20 Manus alternatives
Manus: A general autonomous AI agent that executes multi-step tasks end to end in its own cloud environment. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Browser Automation, Computer Use and Deep Research, ranked by how much they have in common with Manus.
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Rindler signs in to the web portals your team already uses and finishes the task you describe in a sentence — pulling records, downloading invoices, checking statuses, submitting forms.
Also: Browser Automation, Computer Use
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The open-source library that lets AI agents actually use websites — clicking, typing, and reading like a person.
Also: Browser Automation, Computer Use
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Cua AI, Inc.
Open-source computer-use infrastructure: a desktop driver, cloud desktop fleets, local macOS VMs and a benchmark for agents that click.
Also: Computer Use, Sandbox
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Construct
Cloud AI employee with its own Linux desktop that runs multi-step work across Gmail, Notion, Linear, GitHub and Slack.
Also: Computer Use, Personal Assistant
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Anthropic
Anthropic's desktop agent for non-coding knowledge work: point it at a folder, describe the outcome, and it does the multi-step work itself.
Also: Computer Use, Personal Assistant
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Zinley, Inc.
A personal AI representative with its own phone number, inbox and computer that takes calls, works your email and runs tasks under rules you set.
Also: Computer Use, Personal Assistant
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Perplexity
Perplexity's agentic browser, where an assistant sits beside every tab and can act on the pages you are looking at.
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A Y Combinator-backed AI coworker you text from Slack or iMessage: it runs on its own cloud computer, signed into your tools, and keeps a self-updating company wiki as its memory.
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Open-source, sandboxed AI agents for every employee, fronted by a gateway that injects scoped credentials so the agent never holds a password.
Also: Personal Assistant, Sandbox
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Deep-research AI agent that builds cited reports or structured datasets, scaling depth to your budget.
Also: Deep Research
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You.com sells web search, content extraction, answer and research APIs for AI agents; its consumer chat closed to new users in 2026.
Also: Deep Research
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Perplexity AI
A web search engine that uses a large language model to process queries and synthesize responses based on web search results.
Also: Deep Research
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Advait Paliwal
Open-source AI research agent with a CLI and a local science workbench for deep literature review, paper retrieval and replication planning.
Also: Deep Research
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A deep-search research assistant that reads full papers, not abstracts, to find work others miss.
Also: Deep Research
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xAI
Grok is a free AI assistant designed by xAI to maximize truth and objectivity. Grok offers real-time search, image generation, trend analysis, and more.
Also: Deep Research
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Felafax, Inc.
Free, open-source desktop browser that coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor drive using your real logged-in accounts.
Also: Browser Automation
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The Plow Collective PBC
Mac app that exposes your browser, CLI, files and saved logins to Claude, Codex or any MCP agent — with an approval gate on every request.
Also: Browser Automation
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Aside Computer Inc.
AI browser that runs real tasks inside your logged-in accounts, with credentials sealed in an on-device vault the agent never reads.
Also: Browser Automation
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Cloud browser automation for AI agents: describe a workflow in plain English and Airtop compiles it into a deterministic agent that logs in, browses and acts at scale.
Also: Browser Automation
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Headless browser infrastructure for AI agents — sessions, stealth, proxies, and live view, without running Chrome yourself.
Also: Browser Automation