Manus AI Official Pricing and Features Explained (2026)

Manus AI went from a niche autonomous agent to one of the most discussed platforms in 2026 — but the pricing page on manus.im is a JavaScript-rendered wall that search engines and most buyers struggle to parse. This guide breaks down every plan, every credit allowance, every feature tier, and every hidden cost consideration so you can decide whether Manus fits your budget before you sign up.

The pricing structure has not changed since the December 2025 restructuring. Four tiers are available: Free, Starter, Pro, and Scale. What has changed is the feature surface — May 2026 was Manus’ biggest release month, adding Scheduled Tasks 2.0, self-learning Projects, deep Similarweb integration, and several new connectors that shift the value calculus of each tier.

Manus AI Pricing Plans at a Glance

Plan	Price	Credits	Best For
Free	$0	300/day	Testing the platform, building one simple app
Starter	$39/month	3,900/month	Solo founders validating ideas, light automation
Pro	$199/month	19,900/month	Power users, competitive research, scheduled automation
Scale	$399/month	39,900/month	Teams running heavy recurring workflows

All plans are billed monthly with no annual commitment required. You can cancel or downgrade at any time.

Breaking Down Each Plan

Free Plan — $0 / 300 Credits Per Day

The free tier exists and it is genuinely usable. You get 300 credits per day with one active task at a time. That is enough to:

• Build a simple web app or landing page
• Run a research query with Wide Research
• Test Browser Operator on a web task
• Generate a slide deck or design asset
• Evaluate whether Manus fits your workflow before spending money

The free plan does not include Similarweb integrated data, high-effort mode, or team features. Scheduled Tasks 2.0 and Connector Recommendations work on the free tier, which means you can test recurring automation before upgrading.

The main limitation is throughput. 300 credits per day translates to roughly one moderate task — a single web app build iteration, one research report, or one browser automation sequence. If your task requires multiple iterations or extensive multi-step reasoning, you will hit the ceiling quickly.

Starter Plan — $39/month / 3,900 Credits

Starter is the plan most individual operators should land on after testing. At $39/month, you get 3,900 credits (roughly 130 per day if spread evenly) and the ability to run multiple tasks.

What Starter unlocks beyond Free:

• Multiple concurrent tasks — no longer limited to one active task at a time
• Full WebDev project support — build, deploy, and iterate on web apps with custom domains
• Code export — download your codebase and host it anywhere
• Mail Manus — send emails through Manus workflows
• Slack integration — trigger and receive Manus task updates in Slack
• Google Drive connector — read documents from Drive and use them as task context
• Notion connector — read from and write to Notion databases and pages

What Starter does not include:

• Similarweb integrated data (requires Pro or above)
• High-effort mode for complex multi-step reasoning
• Enterprise controls or team governance features

Starter is the right plan if you are a solo founder building MVPs, a freelancer automating client research, or an operator who needs recurring automation for internal tools. One saved workday pays for the subscription.

Pro Plan — $199/month / 19,900 Credits

Pro is where Manus becomes a serious workflow tool rather than a prototyping sandbox. The credit allocation supports daily heavy usage, and the feature additions are significant.

What Pro adds beyond Starter:

• Similarweb deep analysis — pull keyword data, referral sources, landing page performance, and competitive traffic analysis without a separate Similarweb subscription. This alone can justify the upgrade if competitive research is part of your workflow.
• High-effort mode — enables longer context windows and more extensive multi-step reasoning for complex tasks. This matters for builds that require deep planning, multiple integrations, or extensive code generation.
• Scheduled Tasks 2.0 with skip-confirmation — recurring tasks can proceed without manual approval on trusted workflows. For daily dashboards, weekly reports, or automated monitoring, this removes the bottleneck of approving every single run.
• Higgsfield MCP connector — access professional-grade AI image and video generation through the Higgsfield integration, with model selection, reference material support, and output customization.
• Longer context windows — Pro supports extended context that lets Manus maintain coherence across longer multi-step tasks.

