October 26, 2026
Manus pricing · three main plans, one price per credit, and what a task costs
Visit RunableManus is $20, $40 or $200 a month billed monthly, and every plan works out to $5 per 1,000 credits. Manus’s docs say task cost depends on the task. Runable Pro is $20 a month billed monthly for 25,000 credits, in a different credit unit.
Manus is an AI agent. An AI agent is a tool that plans a task with several steps and does it for you, like a research report or a slide deck.
Manus bills in credits. A credit is the unit the agent spends as it works. As of October 26, 2026, Manus has three main plans, and all three charge the same price per credit. Manus also has Team and Enterprise plans.
The short answer
Pick either $20 a month plan if you use an agent a few times a week. Manus and Runable Pro both cost $20 a month billed monthly, so run one real task on each and keep the one that spends fewer of its credits.
Pick Runable Max if you use an agent every day for big jobs. It is $100 a month billed monthly, half of the $200 a month Manus plan. Test one heavy task first, because the two tools count credits in different units.
Pick a small Manus plan plus add-on credits if your work comes in bursts. Manus’s docs say add-on credits never expire, while plan credits reset each month.
Pick Happycapy Pro or the smallest Manus plan if the lowest paid start wins for you. They tie at $17 a month billed yearly, as of October 26, 2026. The Manus plan includes 4,000 credits a month and Happycapy Pro includes 2,000, but the two tools count credits in different units.
Every Manus plan costs $5 per 1,000 credits
Prices below are billed monthly, as of October 26, 2026.
| Plan price | Credits a month | Price per 1,000 credits |
|---|---|---|
| $20 a month billed monthly | 4,000 | $5 |
| $40 a month billed monthly | 8,000 | $5 |
| $200 a month billed monthly | 40,000 | $5 |
The bigger plans are bigger buckets at the same rate. As of October 26, 2026, yearly billing is marked “Annually · Save 17%”. On the smallest plan, that is $17 a month billed yearly for the same 4,000 credits a month.
The $20 a month plan also lists 300 refresh credits every day, 20 concurrent tasks and 20 scheduled tasks. A concurrent task runs at the same time as others. A scheduled task runs later on its own.
Manus has three kinds of credits
As of October 26, 2026, Manus credits come from three taps.
Refresh credits are a daily allowance. The $20 a month plan adds 300 a day. If you used all of them every day, that would come to about 9,000 in a 30-day month on October 26, 2026 prices.
Plan credits are the monthly bucket, like 4,000 on the $20 a month plan. They reset each month.
Add-on credits are extra credits you buy. Manus’s docs say they never expire.
So a team that works in bursts can buy a small plan and top up with add-ons. Those extra credits wait for the next burst.
No price page tells you what one task costs
Manus’s docs say “Credits are consumed based on the complexity and resources required for each task.” By that rule, a simple task spends fewer credits than a complex one.
Manus also says “The dashboard provides estimates before you start a task.” So the real price check happens inside Manus, one task at a time.
The Hacker News user mercurialsolo judged the cost too high. This was December 2025, before Manus 2.0.
Insanely overpriced versus over deep research products mercurialsolo on Hacker News, December 29, 2025
Runable next to Manus
Runable is another AI agent. It makes slides, images, video, websites and apps.
As of October 26, 2026, Runable has two plans. Pro is $20 a month billed monthly for 25,000 credits a month plus 1,500 a day. Max is $100 a month billed monthly for 150,000 credits a month plus 1,500 a day.
A Runable credit and a Manus credit are different units. So 25,000 against 4,000 doesn’t mean Runable does six times the work. One real task on both tools is the only fair test.
The math for one month of credits
The math: on October 26, 2026 prices, billed monthly.
- Manus at $20 a month buys 4,000 credits. That is $5 per 1,000.
- Manus at $200 a month buys 40,000 credits. That is $5 per 1,000.
- Runable Pro at $20 a month buys 25,000 credits plus 1,500 a day. That is $0.80 per 1,000 monthly credits.
- Runable Max at $100 a month buys 150,000 credits plus 1,500 a day. That is about $0.67 per 1,000 monthly credits.
These numbers compare price per credit inside each tool. They don’t tell you price per task until you run one.
What to do this week
Pick one task you do every week, like a 10-slide deck or a competitor brief.
Run it on Manus and read the estimate in its dashboard before you start. Then run the same task on Runable Pro and write down the credits it used. Divide each plan’s monthly credits by that number to see the number of tasks a month each plan covers.
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Sources · Manus pricing, checked October 26, 2026 · Manus plans docs, read October 26, 2026 · Runable pricing, checked October 26, 2026 · Happycapy pricing, checked October 26, 2026 · mercurialsolo on Hacker News, December 29, 2025.