Manus pricing: $20 for 4,000 credits, or $1 to $4.50 a task

How much does Manus cost on each plan?

Manus has a free plan, a Pro plan sold in credit tiers from $20 a month, and a Team plan from $20 a seat. We read each row from Manus's membership pricing article and its pricing page on 8 November 2026. US prices:

Pro is really one plan with a slider for credits, not separate products. Both tiers in the help center carry the same 20 tasks at once and 20 scheduled tasks, at 4,000 and 8,000 credits "starting from" $20 and $40. Manus's pricing page draws its cards in the browser and showed us no prices as text, and the help center stops at 8,000 credits. So the $200 for 40,000 credits comes from Lindy's guide, updated 16 March 2026, which lists "Extended Monthly Usage" at that price. Team adds SSO, usage analytics for the team, access control, shared slide templates and an opt-out from data training.

How many credits does a Manus task use?

A Manus task uses 200 to 900 credits in Manus's own examples, or $1.00 to $4.50 at Pro's rate of half a cent a credit. Manus's credits page lists three real tasks with their time and cost. We converted them to dollars and to credits a minute:

The three tasks burn 11 to 14 credits a minute, about $0.06 to $0.07. That's roughly $4 an hour of agent time. So Pro's 4,000 credits buy about 280 to 355 minutes of work a month. Manus says cost comes from "complexity and duration," and that "Credits are only consumed during active task processing." Storing or deploying a finished output uses no credits, though a live WebDev app bills its hosting separately.

You can't see the price first. Manus's help center says: "At present, Manus does not possess the capability to autonomously judge or regulate the consumption of credits." So a task that loops costs more than you planned. If a task fails because of a technical problem on Manus's side, it refunds the credits in full.

What does a typical month of Manus cost?

A light month of Manus fits the $20 tier, and a busy one needs the $40 tier. Here's the arithmetic with Manus's own example tasks, priced on 8 November 2026.

A marketer runs eight research charts like the NBA example (1,600 credits), two landing pages like the wedding page (720) and one small web app (900). That's 3,220 credits, inside Pro's 4,000. The month costs $20, and the work itself is worth $16.10 of credits. The leftover 780 credits vanish at renewal.

A heavier month runs 15 charts (3,000 credits), five pages (1,800) and three apps (2,700). That's 7,500 credits, so the $40 tier with 8,000 covers it. Billed yearly at 17% off, the same plan works out to about $33.20 a month.

Do Manus credits roll over?

No. Manus's monthly credits expire at the end of each billing cycle. Its credit rules say: "Manus does not allow unused subscription credits to roll over to the next cycle." Add-on credits do carry over, but only while you keep a paid plan. If you drop to Free, they "become inactive." So if you're on the $40 tier and you only use 5,000 of its 8,000 credits this month, the other 3,000 are gone on the day it renews, and you start again from 8,000. Plan for that.

Manus spends your credits in a fixed order. It uses event credits first, then the daily ones, then monthly, add-on and free credits. The daily ones work only on Manus 2.0 Lite. Free users can spend at most 1,500 daily credits a month, and paid users have no such cap. Manus says free credits never expire.

What else does Manus charge for?

Manus charges separately for a Cloud Computer, at $30 or $50 a month, and for website hosting in WebDev. The Cloud Computer article, updated 23 September 2026, lists Standard at $30 a month with 2 vCPUs, 4 GB of RAM and 70 GB of storage. Advanced is $50 with 8 GB of RAM and 120 GB. Let it lapse and "The persistent virtual machine will be shut down," with its files deleted.

WebDev, Manus's site builder, bills on what Manus calls a "pay-as-you-go model." Its help article gives no rates. Cue phone numbers are a separate subscription too. None of these come with a Pro plan.

Who owns Manus now?

Manus is independent again, with Tencent reported as its largest shareholder, after China forced Meta to undo its purchase. Meta announced the deal on 29 December 2025, and the AP cited The Wall Street Journal's figure of more than $2 billion. Chinese regulators then ordered it unwound.

Caixin reported on 12 August 2026 that former investors bought Manus back from Meta for $2 billion. It added, citing one unnamed source: "Tencent acquired Benchmark's former stake and has become Manus's largest shareholder." On 8 October, TechCrunch reported that Butterfly Effect, Manus's parent, raised more than $500 million in a round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with Tencent among the existing shareholders who joined. The prices above are the ones Manus's help center listed on 8 November.

What does Manus cost next to the rest of your AI stack?

Manus Pro plus ChatGPT Plus plus Claude Pro costs $60 a month, as of November 2026. We read OpenAI's ChatGPT pricing ($20 for Plus) and Anthropic's Claude pricing ($20 for Pro, or $17 a month billed annually) on 8 November. Here's that stack, and where one Whizi plan changes it:

Whizi, which publishes this page, can cut the chat side and can't replace the agent. Whizi Pro puts Claude, GPT and Gemini in one chat for $29.99 a month, with 2,500 credits, web search and Word, Excel and PowerPoint files made in the chat. It has no agent that can drive a browser for you, and it can't build or host a website or run a task on a schedule. Keep Manus for the work it does on its own. If you pay for only one chat app, Whizi saves you nothing. The cheapest way to use Claude and GPT works through the chat side, and one subscription for all AI models covers what a combined plan includes and leaves out.

How can you pay less for Manus?

Start on Free, plan tasks in a chat app first, and buy the smallest Pro tier your month needs. Free's 300 daily credits run only on Manus 2.0 Lite. They're capped at 1,500 a month, which is enough to see how a task behaves.

Write the brief before Manus starts. Every minute it spends working out what you meant costs about 13 credits. Watch the first runs of a new kind of task, because Manus can't quote one ahead of time. Buy yearly once three months show a steady tier, since 17% off a $40 plan is $81.60 a year. And don't buy credits you won't use by the renewal date, because they don't roll over.