Google AI Studio vs Manus: Features, Pricing and User Reviews 2026

Google AI Studio offers three pricing levels to fit different needs.

• Free Plan: Limited access to selected Gemini models, with free input and output tokens and full access to Google AI Studio. Content may be used to help improve Google's products.

• Paid Plan: Built for production use, with higher rate limits, context caching, and batch processing at up to 50% lower cost. It unlocks Google's latest models, and your content is never used to improve Google products. Pricing is usage based and varies by model, for example Gemini 3.6 Flash costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens.

• Enterprise Plan: Includes everything in Paid, plus dedicated support, advanced security, compliance features, provisioned throughput, volume discounts, MLOps, Model Garden, and a full enterprise AI platform, with custom pricing based on your organization's needs.

Manus offers three main paid plans, all billed monthly, with an annual option that saves 17 percent.

• Standard ($20/month): Includes 4,000 credits plus 300 refresh credits each day, covering everyday research, websites, and slides.

• Customizable ($40/month): Gives 8,000 credits a month, letting you adjust usage to fit your needs.

• Productivity ($200/month): Includes 40,000 credits and adds a free cloud computer for heavy, large-scale work.

All paid plans allow 20 concurrent tasks and 20 scheduled tasks, along with early access to new features. For teams and businesses, Manus also offers flexible custom plans built for organizations of any size, with enterprise-grade security and compliance certifications.