The cheapest way to do that is not the cheapest rung. The free tier runs only the Lite agent, and the entry rung, per the Help Center, has no trial. The second card does: its rungs start with a seven-day free trial, which needs a card on file (Alipay is not accepted for trials). Cancel before the week is out and the Help Center says you are not charged; cancel a day late and the charge stands, because cancelling only stops the next renewal. Put the date in your calendar when you start.
Manus AI · Pricing
Manus pricing: the credit has a price, the task does not
Manus sells credits in bundles. Every bundle up to 40,000 credits a month works out at 200 credits per dollar, and larger ones buy more, so a credit has a price. A task does not: the vendor prints three examples, will not estimate yours, and tells readers to treat the agent's own estimate as a hallucination. There is a free tier, tighter than its headline, and no key to bring.
Five ways in, one unit.
Three personal cards — each with a drop-down of sizes — a team seat on the same ladder, and a sales conversation. The vendor's page prints no tier names, only credit counts, so the rows below are named the same way. The free tier sits under the table because it is not a way to buy anything.
| Route | Bought as | Price | What it buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro · 4,000 credits | Subscription | $20/mo $17/mo billed annually | 4,000 credits a month, reset on your billing date with no rollover, plus 300 refresh credits a day that only run the Lite agent. Opens every agent level including Max, 20 concurrent and 20 scheduled tasks. The one paid rung the Help Center does not offer a free trial on. |
| Pro · 8,000–20,000 credits | Subscription | $40/mo $34/mo billed annually | One card, four sizes: 8,000, 12,000, 16,000 or 20,000 credits for $40, $60, $80 or $100 a month ($34, $50, $67 or $84 billed yearly) — exactly 200 credits a dollar, the same rate as the entry rung. The Help Center says these rungs start with a seven-day free trial, which needs a card. |
| Pro · 40,000 credits and up | Subscription | $200/mo $167/mo billed annually | The last rung at 200 credits a dollar. Above it the bundles get cheaper per credit: 63,000 for $300, 110,000 for $500, 230,000 for $1,000, 480,000 for $2,000, up to 5,000,000 for $20,000 a month — 250 a dollar. The Help Center sells add-on credit packs only to accounts on the top monthly rung. |
| Team | Per seat | $20/seat/mo $16.67/mo billed annually | Priced per seat on the same ladder as personal plans, 4,000 to 1,200,000 credits a seat, and every seat's credits go into one pool the whole team draws on. No daily refresh credits. The vendor prints the annual price as $200 a seat a year. Single sign-on is a separate $150 flat fee below 30 seats and free from 30. |
| Enterprise | Per seat | Contact sales | The team page's sales door, with nothing priced publicly. Like the Team plan and the API, it sits under a separate Master Services Agreement and order form rather than the consumer terms of use. The team page's security claims — no training on your data, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 — are made for this tier and Team. |
Free exists though the pricing page no longer shows it: 300 refresh credits a day, but free accounts may spend at most 1,500 of them a month, only on the Lite agent, one task at a time and two scheduled. Chat mode costs no credits on any plan.
Read off, in order of appearance: manus.im/pricing, 2026-09-27 manus.im/team, 2026-09-27 help.manus.im/what-are-the-rules-for-credits-con, 2026-09-27
Priced by who you are.
The entry rung buys 4,000 credits a month plus 300 refresh credits a day, and the daily ones are worth less than they look: they only run the Lite agent, so anything on the full or Max agent comes out of the monthly 4,000. The vendor's own examples are the only yardstick available — a 15-minute data analysis at 200 credits, an 80-minute web app at 900 — which puts this rung at roughly twenty of the first or four of the second. Your tasks will not be the vendor's, and nothing on the page will tell you in advance how far off they are.
Climb the second card before jumping to the third. Its four sizes — 8,000 to 20,000 credits — all sell at the same 200 credits per dollar as the entry rung, so moving up it changes how much you buy, not what a credit costs. Upgrading mid-cycle charges the price difference for the time left and issues the matching share of the extra credits, which makes it cheap to go up one size and see. The concurrency and scheduling limits do not change with the size: every paid rung allows 20 of each.
