Manatal is one of the cheapest serious applicant tracking systems on the market: $15 per user per month on annual billing, with AI candidate recommendations, a recruitment CRM, a career page and job multiposting included. It also has a 700-million-profile sourcing database and a contact finder — but on the entry plan you get 10 sourcing searches a month, and there is no multi-step email sequencing on any plan. This review covers what Manatal does well, what each plan really includes, and who should pick something else.

Every price and limit below was checked on manatal.com/pricing and Manatal's own help center on November 10, 2026.

Quick Answer

  • What it is: a cloud ATS + recruitment CRM with AI candidate scoring, built for HR teams, recruitment agencies and headhunters.
  • Price: Professional $15, Enterprise $35, Enterprise Plus $55 per user per month billed annually ($19 / $39 / $59 on monthly billing). 14-day free trial, no free plan.
  • Best for: small teams that mostly manage applicants and want an affordable, easy ATS with a career page and job board posting.
  • Watch out for: 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates on Professional, 10 sourcing searches a month below Enterprise Plus, email automations only from Enterprise up, and no follow-up sequences.

What Is Manatal?

Manatal is a recruitment software company co-founded by Jeremy Fichet and Yassine Bel Mamoun and based in Bangkok. It raised a $5.1 million seed round led by Sequoia's Surge in 2022 and says it is "trusted by 10,000 recruitment teams in 135+ countries."

The product is an applicant tracking system with a recruitment CRM on top: jobs, candidates, a Kanban pipeline per job, clients and contacts, and reports. Manatal's AI layer does two things — it "scores candidate profiles against job requirements and suggests candidates," and it enriches profiles with public data from more than 20 social platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook, X, GitHub, Medium and others).

Manatal sells to both in-house HR teams and agencies; its site has solution pages for staffing agencies, executive search, freelance recruiters, startups and BPOs.

Manatal Pricing 2026

Manatal publishes all three main plans. The pricing page has a "Yearly plans" / "Monthly plans" toggle; the FAQ confirms the annual figures ("$15 USD per user/month (billed annually)").

PlanBilled annuallyBilled monthlyLimits and key additions
Professional$15/user/mo$19/user/moUp to 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates per account; ATS, recruitment CRM, AI recommendations, AI enrichment, career page, reports, Gmail/Outlook integration
Enterprise$35/user/mo$39/user/moUnlimited jobs and candidates; adds workflow automations
Enterprise Plus$55/user/mo$59/user/moAdds advanced report builder, Open API, Zapier/n8n, ChatGPT/Claude integration and an MCP server, candidate portal, custom permissions, SSO, 300 sourcing searches a month
CustomOn requestTailored contracts

What a team actually pays. Three recruiters on Professional cost $540 a year on annual billing. The jump to Enterprise — which you need for any automated email and for more than 15 open jobs — takes the same team to $1,260 a year. Enterprise Plus, the only plan with the API and a meaningful sourcing allowance, is $1,980 a year for three users.

The free trial is limited. Manatal's 14-day trial needs no credit card, but during the trial you cannot post to job boards, send mass emails, use email automations, generate job descriptions with AI or use the GDPR consent tool — so you cannot fully test the inbound side of the product before paying.

Add-ons. Manatal lists paid add-ons such as an AI Interviewer (automated video screening) and branded guest portals, without public prices.

Manatal Features: What You Get

ATS and pipeline

The core is a clean applicant tracking system: a Kanban board per job, customisable stages, candidate profiles with notes and attachments, resume parsing, and unlimited hiring managers on the Professional plan. Reviewers consistently rate it as easy to learn — Manatal scores 4.7 for ease of use on Capterra.

AI recommendations and enrichment

For each job, Manatal's AI scores candidates already in your database against the requirements and suggests the strongest matches. Enrichment pulls public social-profile data into candidate records. Both work on the candidates you already have; they do not find new people on their own.

Sourcing Hub: 700 million profiles, 10 searches a month

Manatal's pricing table lists "Source from a database of over 700 million candidates" on every plan. According to the help center, this database "is sourced from a third-party provider and is separate from your Manatal database." The allowance is the catch: Professional and Enterprise include 10 searches a month (roughly 1,000 candidates), and Enterprise Plus includes 300. A contact finder ("Find your candidates' phone numbers and emails") works once a candidate has been added to Manatal.

In practice, Manatal's sourcing is enough to top up a pipeline occasionally. If outbound sourcing is your main way of filling roles, 10 searches a month will not carry the workload.

Email and automation

Manatal connects to Gmail and Outlook/Office 365 to send and receive email and sync your calendar (Outlook only if your mailbox is hosted on Outlook.com or Microsoft 365). Every plan includes mass email campaigns to candidates or contacts.

Workflow Automation is Enterprise-only. It sends an email when a candidate applies, moves to a stage or is dropped from a job. There is no delay or follow-up step: the help center describes actions that "will be triggered simultaneously." In other words, Manatal can send a message when something happens, but it cannot run a multi-step outreach sequence that follows up three and seven days later and stops when the candidate replies.

