# Manatal

> Low-cost per-user ATS and recruitment CRM with AI candidate matching

Manatal is an applicant tracking system with a built-in recruitment CRM, used both by companies hiring for themselves and by recruitment agencies that manage clients. It enriches candidate profiles from social networks, recommends candidates for each job with AI, and posts jobs to free and paid boards. Plans are priced per user and differ mainly in job limits and automation.

- **Category:** Hiring & Applicant Tracking
- **Made by:** Manatal
- **Website:** https://www.manatal.com
- **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Manatal is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $15 per user / month, billed annually ($19 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of all plans, no card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Professional | $15 per user / month, billed annually ($19 billed monthly) | Up to 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates per account, unlimited hiring managers, AI recommendations, career page and CRM. |
| Enterprise | $35 per user / month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly) | Unlimited jobs and candidates, and adds workflow automations. |
| Enterprise Plus | $55 per user / month, billed annually ($59 billed monthly) | Adds an advanced report builder, ChatGPT and Claude links, open API, a candidate portal, user groups, SSO and priority support. |
| Custom | Custom | Everything in Enterprise Plus with an account manager, phone support and custom features, integrations and compliance reports. |

Read from https://www.manatal.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Manatal before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Lower per-user price with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Manatal's yearly plans cost $15, $35 and $55 per user a month against $19, $39 and $59 on monthly plans. Source: https://www.manatal.com/pricing

## Key features

- **AI candidate enrichment:** Parses resumes and fills candidate profiles with data from LinkedIn, GitHub and other social networks.
- **AI recommendations and copilot:** Suggests candidates for a job and jobs for a candidate, scores fit with adjustable weighting, and summarizes and compares candidates.
- **Sourcing extension:** A Chrome extension adds candidates from LinkedIn, LinkedIn Recruiter, Xing, Indeed, SEEK, GitHub and other sites.
- **Career page and job posting:** A branded career page in several languages, posting to free and premium job channels and to social media.
- **Recruitment CRM:** Tracks leads, clients and contacts with mass emailing, sales reports and revenue tracking, for agencies placing candidates.
- **Privacy compliance:** GDPR, CCPA and PDPA tools to request, track and record candidate consent and delete data on request.

## Good for

- Small teams that want a low per-user price
- Recruitment agencies that also need a client CRM
- Recruiters sourcing heavily from LinkedIn and job sites

## Worth knowing

- Professional caps an account at 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates; workflow automation needs Enterprise, and SSO and API access need Enterprise Plus.
- The AI Interviewer and the branded guest portal are add-ons with no price on the pricing page.
- The trial leaves out job board posting, mass email and email automations; job board posting needs account verification after paying.
- There are no native phone apps: mobile use is through a progressive web app.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Manatal is about the cheapest way into a proper applicant tracker: $15 a user a month on yearly billing, with hiring managers free. It fills in candidate profiles from LinkedIn and GitHub and suggests who fits each job. But there are no phone apps, and Professional stops at 15 jobs.

- **Value for money: A.** Professional is $15 a user a month on yearly billing ($19 monthly), and hiring managers are unlimited, so a ten-person company with one recruiter pays $15. That buys AI recommendations, a career page and a CRM, well under this category's cheaper quarter of $74.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day trial of every plan with no card. It leaves out job board posting, mass email and email automations, so you won't see the whole thing.
- **Features: B.** Resume parsing with profiles filled in from LinkedIn and GitHub, AI candidate suggestions, a sourcing extension, a career page, posting to free and paid boards, and a client CRM. Covers the job, with workflow automation from Enterprise.
- **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record, and job board posting only opens once your account is verified after paying.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and a Chrome extension, with LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, ZipRecruiter, Zapier, Google Workspace, Teams and Outlook. No phone apps, only a progressive web app, and the API needs Enterprise Plus.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Manatal's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among hiring and applicant tracking tools

- Manatal's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 14 of the 14 other hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade.
- It stands best on value for money (A, above 14 of 14) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $15 a month for each person, against a middle price of $89.17 for the category: 0 of the 9 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hiring

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Manatal you would be making jobs posted to dozens of job boards at once, which takes an agreement with each board. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 14 of the 14 other hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade. It costs $180 a year.

- You could make: Applicant tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Jobs posted to dozens of job boards at once, which takes an agreement with each board.
- You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, ZipRecruiter, Zapier, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, Outlook

**Tags:** Applicant tracking, Job board posting, AI features, Workflow automation, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Recruit CRM](https://toolgpa.com/tools/recruit-crm): ATS and client CRM for recruitment agencies, with AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/manatal-vs-recruit-crm)
- [Zoho Recruit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-recruit): Per-recruiter ATS and recruitment CRM with a free one-job plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/manatal-vs-zoho-recruit)
- [Breezy HR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/breezy-hr): Flat-priced applicant tracking with a free one-job plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/breezy-hr-vs-manatal)
- [Workable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/workable): Applicant tracking and HR software priced by company size. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/manatal-vs-workable)
- [Top Echelon](https://toolgpa.com/tools/top-echelon): ATS and recruiting CRM for recruiting agencies and staffing firms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/manatal-vs-top-echelon)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.manatal.com/pricing

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/manatal
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).