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Manus

A general purpose autonomous agent that happens to be very good at building and deploying small apps.

794/ 1000
1,975 votes
794 / 1000
Community score
3.97 / 5
Rating equivalent
6W 6L
Head to head
39 EUR / mo
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Last verified: 16 Aug 2026 · Board updated: 19 Aug 2026

Manus landing page landing page, captured for the Agent Verdict board

Manus landing page, captured 16 Aug 2026 for the board record.

At a glance

A tier

794/ 1000

1,975 votes · H2H 6W 6L

0No change in rank this week

Strongest axes

  • Design794
  • Speed794
  • Reliability794

Weakest axes

  • Code ownership794
  • Value794
  • SEO and GEO794

The verdict

Where Manus sits and why

Manus is not an app builder first, it is an autonomous agent that can browse, write files and run code unattended, and building a small application is one of the tasks it handles well. Agent performance votes are strong: it plans a multi step brief, executes it with minimal check ins and reports back with a working result more often than most dedicated builders. Voters mark it down on design and integrations specifically for app work, since a purpose built app builder still produces a cleaner first render and simpler deploy story.

Strengths

  • Genuinely autonomous on multi step briefs with minimal check ins
  • Not limited to app building, useful for research and automation too
  • Reports back with a clear summary of what it did and why

Weaknesses

  • Credit spend is hard to predict on a long unattended run
  • First render is behind the dedicated app builders on design
  • Deploy and hosting story is less polished than a purpose built tool

Community vote

Manus scored axis by axis

Compare every tool

Design

794/ 1000

1 axis votes

Speed

794/ 1000

1 axis votes

Reliability

794/ 1000

1 axis votes

Integrations

794/ 1000

1 axis votes

Agent performance

794/ 1000

1 axis votes

API and MCP

794/ 1000

1 axis votes

SEO and GEO

794/ 1000

1 axis votes

Value

794/ 1000

1 axis votes

Code ownership

794/ 1000

1 axis votes

What you get

Features on the board record

  • Autonomous multi step task execution
  • Web browsing and file system access during a run
  • App scaffolding and deployment as one of its skills
  • Run summaries explaining what was done

Pricing

What Manus costs

Credit based pricing with a limited free allowance. Paid plans start around 39 EUR per month for a monthly credit balance that scales with task complexity.

Value carries 6 of the 100 points on the published weights. Prices verified 16 Aug 2026, always check the vendor page before committing.

Head to head

Manus against the field

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Opinions

What voters said about Manus

All opinions and ratings

Agent Verdict Panel

@agentverdictEditor panel12 Aug 2026

Launch testing panel, four builders running the same brief on every tool on the board.

800/ 1000

Handed the same forty minute unattended brief every long horizon agent got, it planned, executed and reported back with a clear summary of what it did and why, more consistently than the app builders that claim similar autonomy. Design and integrations lag the dedicated builders specifically for app work, which tracks with it being a general agent that happens to be good at this rather than an app builder first.

Noah Fischer

@noahfEditor panel16 Aug 2026

Automation consultant, runs agents unattended overnight.

820/ 1000

I brief it before a client call and it has usually made real progress by the time I am back, on research tasks and on small apps alike. The credit spend on a long unattended run is genuinely hard to predict in advance, so I now budget for the worst case rather than the estimate.

Ade Balogun

16 Aug 2026

The unpredictable credit spend is the reason I still keep a hard budget alert set before I brief it on anything long.

Questions

Manus FAQ

Why is a general purpose agent on an app builder board?

Enough voters use it specifically to build and ship small applications that it earns a row here. It is judged on the same ten axes as the dedicated builders, and it holds its own on agent performance while losing ground on design and integrations.

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