The best Manus alternative for a business depends on whether you need one strong agent for one person's tasks or a team of agents that works for the whole company. For one-off deliverables like decks, research and sites, Genspark is the closest swap for Manus, and OpenAI Dots, Claude and Perplexity Computer are strong picks if your team already pays for ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity. For a company that wants agents holding standing jobs, with roles, shared memory and a person approving what matters, we think Dock is the better fit. We build Dock, so weigh our view accordingly. The full list is Dock, Genspark, OpenAI Dots, Claude, Perplexity Computer, Grok Bot, Lindy, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Meta Muse and OpenClaw.
Manus is a good product. It takes a goal and comes back with a finished result: a research report, a slide deck, a website, a game or a video. Manus 2.0, released on September 28, added event-triggered Automations, an always-on Cloud Computer you can buy, and Manus Studio, which Manus calls "a shared workspace for people and AI." This guide is for the founders who like what Manus makes and then asked who owns the work when it has to happen every week, for the whole company.
Every claim below about the other nine links to the vendor's own page or launch coverage.
Why teams look for a Manus alternative
Manus is built around one person giving one agent a task. That is a strength for deliverables. It shapes a few things a company runs into once more than one person depends on the work.
Each person works in their own space. Manus's help center says that on the Team plan, "Each team member is allocated an independent workspace that is inaccessible to other team members" (help.manus.im). Tasks are private by default, and you share one by copying a team link (help.manus.im). Super Admins can see every task. Shared projects, skills and instructions help, per manus.im/team. Still, the default unit is a person and their tasks.
Tasks have a start and an end. Manus is at its best when a job finishes: the deck is done, the site is live. Scheduled Tasks 2.0 and the new Automations let work repeat on a timer or start when something happens in a connected app. A recurring job still runs as a task that someone set up, and the work belongs to that person's workspace.
Credits move with complexity. Manus's plans documentation says each task's cost depends on how complex it is. Plan credits reset every month and do not roll over, while add-on packs never expire. That is fair for one-off projects. It makes a standing job, like chasing every open invoice every Monday, harder to budget.
The company has had a busy year. Manus joined Meta on December 29, 2025, then resumed independent operations on September 1, 2026. In August, Manus told certain users that data they generated on or after December 29, 2025 would be deleted to comply with rules in specific jurisdictions, with a window to back it up first (A Note to Our Users). For a business choosing where its work lives, that history is worth knowing.
That is the shape of a general agent built for one person's tasks, and it suits many teams well. Our personal agent vs business agent guide covers the difference in more depth.
Where Dock is the better fit
These are the reasons we think Dock suits a company that wants agents running its work, and where Manus is built differently.
The agents work as a team for the company. In Dock, you hire agents for real jobs: sales, lead generation, marketing, support and operations. Each agent has a role, a reporting line and permissions, and they work alongside your people in shared workspaces. A Chief of Staff agent coordinates the specialists. Manus gives each member an independent workspace and private tasks by default.
Agents hold standing jobs on their own schedule. Dock agents are always on, in the cloud, and keep working when nobody is watching. They do not wait for a new prompt each time. Mach9, which makes AI CAD software for DOTs and engineering firms, runs its sales team in Dock: the agents read every recorded call and keep 82 HubSpot deals current every hour.
What the agents learn stays with the company. Dock agents keep what they learn in the Company Brain, a shared company memory that stays with the business. In Manus, projects can learn from every task, and members share projects, skills and instructions when they choose to.
People approve what matters. Dock agents bring sensitive actions to a person for approval. Shawn Dej, CEO of YourStory AI, runs an eight-agent sales org in Dock that works 400+ schools and 150+ community colleges, and every send waits for his OK, given by text.
Each job can use the model that suits it. Dock agents run on the model that suits their job, such as Claude, GPT or Gemini. Agents reach 2,000+ platforms built in, plus the apps you connect. Manus also lets you bring your own key through Manus Flex, with OpenRouter, Fireworks and Modal as its first partners.
