Manus
General-purpose AI agent with Wide Research (part of Meta)
Manus is a general-purpose AI agent that runs research, data and creation tasks in its own cloud environment; the company has been part of Meta since late 2025 and continues to operate its subscription offering. Wide Research splits tasks with many similar items into independent subtasks, distributes them to subagents working in parallel with their own context window and merges the results in the main agent. Each subagent is a fully capable Manus instance. The feature starts automatically when Manus considers a task parallelizable and is available to paying users. Plans are Free, Pro and Team with a credit model.
Good fit if
Focus: Non-technical users who want to automate large research tasks with many items (lists, comparisons, market overviews)
- your project is about Market research across many companies or products, Comparison tables and lists or Lead and data research
- people without programming skills should work with it (5/5 for use without developers)
- your team is just getting started (skill level: Beginner)
- you want to get started quickly (learning curve: very flat)
Key figures
- Usable without developers
- 5/5
- Scalability
- 4/5
- Integrations
- 3/5
- Versioning
- 1/5
- Observability
- 2/5
Editorial rating on a scale from 1 to 5. Methodology
Fact sheet
- Category
- AI assistants
- Type
- General-purpose AI agent with Wide Research (part of Meta)
- Licence
- Proprietär
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree with 300 daily refreshed credits. Pro from $20/month (from 4,000 credits) or from $40/month (from 8,000 credits). Team from $20 per seat per month. Annual billing saves 17%. Wide Research only in paid plans; according to Manus the pricing page is authoritative.
- Deployment
- Cloud, Desktop, Mobile
- Models
- Nicht offengelegt
- Compliance
- SOC 2, ISO 27001
- RAG
- No
- Multi-Agent
- Yes
- SSO, roles (RBAC)
- SSO yes, RBAC no
Key features
- Wide Research with parallel subagents as fully capable Manus instances
- Own context window per subtask
- Automatic activation for parallelizable tasks
- Creation of documents, slides and websites
- Team plan with SSO and admin dashboard
Typical use cases
- Market research across many companies or products
- Comparison tables and lists
- Lead and data research
- Reports and presentations
Market notes
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