9 categories · RankedManatal
Manatal is AI recruitment software for sourcing and hiring candidates, designed for HR teams, recruitment agencies, and headhunters · manatal.com ↗
Strongest at small business, contested with Pin. Thin evidence at enterprise: five labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: Pin has 15%.
Workable is first at 23%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Eightfold AI is first at 25%.
Why models recommend it
“For small businesses, options like Manatal ($15/user/month), Workable ($299/month), or Teamtailor are recommended for their ease of setup and relatively lower costs.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best Overall Value (Lowest Cost for Features) Platform: Manatal ... widely regarded as the best solution for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For most small companies with limited budgets, Manatal offers the best balance of AI features, functionality, and affordability”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“The best applicant tracking system for a company with a limited budget is Manatal, which is available at $15 per user a month”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Privacy International reported inconsistent match scores on identical submissions and limitations in automated screening features on these platforms”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“Manatal (~$15\u201355/user) is cheaper but less feature-rich for full CRM”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
“May feel cumbersome for managing large candidate pools.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Manatal, over the 314 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | 32 | Compare → | |
| 122 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 103 | 20 | Compare → | |
| 60 | 10 | View → | |
| 60 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 54 | 11 | View → | |
| 54 | 3 | View → | |
| 51 | 13 | View → | |
| 51 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 48 | 11 | View → |
What the models named instead of Manatal →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Manatal's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- HR teams, recruitment agencies, and headhunters
- Price stated
- Professional Plan $15/per user per month; Enterprise Plan $35/per user per month; Enterprise Plus Plan $55/per user per month; Custom Plan On Demand; Professional Plan $19/per user per month; Enterprise Plan $39/per user per month; Enterprise Plus Plan $59/per user per month; Custom Plan On Demand
- Starting price
- 15
- Free plan or trial
- Start 14-day Free Trial; No credit card required
- Integrations
- 7
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, SOC 1, SSAE 16, ISAE 3402, PCI DSS
- Hosting
- USA
- Customers named
- Manpower Group, Charoen Pokphand Group, MRI Network, MRINetwork, Oakwood, JB Hired, Suntory PepsiCo Beverage, Manpower
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 305 of the 314 answers that named Manatal and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
698 of the 698 domain citations in answers naming Manatal came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 12 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 968 | undated | |||
| Blog | 908 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 67 | undated | |||
| Case study | 22 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 19 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 6 | undated | |||
| News or press | 6 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 4 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page manatal.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.