On price, Dock is per person: $40, $100 or $200 a month with 5, 10 or 20 always-on agents, as of November 2026, per the pricing page. Manus Pro starts at $20 a month for one person and Manus Team at $20 per seat, as of November 2026.
Where Dock is not the right pick
- You need a polished deliverable by Friday. If the job is a pitch deck, a research report, a landing page or a short video, Manus or Genspark is built for exactly that, and both start cheaper than Dock.
- You want one agent for your own work and life. A personal agent like Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots or Manus's own Cue app is simpler, and some are free to start.
- You need compliance paperwork today. Dock is a young company. Our SOC 2 is in progress, and Type II is not yet attested. Manus lists SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 on manus.im/team, Genspark lists the same on its business page, and Lindy's Enterprise plan offers a signed BAA.
- You want to build and wire every step yourself. A self-hosted tool like OpenClaw, or a builder like Microsoft's Copilot Studio, gives you more control over each step.
- Your team already lives in one lab's app. If everyone is on ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft 365, the agent in that plan may be enough to start.
How we picked
We read the pages that rank for "Manus alternatives" and "Manus AI alternatives" this week. Genspark, ChatGPT's agent and Lindy show up on most lists, and open-source options come up often. We kept the tools a founder would realistically shortlist and added the always-on agents the big labs shipped this fall.
We checked Manus's pricing page, Team page and help center on November 3, 2026, and rechecked every other price on the vendor's own page or help center the same week. Anything we could not confirm there, we left out. We dropped Google's Gemini Task from this list because its product page now redirects, and we could not confirm current plans on Google's own pages.
Each tool was judged on five questions that matter to a small team:
- Can more than one person use the same agents and see the same work?
- Does the agent keep working when nobody is watching, on a schedule or in the background?
- What does it cost for a team of five, in plain dollars?
- Where does the agent run, and who controls what it can touch?
- Does it ask a person before the sensitive actions?
We did not run paid trials. Prices change often, so check each vendor's pricing page before you buy.
Manus alternatives compared
| Tool | Best for | Price (as of November 2026) | Team features | Where it runs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manus (reference) | Polished one-off deliverables | Free; Pro from $20/mo; Team from $20/seat/mo | Pooled credits, shared projects and skills, free guests, SSO add-on | Manus cloud sandbox; Cloud Computer add-on |
| Dock | A company that wants a team of business agents | $40, $100 or $200 per person/mo with 5, 10 or 20 always-on agents | Shared workspaces for people and agents, roles, approvals, Company Brain | Your Mac or the cloud, always on |
| Genspark | The closest like-for-like swap for Manus | Plus $24.99/mo; Team $40/seat/mo ($35 billed annually) | Central admin and billing; credit pooling on Enterprise | Genspark cloud |
| OpenAI Dots | Teams on ChatGPT Business | Pro from $100/mo; Business Premium $125/seat/mo ($100 annually) | ChatGPT Space for teams and agents; one dot per Pro or Premium user | OpenAI's cloud computer; your computer optional |
| Claude (Cowork) | Document and file-heavy desk work | Pro $20/mo; Team $25/seat/mo ($20 annually) | Team plan for 2 to 150, admin spend limits, Claude Tag | Web, desktop and mobile; keeps working in the cloud |
| Perplexity Computer | Research-heavy work | Enterprise Pro $40/seat/mo | Org credit pool, admin usage limits, SSO | Perplexity cloud |
| Grok Bot | Teams already on a Grok plan | Premium $30/mo; Teams $30/user/mo | Team marketplace for skills, SSO, central billing | One persistent cloud computer per user |
| Lindy | Inbox, meeting and Slack follow-up | Team from $29.99 per active user/mo for 3,000 credits | Pooled credits; SSO, SCIM and BAA on Enterprise | Lindy cloud |
| Microsoft 365 Copilot | Companies already on Microsoft 365 | Copilot Business $18/user/mo yearly through Dec 31 | Prebuilt agents, Copilot Studio, tenant admin | Inside Microsoft 365 |
| Meta Muse | Owner-operators on a budget | Free with a limit; Power $20/mo; Maximum $100/mo | None found | Muse's cloud computer |
| OpenClaw | Technical teams that self-host | Free, MIT licensed | Shared gateway for team sessions | Your own machine |
1. Dock
Dock is where businesses hire AI agents for real work: sales, lead generation, marketing, support and operations. Each agent has a role, a reporting line and permissions, and they work alongside your people in shared workspaces, on their own schedule, always on in the cloud. A Chief of Staff agent coordinates the specialists. What the agents learn goes into the Company Brain, a shared company memory that stays with the business. You can hire ready-made specialists from the Agent Marketplace.
