Devin vs Manus
A side-by-side comparison of Devin and Manus, two Agent tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
Compared from listings verified as of
At a glance
The honest brief
Devin
Runs asynchronously in its own cloud sandbox aimed at whole tickets, not autocomplete — plans, codes, and opens a PR.
- Autonomous, async whole-ticket work
- Own sandbox: browser, terminal, editor
- Submits PRs end-to-end
- Good for long-horizon tasks
- Closed model and harness
- Hosted-only, no self-host
- Premium-priced
- Reliability varies on complex tickets
Manus
A general operator that plans and executes multi-step non-code work autonomously, not a single-prompt chatbot.
- Runs tasks autonomously over hours
- Multi-agent orchestration in a Linux sandbox
- Strong GAIA benchmark scores
- Browses, drafts, and schedules for you
- Credits drain fast on complex tasks
- Reliability gaps; tasks fail mid-stream
- No SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA as of 2026
- China data-flow compliance concerns