Kazi vs Manus
Manus takes on tasks. Kazi also joins your live calls and stays with you by voice and text.
Manus is a capable general agent for research and building. Kazi is built around running a business day to day: a team that shares projects, an assistant on your phone, texts both ways, and an agent in the meeting while it happens.
Which one is the right answer
Not every business should pick the same one.
Manus is the right answer when
You want a general-purpose agent for research, building and long tasks, with a desktop workspace, a large connector catalog and agents in Telegram, WhatsApp or LINE.
Kazi is the right answer when
Your day runs on calls, texts and the people you work with, and you want one product for you and your team that joins live meetings and talks with you hands-free on your phone.
How each one works
Every statement about Manus below cites Manus's own documentation, pricing or announcements. Checked 2026-11-06.
| Dimension | Manus | Kazi |
|---|---|---|
| Where you use it | Web, the Manus Studio desktop app, a mobile app and Slack, with agents in Telegram, WhatsApp Business and LINE.Source: Manus | Web, the Kazi Voice app for iPhone and Android, text messages and live meetings. Voice and text share one long-lived personal thread, so the conversation carries on wherever you pick it up. |
| Solo and team | Team plans share a credit pool, projects, skills and instructions; tasks are private by default; guests are free and can view and comment.Source: Manus Team | Works for one person or a whole team. Projects hold members with roles; chats, files, subagents and playbooks are shared into a project with view or edit access, and each project's agent has its own access list. |
| Live meetings | Meeting Minutes is designed for in-person meetings, not online ones; the Zoom connector works on existing recordings and transcripts.Source: Manus docs, Meeting Minutes | Joins Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex and Slack Huddles, right away or at a set time. During the call it posts in the meeting chat, shares a file or page on screen, reads screen shares and the invite's agenda, and acts on what was said. |
| Recurring work | Automations on a schedule or triggered by app events; scheduled tasks run while you are offline.Source: Manus docs, Automations | Scheduled tasks, by clock time or interval, run saved playbooks and can deliver results to a project's members. Subagents take several jobs at once in the background and report back. |
| Approvals | On desktop: Ask for approval before every local action, Approve for me (the default), or Full access.Source: Manus docs, Desktop | You set each connection to Only read or Can update, one at a time, and the platform enforces it: a change through a read-only connection stops to ask you when Ask Mode is on, and does not run at all otherwise. |
| Connecting tools | 416 connectors (369 of them MCP), plus custom MCP and API connections.Source: Manus docs, Connectors | Connects the apps a business already uses over MCP, plus any remote MCP server you bring, privately to your account. Sandboxed code execution, and a browser you can watch and take over. |
| Pricing | Free with 300 credits a day; Pro from $20 a month for 4,000 credits; Team from $20 per seat a month.Source: Manus Help, Membership pricing | 14-day free trial with 5 credits, no card. Then $19.99 a month for 50 credits; one credit covers a meeting session of up to 45 minutes. Extra credits from $3.50, or bring your own model API key. |
Questions people ask
Is Kazi an alternative to Manus?
For running a business day to day, yes: Kazi joins live calls, texts you and talks with you hands-free on your phone, for you and your team. For open-ended research and building, Manus is a strong general agent.
Does Kazi join online meetings?
Yes. Kazi joins Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex and Slack Huddles while they happen, and Kazi Voice records in-person meetings on your phone.
Can I bring my own tools to Kazi?
Yes. Kazi connects the apps you already use over MCP, and you can add any remote MCP server privately to your account.
Kazi is one AI agent for the whole business: it works for a solo owner and for a team, and every person also has an always-on personal assistant on their phone, by voice and text. It joins live meetings, works across the tools you already use, never changes an app you have set to read-only, and delivers the finished result.