Manus General Agent Rental: Automated Delivery System for a Personal AI Employee Generating 30,000 RMB Monthly

💰 Revenue

① Company Level (Manus platform itself): Monthly subscriptions for individuals and enterprises, with the $199 package running five tasks simultaneously. Sources disclose that its annualized revenue by the end of 2025 was estimated to have broken $100 million, though the number of paid users is not public (media estimates, independently unverified), and the revenue share of this segment is also unknown; ② Replicator Level (Individuals delivering automated research and reports to SMEs, main revenue): SMEs pay a monthly service fee of 2,000 to 8,000 RMB per client. Serving 3 to 5 clients yields a monthly income of 6,000 to 40,000 RMB, with a mature-stage benchmark of 15,000 to 30,000 RMB. The proportion of total revenue is not specified (case study benchmark, no independent verification found); ③ Early Invitation Code Resale (Gray market, unsustainable): Individuals reselling invitation codes. Sources disclose that internal test codes were once hyped up to 100,000 RMB, with individual codes ranging from several thousand RMB to a maximum of 99,900 RMB. The number of resold units cannot be verified, and the revenue share is also unknown (media estimates, independently unverified); ④ Opportunity Item - Low-cost delivery using open-source alternatives: Replacing the $199 subscription with an open-source alternative plus cloud GPU costs of 0.5 to 1 RMB/hour, while still delivering at original client monthly rates. The revenue generated by this model has not been verified (case study benchmark, independent verification not performed), and there is no data on its proportion.

💸 Cost

Manus subscription is about $199 per month (approx. 1,400 RMB), or using an open-source alternative plus cloud GPU at about 0.5 to 1 RMB per hour, plus pay-as-you-go API costs for Claude or GPT, bringing total monthly costs to about 1,500 to 3,000 RMB.

⏱ Time Investment

2 to 4 hours per day: dispatching the task list in the morning, reviewing the agent's intermediate results at noon, completing delivery in the evening, with virtually zero supervision required during agent execution.

🔑 Keys to Success

• ✅ Vertical scenario priority: Only take on industries you understand well so that you can effectively judge and correct the agent's output
• ✅ Solidify the delivery process into SOP templates, allowing the same workflow to serve multiple clients and achieve systematic compounding
• ✅ Manually review facts and data before every delivery to prevent agent hallucinations from destroying personal reputation
• ✅ Anchor pricing to official cases rather than time: Use the $199 concurrency 5-task package as a pricing reference, letting clients perceive the speed and price difference that human outsourcing cannot provide

⚠️ 风险

• ⚠️ Fragile payment barriers: Free open-source alternatives like OpenClaw have caused Manus's monthly active users to plummet by about 50%, and reliance on a single platform carries the risk of service interruption
• ⚠️ Invitation code and subscription speculation belong to a gray area, facing multiple risks including trade disputes, platform bans, and official non-recognition of channels
• ⚠️ Regulatory and entity uncertainty: The acquisition was halted by China's National Development and Reform Commission, and the team has experienced regulatory scrutiny. Product direction and overseas operations policies may change at any time, so the personal delivery system must maintain a dual-track open-source alternative approach to prevent interruption