Auteryn and Manus, honestly.
Manus is a general-purpose autonomous agent known for strong end-to-end task completion — research, browsing, documents — from a single prompt.
We'd rather you pick the right tool than pick us for the wrong job — here is where each is strong, plainly.
Where Manus is strong
- Impressive single-prompt, end-to-end task demos
- A capable browser operator and wide-research mode
- Design, slides, and media generation in one place
Side by side
| Manus | Auteryn | |
|---|---|---|
| While the agent works | You watch its progress and receive the result when it finishes | Watch live, take the keyboard mid-run, hand it back |
| The agent's machine | Cloud sessions managed by Manus | Every agent gets a persistent machine — terminal, browser, files |
| Your own hardware | Not offered | Run agents on hardware you own; compute on your box isn't metered |
| Customer-facing deployment | Personal and team use; Slack and mail integrations | Deploy the same agent to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Gmail, SMS, a web widget, and phone calls |
| Pricing (checked July 2026) | Free with 300 daily credits · Standard $20 / 4,000 credits · $40 / 8,000 · $200 / 40,000 | Free 1,000 credits/mo · Pro $29 / 15,000 · Business $99 / 60,000 — 1 credit = $0.001, forever |
Manus details checked July 2026 against manus.im/pricing; their product moves fast — verify current details with them. Auteryn figures trace to our claims register.
Pick Manus if…
Pick Manus if you want a polished personal agent that takes a prompt and comes back with the finished thing, and you don't need to be in the loop while it works.
Pick Auteryn if…
Pick Auteryn if you want to see every step, step in mid-run, put agents on your own hardware, or hand the same agent to your customers on real channels.
The free plan is a real agent on a real sandbox — 1,000 credits a month, no sales call. The fastest way to compare is to run the same task on both.