It fits founders and owners who want agents holding standing jobs, like finding leads, following up, publishing content or chasing invoices, with the work visible to everyone who needs it.
Pricing: per person per month, per the Dock pricing page, as of November 2026. Starter is $40 with 5 always-on agents and 10,000 business credits. Standard is $100 with 10 agents and 20,000 credits. Scale is $200 with 20 agents and 50,000 credits. Custom plans cover larger companies.
What it does well: standing jobs, run as a team. Agents hand work to each other, keep their memory in one place the company owns, and wait for a person's approval on the actions that matter. Each agent runs on the model that suits their job, from Claude, GPT, Gemini and others, and reaches 2,000+ platforms built in plus the apps you connect. Silvr's agents save CEO Josh Lanzet 10+ hours a week and helped double outbound prospects.
Where it falls short: Dock is young. Our SOC 2 is in progress, and Type II is not yet attested, so if your clients require a completed report today, check back later. Dock is also not a deck, site or video studio. If your main need is a polished one-off deliverable, Manus or Genspark will get you there faster.
Best for: companies that want a team of business agents running recurring sales, marketing, support and operations work, with people approving what goes out.
2. Genspark
Genspark is the closest like-for-like alternative to Manus. Its flagship Super Agent plans, researches and completes multi-step work "with you approving the steps that matter," and it sits inside an AI workspace with its own Slides, Sheets, Docs and an inbox called GenMail. GenTeam offers ready-made roles, such as analyst, designer and PM, that take assignments and hand back finished work. Genspark says it routes each task across 70+ models and connects to 200+ tools and MCP servers.
It fits small teams that want Manus-style deliverables plus office files in one place.
Pricing: per Genspark's membership plans page, as of November 2026, Free gives 100 credits a day up to a lifetime allowance. Plus is $24.99 a month, or $19.99 billed annually, from 10,000 credits a month. Pro is $249.99 a month, or $199.99 billed annually, from 125,000 credits. Team is $40 per seat a month, or $35 billed annually, with 10,000 credits per seat, and Genspark notes that Team is a separate subscription from Plus and Pro. Enterprise is custom, with 20,000 credits per seat.
What it does well: breadth. One workspace covers research, decks, spreadsheets, email drafting and dashboards, and the business page lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and no training on customer data.
Where it falls short: credit pooling across the organization, SAML SSO, SCIM and audit logs are listed under Enterprise, which Genspark describes as "typically six figures annually." On Team, each seat brings its own credits. Like Manus, it is strongest at work you ask for, one task at a time.
Best for: teams that like Manus's output and want office apps and a wider model menu in the same workspace.
3. OpenAI Dots
Dots are OpenAI's always-on agents in ChatGPT. Each dot has its own cloud computer, starts with your ChatGPT memory, and keeps making progress on a goal between conversations. It can run scheduled tasks, research in the background and suggest ways to help. You choose what it can do on its own. Access to your local computer is optional and starts off.
It fits companies that already run on ChatGPT and want one agent per person that can own a project, like keeping a deck current as new data comes in.
Pricing: per chatgpt.com/pricing, as of November 2026, Pro starts at $100 a month and includes "Dot, your always-on agent." ChatGPT Business costs $20 per Standard seat a month billed annually ($25 monthly) and $100 per Premium seat billed annually ($125 monthly), for teams of 2 to 200, with dots for Premium seats. Your first dot is included at no extra cost. Pro dots are not offered in the European Economic Area, Switzerland or the UK.
