Developed by Chinese startup Monica.im, branded Manus.

Manus is a general-purpose autonomous AI agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks end-to-end, including browsing, coding, file creation, and data analysis, in a cloud virtual computer using a multi-agent executor and planner architecture.

Accessed as a hosted web service at manus.im.

Launched around March 2025 and continued to scale through 2026.

It exists to deliver finished results from a single objective rather than requiring step-by-step chat prompting.

Runs on top of foundation models such as Claude and Alibaba's Qwen; requires a Manus account to use.

Closed-source commercial hosted service, task execution (browsing, shell, code) happens inside Manus's cloud virtual machine, with data processed by Manus and its underlying model providers.