Agentic Index
Manus vs Pokee AI (2026)
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Manus and Pokee AI are both general purpose autonomous agents that take a task and go do it, and they differ most on where they run. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Manus is the broader product (browser operator, design, web app building) on credit plans priced $20, $40 or $200 monthly, and runs only in its own cloud, with data in the US and Singapore, while Pokee automates work across 90+ tools from a free plan of 500 credits and Lite at $19.99 a month, and runs in its cloud, a customer VPC or on premises, air gapped included. Choose Manus for raw capability today. Choose Pokee for deployment control.
On the Agentic Index self hosted platform ranking, neither Manus nor Pokee AI clears the bar, which asks for both containment capabilities documented in full. Manus does not document deployment and data residency in full, nor model flexibility and routing; Pokee AI does not document model flexibility and routing in full. 171 of the 556 platforms it grades clear it. See the self hosted platform ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Manus and Pokee AI are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Manus if
- Peak general agent capability today matters more than vendor uncertainty.
- The browser operator plus design and web app building covers your use cases.
- You are comfortable riding out the ownership transition as a subscriber.
Choose Pokee AI if
- Deployment control (on premise or VPC) is a hard requirement.
- Stable independent ownership matters for anything you build a workflow on.
- Public pricing from $19.99 a month on Lite, with 90+ tool integrations, covers your work.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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ManusIntegrations & Tool Calling A catalog of MCP connectors (Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Slack, GitHub and others) lets the agent act in outside systems. Custom MCP servers add internal tools and proprietary APIs, and Zapier reaches further apps. In the API, connectors can be chosen per task. Sourcemanus.im/docs/integrations/custom-mcpread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AIIntegrations & Tool Calling Native API integrations cover 90+ tools listed by name, including Google Workspace, Microsoft Outlook and OneDrive, Slack, Jira, Asana, HubSpot, Salesforce, GitHub, Vercel, Shopify, Zendesk and Notion, connected through OAuth with credentials held in an encrypted vault. Sourcepokee.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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ManusWorkflow Orchestration The agent plans and executes multi step tasks end to end, Wide Research runs a parallel multi agent system across many sub tasks, and custom agents run subtasks listed through the API. Sourcemanus.im/docs/features/wide-researchread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AIWorkflow Orchestration From one instruction the agent selects tools, plans the steps, runs them through native API calls and adapts when a step fails, and one workflow can trigger another on conditions. Sourcepokee.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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ManusTriggers & Channel Coverage Scheduled Tasks run work on a recurring schedule or at a set time (20 per paid plan), Mail Manus starts tasks from forwarded or CC'd email including dedicated workflow addresses, and tasks also arrive from Slack and the API with webhooks for task events. Sourcemanus.im/docs/features/scheduled-tasksread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AITriggers & Channel Coverage Workflows run on daily, weekly or custom schedules without a person starting them, and one workflow can trigger another based on conditions. Otherwise people start work with a natural language instruction or through the Enterprise API. Sourcepokee.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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ManusKnowledge Grounding & RAG Projects keep a knowledge base of uploaded files that every new task in the project inherits, and connectors pull from Notion, Drive and similar sources per run. Manus does not describe an index, embeddings layer or retrieval structure over that knowledge. Web research gathers context for each task as it runs. Sourcemanus.im/docs/features/projectsread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AIKnowledge Grounding & RAG Agents run deep research on the web and read connected sources such as Notion, Confluence, Google Docs and Drive. There is no knowledge base, index or retrieval layer over a customer's documents. Sourcepokee.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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ManusMemory & State Persistence Projects keep a master instruction and files that users maintain and every new task reads, so users keep this store and it carries across sessions. Stopped tasks resume with their state. There is no memory layer that the agent writes itself, with a set scope and lifetime. Sourcemanus.im/docs/features/projectsread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AIMemory & State Persistence Persistent memory across sessions covers each user's preferences, projects and past decisions, context carries over between conversations, and the Enterprise API describes a per tenant workspace with memory across sessions and session deletion. Files and packages saved in the PokeeClaw workspace are separate sandbox state. Sourcepokee.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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ManusHuman Oversight & Guardrails The agent pauses and waits for the user to confirm supported actions, such as sending an email, before it goes on. The user answers in the app or through task.confirmAction. Plan Mode shows the approach as an editable document, and the user approves it before work starts. Sourceopen.manus.im/docs/v2/task-lifecycleread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AIHuman Oversight & Guardrails The agent security architecture has a capability broker that authorizes composed capabilities with egress allowlists and trust tiers, and an injection firewall on tool returns, which limit what the agent may do. No step has a person approve an action, and scheduled workflows run unattended. Sourcepokee.ai/security/agent-securityread 2026-09-27 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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ManusSecurity, Identity & Governance The Team plan sets up SSO with the customer's own identity provider after domain verification. It has Team Owner and Super Admin roles and an admin dashboard with access control and granular sharing permissions. Manus holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, the SOC 2 attestation letters and the ISO certificate are listed on the security page, and a trust center sits at trust.manus.im. Sourcemanus.im/teamread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AISecurity, Identity & Governance The attestation is stated two ways. llms.txt says SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, while the security page says the Type 2 audit is in progress, with ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 