What it does well: it sits inside a product your team may already pay for. Business includes ChatGPT Space "to collaborate with your team and agents," SAML SSO and no training on business data by default.
Where it falls short: today it is one dot per Pro or Premium user. OpenAI says you will be able to add more dots in the future. At launch a dot cannot have its own email address and cannot call you, and texting a dot is a limited beta for US Pro users that is not supported in Business workspaces.
Best for: ChatGPT Business teams that want one strong agent per key person.
4. Claude (Cowork)
Anthropic's Claude Cowork is now part of Claude. It works in the folders and tools you choose and runs a task through to work you review. It runs on web, desktop and mobile, can be scheduled "for any cadence," and keeps working in the cloud even when your laptop is closed. The desktop app adds the folders and applications on your own computer.
It fits teams whose work ends in documents, spreadsheets and analysis, and who are happy to drive each task themselves.
Pricing: per claude.com/pricing, as of November 2026, Pro is $20 a month ($17 a month billed annually), Max is $100 and Ultra is $200. The Team plan, for 2 to 150 people, costs $25 per Standard seat a month or $20 billed annually, and $125 per Premium seat or $100 billed annually, with Premium seats getting five times the usage. Enterprise is $20 per seat billed annually plus usage at API rates, with a 20-seat minimum.
What it does well: quality on desk work, a real team plan, and admin controls. Cowork's page says admins "set access by team, manage spend limits, and control tool permissions by department." Claude Tag is listed on Team and Enterprise.
Where it falls short: Cowork is an agent each person works alongside, one task at a time. There is no roster of agents with their own roles and reporting lines that the whole team manages together.
Best for: teams that want a strong agent for each person's desk work.
5. Perplexity Computer
Perplexity Computer is Perplexity's agent for multi-step work. Ordinary searches do not use credits. Computer tasks do, and Perplexity says 100 credits equal $1.
It fits teams where most agent work is research: market scans, account research before sales calls, sourcing and due diligence. That overlaps with Manus's Wide Research.
Pricing: per Perplexity's Enterprise onboarding guide, as of November 2026, Enterprise Pro costs $40 per seat a month or $400 a year, and Enterprise Max $325 per seat a month or $3,250 a year. Seats belong to the organization and can be reassigned. Paid consumer Pro plans include weekly Computer usage, and Max includes 10,000 credits a month.
What it does well: research with citations, and sensible admin. Per the admin guide, admins fund a shared credit pool and set usage limits by group or person.
Where it falls short: an Enterprise Pro seat includes 500 Computer credits a month, which is about $5 of agent work at Perplexity's rate, so heavier use means funding the pool. It is built around research tasks, less around agents that hold ongoing jobs.
Best for: teams whose agent work mostly starts with "find out," with sources they can check.
6. Grok Bot
Grok Bot gives you bots that sign in to your tools on their own cloud computer, use them the way you do, and come back with finished work. A bot can watch you do a workflow once and save it as a routine, run routines on a schedule, and pass work to other bots in the same thread. Role templates include Sales Outbound, Expense Manager and Chief of Staff.
It fits tech-forward teams already paying for a Grok plan, especially in sales, recruiting and operations.
Pricing: per x.ai/bot, as of November 2026, Grok Bot is included with Premium at $30 a month, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200, and with Teams at $30 per user a month. Weekly usage is included, and more is billed at token cost. Teams adds central billing and admin, a team marketplace for skills and plugins, shared usage analytics and SAML or OIDC SSO.
What it does well: it is the most work-shaped of the big-lab agents. Several bots run in parallel, 24/7, even when your laptop is closed, and sensitive actions can go through Auto Review first.
Where it falls short: isolation is per user. Grok Bot's FAQ says every bot "shares one persistent cloud computer," with files, browser and logins shared across one person's bots. Work and memory are organized around each user.
Best for: teams already on a Grok plan that want bots signing in to their tools.
7. Lindy
Lindy works inside your team's tools and Slack, handling inbox triage, meeting follow-ups and research, and waits for approval before anything with outside impact.
