit rate to 40,000 credits works out to $200/month, which is what a third party reported observing directly on the live page. Team plans start at $20/seat/month with pooled team credits, SSO, and an admin usage dashboard (manus.im/team).

Manus's Vanta-hosted trust center lists SOC 2 Type I and Type II letters of attestation plus ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certificates — more than the plain "SOC 2 compliant" line on the marketing pages (trust.manus.im). It names four subprocessors: Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, AWS, and Cloudflare. Manus's team page states broadly that "we do not train models on your data," but its own plan breakdown lists "Data Training Opt-Out" as a feature specific to the Team plan (help.manus.im/articles/11711111) — nothing public reconciles whether Free and individual Pro users get the same default protection or only gain an explicit control once they're on Team.

Manus publishes a full API reference at open.manus.ai covering task creation and multi-turn messages, projects, file uploads, webhooks, skills, and custom agents, authenticated against api.manus.ai. Its connector catalog lists more than 75 integrations usable from the API, including Slack, Notion, GitHub, Google Calendar and Gmail, Stripe, Zapier, Linear, Asana, Dropbox, OpenAI, and Anthropic (open.manus.ai/docs/v2/connectors) — a wider, more concretely documented set than the handful named on the marketing pages.

Every Manus task — research, a website build, a slide deck — draws from one shared credit pool, and unused credits don't roll over between billing cycles (help.manus.im/articles/11711097). The entry $20/month tier's 4,000 credits suits light, occasional use; teams running Wide Research across many parallel tasks or producing output in volume will likely need the $40 or top tier, and Manus explicitly sells add-on credit packs for accounts that exhaust even the highest tier (help.manus.im/articles/13570051) — a sign the published tiers are a starting point for serious usage, not a ceiling.

Manus's privacy policy covers data handling "across Manus AI, Monica AI, and related services" (manus.im/privacy), tying it to the same operator behind the Monica AI browser assistant, but Manus does not publish headcount, funding, or incorporation details on its about or team pages (manus.im/about). We found no public GitHub organization for the product (api.github.com/orgs/manusai returns 404) — Manus ships as a closed, hosted service with no open-source component to evaluate independently.