audits also in progress. SSO and SAML with audit logging are Enterprise plan features, and the API adds bearer tokens with mTLS and IP allowlists. The attestation is unconfirmed, and there is no role model or identity integration beyond the plan line. Sourcepokee.ai/securityread 2026-09-27 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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ManusObservability & Auditability Each task keeps a full event history of the agent's steps, readable in the app and through task.listMessages. The Team plan adds audit logs and an admin dashboard with usage tracking. Usage history is also shown per session and per member. Sourcemanus.im/teamread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AIObservability & Auditability Audit logging is an Enterprise plan feature, the API reports usage and credit balance, and the security whitepaper describes an audit plane over agent trajectories with retention and access controls. There is no run history, trace view or record of agent decisions in the product. Sourcepokee.ai/security/agent-securityread 2026-09-27 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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ManusDeployment & Data Residency Manus runs only in its own cloud. Its data is stored in the US and Singapore, and the customer cannot choose a region. There is no self hosted, VPC or residency option. Sourcemanus.im/blog/a-note-to-our-usersread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AIDeployment & Data Residency Customers can run it in Pokee's cloud or their own VPC, enterprise on premises deployment covers air gapped environments with an offline API variant, and region pinning offers US, APAC and EU regions on request. Sourcepokee.ai/securityread 2026-09-27 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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ManusPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs A categorized library of ready to use Skills, built by Manus and the community, includes Excel Generator, Financial Analysis, SEO Competitor Analysis and Listicle Blog Writer. Skills are added to a workspace from the official library, uploaded, or imported from GitHub, and each Skill does its own job. Sourcemanus.im/features/skillsread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AIPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Use cases are listed by function, among them content, sales, marketing, support, HR, finance and DevOps, with ready prompts. No named prebuilt agents or templates are offered, and the agent is assembled from the user's instruction. Sourcepokee.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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ManusModel Flexibility & Routing The customer picks one of three agent profiles, standard, lite or max, and model versions cannot be chosen separately through the API. These are tiers of Manus's own agent, and Manus does not name the underlying model provider. Sourceopen.manus.im/docs/v2/task.createread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AIModel Flexibility & Routing Customers cannot choose a model or provider, since Pokee runs its own reinforcement learning engine and its own model family, Pokee-Isaac 28B. Sourcepokee.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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ManusAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility The Manus API is a REST API with API key or OAuth2 authentication and published OpenAPI specifications. It creates, continues, stops and lists tasks, manages projects, files, webhooks and agents, and publishes websites built by the agent. Sourceopen.manus.im/docs/v2/introductionread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AIAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility The Pokee Enterprise API, documented at docs.pokee.ai and linked from pokee.ai, offers REST endpoints to create, list and delete sessions, send messages with streamed responses, manage workspace files and read usage, all with bearer token auth on a host for each tenant. Sourcedocs.pokee.ai/docsread 2026-09-27 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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ManusTesting, Debugging & Optimization The Skill Creator skill is a guided workflow for authoring Skills, and it includes a testing step. It does not report a verdict on agent behavior. There is no evaluation harness, scored test case or quality gate for the agent. Sourcemanus.im/docs/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AITesting, Debugging & Optimization Published accuracy and cost figures and model technical reports measure Pokee's own models, and customers have no way to test or evaluate an agent or workflow. Sourcepokee.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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ManusBrowser & Computer Use The agent drives Manus's own cloud browser, which operates like a real person. The Browser Operator extension lets it navigate, click and fill forms in the user's local browser with existing logins, once the user grants control. Manus also has a desktop app. Sourcemanus.im/docs/features/browser-operatorread 2026-09-27 |
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Pokee AIBrowser & Computer Use Work runs through native API integrations, not browser automation or screen scraping, Pokee says. The PokeeClaw workspace gives the agent a VM with Python, Node.js, a package manager and Git, which is a shell and code runtime, not a screen to operate. Sourcepokee.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Paid from $20 a month for 4,000 credits, $40 for 8,000 and $200 for 40,000, each with 300 daily refresh credits. Team is $20 a seat a month, and a free account runs the lite agent. | Lite $19.99/mo; free plan with 500 credits |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, exact | Public, exact |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
A credit based subscription. Every action consumes credits, and complex tasks consume many. | credits |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
High variable cost | Low variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Self-serve | Mixed |
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Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked |
Product updates
Newest first, each linked to its source.
Manus
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· Agent capability
Manus 2.0 shipped on web, desktop and mobile, built on Cascade, a rebuilt agent harness that loads specialized capabilities only when a project needs them.
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· Funding / partnership
Manus announced its return to independent operations after regulators ordered the unwinding of its December 2025 acquisition by Meta.
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· Human approval / guardrails
Manus launched Plan Mode, an opt-in feature that adds a human-in-the-loop review step before the AI agent executes a build or task.
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Manus runs independently again after Meta's 29 December 2025 acquisition was reversed on regulatory grounds and the data separation finished on 23 to 24 August 2026.
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