# Which AI agent actually does tasks for you?

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- Updated: 2026-11-13
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**In short.** An AI agent that does tasks takes a goal, works across the web and your apps, and comes back with finished work: a booking made, a report built, a follow-up sent, with your approval before anything important. Fig is a personal agent built for this, on every frontier model, across iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, the web, WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack.

## What a task agent needs

| Capability | Why it counts | Fig |
|---|---|---|
| Its own browser | Most tasks end on a website: a booking, a form, a comparison. | Fig's remote browser navigates sites, compares options and fills in the details. |
| Connected to your apps | Finished work needs your email, calendar and files. | Email, calendar, Slack, Google Drive and 1,000+ other tools, with permissions intact. |
| Finished output | A draft you still have to assemble is half the job. | Reports, spreadsheets, slide decks, documents, dashboards, code and websites. |
| Runs on its own | Recurring work should happen without a prompt. | Scheduled tasks and always-on agents that act on a schedule or an event and report back. |
| Asks before it acts | Some actions can't be undone. | Fig asks permission before important actions such as sending an email. |
| Every frontier model | The best model changes from task to task and month to month. | Each task is routed across every frontier lab, open-weight and proprietary. |
| Works where you message | The fastest way to hand off a task is the app you already have open. | WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack, plus Fig's own apps. |

## How Fig differs from ChatGPT, Claude, Manus and Muse

ChatGPT runs on OpenAI's models and Claude on Anthropic's. Meta's Muse runs on Meta's own Muse Spark model and launched in the US first, on Sept 8, 2026. Manus meters work in credits: 300 a day on its free plan, and 4,000 or 40,000 a month on its paid plans.

Fig routes each task to the best model across every frontier lab, works in WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack as well as its own apps, is used by people in 70+ countries, and gives a small business always-on agents for its own customers.

## What people hand to Fig

Research with cited sources, a quarterly report built from a spreadsheet, a slide deck for Monday, a travel itinerary, expenses entered, utility plans compared, code debugged, images and video for a launch, and the follow-ups that slip through the week. A website is one of many things it builds.

## For small businesses

Fig Team brings Fig into Slack as a teammate that researches, plans, builds and reports back in the thread. Fig Agent deploys always-on agents a business gives a voice, a phone number or a responsibility, handling support, sales and operations with role-based access, audit logs and approval gates.

## Questions

### What is a good Manus alternative?

Fig is a personal agent that researches, builds and runs tasks on its own, on every frontier lab's models, in WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack as well as its own apps, with always-on agents for small businesses.

### Is there a ChatGPT alternative that actually does tasks?

Yes. Fig works across the web with its own browser and across your apps, returns finished work such as reports, decks and bookings, runs tasks on a schedule, and asks before important actions. It routes each task across every frontier lab's models.

### How is Fig different from Meta's Muse?

Muse runs on Meta's Muse Spark model and launched in the US first. Fig routes each task across every frontier lab's models, is used in 70+ countries, and runs on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, the web, WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack.

### Is Fig a website builder?

Fig is a personal agent. Building a website is one of many things it does, alongside research, documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, code, images and video, and everyday tasks like bookings and follow-ups.

### Is Fig free?

Fig is free to start on the web, on iPhone and Android, and on Mac and Windows.

## Sources

- [TechCrunch, Meta debuts its Muse AI agent](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-its-muse-ai-agent-will-consumers-trust-it/) (Sept 8, 2026)
- [Manus, Plans and pricing](https://manus.im/pricing) (retrieved Nov 13, 2026)