Manus · Butterfly Effect Pte Ltd (Singapore; ex-Monica)
The viral general-purpose autonomous agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks in a cloud VM (browsing, code, docs, slides), notable for Wide Research parallel sub-agents and for Meta's $2B acquisition being blocked by China's NDRC in April 2026.
Identity
| Homepage | https://manus.im/ |
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| License | proprietary |
| Domain | general |
| Form factor | web-app · cloud-service |
Model support
| Model-agnostic | ○ no |
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| Native models | Manus 1.6 Lite · Manus 1.6 · Manus 1.6 Max (orchestrating Claude/Qwen-class backends, not user-selectable) |
| Local models | ○ no |
| Pricing | freemium |
Extensibility
| MCP client | ? unknown |
|---|---|
| Agent Skills support | ○ no |
| Plugins / hooks | ? unknown |
Execution & safety
| Sandboxing | cloud-remote |
|---|---|
| Autonomy spectrum | semi-autonomous → background-cloud |
| Subagents | ✓ yes |
| Parallel sessions | ✓ yes |
| Context management | persistent-memory · compaction |
Integration & evidence
| Headless / API | ? unknown |
|---|---|
| GitHub integration | ? unknown |
| Sources |
✓ profile last verified 2026-07-08 · benchmark figures are vendor-reported unless a source states otherwise