Is Manatal an ATS or an AI overlay?

Manatal is an ATS and recruitment CRM with AI features inside it. It is not an Eightfold-style overlay, not a Paradox conversational front door, and not a HireVue interview platform.

How much does Manatal cost as of September 2026?

Professional $15/user/month annual ($19 monthly), Enterprise $35 ($39), Enterprise Plus $55 ($59), Custom on demand. Singapore GST 9% for Singapore tax residents. Source: manatal.com/pricing.

What is excluded from the 14-day trial?

Free/premium job-board posting, emails from the Manatal domain, mass email, email automations, AI-generated job descriptions, and the GDPR consent-request tool. No credit card required to start.

Which plan has API, SSO, and MCP?

Enterprise Plus only. Zapier needs Open API. MCP public beta since 19 January 2026; extra-fee-free on E+; 100 requests/minute fair usage.

Does Manatal host in the EU?

DPA: AWS United States. SCCs for restricted transfers. No EU-region option stated on the DPA page fetched 1 September 2026.

Is SOC 2 Type 2 public?

Claimed. DPA lets customers request the Type 2 report. No public report was on the marketing site when checked.

Are add-ons included in the per-user price?

No. SMS, Find Contact Details, mass-email top-ups, vendor seats (agency), and extra exports are priced on support docs. AI Interviewer, Premium Job Posting, and Guest Portal are in-app marketplace add-ons; public dollar price UNKNOWN.

Can I cancel anytime?

You can cancel in Administration so the next cycle does not bill. Remainder of a paid term is non-refundable under Terms (24 July 2026). Marketing without lock-in contract is not that clause.

Is Manatal an ATS or an AI overlay?

Manatal is an ATS and recruitment CRM with AI features inside it. It is not an Eightfold-style overlay, not a Paradox conversational front door, and not a HireVue interview platform.

How much does Manatal cost as of September 2026?

Professional $15/user/month annual ($19 monthly), Enterprise $35 ($39), Enterprise Plus $55 ($59), Custom on demand. Singapore GST 9% for Singapore tax residents. Source: manatal.com/pricing.

What is excluded from the 14-day trial?

Free/premium job-board posting, emails from the Manatal domain, mass email, email automations, AI-generated job descriptions, and the GDPR consent-request tool. No credit card required to start.

Which plan has API, SSO, and MCP?

Enterprise Plus only. Zapier needs Open API. MCP public beta since 19 January 2026; extra-fee-free on E+; 100 requests/minute fair usage.

Does Manatal host in the EU?

DPA: AWS United States. SCCs for restricted transfers. No EU-region option stated on the DPA page fetched 1 September 2026.

Is SOC 2 Type 2 public?

Claimed. DPA lets customers request the Type 2 report. No public report was on the marketing site when checked.

Are add-ons included in the per-user price?

No. SMS, Find Contact Details, mass-email top-ups, vendor seats (agency), extra exports are on support docs. AI Interviewer, Premium Job Posting, and Guest Portal: in-app marketplace; public dollar price UNKNOWN.

Can I cancel anytime?

You can cancel in Administration so the next cycle does not bill. Remainder of a paid term is non-refundable under Terms (24 July 2026). Marketing without lock-in contract is not that clause.

Manatal

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Manatal is a cloud AI applicant tracking system and recruitment CRM that parses, scores, and pipelines candidates for HR teams and agencies: capped at 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates on the $15/user/month Professional plan (annual, as of September 2026).

Use Cases:HR & Recruiting AI Agents & Automation Sales & Outreach

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Manatal is a cloud AI applicant tracking system and recruitment CRM for HR teams, agencies, and headhunters. It is B2B-only (Terms, 24 July 2026). Careers listings use Manatal Co LTD with offices in Singapore and Bangkok (careers copy calls Bangkok HQ). As of September 2026 public pricing on manatal.com/pricing is Professional $15/user/month billed annually ($19 monthly), Enterprise $35 ($39 monthly), Enterprise Plus $55 ($59 monthly), plus Custom. A 14-day trial needs no card but withholds job-board posting, Manatal-domain email, mass email, email automations, AI job descriptions, and the GDPR consent-request tool until paid verification.

