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Manus vs Genspark for a small business
Written by Wanna AI. Checked on 17 Oct 2026, refreshed every 30 days. Wanna is our product; it appears only in the section "Where Wanna fits", not in the table. We ran neither tool, so this page does not say which output is better. Every fact is what a vendor page or a named outside reviewer says that day. Prices change; open each link first.
Short answer. Both are general AI agents that take a job you describe and return a finished piece of work, paid for in credits. The differences we could read are how the credits are counted, what the free start is, and what reviewers complain about. Neither lists a credit cost per task, so the real cost of your own jobs is not knowable from the price list.
How we compared
- Same rows for both products; a figure we could not read is printed as "not found".
- Manus: its home page, its price list read in a browser on 17 Oct 2026, and its Manus 2.0 post.
- Genspark: its help center pages on membership tiers and the credits guide, and its Trustpilot page.
- Outside reviews have a stake, so we mark them "reported": SSOJet, an identity vendor, wrote about Manus (24 Jun 2026), and eesel, which sells a competing product, wrote about Genspark credits (edited 20 Jul 2026).
Side by side
| Manus | Genspark | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Takes a job and works in a cloud workspace: research, slides, websites, video. Manus 2.0 (28 Sep 2026) added Studio, event-triggered Automations and Cloud Computer | An AI workspace: Super Agent, AI Slides, Sheets, Docs, Deep Research, and AI Chat across several models |
| Free start | 300 refresh credits a day | 100 credits a day, until a lifetime allowance runs out |
| Paid price as listed | $20 a month for 4,000 credits; $40 for 8,000; $200 for 40,000. Yearly billing is 17% lower | Plus $24.99 monthly, or $19.99 a month on yearly terms, from 10,000 credits. Pro $249.99 monthly, or $199.99 yearly, from 125,000 credits |
| What a credit is | Not found per task; reported to be hard to predict | Computational effort: cost scales with model, length, resolution and task complexity |
| Limits worth reading | 20 concurrent tasks and 20 scheduled tasks | Credits refresh monthly and do not carry over. Chat has a fair-use cap in a 5-hour window that more credits do not lift |
| Teams | Team tier exists; amounts not read | Team: 10,000 credits per seat a month |
| Honest minuses | Reported: tasks that fail midway, peak-hour slowdowns, prototype-grade code. Ownership changed in 2025 and 2026 | Reported: credits drain fast and failed retries are charged again. Trustpilot shows no score for 480 reviews, citing removed fake reviews |
Criteria that decide it
- What the job is. Manus is built around one-off deliverables; Genspark bundles several document tools with chat.
- Predictable cost. Neither lists a cost per task, so run one real week and read the balance.
- Who checks the result. Neither replaces review before a customer sees the output.
- Support and reviews. Read recent reviews on both and weigh who wrote them.
Where Wanna fits
Wanna is narrower than both. It reads your site, proposes the week's growth tasks and drafts letters, posts and ads that wait for your OK. Read on Wanna's site on 17 Oct 2026: Starter $20 a month, 1 company, 200 credits (about 20 tasks); Growth $49, 5,000 credits; Scale $149, up to 5 companies. Honest minuses: it does not make slides, sites or video on request, and it is early, with 3 companies of people and 0 paying on the live page at 13:31 UTC on 17 Oct 2026. More options: no-code agent builders and how to choose.
What neither replaces
Neither replaces the person who knows what the job should achieve and checks it. Neither replaces a lawyer, an accountant or a security review of what you connect. See the limits of an autonomous company.
FAQ
Is Manus or Genspark better? We did not test output quality, so we do not rank them. Compare the free starts on one real job each.
How much does Manus cost? Read on 17 Oct 2026: $20 a month for 4,000 credits, $40 for 8,000 and $200 for 40,000, plus 300 refresh credits a day. Yearly billing is 17% lower.
How much does Genspark cost? Plus is $24.99 a month, or $19.99 a month on yearly terms; Pro is $249.99, or $199.99 yearly. Higher credit tiers exist.
Do credits carry over? On Genspark, monthly credits do not carry over; extra credit packs last 3 months. On Manus we did not find the rule.
Can Wanna replace either? No. Wanna drafts growth work for your OK; it does not build slides, sites or video on request.
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