Pro is the right plan for operators who have moved past evaluation and are running Manus as part of their daily workflow. If you are building and deploying multiple web apps per month, running competitive research regularly, or have automated scheduled tasks that need to run without supervision, Pro pays for itself.

Scale Plan — $399/month / 39,900 Credits

Scale doubles the Pro credit allocation and adds team-oriented controls. This plan targets small teams and businesses running Manus as shared infrastructure.

What Scale adds beyond Pro:

• 39,900 monthly credits — supports 2-3 active users running tasks concurrently, or a single power user with heavy scheduled automation
• Enterprise controls — team management, role-based access, and administrative oversight
• SSO support — single sign-on for organizations that require it
• Team plan features — shared Projects, collaborative workspaces, and centralized billing
• Priority processing — tasks in the Scale tier get priority queue treatment during high-load periods

Scale is the right plan if you have multiple team members using Manus, you are running mission-critical scheduled automation that cannot tolerate credit exhaustion, or you need SSO and governance controls for compliance.

Understanding Manus Credits

Manus operates on a credit-based system. Every action consumes credits — but the consumption rate varies significantly by task type.

Low-credit tasks tend to be:

• Simple research queries
• Text generation and summarization
• Single-step web lookups
• Reading from connected sources (Google Drive, Notion)

High-credit tasks tend to be:

• Building and deploying web apps (especially full-stack with database and backend)
• Wide Research across 100+ sources
• Browser Operator sequences with many steps
• Complex multi-step workflows with reasoning chains
• AI image, video, or music generation

This variance means the same credit allocation can last a week or burn through in an afternoon depending on what you are doing. The practical implication: monitor your usage patterns during the first month to understand your actual consumption rate.

Every Manus Feature in 2026

Manus has expanded well beyond its original scope as an autonomous coding agent. Here is the complete feature inventory organized by category.

Web App Builder

The flagship feature. Describe an application in natural language and Manus handles research, design, code generation, database setup, and deployment. Key capabilities include:

• Full-stack generation (React frontend, Node.js backend, database schema)
• Built-in authentication and user management
• Stripe payment integration
• AI-powered SEO optimization with dual-rendering
• Custom domain connection
• Full code export (no vendor lock-in)
• Version history with rollback
• Granular access permissions
• Visual design controls for fine-tuning layouts, colors, and typography
• Make a Copy — duplicate any WebDev project into an independent session

Wide Research

Each Manus subagent runs in its own sandbox, processing hundreds of sources in parallel. Wide Research can analyze 100+ sources simultaneously, generate dozens of outputs, and synthesize findings into a structured report.

Browser Operator

Manus controls a real Chrome browser to complete web tasks — filling forms, checking dashboards, pulling data from portals without APIs. The May 2026 Preferred Browser feature lets you designate one machine as the default browser environment, so sign-ins and extensions persist across devices.

Scheduled Tasks 2.0

Recurring automation that continues inside the same task conversation instead of spawning new instances each time. Web apps built with Manus can include their own scheduled actions. A side panel shows upcoming runs and history. Skip-confirmation mode lets trusted workflows proceed without manual approval.

Self-Learning Projects

Manus can review completed tasks and propose updates to Project instructions, files, and skills. Changes require human approval before applying. Over time, Projects accumulate sharper context, better examples, and more relevant workflows.

AI Creative Tools

• AI Design — generate design mockups and visual concepts
• AI Slides — create formatted presentation decks from prompts
• AI Image Generator — produce images from text descriptions
• AI Music Generator — generate music tracks
• Higgsfield integration (Pro+) — professional-grade image and video creation with model selection, reference material, aspect ratio control, and video duration settings

Integrations and Connectors

• Google Drive — read documents, use them as task context, extract action items
• Notion — read from and write to databases and pages
• Slack — trigger tasks and receive updates
• Mail Manus — send emails through Manus workflows
• Similarweb (Pro+) — keyword data, referral analysis, landing page performance, competitive traffic analysis
• Connector Recommendations — Manus recognizes which connector a task needs during conversation and helps enable it inline

API and Developer Access

Manus exposes a public API at open.manus.ai/docs for programmatic task creation and management. Documentation covers basic operations but remains thin for complex multi-step workflows. Teams integrating Manus into existing toolchains should expect to hit documentation limits for advanced use cases.

