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Recruiting CRM and sourcing · November 2026 Edition

Manatal vs Lever

Zero of fourteen models named Manatal first on the direct prompt; zero named Lever. Manatal was named by twelve of the fourteen models and Lever by fourteen and Manatal carries 19 labels and Lever 21, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Manatal

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

Lever

accepted challenger

Named in twelve categories this edition.

First-choice share8%8%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#4A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels1921A 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 Lever · 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 modelsLever
Direct00
Paraphrase04
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 Lever 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 Lever first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Manatal on the left and Lever on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Perplexity SonarhireEZ alternatives: Gem, Lever, SeekOut, Workable
Muse Glimmer 30BGem, hireEZ alternatives: Fetcher, Findem, Humanly, Manatal, TheHireHub.AI

Neither was named

12 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
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
Lever0%#– of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Manatal8%#3 of 13
Lever8%#4 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Manatal leads by six points.
Manatal6%#7 of 13
Lever0%#– 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 Lever

No label in this category carried a quote.

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.