Manus

About Manus

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Manus

All products by Manus reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

Manus AIAI Agents & Assistants

Hands-on AI agent for slides, websites, apps, design, and research

From $20/mo7.4/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Manus

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Manus's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.2 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Power User the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Manus competes with, and how they differ.

Perplexity Labs7.5/10

Perplexity's own general-purpose task agent, built on top of its answer engine; leans on Perplexity's existing search/retrieval strength rather than Manus's virtual-computer (browser+terminal+files) execution model.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

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Genspark

US-founded (ex-Baidu) "Super Agent" launched three weeks after Manus as a direct general-purpose rival, claiming higher GAIA benchmark scores and adds built-in phone-calling; pitched as cheaper/lighter for individuals versus Manus's enterprise-leaning pricing.

Devin7.8/10

Cognition's agent is scoped specifically to autonomous software engineering (writes, tests and ships code end-to-end) rather than Manus's general-purpose task range spanning research, spreadsheets and travel planning.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Moveworks8.1/10

Enterprise-only agent focused narrowly on automating employee IT and HR support tickets, sold into large-company helpdesks rather than Manus's consumer-to-business general task agent; acquired by ServiceNow in 2025.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Leena AI7.5/10

Enterprise HR/IT/finance service-desk agent platform competing for the same automate-employee-support budget as Moveworks, versus Manus's broader open-ended task scope.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Manus's history, with sources.

1. Aug 11, 2026Milestone

   Manus announces return to independent operations as Meta deal unwinds

   Manus said it would "soon return to operating as an independent company" after Meta began unwinding its December 2025 acquisition on Beijing's order, following months of operational and data separation between the two firms.

   sg.finance.yahoo.com
2. Jul 10, 2026Milestone

   Tencent-led consortium in talks to buy back Manus from Meta at no less than $2 billion

   Tencent, together with early investors ZhenFund and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), sought to acquire Manus back from Meta after Chinese regulators ordered the original sale unwound; the deal remained unsigned as of this report.

   techstartups.com
3. June 2026Milestone

   Meta begins operational split from Manus, cutting data access

   Meta barred Manus staff from its internal data systems and stopped its own employees from using Manus tools, the first concrete step toward unwinding its acquisition under Beijing's order.

   techcrunch.com
4. Apr 27, 2026Milestone

   China's NDRC blocks Meta's acquisition of Manus, orders deal unwound

   China's National Development and Reform Commission prohibited the transaction and required the parties to withdraw it; CEO Xiao Hong and chief scientist Ji Yichao had been barred from leaving China during the review.

   techcrunch.com
5. Dec 29, 2025Acquisition

   Meta agrees to acquire Manus/Butterfly Effect for a reported $2 billion

   Meta announced it would acquire the Singapore-based startup behind Manus at a price reported around $2 billion, the valuation Manus had been seeking for its next funding round.

   techcrunch.com
6. Dec 17, 2025Milestone

   Manus says it crossed $100M in ARR, $125M overall revenue run-rate, eight months after launch

   The company's blog said Manus had processed more than 147T tokens and created over 80M virtual computers, growing more than 20% month-over-month since its 1.5 release.

   manus.im
7. June 2025Milestone

   Company confirms headquarters relocation from China to Singapore

   Head of product Zhang Tao publicly confirmed the company had moved its headquarters from China to Singapore, alongside a reduction of its Beijing/Wuhan workforce.

   technode.com
8. Apr 25, 2025Funding

   $75M funding round led by Benchmark values company at roughly $500M

   Benchmark led the round with participation from existing backers Tencent and HSG (formerly Sequoia China); the company said it would use the funds to expand into the US, Japan and the Middle East.

   techcrunch.com
9. Mar 6, 2025Launch

   Manus launches in invite-only preview, draws comparisons to a "second DeepSeek moment"

   A demo video of the autonomous agent completing tasks like resume screening and stock analysis drew over a million views within 20 hours; the registration site crashed under demand and access was restricted to invite codes.

   techcrunch.com
10. 2024Funding

    Funding round values Butterfly Effect at roughly $100M

    A funding round late in the year raised the company's valuation to nearly $100 million, about a fifth of the valuation it reached four months later.

    asiatechdaily.com
11. 2022Founded

    Xiao Hong founds Butterfly Effect in Beijing

    Xiao Hong founded the company in Beijing; it later relocated headquarters to Singapore and launched the Manus AI agent in 2025. The company builds no foundation models of its own, instead orchestrating third-party models into an autonomous task-completing agent.

    techcrunch.com