This is where the ladder finally bends. The 40,000 rung is the last one at 200 credits per dollar; from the next size up each dollar buys more, reaching 250 at the top of the list. It is also the tier the Help Center names as the only one allowed to buy add-on credit packs, which matters if your usage is spiky. One thing works in your favour here specifically: Wide Research is the single job for which the vendor publishes an upfront estimate and asks for confirmation, and it says it absorbs the cost when the estimate is exceeded.
Seats are priced on the personal ladder, but every seat's credits go into one pool, so the heavy user draws on what the light ones leave. Two differences are worth weighing before the pool. Team accounts get no daily refresh credits. And the data terms are better: the team page states that model providers are barred from training on Team and Enterprise data, and the Help Center lists opting out of data training as a Team feature — a line that does not appear on any personal plan. Below thirty seats, single sign-on is an extra flat fee.
Go through sales. Team, the API and the vendor's other business services are governed by a separate Master Services Agreement rather than the consumer terms, and the consumer terms are the ones this page otherwise describes. Take three facts into the room: the vendor names no model behind the product, data is stored in the United States and Singapore, and the company changed owners twice between December 2025 and September 2026 — the public terms of use still predate both.
There is no key to bring.
No route lets you supply your own model access. Manus does not name the models it runs — its trust centre calls the product LLM-agnostic and says it picks the model for each task — and a credit pays for the tokens, the sandbox computer and any paid data source together. The API is not a way round it either: it spends the same credits from the same balance as the app.
The one per-token price list Manus publishes is for something else: the AI features inside a web app you build with it, billed to that app's hosting balance when its visitors use them. That list is a checkable claim, so we checked it. It names ten models; we carry seven of them, and all seven match the maker's short-context list price in our rate tables to the cent. The three we cannot judge are older OpenAI models we do not list.
Two things the list leaves out. Two of its models — GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro — cost more past a context threshold at their makers, and the list prints only the lower rate, so what a long request costs your app is not stated. And its captions have aged: it calls Claude Opus 4.7 the latest Opus while Opus 4.8 is already on Anthropic's price list.
What Manus says a task costs.
Three tasks from the vendor's own credits page — each with a replay on its site — and one hosting estimate from its web-builder documentation. These are the vendor's examples, not our runs, and they are the only sizes of work it prints anywhere. We have not turned the credits into money: the rate depends on the rung you buy, and the rung is your choice, not ours.
- Data analysis with a chart, “standard”, 15 minutes 200 credits Manus AI, 2026-09-27
- Invitation web page designed, coded and deployed, “standard”, 25 minutes 360 credits Manus AI, 2026-09-27
- Location-based web app, “complex”, 80 minutes 900 credits Manus AI, 2026-09-27
- Hosting a marketing site built with it, 10k–50k visits a month Subscription + $24 a month Manus AI, 2026-09-27
Cancelling, and what switches off when you do.
Cancelling stops the renewal and nothing else. The Help Center says it plainly — amounts already charged are not refunded — and the terms of use go further: payments for subscriptions and credits are final and non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise. The company may grant a partial refund at its discretion, calculated on unused credits. Consumers in the European Union, the United Kingdom and Turkey keep a fourteen-day right to withdraw. The refund article itself, updated in early September, routes you to a support chatbot and promises a refund "if you meet the refund conditions" without saying what they are.
What goes dark at the end of the period is the part to plan for. Monthly credits are reset to zero. Add-on credits become inactive — reactivated if you subscribe again, by the Help Center's account, though two other vendor pages say add-on credits never expire. A website published on your own domain goes offline; one on the vendor's subdomain stays up for as long as its hosting balance lasts. A Cloud Computer is shut down and the files on it are deleted.
Refunds of credits are a separate track from refunds of money. Credits spent on a task that failed through the platform's own fault are refunded after review. Whether a result you simply dislike qualifies depends on which Help Center article you read: one lists unsatisfactory outputs among the refundable cases, the other lists subjective dissatisfaction among the cases it refuses. Both are live.
Two practical rules. Cancel, change or refund on the platform where you subscribed — the vendor supports no cross-platform operations, and purchases through Apple are refunded by Apple. And do not read this year's precedent as policy: during the separation from Meta the company refunded affected subscribers automatically and pro rata, which was a one-off obligation of that event rather than a change to the terms.
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