ManusStrawberry finishes the work behind your logins
Forty CRM records enriched, the email threads reconciled, the replies drafted and staged for one click, in tabs already signed in as you. Manus does its work inside a cloud computer of its own.
Hand a companion “enrich these forty CRM records against their company sites, reconcile them with the email threads, and draft the replies”. Forty rows come back, each with the source link it rests on, and every save and send waits on a click.
That pass runs in the browser on your desk, where the accounts are already open. Manus, as of this writing, provisions a machine in its own cloud that starts signed into nothing. The switcher’s version of this page is at Manus alternative.
| Manus | Strawberry | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the agent’s browser runs | A machine Manus provisions in its own cloud, as of this writing | The browser on your own Mac or Windows desktop |
| Sessions it starts with | A fresh environment, signed into nothing | Yours, already signed in from the last time you used them |
| Getting into a gated tool | A credential handed to the remote machine, per task, as of this writing | Nothing to hand over, because the tab is already authenticated |
| Reaching a tool with no connector | Sign in again inside the cloud environment first | A companion reads and fills the signed-in page the way you would |
| Connected accounts | Its own tool set, as of this writing | About a hundred you authorise, reads and staged writes, with a permission setting on each action |
| Running on a schedule | Their site was offline for scheduled data deletion while this page was written, so read their scheduling claims there | Routines on a daily time, an interval, a cron expression, or an app trigger such as a new email, with run history and per-run credit cost |
| When you get a say | Review of what the cloud run came back with | A card naming the exact send, change or payment before it happens, and Ask Always mode for every step |
Which one holds your logins?
Strawberry, by construction.
A companion inherits whatever your browser already reaches: the CRM, the applicant tracker, the billing dashboard, the inbox. Manus’s environment belongs to Manus, and as of this writing anything gated behind your identity has to be handed over inside a machine you do not administer.
How much of a normal week sits behind a login is worked through in the accounts explainer.
What a week of tasks looks like here
Sixty rows in a sheet, each company’s careers page opened and read.
Sixty-one tickets triaged and grouped by plan tier before the standup. Twelve invoices chased with the drafts written in your voice. A companion works row forty at the pace it worked row one.
The same work sorted by role is catalogued in the agentic work index, and finished runs are at /real-runs.
When do you get to say no?
Before the action, rather than after the report. Sending, deleting, paying and posting each stop on an approval card naming the exact step, and Ask Always mode in Settings → AI permissions extends the pause to everything. Details at /security.
Check it yourself
The test method is public at /benchmarks/spec and results sit at /benchmarks/strawberry-vs-competition. Better still, run a week of your own tasks through the free download. The difference shows up on the first task that needs a login.
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