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Manus vs Lindy
A plain-English comparison to help you choose between them.
These are two different shapes of delegation. Pick Manus when the work is one-off tasks briefed fresh each time: it plans and executes end to end in a cloud sandbox and returns a finished report, deck or site for review. Pick Lindy when the work recurs: agents assembled from templates in plain language and left running on triggers against email, calendar and the CRM. Irregular project work favours Manus; steady business routines favour Lindy.
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Side by side
- Summary
Manus is an autonomous general agent. Give it a task and it plans and executes end to end in a cloud sandbox, operating a browser, carrying research through to a finished deliverable and building slides and sites along the way. You brief it like a contractor and review what comes back, rather than steering a chat turn by turn.
Usage is credit-metered. A genuinely free plan carries limited monthly credits and the core capabilities, Pro adds a larger allowance and full capabilities, and Team adds a shared credit pool with admin controls, alongside an enterprise push visible in SSO and an API. Ownership is in transition after China's regulator ordered Meta's 2025 acquisition unwound, with the resulting structure still being negotiated.
- Best for
- Delegating whole multi-step tasks rather than prompting turn by turn
- Research runs that end in a finished report, deck or site
- Browser-driven work that gathers, compares and compiles from the live web
- Founders and small teams trying autonomous delegation on a free plan
- Teams that want shared credits and admin controls over agent usage
- Cost
- Freemium (Free tier + paid plans)
- Ease
- Openness
- Hosted service
- Data
- A closed, cloud-hosted service. Tasks run in Manus's own sandbox, so anything you brief it with leaves your machine, and long unattended runs return research and analysis that need human verification before they inform business, legal or financial decisions. Ownership remains in transition, with China's regulator having ordered Meta's 2025 acquisition unwound and the resulting structure still being negotiated, so compliance-sensitive buyers should check current data-residency and processing terms before confidential material goes in.
- Summary
Lindy is a platform for building AI agents that do real work across your existing tools. Each agent, a Lindy, is set up in plain language rather than code: describe the job, connect the apps it needs, such as email, calendar, a CRM or Slack, and set the rules it must follow.
Agents run on triggers rather than waiting to be asked. Typical deployments triage and draft email, schedule and reschedule meetings, prepare briefs before calls, take notes and send follow-ups, keep HubSpot or Salesforce records current and chase leads. A library of prebuilt templates covers the common jobs, so a first agent is usually assembled rather than designed.
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Lindy has moved from a free-plan model to subscription tiers with a short trial, and now presents itself as an AI assistant for the whole work loop rather than a single-purpose bot. It suits people who want delegation, not another dashboard.
- Best for
- Delegating whole jobs such as inbox triage or meeting scheduling to an agent
- Building agents in plain language without code or flowcharts
- Keeping CRM records current from email and meeting activity
- Meeting preparation, notes and follow-ups handled end to end
- Starting from prebuilt agent templates rather than a blank canvas
- Cost
- Paid only
- Ease
- Openness
- Hosted service
- Data
- Agents hold live access to email, calendar and connected tools; grant scopes per agent, per job.
Pricing
- Manus
Free·from $20from $20/user
Prices as of August 2026.
- Free
- Free
- Pro
- from $20per monthbilled monthly
- Team
- from $20per user, per month2+ users minimum; billed monthly
- Lindy
$49.99·$99.99·$199.99·Custom
Prices as of August 2026.
- Plus
- $49.99per month
- Pro
- $99.99per month
- Max
- $199.99per month
- Enterprise
- Price on applicationno list price published
By area
Where each one pulls ahead, area by area.
| Area | Manus | Lindy |
|---|---|---|
| By task | ||
| Automation & agents | Manus is one general agent briefed fresh for whatever the day brings, working one-off tasks end to end in a cloud sandbox | Lindy packages automation as employees rather than workflows, running on triggers across connected apps rather than inside a chat window, with templates putting a working agent minutes away |
Common questions
Which suits recurring, always-on automation better?
Lindy is built for it: agents run on triggers rather than waiting to be asked, handling jobs such as inbox triage, meeting scheduling and CRM upkeep continuously. Manus is credit-metered autonomy that suits irregular delegation better than high-volume routine automation. That said, truly deterministic pipelines where the same steps must execute identically still sit better with classic workflow tools than with either agent.
Can I try either without paying?
Manus has a genuinely free plan with limited monthly credits and the core capabilities, with Pro adding a larger allowance and Team adding a shared credit pool with admin controls. Lindy has moved from a free-plan model to subscription tiers with a short trial. On both, costs scale with how much the agents actually do, so always-on workloads deserve a look at allowances first.
What oversight do these agents need in practice?
Different kinds. Manus's long unattended runs come back polished, which is the trap: research and analysis need human verification before they inform business, legal or financial decisions, and compliance-sensitive buyers should check current data-residency and processing terms while its ownership is in transition. Lindy's agents act on real email, calendars and customer records, so start them like a new assistant: clear rules, narrow scope and review while trust builds.
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Tool facts last checked August 2026