Manatal Review 2026: $15 ATS Pricing, Pros and Cons

Manatal prices hiring by the recruiter, and that makes it one of the cheapest ways into a modern ATS for a small team. At the Professional rate, three recruiters on yearly billing pay $540 a year, less than any of the four alternatives in this review charges for the same three recruiters.

Hiring managers who only review candidates do not add to the bill: every plan includes unlimited hiring managers.

Methodology: this review is for HR leads, talent teams and agency owners deciding whether Manatal fits their hiring volume.

We read Manatal's pricing page and its plan FAQ on October 19, 2026, worked out yearly costs for teams of one to five recruiters, and set Manatal beside Breezy HR, JazzHR, Workable and Zoho Recruit, each priced on its own pricing page the same day.

HRpresso did not run a hiring process in Manatal; every feature claim below is what Manatal's own pages list.

Toolradar data: among the 35 HR and recruiting tools with a verified per-user entry price on Toolradar, the median is $6 per user a month, as of October 2026.

That category mixes recruiting tools with general HR software, so treat the median as context rather than a benchmark: Manatal's seat price sits above it, but only recruiters need a seat.

Manatal is an applicant tracking system with a built-in recruitment CRM: software that posts jobs, collects and parses applications, moves candidates through hiring pipelines and, for agencies, tracks client companies and contacts.

Its pricing page lists AI candidate enrichment from social profiles, CV parsing, AI recommendations of candidates for each job, a branded career page and GDPR, CCPA and PDPA compliance tools.

The plans stack by volume and control. Professional covers up to 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates per account. Enterprise removes both caps and adds workflow automation.

Enterprise Plus adds an advanced report builder, ChatGPT, Claude and LLM integration, the Manatal open API, a candidate portal with internal mobility, custom permissions and user groups, single sign-on and priority support. Custom adds a dedicated account manager, phone support and custom integrations.

Day to day, Manatal works like a pipeline board per job. Candidates arrive from the career page, job boards, a LinkedIn Chrome extension, forwarded emails or bulk CV uploads, and Manatal parses each CV into a profile it can enrich and score against the job description.

Recruiters move candidates through custom stages, log calls, emails and interviews as activities, and share specific jobs or profiles with hiring managers.

The job limit is the number to understand before you buy. Manatal's FAQ says the limit counts jobs per account, not per user, and that one job can hold unlimited headcount. So a company hiring five sales reps uses one job, while an agency running 20 client searches at once needs Enterprise no matter how few recruiters it has.

The 14-day free trial needs no card and opens features from every plan, except free and premium job board posting, sending email from the Manatal domain, mass emailing, email automations, AI-generated job descriptions and the GDPR consent request tool.

Job board posting also needs account verification after the first payment, which Manatal says usually takes up to three working days.

Manatal publishes three priced plans and one custom plan on Manatal's pricing page, read on October 19, 2026. Prices are per user per month; the yearly plan rates are the lower figures and the monthly plan rates sit $4 higher on each tier. Manatal says it charges no tax outside Singapore.

Yearly cost, computed from those list prices. One recruiter on Professional pays $180 a year on yearly billing or $228 monthly. Three recruiters pay $540 on Professional, $1,260 on Enterprise and $1,980 on Enterprise Plus, all billed yearly. Five recruiters on Enterprise pay $2,100 a year.

Against the alternatives, for three recruiters on yearly billing: Zoho Recruit Standard at $25 per recruiter a month billed annually comes to $900 a year with 10 active jobs per recruiter license.

JazzHR Hero is $1,000 a year billed annually, with job postings starting at 3 a month. Breezy HR Startup is $157 a month billed yearly, $1,884 a year for the whole company with unlimited users and positions.

Workable Standard prints $3,588 a year billed annually for companies of 1 to 20 employees.

The break-even with Breezy: Manatal Enterprise costs $420 per recruiter a year on yearly billing, so up to four recruiters pay less than Breezy Startup's flat fee and a fifth recruiter tips it over. Teams that expect to grow past four recruiters should price both.

Sources: Manatal's pricing page, Breezy HR pricing, JazzHR pricing, Workable pricing and Zoho Recruit pricing, all read on October 19, 2026.

Manatal fits recruitment agencies and in-house teams with one to four recruiters who want AI matching and a CRM without an enterprise contract: a boutique agency running a handful of client searches, a startup's first talent hire, an HR generalist who also recruits.

Unlimited hiring managers means interviewers and department heads can review candidates without raising the bill.

It is a weaker fit for a company with a large recruiting team, where Breezy's flat company price or Workable's employee-band pricing can come out cheaper, and for any team that needs more than 15 open jobs but does not want to pay the Enterprise rate.

Teams comparing recruiting CRMs for agency work should also read our best recruiting CRM ranking.