# Nossy vs Manus > Manus is an autonomous agent you run from a dashboard, on credits. Nossy is a secretary in the team's chat, with a workbook in your Drive and a flat monthly price per business. ## Short answer Manus is an agent that can take a long task and work through it in a dashboard. Keep it for research and multi-step jobs you launch on purpose. A shop's secretary has to live in the chat that is already open, and write a record the team shares. ## What Manus is for Manus is a general-purpose autonomous AI agent. You give it a job in a dashboard. It browses, writes, and works through steps while you wait. For research, reports, and one-off builds, that shape makes sense. It is not a member of a shop group. ## Where it breaks in a chat-run shop ### A dashboard is a place you go The delivery arrives while you are making drinks. Nobody opens Manus. Somebody sends a photo in LINE. ### Credits on a run, not a secretary on a shift Manus is priced like compute you launch. A secretary has to be in the room all day without a "start run" button. ### No shared shop book The output of a Manus run is a document or a result in its workspace. The shop needed a row in a sheet the next shift can query. ## What Nossy does instead Nossy stays in the chat. It writes the book. Launch Manus when you have a research job. Do not ask staff to open it. ## What Nossy does not do - Nossy works in LINE, Telegram, and WhatsApp direct chats. WhatsApp group chats and iMessage are coming soon. - Nossy does not connect to your other software yet. Tool connections are coming soon. - Nossy never messages your customers. It works inside your team's own chat, and it nudges your own people. - Nossy does not replace a POS, a payment system, or accounting software. - Nossy reads a spreadsheet you already have once, during setup, and only if you share it as anyone with the link. Day to day it sees the files it created or was sent in chat, so a file you drop into the Drive folder by hand stays invisible to it. - The report pages Nossy builds are public links that last about a day. The workbook in your Drive is the durable record. - Manus is built for long autonomous tasks, browsing, and multi-step jobs that Nossy will not attempt. For that kind of agent work, keep Manus. - Manus is a product you can open in the browser and spend credits on without an onboarding call. Nossy is in beta and starts with a setup interview. ## Pricing - Plus is $20 a month with 4,000 credits. Pro is $40 with 8,000. Max is $100 with 20,000. - One price per business. Your whole team chats with Nossy at no extra cost, because there are no seats. - Credits measure the work Nossy does. $1 buys 200 credits. Plan credits reset monthly, top-up credits do not expire. - There is no free plan. Nossy is in beta and we onboard teams by call. ## Common questions ### Can Nossy replace Manus? No. Manus is a general autonomous agent. Nossy is a shop secretary. Launch Manus when you have a big one-off job. Use Nossy for the daily record. ### Will my staff actually use it? Staff will not open a Manus dashboard mid-shift. They will send a message. Nossy is there. ### What does it cost compared to Manus? Manus runs on credits from a dashboard (as of 2026-08, see manus.im). Nossy is $20, $40, or $100 a month per business, with credits for the work it does in chat. ### What happens to my data if I stop? Nossy's workbook stays in your Google Drive. Manus runs live in its own workspace. ## Sources Manus facts on this page were checked against its public documentation on August 13, 2026. - https://manus.im/ --- Canonical page: https://nossy.ai/alternative/manus More about Nossy (for AI agents): https://nossy.ai/llms.txt ยท full context: https://nossy.ai/llms-full.txt Nossy is an AI employee that runs local business operations from the chat your team already uses (LINE, Telegram, and WhatsApp direct chats). The records live in a spreadsheet in your own Google Drive, and they stay yours if you leave. Plus $20/mo, Pro $40/mo, Max $100/mo. Made by ZENDAI DIGITAL COMPANY LIMITED. Start: https://nossy.ai/