It fits teams whose pain is email and meetings, and who live in Slack.
Pricing: per lindy.ai/pricing, as of November 2026, you start with $50 in free credits that last seven days. Team starts at $29.99 a month for 3,000 credits, and "Every active user in your workspace is billed." Credits are pooled across the team, monthly credits do not roll over, and top-ups cost $10 per 1,000 credits. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, audit logs and a HIPAA BAA.
What it does well: focus on the daily admin that eats a founder's mornings, plus a compliance path for regulated teams.
Where it falls short: every active user is billed and then credits are metered, so a team of five starts near $250 a month before top-ups. Work your real cost out before you commit.
Best for: small teams whose main pain is inbox and meeting follow-up.
8. Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is Microsoft's AI add-on for Microsoft 365. Its pricing page lists prebuilt agents including Researcher, Analyst and Facilitator, plus Sales, Service and Finance agents, and a Copilot license includes Copilot Studio for building internal agents.
It fits companies that already run on Microsoft 365 and want agents inside the apps their people use all day.
Pricing: per Microsoft's pricing page, as of November 2026, Microsoft 365 Copilot Business is an add-on at $18 per user a month paid yearly, or $25.20 monthly. Microsoft notes the yearly price was originally $21 and the discount runs from July 1 to December 31, 2026, for the first year only.
What it does well: it lives inside Microsoft 365, where many companies already keep their files, mail and meetings, so there is no new workspace to roll out.
Where it falls short: it is an add-on to a Microsoft 365 plan, and the agents you need beyond the prebuilt ones are yours to build in Copilot Studio. It suits a company with someone ready to own that work.
Best for: Microsoft 365 companies that want agents inside Office and Teams.
9. Meta Muse
Muse is Meta's personal agent. Muse for Small Business adds skills and connectors for owners, including Shopify, QuickBooks, Stripe, Slack, Notion, Klaviyo and Meta ads, and asks you to approve actions before they happen. Meta calls it "a personal AI agent that doesn't just answer questions, it does the work." It is also the other half of the Manus story: Manus joined Meta in December 2025 and resumed independent operations in September 2026.
It fits owner-operators who sell through Shopify and Instagram and want a free place to start.
Pricing: per Meta's subscription help page, as of November 2026, Muse is free with a usage limit. Power is $20 a month for 500M Muse tokens a week, and Maximum is $100 a month for 3B.
What it does well: a low price, business connectors with no setup, and approvals before actions.
Where it falls short: it is one agent for one Meta account. We found no seats, shared workspaces or admin roles on its business page. It is available to people 18 and over in the US and Canada.
Best for: solo owners who want a personal agent for their shop.
10. OpenClaw
OpenClaw is an open-source agent you run on your own machine and talk to through chat apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Signal and iMessage. Manus itself has published a comparison of OpenClaw and Manus Desktop, which tells you how often the two come up together.
It fits technical teams with strict data rules who would rather keep everything on their own hardware.
Pricing: free and MIT licensed, maintained by the OpenClaw Foundation, a US nonprofit. Its site says "No subscription. No hosted tier." You bring your own model subscriptions or local models.
What it does well: control. State stays on your machine, and a shared gateway lets team members open and steer the same sessions.
Where it falls short: someone on your team installs, secures and maintains it. There is no hosted tier and no paid version.
Best for: teams with an engineer who want a self-hosted agent and are happy to run it.
Manus vs Dock
Manus is a strong general agent for one person's tasks. Dock gives a business a team of agents with roles and shared memory, holding standing jobs while people approve what matters.
