Manus Wide Research review

Manus approaches deep research as a scale problem. Its Wide Research mode has a main agent break your request into many independent sub-tasks and hand each one to its own sub-agent, which runs with its own virtual machine, tools, internet access and a clean context. The main agent then gathers the results into a report or dataset. Manus argues that chat assistants degrade beyond 8 to 10 items as their context fills, and its examples include profiling 100 sneaker models and 250 NeurIPS researchers. That makes it well suited to analyst tasks such as profiling 50 competitors or benchmarking pricing across many markets, with spreadsheets as an output. The free plan gives 300 refresh credits a day and one concurrent task, and Pro starts at $20 a month, 17% less on annual billing, with 4,000 credits, 20 concurrent tasks and 20 scheduled automations. The catch is credit metering: a big parallel run can use credits quickly, and Manus does not publish a per-task cost.

Who it is for

Analysts researching dozens or hundreds of companies, products or people at once.

Price

Free plan with 300 daily credits; Pro from $20 a month, 17% less with annual billing.

Pro Plan Price 1: Starting from $20/month (Enjoy a 17% discount with annual billing)
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 9, 2026.

Key features

• Main agent splits a request into hundreds of independent sub-tasks
• Each sub-agent gets its own VM, tools, internet access and fresh context
• Outputs complete reports and structured datasets such as spreadsheets
• Pro supports 20 concurrent tasks and 20 scheduled automations
• Pro starts from 4,000 credits a month

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Built for list-style research where chatbots lose detail after 8 to 10 items
• Strength: Delivers spreadsheets as well as written reports
• Strength: Free plan to test with 300 refresh credits a day
• Weakness: Credit-based pricing makes the cost of a large run hard to estimate up front
• Weakness: Free plan supports only 1 concurrent task
• Weakness: Less suited to a single narrow question than a chat-based research mode

Key facts

• Plans: Free, Pro, Team
• Pro credits: From 4,000 a month plus 300 refresh credits daily
• Concurrent tasks: 1 on Free, 20 on Pro

Where it ranks

Manus Wide Research is No. 7 in our Best Deep Research AI Tools verdict.