Career page and job multiposting

This is one of Manatal's strongest areas. You get a branded career page (with a custom domain, or embedded in a WordPress, Wix or Squarespace site) and job distribution to what Manatal calls "2,500+ Organic & Premium Channels," including LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster and ZipRecruiter. Remember that job board posting is switched off during the trial.

Reports, integrations and mobile

Standard pipeline and recruiter reports come with every plan; the advanced report builder is Enterprise Plus only. Integrations include LinkedIn, Indeed, Zapier, Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams; the Open API is Enterprise Plus only. There is no native iOS or Android app — Manatal offers a progressive web app you add to your home screen from the browser.

What Users Say

Manatal holds a 4.6/5 rating from 141 reviews on Capterra (as of November 2026). The recurring themes:

Pros

  • Easy to set up and learn — the most common praise, from solo recruiters and small HR teams alike.
  • Value for money — the $15 entry price is hard to beat for a full ATS with AI recommendations.
  • Career page and multiposting work out of the box.
  • Free hiring-manager seats keep collaboration cheap.

Cons

  • Support response times come up in G2 reviews.
  • Reporting on recruiter performance is basic below Enterprise Plus.
  • Imports and parsing gaps — one Capterra reviewer reported that candidates from Indeed were not imported and that the parser could not read image-based resumes.
  • Upgrade pressure — job and candidate caps on Professional, automations on Enterprise, API and real sourcing volume on Enterprise Plus.

Who Manatal Is For — and Who Should Look Elsewhere

Choose Manatal if

  • Most of your candidates apply to you and you need a tidy, affordable place to manage them.
  • You want a career page and job board posting without extra tools.
  • You are an in-house team or a small agency with fewer than 15 open roles at a time (or are happy to pay for Enterprise).

Look elsewhere if

  • You fill roles mainly by outbound sourcing — finding passive candidates, getting their contact details and writing to them. Ten searches a month and no follow-up sequences mean you will add separate sourcing and outreach tools.
  • You need automated follow-ups that stop when a candidate replies.
  • You want an API on a budget — it starts at $55 per user per month.

Manatal Alternatives Compared

ToolStarting priceBuilt-in sourcingEmail sequences with follow-upsBest for
MindHunt AIfrom $29/seat/mo (Pro $49 with search and contact credits)Yes — AI-filled search with a free match count, plus your own LinkedIn on paid plansYes, from your Gmail or Outlook; a reply stops the sequenceRecruiters who source outbound and also run job pages
Manatal$15/user/mo (annual)700M database, 10 searches/mo on ProfessionalNo (single automated emails on Enterprise)Affordable inbound ATS
Recruit CRMfrom $95/user/moChrome extension captureYesAgencies wanting a mature ATS + CRM
Recruiterflow$149/user/mo (Platform plan)Chrome extension bulk sourcing; AI features on the quote-only AIRA planYes (multichannel)Executive search and agency teams
Zoho RecruitFree plan (1 active job)Not on the free planNot on the free planVery small teams starting with zero budget

For a broader list, see our recruitment agency CRM comparison and best recruiting software roundup.

Where MindHunt AI Fits

MindHunt AI is built the other way round from Manatal: it starts with finding people. You paste a job description, AI fills in the search (titles, skills, location — every field stays editable), and you see how many profiles match before you spend a credit. From there you reveal verified emails and phone numbers, add candidates to a position, and run email sequences from your own Gmail or Outlook with AI-written personal intros; a reply stops the sequence. Telegram outreach, and on paid plans LinkedIn invites and messages through your own account, sit on the same profile.

It also covers the inbound side most agencies need: a public job page you can list on Google for Jobs, an apply-by-email address you can give to any job board, AI screening of every application, and a client CRM with placement invoicing.

Where Manatal goes wide, MindHunt AI goes direct. Instead of 2,500-channel multiposting, it has a direct Djinni integration and a separate apply-by-email address for every job: point any job board's application e-mails at it and each CV lands in the Applications stage, deduplicated and screened. Instead of a report builder, every position comes with one standard report that already holds what you would build — the candidate funnel, candidate sources, rejection reasons, time spent in each stage and offer acceptance rate — and you can share it with a client by link. And next to Manatal's career page sits MindHunt AI's own job board: one page on jobs.mindhuntai.com with every open position, an application form with screening questions (right to work, notice period, salary expectations, experience — with knockout answers where you need them), and every application scored by AI against the job description.

Pricing is per seat: Lite $29/month ($23.20 billed annually) with 30 search credits per seat and your own LinkedIn search; Pro $49/month ($39.20 annually) with 500 search and 100 contact credits per seat. The 14-day free trial includes 100 search credits and 20 contact credits, no credit card.

For a small agency the choice usually comes down to where candidates come from: Manatal if most of them apply to you, MindHunt AI if you go out and find them.

Verdict

Manatal is an honest, inexpensive ATS that does the inbound basics well — pipeline, career page, multiposting, AI scoring of the candidates you already have. Its limits show up the moment your workflow is outbound: 10 sourcing searches a month, no follow-up sequences, and automation, API and real sourcing volume locked behind the more expensive plans. If you mainly manage applicants, it is one of the best-value choices in 2026. If you mainly hunt, start with a tool built for that.

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