Is Manus AI Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of manus.im plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-05-04

How to check right now

Step 1 -- Load the site
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Step 2 -- Crowdsourced reports
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User-reported outages aggregated across regions. Good signal for partial or regional outages.

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Live tweets from other users. Fastest signal for a fresh outage -- often beats status pages by 10-20 minutes.

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Known issues we've tracked

PRODUCT (2026-04-30): Manus shipped Cloud Computer -- 24/7 persistent virtual machines (Ubuntu, SSH + web terminal access) for autonomous agents. Unlike the prior temporary sandbox, file system + running processes + databases + scheduled jobs persist across sessions, enabling overnight work, long-running scrapes, and bot hosting that survives between chat turns. Manus auto-routes tasks to Cloud Computer when continuous uptime is needed; no manual provisioning. Tier-based pricing (Basic / Standard / Advanced) -- exact monthly costs not disclosed on launch blog. This is a meaningful capability upgrade against OpenClaw and Hermes (which both require user-provisioned infra to achieve the same persistence) and narrows the 'less powerful but easier' framing in our verdict
2026-04-30•Manus AI blog (manus.im/blog/manus-cloud-computer)
Occasional rate-limiting on free tier during peak hours, tasks silently queue rather than error, which can look like a stall
2026-03•Reddit r/aiToolForBusiness
Browser automation failures on sites with aggressive bot detection, support is to retry with different flows
2026-04•Manus community forum

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Manus AI is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

A

Hermes Agent

8.4

Nous Research's self-improving autonomous agent -- persistent memory, auto-generated skills, five sandbox backends. v0.12.0 'Curator Release' (2026-04-30) adds Autonomous Curator background agent that prunes + consolidates skills on a 7-day cycle, plus Microsoft Teams + Tencent Yuanbao platforms

A

Perplexity Computer

8.4

Perplexity's general-purpose digital worker -- operates real software like you do, runs for hours or months, routes sub-tasks to Opus, Gemini, GPT-5.2, Grok, and Veo 3.1

A

Perplexity Comet

8.4

Perplexity's agentic AI browser -- FREE on all platforms as of 2026-03-18 (previously $200/mo Max-only). iOS, Android, Windows, Mac. Browses the web, executes multi-step tasks, and summarizes pages in-line. Comet Plus ($5/mo) adds premium publisher content

A

Wingman (Emergent)

8.1

Emergent's messaging-first personal AI agent -- launched 2026-04-15 from the India vibe-coding startup ($70M raise, $300M valuation). Positioned as an OpenClaw alternative with safer defaults

B

OpenClaw

7.6

Open-source personal AI agent you talk to through Signal, Telegram, Discord, or WhatsApp. WARNING: March 2026 disclosed 9 CVEs (including CVSS 9.9) with 135,000+ exposed public instances -- verify hardening before running anywhere sensitive

About Manus AI

Tier B (7.9/10). Hosted autonomous AI agent you talk to through Telegram, WhatsApp, and Slack -- the 'no DevOps' alternative to OpenClaw and Hermes. Manus Cloud Computer (2026-04-30) adds 24/7 persistent VMs so agents keep running between sessions

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