# How Manus uses E2B

**half a day**: “Manus team was able to implement and deploy E2B in half a day”

As published on [e2b.dev](https://e2b.dev/customers/how-manus-uses-e2b-to-provide-agents-with-virtual-computers), May 2025. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-06.

- Company: [Manus](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/manus.md)
- Tool: [E2B](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/e2b.md)

## What the story says

Manus runs a multi-agent AI system in which executor agents carry out tasks using tools such as a browser, terminal and filesystem. It uses E2B sandboxes as full virtual computers for each user's agent, self-hosted on its own machines.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of E2B and Manus, not ours.

> Could Manus have built this infrastructure themselves? Technically, yes—but it would have taken months of work by a dedicated infra team. Re-creating and maintaining an infrastructure stack from scratch would have required 3–5 full-time infra engineers.

- **~150ms**: “Speed: A new sandbox can spin up in ~150ms, fast enough to keep up with the users’ standards”
- **3–5 full-time infra engineers**: “Re-creating and maintaining an infrastructure stack from scratch would have required 3–5 full-time infra engineers.”

> Manus doesn't just run some pieces of code. It uses 27 different tools, and it needs E2B to have a full virtual computer to work as a real human.
>
> Tao Zhang, Co-founder

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-06.

- Checked: the figure half a day is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Manus.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Manus.
- Checked: each number in our summary is printed on the page.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Manus uses E2B. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-06.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/manus-e2b · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology