Manus is the best known agent in this category and the one we get asked about most. It is broader than Katteb in two real ways and narrower in three.
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Built from their own published pricing and documentation, checked in September 2026.
A browser agent on our servers with a Chrome profile of your own, and a toolbelt that writes the files on the server.
A cloud agent on its own virtual machine, with an extension that can drive the browser on your laptop.
The lines that actually change the day, not a feature count.
| Katteb | Manus | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A browser agent with its own real Chrome profile on our servers, plus a toolbelt for files, data and media. | A general agent on a cloud virtual machine with a browser, a shell and a file system. |
| Where the browser runs | On Katteb's servers, always on, one dedicated profile per account. | A fresh cloud sandbox per task, or your own laptop through the Browser Operator extension. |
| Your signed-in accounts | You sign in once inside your own agent browser and the session stays. | Sign in inside their cloud browser and the session is injected into the next sandbox. |
| Exit IP address | A static ISP address tied to your host, the same one on every run. | The sandbox's datacentre address, or your own when the extension drives your laptop. |
| CAPTCHA | Solved inside the run. | No published capability. |
| Price before you run it | The plan card shows the hold (200 credits) before you press Run. | No cost shown before a task. Independent reviews name this as the main complaint. |
| A task that fails | Not charged at all, and the hold comes straight back. | Credits are deducted whether the task completes or not. |
| Ceiling on one task | 1,500 credits a task on the entry plan, and we absorb the rest. | No per-task ceiling and no stop-at-X budget. |
| Scheduling | Daily, weekly, or only when you click. | Daily, weekly or monthly, with connectors. |
| Files it produces | PowerPoint with real charts, PDF, CSV, images, video, music, and voice notes in your own recorded voice. | Reports, slides, sheets, sites, video, and full-stack apps it builds and deploys. |
| Where you talk to it | Web, an installable app, Telegram and Slack. | Web, desktop apps, mobile, Telegram, and a public API. |
| Entry price | $19 a month, agents included. | Free daily credits; paid from $20 a month. |
Built from their own published pricing and documentation, checked in September 2026. Their site
Not features we counted. Three decisions in the architecture.
Your agent works in its own Chrome profile on our server, from a static IP, and stays signed in between one task and the next. The others either open a fresh sandbox per task and inject your session into it, or drive the browser on your own laptop, which then has to be awake. A task that runs on LinkedIn at 3am needs a steady identity, not a new sandbox.
A task holds 200 credits and settles at what it really cost, and a task that fails is charged nothing. The rest of this category bills from a credit pool that drains whether the task worked or not, with no budget stop to catch it.
Send a message while a task is running and it is delivered to the agent mid-flight rather than queued for the next one. When it hits a login wall or a real decision it stops and asks you instead of guessing. Press Stop and it wraps up, hands you the report and the files it already made, and charges only for the part that ran.
The loudest complaint in this whole category is that the price only appears after it is gone. Here is the entire policy.
Before it runs
It holds 200 credits, then you pay what the run really cost.
If it fails
You are charged nothing. Stop it halfway and you pay for the part that ran.
The ceiling
1,500 credits a task on the entry plan, and we absorb the rest.
No, and the architecture is where you can check that. Katteb gives every customer a dedicated Chrome profile on a server with a static ISP address, solves CAPTCHAs inside the run, and bills metered with a refund when a run fails. Manus runs a fresh sandbox per task and bills from a credit pool that drains either way. The two products answer the same question with different machines underneath.
Not today. Manus fans a research job out to many sub-agents in parallel, and for a two hundred row research table it will be faster. Katteb runs one task at a time in one steady browser, which is the right shape for work inside your own signed-in accounts and the wrong shape for a very wide crawl. We are building a fan-out for the read-only part.
Yes. The browser profile is yours and it persists, so you sign in to LinkedIn or Salla once and the next task starts already signed in. You can watch that browser live from your account after an emailed code, and wipe it whenever you like.
It holds 200 credits when it starts and settles at the real metered cost when it ends, with that hold as the minimum. A typical finished task is about 900 credits. A task that fails on our side, or never reached the model, is charged nothing.
The same lines, against other platforms.
The strongest general model, with a cloud browser attached to it.
An all-in-one super agent for research, slides, sheets and outbound calls, with its own AI browser.
An agent builder for business workflows: inbox, calendar, meetings and a hundred connected apps.
Google's personal agent, bundled with Google AI Pro, driving the Chrome on your own computer.
Agents inside the automation platform that connects seven thousand apps.
Every plan includes the agents, from $19 a month. A free account opens the whole model catalogue to try in chat, and an agent run starts when a plan does.
