“To be honest I also s feel like Manus is performing more poorly since the move. Today it was continuing on a web app and gave me some really awful output. Feels like you switched models under the hood to one that has no vision or is weak at vision.”
“I love Manus, and I’ve spent more than a thousand dollars on credits; I was like a kid in the candy shop when they made the tasks unlimited for the past couple of weeks. But now, it keeps looping on the second iterations of some documents I’m generating, and not only it doesn’t get anything done and burns credits, it keeps stopping and saying “Manus might be looping” etc.”
“I was an early tester and fan of Manus long before they were acquired by Meta. They have now returned to independent ownership and operations. Hope they can recover and recreate the original Manus magic.”
“On August 26, 2026, I made a major payment for their service using my Visa Platinum card. However, the system failed to deliver the promised access, and my account remains restricted.”
“Truly embarrassed that I recommended Manus to family and friends as the quality has dropped significantly, wasted $200 of credits in one night for it to produce its own mistakes and spend all my tokens trying to fix it. It's as if a completely new model is trying to understand quality of a far superior model it has no chance of understanding.”
“Je confirme que d’un coup Manus a perdu en qualité ; j’ai l’impression qu’ils ne comprennent pas que la concurrence est la et ils ne sont plus seuls. Je confirme que pendant l’essai manus était meilleur”
“I successfully "restored" my account using the data download they provided, but when I go in - none of my projects are there. Then I go to "restore" again, and now it says my account was already restored.”
“However it was my understanding from reading a bit, that the desktop app makes Manus a much more powerful Agent that can actually work inside your pc with your files, apps ,etc. Am I wrong about this?”
“My concern is whether there is any supported way to recover the missing website without risking, replacing, or disrupting the already restored website.”
“I would recommend for a simple, internal tool, to sync your website with a private GitHub repo, and then host the website and small mySQL database on Railway which I believe has a free version but it’s also only 5$ a month for their lower plan.”
“My restore took 18 hours to do, as I did a complete backdate of everything. It was super smooth & everything is fine & restored perfectly. Manus is the best.”
“i have created a simple CRM system for our company using Manus , it is simple , just stores some data , the steps of each file and some financial reports.”
“We realized Manus was too expensive and too slow, and always jumped straight into production servers, pumping out code without thinking about software architecture or even using git. We switched to ChatGPT/Codex.”
“I find manus require having to really spell everything out and doesn’t use common sense. So if I’m not fully detailed in prompts I alway have to go back and look for those small corrections.”
“Consequently, despite my sending screenshots demonstrating that the account data was backed up, Manus Support are unable to associate the backup data to the account, even though the email address is unchanged. 😵💫 What a mess Manus has created.”
“Manus is well documented that its code is from multiple open source donors from github its a fine tuned bits a that sold for 10s of millions if not 100s of millions to meta its now turning into a build stealing money printing machine”
“Manus makes more sense when the value comes from giving it a task and letting it work through multiple steps, while something like Gemini is easier to justify if you're going to use the wider ecosystem and want one general-purpose assistant.”
“Manus is more interesting if your main reason for paying is the agent side of things. It can feel much more useful when you want to give it a task and have it actually work through multiple steps instead of just answering questions.”
“Manus is more “go do the thing,” Gemini Pro is a solid all-rounder (plus YT if you care), Codex is strong for code. SurfMind’s thing is you don’t have to marry just one.”