Manus 2.0
Provider status: active; identity checked 2026-10-02. Capabilities still need verification before choosing.
Price not verified
All starting points
Atlas / Find your approach
Automate a repeatable task.
Try one supervised workflow before building a larger agent.
Your situation
What does a useful result look like?
Choose a priority above, or start with these questions.
Open questions will travel with your prompt. Nothing is assumed on your behalf.
The practical differences
Two ways into this work.
Keep the wider workflow in view as you decide.
How you direct it
Claude tasksTask assistant
Describe the outcome you want in plain language, and Claude works through the steps on its own without requiring you to break the work into steps or pick a mode first.
Browser UseBrowser automation toolkit
You direct the agent with a plain-language task string passed to the Agent constructor.
What you connect
Claude tasksTask assistant
Apps connected to Claude (such as Google Drive, Gmail, Microsoft 365, or Slack) work while Claude carries out a task, configured via Customize > Connectors.
Browser UseBrowser automation toolkit
You connect an LLM of your choice (ChatBrowserUse, Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic) and supply the corresponding API key in a .env file.
What you own
Claude tasksTask assistant
Claude can create documents, spreadsheets with working formulas, and presentations you can open in PowerPoint; download them and use them anywhere, or ask Claude to keep refining them.
Browser UseBrowser automation toolkit
You maintain the code, environment and permissions. Model usage and optional hosted infrastructure have separate costs.
Latest source check: 2026-10-15. These are product offerings, not individual model benchmarks. Plans and availability can change.
Models to evaluate now
Candidates reflect current provider identities and documented capability coverage. A newer release is not evidence of better output quality.
Model and API access can differ from the models available in your chosen app.
Manus
Model identity has not yet passed recurring catalog verification. Documented support: Operate a computer interface; Operate a web browser; Complete a multi-step workflow.
From $20 per month
Meta Muse
Model identity has not yet passed recurring catalog verification. Documented support: Operate a computer interface; Operate a web browser; Complete a multi-step workflow.
From $20 per month
What changed in the research
- Gemini Notebook: Verified changes to verified.sources, verified.citations, verified.images, facts.Access & limits, facts.Working with your files, facts.Checking an answer. Recommendations and exported plans use this evidence. 2026-10-15
- Claude tasks: Verified changes to verified.plainLanguage, facts.How you direct it, facts.What you connect, facts.What you own. Recommendations and exported plans use this evidence. 2026-10-15
- Lovable: Verified changes to verified.codeWorkspace, facts.From idea to preview, facts.Keeping control, facts.Ongoing cost. Recommendations and exported plans use this evidence. 2026-10-15
- Replit: Verified changes to verified.browserBuild, verified.codeWorkspace, facts.From idea to preview, facts.Keeping control, facts.Ongoing cost. Recommendations and exported plans use this evidence. 2026-10-15
- Lovable: Verified changes to verified.browserBuild, verified.codeWorkspace, verified.portable, facts.From idea to preview, facts.Keeping control, facts.Ongoing cost. Recommendations and exported plans use this evidence. 2026-10-15
- Cursor: Verified changes to verified.review, facts.Review & recovery, facts.Access to the build. Recommendations and exported plans use this evidence. 2026-10-14
Provider coverage and freshness
Source checks and verification rotate within the collection budget. A failed check does not make an old record current.
- OpenAI: Reviewed 2026-10-15
- Manus AI: Reviewed 2026-10-11
- Meta: Reviewed 2026-10-11
- Browser Use: Reviewed 2026-10-13
When the next step gets complicated
We’ll help clear the way.
Take the prompt and keep building. If you hit a roadblock, we can help with the architecture, integrations, or an AI-built app that needs experienced hands.