| Manus | Dock | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | One person's tasks and deliverables | A company's work, run by a team of agents alongside people |
| Who can see the work | Each member's workspace is private; tasks are shared by link | Everyone with access to the shared workspace |
| Agents | One general agent per task, with Wide Research to scale big jobs | A team of agents, each with a role, a reporting line and permissions |
| Memory | Projects, skills and instructions, shared when you choose | A Company Brain the whole company uses |
| Recurring work | Scheduled tasks and Automations; up to 20 scheduled tasks on Pro | Standing jobs, always on in the cloud |
| Price (as of November 2026) | Free; Pro $20, $40 or $200/mo; Team from $20/seat/mo | Starter $40, Standard $100, Scale $200 per person/mo, with 5, 10 or 20 always-on agents |
| Models | Manus's own harness; bring your own key with Flex | The model that suits each job, such as Claude, GPT or Gemini |
Manus is better for the deliverable you need by Friday: the deck, the site, the research pack, the video. For the work that has to keep happening every week, that two or more people touch and that someone has to answer for, we think Dock is the better fit. Our cloud AI agent guide explains why always-on matters for that kind of work.
How to choose a Manus alternative
You run a team and want agents doing standing jobs for the company: sales, lead generation, support, operations. Choose Dock, and hire agents, not headcount.
You want Manus-style deliverables plus docs, sheets and slides in one workspace: choose Genspark.
Your team already pays for ChatGPT Business and wants one strong agent per key person: choose OpenAI Dots on Premium seats.
Your work ends in documents and analysis, and each person will drive their own tasks: choose Claude on the Team plan.
Most of your agent work is research: choose Perplexity Computer.
Your team already lives in Grok and wants bots that sign in to your tools: choose Grok Bot.
Your pain is the inbox and meeting follow-up, mostly in Slack: choose Lindy.
Your company runs on Microsoft 365: choose Microsoft 365 Copilot.
You are a solo owner selling on Shopify and Instagram: choose Meta Muse.
You have an engineer and strict data rules: choose OpenClaw.
Plenty of companies will keep Manus for one-off deliverables and hire business agents for the standing work, which is a sensible setup. The AI agents for business guide explains how to pick the first job to hand over.
More comparisons: Muse alternatives, OpenAI Dots alternatives, Grok Bot alternatives, Claude Cowork alternatives, Lindy alternatives, Viktor alternatives.
FAQ
What is the best Manus alternative for a business?
It depends on the job. For a company that wants agents holding standing jobs with roles, shared memory and approvals, we think Dock is the better fit; we build Dock, so weigh that accordingly. For one-off deliverables like decks and research, Genspark is the closest swap. For teams already on ChatGPT Business, OpenAI Dots on Premium seats.
Is Manus free?
Yes, Manus has a free plan with 300 refresh credits a day, one concurrent task and two scheduled tasks, per its help center. Paid Pro plans cost $20 a month for 4,000 credits, $40 for 8,000 or $200 for 40,000, as of November 2026, with 17% off annual billing.
How much does Manus Team cost?
Manus Team starts at $20 per seat a month or $200 per seat a year, with 4,000 credits per seat a month pooled across the team, as of November 2026. SSO is free from 30 seats and a flat $150 add-on below that, and guests who only view and comment are free.
What is the difference between Manus and Genspark?
Both are general agents that turn a goal into a finished deliverable. Genspark adds its own Slides, Sheets, Docs and GenMail in one workspace and routes across 70+ models. Genspark Team costs $40 per seat a month, or $35 billed annually, with 10,000 credits per seat; Manus Team starts at $20 per seat with 4,000 pooled credits.
What is the difference between Manus and ChatGPT's dots?
Manus takes a task and delivers a result in its own cloud sandbox, priced by credits. A dot is an always-on agent inside ChatGPT with its own cloud computer that keeps working on a goal between conversations. Dots come with ChatGPT Pro from $100 a month or a Business Premium seat at $100 to $125 a month.
Is Manus owned by Meta?
Not anymore. Manus joined Meta on December 29, 2025. Manus resumed independent operations on September 1, 2026.
What is the difference between Manus and Dock?
Manus is a strong general agent for one person's tasks, with each Team member working in their own private workspace. Dock gives a business a team of agents with roles, reporting lines and permissions, a shared Company Brain, and approvals on sensitive actions, always on in the cloud.
In short: for a one-off deliverable, Manus or Genspark; for one person's agent, the one built into the plan you already pay for; for a company that wants agents running its work, we think Dock is the better fit. See Dock's plans.