Manus AI Pricing: Plans, Credits and the Real Yearly Charge

Manus AI has a Free plan at $0 a month, and paid use starts with Pro at $20 a month (4,000 credits) ^[1]. The other cards are Pro at $40 a month (8,000 credits) and Pro at $200 a month (40,000 credits). Team starts from $20 per seat a month, and Enterprise is priced by sales. Stickers are the easy part. What you really buy is credits, and Manus cannot tell you before a task how many it will burn. Our verdict: start on the smallest paid card, read your usage after one full cycle, and move up only when the numbers say so.

What each Manus AI plan costs right now

The pricing page shows three cards with no plan names, only credit amounts; the help center calls the paid personal plan Pro. Every paid card includes 20 concurrent tasks, 20 scheduled tasks and 300 refresh credits a day (Manus 2.0 Lite only) on top of the monthly allowance. The page shows no Free plan at all. The table gathers the page, its plan data file and the help center as read in November 2026.

The middle card is really a slider: the same card offers 12,000, 16,000 or 20,000 credits a month for $60, $80 or $100 a month in total, so you can scale in 4,000-credit steps without jumping to the top card. Above the $200 card, the plan data file lists larger personal tiers from $300 to $20,000 a month, reaching 5,000,000 credits, each priced at ten times its monthly figure for a year. None of them appear on the cards, and Manus does not say how to buy them.

Free is a test drive, not a working plan. Its daily credits run only in Manus 2.0 Lite, it allows 2 scheduled tasks and fewer tasks at once than paid plans, which allow 20, and Wide Research, video generation and custom domains all need a paid card. Our guide to whether Manus AI is free covers every limit.

Annual billing: the card says $17, the charge is $200

Flip the toggle to annual and the cards show $17, $34 and $167 a month billed yearly, under a Save 17% label. Those figures are rounded. The actual charges are $200, $400 and $2,000 a year, ten times the monthly price. Multiply the card figure by 12 and you get $204, $408 and $2,004 by our arithmetic, a few dollars above what you will really pay. Against twelve monthly payments, the yearly charge saves $40, $80 or $400 a year.

Annual billing buys a discount, not a bigger bucket. Credits still refresh monthly on your subscription date, and unused monthly credits do not roll over on monthly or annual plans. Because ten months of fees cover twelve months of use, the yearly charge only pays off if you would have stayed subscribed for nearly the whole year. Testing whether an agent fits your work at all? Monthly is safer. On the web, moving up mid-cycle keeps the same end date, with the difference charged and credits added for the remaining time; Apple and Google Play upgrades charge the new plan at full price. Downgrades wait for renewal, and no plan moves between web, Apple and Google billing.

What a credit pays for, and why nobody can quote you a task

Credits pay for the language-model tokens, virtual machines and third-party APIs a task uses, so cost rises with complexity and duration. Chat mode is no longer credit-free either. Credits burn only during active processing; a finished task, a stored file or a deployed output uses no further credits (hosting a published site is billed separately, below). The Terms also let Manus change credit costs with or without notice. Plan for it.

Manus cannot estimate a task's credit cost in advance ^[2]. A pre-task estimate is described only as planned, and the help center says to treat any figure the agent gives about its own cost as a hallucination. Manus's advice is practical: write specific requests, because vague ones cost more, split complex work into smaller tasks, use Chat for simple questions, and check Settings, then Usage, afterwards. That is your only meter.

Plan credits cost $5 per 1,000 on every card from $20 to $200 a month, selector steps included, by our arithmetic. Larger tiers drop to about $4.76 per 1,000 at $300 a month and $4 per 1,000 at $20,000 a month. The 300 daily refresh credits come with strings: they reset at 00:00 UTC, never accumulate and work only in Manus 2.0 Lite, on paid plans as well as Free. A balance can also dip below zero mid-task. No new task starts until the next refresh clears it.

Running out before the month ends

Below $200 a month there are no add-on credits. On the Pro plans at $20 and $40 a month, and on every selector step up to $100 a month, running short means waiting for the monthly refresh or moving up the selector. Add-on credits start at the $200-a-month plan: pay-as-you-go top-ups need a personal plan of $200 a month or more, with the annual plan at $167 a month qualifying, and fixed packs are sold only on the highest personal plan ^[3].

For those buyers, packs are one-time purchases: $20 for 2,000, $100 for 10,000, $200 for 20,000, $500 for 50,000 and $1,000 for 100,000 credits. Every pack works out to $10 per 1,000 credits by our arithmetic, double the plan rate. A pack suits a single spike on the $200-a-month plan and stays usable while a paid plan is active; drop to Free and it goes inactive until you renew. For steady heavy use above $200, the larger data-file tiers cost $4.76 to $4 per 1,000 by our arithmetic. On Team, the Owner and Super Admins buy add-on credits in Team settings and can switch on auto-purchase.

Bills that sit outside the subscription

Team seats and single sign-on

Team starts from $20 per seat a month or $200 per seat a year, with 4,000 credits per seat pooled, so a light user's surplus covers a heavy one. Guests are free and unlimited, and Team adds an admin dashboard, audit logs and a data-training opt-out. The Owner and Super Admins can see every member's tasks. Single sign-on costs a flat $150 SSO fee (plus tax) for teams under 30 seats and nothing from 30 seats up, billed on its own cycle. Confirm that billing period with Manus.

Websites and Cloud Computer

Building a website spends credits, but once it is published, hosting, the database, in-site AI and API calls draw on a separate usage balance. Each billing cycle includes allowances of $10 Cloud, $1 AI and $1 API. Reserved hosting runs up to about $36 a month at full use. Manus estimates monthly usage beyond the subscription at about $24 for a marketing site with lead capture, $128 for a content and search site and $248 for e-commerce. A custom domain needs an active subscription, and a site can go offline if the balance runs dry with auto top-up off.

Cloud Computer, a persistent server reached only by command line, is its own monthly subscription. Linux runs Standard at $30 a month, Advanced at $50 a month and Performance at $200 a month; Windows costs $50, $90 or $300 a month, and Mac Standard costs $200 a month. Powering it off does not cancel the bill. Let the subscription lapse and the machine shuts down and its files are deleted; a Linux machine is suspended first and deleted if not reactivated within 30 days.

Trials, promo codes, refunds and older prices

The help center mentions a seven-day free trial for some subscriptions; canceling before the first charge means no charge. The pricing page shows no trial. No promo codes are published, and coupon purchases can be refused a refund. Members who joined under the old Basic and Plus names were moved to Pro and keep renewing at unchanged prices. The plan data file still lists those legacy plans at $19, $39 and $199 a month; none is on sale.

Refunds are narrow. Under the Terms, payments for subscriptions, credits and paid features are final and non-refundable except where law requires ^[4]. Partial refunds happen only in exceptional cases at Manus's discretion, on unused credits minus discounts and taxes. Consumers in the EU, UK and Turkey keep a 14-day withdrawal right, and Apple purchases are refunded by Apple. A verified platform fault earns a full credit refund after an AI review of the shared task link, though Manus's help pages disagree on whether a poor result qualifies; confirm with Manus in writing. Our buyer's checklist for Manus AI covers data and agent access.

The bottom line

The entry price is honest and the annual discount is real, but the bill you feel is set by credits you cannot forecast. Pro at $20 a month (4,000 credits) is the sensible first step for one person, Team from $20 per seat a month fits a group that wants pooled credits and admin control, and below $200 a month the only way to more credits is moving up the selector, because add-on credits start at the $200 plan. Budget hosting and Cloud Computer as separate lines, read the refund terms before an annual charge, and see our Manus AI review for what the agent does with those credits.