Professional caps 15 jobs per account and 10,000 candidates; hiring managers are unlimited on every published plan. Workflow Automation starts at Enterprise. SSO, Open API, MCP Server, Candidate Portal & Internal Mobility, custom permissions, and Advanced Report Builder sit on Enterprise Plus. Hosting: AWS United States (DPA, 7 July 2026). AI stack (Terms): AWS Nova Sonic, Anthropic Claude, Mistral, Llama, OpenAI: humans must review output; Manatal states it does not train on customer data (support AI-features, 24 Aug 2026).

What Manatal delivers as of September 2026

System of record for jobs, candidates, clients, and placements: multilingual AI resume parsing, profile enrichment from 20+ public sources, AI scoring/matching and recommendations against your database, AI Copilot, Advanced Search, People-Match AI Chrome extension (LinkedIn full capture; other boards beta), branded career page, Kanban pipelines, CRM for agencies, mobile apps, multiposting. Add-ons: AI Interviewer (credits), AI Notetaker, Sourcing Hub meters, Find Contact Details packs, SMS, mass-email top-ups. MCP Server public beta since 19 January 2026 on E+ (100 req/min, no extra MCP fee).

Where Manatal sits versus Greenhouse, Paradox, and Eightfold

Against Greenhouse/Workable/Zoho Recruit, Manatal is the cheap public per-recruiter ATS+CRM with AI scoring in the base SKU. Paradox is a conversational hiring layer (“recruiter should not have to” manage every interaction): not an ATS replacement. Eightfold overlays talent intelligence on existing HRIS/ATS stacks; Manatal is the ATS. HireVue owns interview/assessment science; Manatal optionally sells AI Interviewer credits inside the ATS record.

"Manatal's AI recommendations have revolutionized our candidate search process. What used to take hours of manual effort now takes just a few minutes…" - Maxime Ferreira, International Director, JB Hired, Manatal customer story

Cost, quotas, and real usage friction

Five Professional seats annual = $900/year; monthly billing is ~27% more. Crossing 16 jobs or 10,001 candidates forces Enterprise ($2,100/year for five). SSO/API/MCP needs E+ ($3,300/year for five) before add-ons. Support pricing (2 July 2026) meters Sourcing Hub, Custom Resume, mass email, SMS ($28/line/month + credits), Find Contact Details, vendor seats ($19/month on agency accounts), CSV extra $100, full export $900. AI Interviewer / Premium Job Posting / Guest Portal: marketplace Beta with no public dollar price. Singapore GST 9% for Singapore tax residents.

Where Manatal still breaks

Trial exclusions hide the real workflow. Marketing “without lock-in” conflicts with auto-renew and non-refundable remainder-of-term fees (ToS 24 July 2026). US-only AWS hosting: no EU residency on the fetched DPA. SOC 2 Type 2 claimed but report is request-only. Chrome-only People-Match. One concurrent login per user. Contact discovery marketed as built-in on compare pages but sold as credit packs on support pricing.

"Comparing our performance before and after Manatal, even with the same team of consultants, we saw a 20% increase in the number of successful placements." - Marian Pătrașcu, Founder, KreativeHR, Manatal customer story

Who should use Manatal: and who should skip it

Use Manatal for in-house TA or boutique agencies that want one ATS+CRM with public seat math and AI scoring on their database, and can live inside Professional’s 15-job / 10k-candidate floor-or will pay Enterprise rates without pretending $15 is the bill. Skip if you need conversational high-volume screening (Paradox), talent-intelligence overlay (Eightfold), interview science as the product (HireVue), EU residency, Firefox/Safari extensions, or public SOC 2 PDF this week. Skip consumers and anyone under 18 (ToS).