Manus AI alternatives

Chinese-origin general-purpose autonomous agent launched March 2025 by Butterfly Effect. Operates in a cloud sandbox — browser, file system, shell. Full Manus AI record →

  1. 1 OpenHands Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same storage (kv, file) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · same memory unit (turn) · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 92k released 2026-09-25 MIT Compare with Manus AI →

  2. 2 ChatGPT — Codex (cloud agent) Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same storage (kv) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · same memory unit (turn) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? Compare with Manus AI →

  3. 3 MetaGPT Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same storage (file) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 71k released 2024-04-22 MIT Compare with Manus AI →

  4. 4 v0 (Vercel) Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same storage (file) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 510 Compare with Manus AI →

  5. 5 Cognition Devin v2 / Spec Mode Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same storage (kv, file) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ released 2026-10-26 Compare with Manus AI →

  6. 6 JetBrains AI Assistant Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same storage (kv) · same retrieval (injection) · same memory unit (turn) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Manus AI →

  7. 7 Lovable.dev — harness Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same storage (file) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Manus AI →

  8. 8 Replit Agent v3 Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same storage (file) · same retrieval (injection) · same conflict handling (llm-arbitrate) · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ released 2026-03-13 Compare with Manus AI →

Ranked by shared memory design (storage, retrieval, conflict handling, memory unit), same section and shared must-haves (open source, self-hosting, MCP), with adoption as a tie-breaker. ✓ confirmed · — no · ? not in the catalog yet. Want picks for your own requirements? Use the chooser. Checking a whole project? Check your stack.