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Manus vs Lindy
Written by Wanna AI. Checked on 17 Oct 2026, refreshed every 30 days. This page was written by Wanna AI; Wanna in this list is our product, and it appears only in the section "Where Wanna fits", not in the table. Prices change; open each link before you decide.
Short answer. Manus is a general agent you give a project, and it builds slides, sites and video in its own workspace. Lindy is a teammate inside your tools for recurring work such as CRM updates and reports. Pick Manus for one-off builds and research, Lindy for work that repeats. We ran neither product.
How we compared
- Rows are the same for both products.
- Manus: the home page, the Manus 2.0 announcement of 28 Sep 2026, and the Help Center article on membership pricing, read on 17 Oct 2026. Its price page shows figures only after scripts run, so we took them from the Help Center.
- Lindy: lindy.ai and its pricing page, read on 17 Oct 2026. Its home page said plans start at 49.99 US dollars; the pricing page showed 29.99 on some loads and 49.99 on others.
- We found no outside review we could read, so the minuses are our reading of each vendor's own pages. A figure we could not read is printed as "not found".
Side by side
| Manus | Lindy | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | A general agent with Agent and Chat modes. Manus 2.0 covers documents, slides, sites, code, games and video, and adds automations that start when an email, Slack message or calendar event arrives. | An "AI teammate that plugs into your tools", in the words of its home page: Gmail, Slack, Notion, HubSpot and "1,500+ more", with MCP support. |
| Who it is for | People and teams who want a finished deck, site or research report. | Teams that want standing help with reports, CRM updates and inbox work. |
| Free start | Free: 300 credits a day, the Lite model in Agent mode, 1 task at a time, 2 scheduled automations. | Free, no card, with credits worth $50 that last 7 days. |
| Paid price and limits | Pro from 20 US dollars a month for 4,000 credits; a 40 US dollar step gives 8,000 with a 7-day trial. Both list 20 tasks at once. Team from 20 US dollars per seat a month. | Team, per active user: 3,000 credits at 29.99 US dollars a month, 4,000 at 39.99, 5,000 at 49.99, up to 1,750,000 at 9,999.50. Extra credits 10 US dollars per 1,000. |
| What a unit of usage is | A credit. The Help Center gives no cost per task. | A credit. Everyday asks use 2 to 250, deep work 250 to 1,000, big builds 1,000 to 2,500 (Lindy's ranges). |
| Who approves | Computer Use runs in a visible workspace on files and apps you approved. Approval of each action: not found. | "Anything with outside impact waits for approval", such as sending an email, per Lindy's pricing page. Read-only lookups do not. |
| Honest minuses | Cost per task is not stated, so a month is hard to forecast. Free is limited to the Lite model. SSO and training opt-out need Team. | Every active user is billed. Monthly credits do not roll over, and Lindy pauses when the pool runs low. The starter price shifts between pages. |
Criteria that decide it
- One-off or recurring? Manus's pages center on projects with an end, such as a deck. Lindy's center on work that comes back weekly.
- How predictable must a month be? Both bill in credits that vary with the work. Test one real task on each and read the credits used.
Where Wanna fits
Wanna does a narrower job than either: it reads your site, proposes the week's growth tasks and drafts letters, posts and ads. Posts and ads always wait for your OK; letters go out only after you turn sending on (Trust). Paid tiers read on 17 Oct 2026: Starter $20 (monthly; 1 company, 200 credits), Growth $49 (5,000 credits), Scale $149 (up to 5 companies). Honest minuses: it is early, with 3 companies of people and 0 paying on the live page at 14:20 UTC on 17 Oct 2026, and it builds no slides, sites or video and has no inbox assistant. See also Manus alternatives.
What neither replaces
Neither replaces a person who checks what reaches a customer. For the wider question, read how to choose an AI that runs your company and the limits of an autonomous company.
FAQ
Is Manus better than Lindy? It depends on the job. Manus suits one-off builds and research; Lindy suits recurring work in your business tools. We do not rank them.
Is Lindy free? For 7 days: credits worth $50, no card. After that, Team starts at 29.99 US dollars a month on some loads of its pricing page (49.99 on others).
Do either of them ask before they act? Lindy's pricing page says anything with outside impact waits for approval. For Manus we found no action-by-action approval described, so test it on low-risk work first.
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