Manus vs ChatGPT

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 23 September 2026.

Compared on	Manus Free plan · from $17/mo Visit Remove	ChatGPT Free plan · from $8/mo Visit Remove
What it is	General AI agent that carries out research, slides, websites and other tasks	OpenAI's AI chat assistant for writing, research, images, voice and coding
Free plan	Daily refresh credits (300 a day per a March 2026 help article), capped at 1,500 daily-refresh credits a month; usable only with Manus 1.6 Lite; 1 concurrent task and 2 scheduled tasks	Unlimited text chats with GPT-5.6 Luna (subject to abuse guardrails); limited uploads, image generation, voice chats, deep research, memory and Codex access
Cheapest paid plan	$17/mo billed annually (Standard monthly usage (4,000 credits))Manus pricing	$8/mo (Go)ChatGPT pricing
What it covers	4,000 credits/month plus 300 refresh credits a day; 20 concurrent and 20 scheduled tasks.	Go may include ads. Plus is $20/month. OpenAI's FAQ says Go and Plus are sold as monthly plans; annual plans are for Business and Enterprise.
Free trial	None stated	None stated
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, API	Web, iOS, Android, macOS
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	Compiling a research report on a market or a list of companies Drafting a slide deck from a short brief Building a simple website or landing page	Drafting and editing emails, reports and posts Researching a topic with web search and deep research Analysing a spreadsheet or document you upload
Watch out for	Paid plans allow 20 concurrent and 20 scheduled tasks Free daily credits work only with Manus 1.6 Lite and are capped at 1,500 a month SSO and shared team credits require the Team plan	Free and Go have limited uploads, image generation, voice, deep research and Codex access The Go plan may include ads Business plans start at 2 users; Enterprise and Edu pricing requires contacting sales
Made by	Manus AI	OpenAI

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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