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Recruiting CRM and sourcing · November 2026 Edition

Manatal vs Ashby

Zero of fourteen models named Manatal first on the direct prompt; zero named Ashby. Manatal was named by twelve of the fourteen models and Ashby by eleven and Manatal carries 19 labels and Ashby 12, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Manatal

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

Ashby

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

First-choice share8%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#6A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels1912A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Manatal reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.hireEZ was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. Gem vs Manatal · Gem vs Ashby · hireEZ vs Manatal

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the Recruiting CRM and sourcing page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
ManatalFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAshby
Direct00
Paraphrase03
Comparative00
Budget-constrained40
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Manatal and Ashby stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Manatal Ashby first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Manatal on the left and Ashby on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Manatal and Ashby stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Muse Glimmer 30BGem, hireEZ alternatives: Fetcher, Findem, Humanly, Manatal, TheHireHub.AI

Neither was named

13 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5LinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: Apollo.io, ZoomInfo
GPT-5.4 miniGem alternatives: LinkedIn Recruiter, Loxo, SeekOut, hireEZ
Gemini 3.5 FlashLinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: Fetcher, Findem, SeekOut, ZoomInfo Talent, hireEZ
Perplexity SonarhireEZ alternatives: Gem, Lever, SeekOut, Workable
Grok 4.20hireEZ alternatives: Findem, SeekOut
Mistral SmallGem, hireEZ alternatives: Fetcher, Findem
DeepSeek V4 FlashhireEZ alternatives: Fetcher, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut
Llama 4 MaverickFetcher, Findem, Gem, hireEZ
Qwen 3.7 FlashGem alternatives: ContactOut, Fetcher, Lusha, hireEZ
Kimi K2Gem alternatives: SeekOut, hireEZ
GLM 4.7 FlashXFetcher, Gem alternatives: hireEZ
MiniMax M2.5Gem, SeekOut alternatives: Fetcher, Juicebox, hireEZ
GPT-6 LunaLinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: Gem, SeekOut

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Manatal leads by twelve points.
Manatal12%#3 of 10
Ashby0%#– of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Manatal leads by two points.
Manatal8%#3 of 13
Ashby6%#6 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Manatal leads by two points.
Manatal6%#7 of 13
Ashby4%#– of 13
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Manatal

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Ashby

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“Ashby - A recruitment CRM that suits fast-growing companies and provides a single system for applicant tracking, outbound sourcing, CRM, scheduling, and analytics.” Llama 4 Maverick · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.