Manus is a general-purpose autonomous AI agent developed by Butterfly Effect, a Singapore-based company. It carries out complex tasks end to end in the cloud: in-depth research, building websites, presentations and documents, data analysis and web automation. You describe a goal; the agent plans the steps, takes action and delivers a finished result. Its ability to keep working on its own in the background, even after you close your session, sets it apart from traditional chatbots.
Create a free account on manus.im with your email or a Google account. Describe your task in natural language, attaching files if needed, then launch the agent: it displays its plan and works through it step by step before your eyes. You can close the tab — Manus keeps working in the cloud and notifies you when the deliverable is ready. The free daily credits let you try it out before subscribing.
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Yes. The free plan includes around 300 complimentary credits every day, enough to try out simple tasks. Every agent action (browsing, running code, analysis) consumes credits, so for regular use a paid subscription quickly becomes necessary.
A chatbot replies to your messages; Manus executes. It plans the steps itself, browses the web, writes and runs code, then delivers a finished result (a file, a deployed site, a report) without constant supervision. The trade-off is that it is slower and burns more credits than a simple conversation.
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