Mobile and Desktop Apps

Manus is available as a mobile app (iOS and Android) and a Windows desktop app, in addition to the web interface at manus.im/app.

Plan-by-Feature Matrix

Feature	Free	Starter	Pro	Scale
Web App Builder	✅	✅	✅	✅
Wide Research	✅	✅	✅	✅
Browser Operator	✅	✅	✅	✅
Scheduled Tasks 2.0	✅	✅	✅	✅
Self-Learning Projects	✅	✅	✅	✅
Connector Recommendations	✅	✅	✅	✅
Code Export	❌	✅	✅	✅
Custom Domains	❌	✅	✅	✅
Google Drive Connector	❌	✅	✅	✅
Notion Connector	❌	✅	✅	✅
Slack Integration	❌	✅	✅	✅
Mail Manus	❌	✅	✅	✅
Similarweb Deep Analysis	❌	❌	✅	✅
High-Effort Mode	❌	❌	✅	✅
Higgsfield Connector	❌	❌	✅	✅
Skip-Confirmation Mode	❌	❌	✅	✅
SSO	❌	❌	❌	✅
Enterprise Controls	❌	❌	❌	✅
Priority Processing	❌	❌	❌	✅

How Credits Map to Real Tasks

Understanding credit consumption is the single most important factor in choosing the right plan. Based on testing across multiple build types:

Task Type	Approximate Credit Cost
Simple landing page (single page, no backend)	50-150 credits
Full-stack web app (auth, database, CRUD)	500-1,500 credits
Wide Research report (100+ sources)	200-600 credits
Browser Operator sequence (10-20 steps)	100-400 credits
Competitive analysis with Similarweb	150-300 credits
AI image generation (batch of 5-10)	50-200 credits
AI slide deck generation	100-300 credits
Scheduled daily task (monthly run volume)	50-100 credits/run

These ranges are approximate. Complex builds with multiple iterations can exceed the high end significantly. The free plan’s 300 daily credits are enough for one moderate task — a single web app iteration, one research report, or one browser automation sequence.

A Starter plan with 3,900 monthly credits supports roughly 3-8 full web app builds per month, or 10-20 research tasks, or daily scheduled automation with room for ad-hoc work.

Pro’s 19,900 credits accommodate daily heavy usage — multiple app builds, regular competitive research, and several scheduled tasks running concurrently.

Scale’s 39,900 credits are designed for teams where 2-3 people are running tasks simultaneously, or a single operator with intensive scheduled automation across multiple projects.

Manus vs Competitors on Price

Platform	Cheapest Paid Plan	What You Get
Manus	$39/mo (Starter)	Full-stack app builder, research, browser automation, 3,900 credits
Bolt.new	~$20/mo	Code generation focused, faster for pure code, narrower scope
Lovable	~$25/mo	Design-first app generation, strong UI/UX output
ChatGPT Plus	$20/mo	Conversational AI, limited action capabilities, no app deployment
Replit Agent	~$25/mo	Code generation in cloud IDE, deployment included

Manus is more expensive than most alternatives at the entry-level paid tier, but the scope is broader. Bolt and Lovable generate code faster within a narrower band. Manus charges more because it attempts research, design, code generation, browser automation, and deployment in one platform.

If your primary need is code generation speed, Bolt or Lovable at a lower price point may deliver better value. If you need end-to-end workflow automation that spans research, building, and web tasks, Manus at $39/mo is competitively priced for the scope.

For a deeper feature comparison, see our Best AI Agent Platforms Compared (2026) and Manus AI Alternatives and Competitors 2026.

