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Manus · in Europe?

Manus AI alternatives in the EU.

Is Manus available in Europe? Yes, but it isn't hosted there. Manus stores data in the US and Singapore, and every subprocessor it lists, its model providers included, is in the United States.

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Manus or Chat with Work, side by side.

What people worry about in Manus, beside Chat with Work. Each row links its source.

What people worry about in Manus, beside Chat with Work
Concern Manus Chat with Work
Data stored in the US and Singapore Manus Trust Center FAQ
No: No EU storage named; SCCs for transfers Yes: App in Germany, every model in the EU
Every listed subprocessor is in the US Manus subprocessors
No: Google Cloud, Azure, AWS, OpenAI Yes: GPT, Gemini, and Claude, all in the EU
Asking first is up to your prompt Manus connectors
Partly: Permission modes only in Manus Studio Yes: Changes ask first, unless you let them run

Pick Manus when

  • Websites, slides, and video from one prompt
  • You work alone or in a small team
  • Data in the US or Singapore is fine

Pick Chat with Work when

  • Bots in the EU on every plan
  • You'd rather describe a bot than build one
  • Changes ask first, unless you let them run
  • GPT, Gemini, and Claude, all in the EU
  • Self-serve, free to start
  • You may need to self-host

ChatGPT alternative for teams in Europe GDPR-compliant AI

Every detail, side by side, from Manus's own pages
Manus and Chat with Work, side by side
Dimension Manus Chat with Work
What it is A general AI agent with a cloud computer of its own that researches and makes documents, slides, websites, apps, and video, with Automations since Manus 2.0 (September 28, 2026). Made by Butterfly Effect in Singapore. Meta announced buying it on December 29, 2025; in August 2026 Manus said it would return to operating independently, after China ordered the deal unwound (third-party reports). AI bots and an assistant for your team's tools, as a service or on your own servers.
Bots that work by themselves Automations start on a Schedule, on a Triggered task (Gmail, Outlook, Mail Manus, Notion, Google Calendar, GitHub, Shopify, RSS, a webhook, and more; some sources are checked at intervals, not instantly), or as an Advanced automation, in beta. Mail Manus starts tasks from email forwarded by approved senders, and in Slack it answers @manus in a thread. Plans list 20 scheduled tasks. Bots start on a time, or when something happens: mail to their address or in Outlook, a GitHub issue, a webhook, the API, another agent, or a message in Slack, Discord, or Chatwoot. They work through the integrations you give them, on every plan and the trial.
How you set one up In plain words: "You describe the outcome; Manus handles the workflow." For an Advanced automation it builds the workflow, and you "review the generated timing, conditions, actions, and accounts before activating it". Say what it should do in a chat, and approve the bot on one card, or start from one of 105 recipes. Its instructions stay plain words, and it works out the steps each time: no workflow to wire.
Before it changes anything On your computer, Manus Studio has three modes: Ask for approval, Approve for me (the default, where "an automatic review decides on safe actions for you"), and Full access. Manus asks before it enables a connector, but its docs describe no approval step before a cloud task changes something in an app; they suggest adding "show me the changes before you apply them" to the prompt. Integrations start at Read. Changes ask first, shown as they will run, unless you let a bot's changes run; deleting asks unless you allow that one tool. Every change and question waiting for you, from every chat and bot, is in one queue.
Available in Europe Yes, with no regional restriction found. Its terms give consumers in the EU and UK a 14-day right of withdrawal, and its privacy policy names EDPO as its GDPR representative in the EU and the UK. Yes, on every plan and the trial.
Where your data and the models are Its Trust Center: data stored in the US and Singapore, with EU Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers. Its subprocessors, Google Cloud ("cloud infrastructure and foundational models"), Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, AWS, and OpenAI among them, are all listed in the United States. Manus Flex runs tasks on your own model provider's key instead. The app on our servers in Germany, and GPT, Gemini, and Claude, all in the EU. Web search, off by default, leaves the EU. Or on your own servers.
Self-hosting No. Manus Studio can run a task in a folder on your own computer instead of its cloud sandbox. Yes. Ask about self-hosting.
Price Free with limited credits. $20 a month for 4,000 credits, $40 for 8,000, or $200 for 40,000, each with 300 more a day; 17% off yearly. Team $20 a seat a month or $200 a year, 4,000 pooled credits a seat; SSO $150 under 30 seats. Enterprise by quote. Free to start. From €20 a month for one person, and from €25 per person for teams plus VAT.

Checked November 15, 2026. Manus changes often; these are the sources, with the date each shows. Where a page refused us or we read a third party, it says so.

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FAQ

Manus in Europe, answered.

Is Manus available in Europe?

Yes, but it isn't hosted there. Manus stores data in the US and Singapore, and every subprocessor it lists, its model providers included, is in the United States.

Where does Manus store data?

In the US and Singapore, its Trust Center says, with EU Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers, and every subprocessor it lists, its model providers included, is in the US. Chat with Work runs on our servers in Germany with every model in the EU, on every plan.

Who owns Manus now?

Butterfly Effect, a Singapore company. Meta announced buying Manus on December 29, 2025. On August 11, 2026 Manus said it would soon return to operating as an independent company, and deleted some users' data generated since that date, after China ordered the deal unwound (third-party reports).

What is a Manus AI alternative in the EU?

Chat with Work, for work across your team's tools: bots you describe in a chat, started by a time, an email, a GitHub issue, a webhook, or a message, with GPT, Gemini, and Claude all in the EU, and changes that ask first unless you let them run. If you mostly make websites, slides, or videos, Manus does more of that.

AI bots in Europe, today.

Pick a bot from a recipe, or describe it in a chat. It runs in the EU on every plan, and its changes ask first unless you let them run.

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