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Autonomous Agents · Head-to-head

deer-flow vs Manus

deer-flow and Manus are both autonomous agents. deer-flow is An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, sub…, while Manus is general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions across real tasks. Here's an independent, side-by-side look at how they compare — and which fits.

deer-flow

Agent· Open source

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, sub…

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Manus

Agent· Freemium

General AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions across real tasks.

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Specdeer-flowManus
TypeAgentAgent
ModelOpen sourceCommercial
PricingOpen sourceFreemium
GitHub stars75,953
LanguagePython
LicenseMIT
Last activityJul 2026

Choose deer-flow if

you want an open-source, self-hostable option you control.

Choose Manus if

Delegating general multi-step tasks to a hosted autonomous agent..

About deer-flow

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

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About Manus

General AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions across real tasks.

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