The Ownership Question

Any pricing evaluation in 2026 needs to address the ownership situation directly. Manus announced it was joining Meta on December 29, 2025. On April 27, 2026, Axios reported that Chinese regulators ordered Meta to unwind the acquisition. Meta stated the transaction complied with applicable law and expected a resolution.

The product continues to operate publicly at manus.im with active development — May 2026 was the most active release month on record. But the regulatory outcome is unpredictable. Treat Manus as a live, actively maintained subscription product with unresolved ownership uncertainty.

Practical risk mitigation:

• Export your code regularly — every paid plan supports full code export
• Avoid building infrastructure that depends solely on Manus-hosted deployment — connect custom domains and maintain your own hosting option
• Keep critical project data in your own systems — use Manus for execution, not as your sole data store
• Start month-to-month — do not commit to annual billing until the ownership situation resolves

Practical Plan Selection Guide

Start Free If

You have never used Manus. The free plan is genuinely functional for evaluation. Build one real project — a web app, a research report, or a browser automation task. If the output quality meets your bar, then evaluate which paid tier fits based on your actual credit consumption during testing.

Choose Starter ($39/mo) If

You tested on the free plan and hit the daily credit ceiling. You need multiple concurrent tasks. You want to deploy web apps with custom domains and export code. You are a solo founder, freelancer, or operator building MVPs and internal tools. One saved workday per month covers the subscription cost.

Choose Pro ($199/mo) If

You are running Manus as part of your daily workflow. You need competitive research with Similarweb data. You have scheduled automation that should run without manual approval. You build multiple web apps per month and need longer context windows for complex builds. The Similarweb integration alone — which would cost $100+/month as a standalone subscription — offsets a meaningful portion of the Pro upgrade.

Choose Scale ($399/mo) If

You have a team of 2-3 people using Manus concurrently. You need SSO, enterprise controls, or priority processing. Your scheduled automation is mission-critical and cannot tolerate credit exhaustion. You are running Manus as shared infrastructure across multiple projects or clients.

Common Pricing Pitfalls

Mistake 1: Starting on Pro without testing free. The credit consumption patterns vary so widely by task type that you cannot accurately predict usage without running real work. Start free, measure, then upgrade.

Mistake 2: Ignoring the credit reset. Credits do not roll over. If you buy a Pro plan on the 15th and run heavy tasks through the 20th, you lose remaining credits on the 15th of next month when the cycle resets. Align your billing cycle start with your heaviest usage periods.

Mistake 3: Underestimating browser automation costs. Browser Operator tasks can consume significant credits, especially for multi-step sequences on complex sites. Test browser tasks on the free plan first to calibrate.

Mistake 4: Overlooking the Similarweb value at Pro. If you would otherwise pay for Similarweb separately, the Pro plan’s integrated data access effectively reduces your net Manus cost. Factor existing tool spending into the upgrade decision.

Mistake 5: Committing to Scale for a single user. Scale’s credits are generous, but the plan’s real value is in team features, SSO, and priority processing. A single power user is often better served by Pro plus careful credit management.

What Has Changed in 2026

The pricing tiers have been stable since December 2025. What has shifted is the feature density at each level:

• May 2026: Scheduled Tasks 2.0, self-learning Projects, Preferred Browser, Similarweb deep analysis, Higgsfield connector, Make a Copy, Connector Recommendations, Google Drive and Notion connectors — all shipped without a price increase
• April 2026: Regulatory uncertainty around the Meta acquisition became public, but no service disruption occurred
• February-March 2026: Browser Operator improvements and wider API access rolled out

The product roadmap has consistently added value to existing tiers rather than gating new features behind higher prices. Scheduled Tasks 2.0 and Connector Recommendations work on the free plan. The main Pro-exclusive additions (Similarweb, high-effort mode, Higgsfield) reflect genuine incremental value rather than arbitrary paywalling.

Whether this pricing stability continues depends on the Meta regulatory outcome. If the acquisition is fully unwound, Manus may need to adjust its commercial model. If it resolves in Meta’s favor, broader integration with Meta infrastructure could shift the pricing structure significantly.

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