Manatal pricing in 2026
Chris Allen
TL;DR
Manatal runs four tiers: Professional at $15 to $19 per user per month (capped at 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates), Enterprise at $35 to $39 (unlimited jobs, candidates, and workflow automation), Enterprise Plus at $55 to $59 (adds SSO, API access, and priority support), and a Custom plan above that.
Annual billing saves roughly 20% versus month-to-month across all tiers. It's genuinely one of the more affordable and transparent options in the category, but per-seat pricing means cost scales directly with headcount, and verified reviewers on G2 and Capterra directly report capped mass email credits and limited recruiter-performance reporting as the trade-offs for that low entry price.
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Manatal pricing starts at $15 per user per month for the Professional plan on annual billing ($19 month-to-month), $35 per user per month for Enterprise ($39 month-to-month), and $55 per user per month for Enterprise Plus ($59 month-to-month). A Custom plan is available above that for agencies needing dedicated account management, phone support, or custom integrations, priced on request.
Manatal publishes its pricing in full, a genuine point of difference from Bullhorn, Loxo, or Atlas, all of which require a sales conversation before disclosing a number. It also offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.
Manatal's own site reports 900,000+ recruitment processes managed across 10,000+ active recruiting teams in 135+ countries, a reasonable scale signal for a platform this affordably priced.
The trade-off is that Manatal charges strictly per seat with job and candidate caps on its entry tier, so the real cost for a growing agency depends heavily on how many jobs, candidates, and add-ons you actually need.
This guide breaks down every tier, what's genuinely included versus gated to a higher plan, what users report about the pricing in practice, and how it stacks up against the rest of the category.
Manatal pricing breakdown by plan
Plan | Annual Billing | Monthly Billing | What's Included |
|---|---|---|---|
Professional | $15/user/mo | $19/user/mo | Up to 15 jobs/account, up to 10,000 candidates, unlimited hiring managers |
Enterprise | $35/user/mo | $39/user/mo | Unlimited jobs and candidates, unlimited hiring managers, workflow automation |
Enterprise Plus | $55/user/mo | $59/user/mo | Everything in Enterprise, plus advanced report builder, ChatGPT/Claude/LLM integration, open API, candidate portal and internal mobility, custom permissions and user groups, SSO, priority support |
Custom | On Demand | On Demand | Everything in Enterprise Plus, plus a dedicated account manager, phone support, custom features, custom integrations, custom compliance and reports |
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For a five-person agency on the Professional plan with annual billing, that's $900 a year, genuinely one of the lowest entry points in this category. The same team on Enterprise runs $2,100 annually, and Enterprise Plus jumps to $3,300.
Even at the top published tier, a five-person team is still paying meaningfully less than the entry-level published rate on several competitors covered elsewhere on this blog, including Recruit CRM and Loxo.
What's included vs. what's gated to a higher plan
The Professional plan covers core ATS and CRM functionality: candidate sourcing, AI candidate enrichment and recommendations, career page hosting, compliance tooling, and reporting at a general level. Two things are worth flagging before assuming Professional covers everything a small team needs.
The job and candidate caps are real limits, not soft guidance. Professional caps out at 15 open jobs per account and 10,000 candidates. For a solo recruiter or a very small team, that's rarely a constraint day to day.
For a growing boutique agency running more concurrent searches, or one that's been on the platform long enough to build a larger candidate database, hitting either ceiling means an upgrade to Enterprise regardless of headcount, a limitation verified reviewers on Capterra have flagged directly.
Workflow automation is an Enterprise-and-up feature. It's not available on Professional at all, according to Manatal's own plan comparison. If automating pipeline stages, status updates, or follow-ups is central to how your team works, Professional's lower price doesn't include that capability, Enterprise is the real starting point.
SSO, custom user permissions, and the advanced report builder are Enterprise Plus exclusives. Teams that need single sign-on for security compliance, granular permission groups, or a genuinely customizable reporting layer beyond Manatal's standard reports need to budget for the top published tier and not Enterprise.
What Manatal users actually say about pricing
Manatal holds a 4.8/5 rating on G2 from 147 reviews and 4.6/5 on Capterra from 141 reviews, both figures current as of mid-2026. Reviewers consistently describe the pricing as transparent and good value relative to the feature set, particularly for smaller teams and agencies comparing it against enterprise-priced platforms that require a sales call.
The pricing-specific criticism follows a consistent pattern rather than isolated complaints. On G2, a Senior Recruitment Specialist reviewer wrote that with a large applicant pool to engage, she wished Manatal offered more than 1,000 free monthly credits for mass marketing campaigns, a direct, verified account of the mass-email cap in practice.
Job and candidate caps draw a similar reaction: a verified Capterra reviewer specifically flagged that more jobs on the first plan would be welcome, since the job limit is reached pretty quickly.
Reporting depth is another recurring theme, one G2 reviewer, a Talent Acquisition Specialist at a mid-market firm, stated plainly that Manatal has failed to provide reporting on recruiter performance, which lines up with the advanced report builder being reserved for Enterprise Plus rather than included lower down.
A separate G2 reviewer described being charged extra for add-ons beyond the base plan, limited functionality on the career page API, and a fee to export their own migrated candidate data, worth confirming directly with Manatal's sales team before committing if data portability matters to your evaluation.
One structural point worth knowing going in: unlike Loxo, Manatal doesn't sell access to an owned candidate sourcing database as part of its core pricing. Sourcing runs through the Chrome extension and integrations with LinkedIn, job boards, and other channels rather than a proprietary database, which keeps the price down but means agencies whose workflow depends on database-scale sourcing volume should weigh that against Loxo's higher-priced but database-inclusive model.
How Manatal pricing compares
Platform | Starting Price | Pricing Model | Free Trial | Notable Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Manatal | $15/user/mo (annual) | Fully published, tiered | 14 days | Job/candidate caps on Professional |
Happlicant | $69/user/mo (quarterly), $75/mo (monthly) | Fully published, flat | 14 days | Per-seat, but no job/candidate caps |
Recruit CRM | $49/user/mo (annual) (full breakdown) | Fully published, tiered | Unlimited | Automation and analytics are paid add-ons below Enterprise |
Loxo | $169/user/mo (annual, Basic) (full breakdown) | Published for Basic only, custom above | 7 days (Professional features) | Reported ~5% annual increases |
Bullhorn | Custom quote only, typically $99/user/mo and up (full breakdown) | Custom quote only | No | Reported ~20% renewal increases |
On headline price alone, Manatal's Professional plan is the cheapest published option in this comparison, and by a wide margin.
The honest caveat is that Manatal's pricing scales per seat with no unlimited-user option below the custom tier, while Happlicant's flat per-user rate includes automation, AI resume parsing, and analytics at every tier without a separate Enterprise upgrade to unlock them. For a very small, cost-sensitive team evaluating tools purely on entry price, Manatal Professional is difficult to beat. For a team that already knows it wants automation and a deeper reporting layer without paying for a higher tier to get it, the comparison is closer than the sticker price suggests.
Which Manatal plan should you choose?
If you're a solo recruiter or a very small team with fewer than 15 concurrent job openings, Professional on annual billing is a genuinely strong entry point, among the most affordable published options in the category.
If workflow automation matters to your daily process, or you're likely to exceed the 15-job or 10,000-candidate ceiling as your agency grows, Enterprise is the realistic plan to budget for rather than Professional, since automation isn't available at all on the lower tier.
If your agency needs SSO, custom permission groups, LLM integrations, or a genuinely advanced reporting layer, those features sit behind Enterprise Plus specifically, budget for that tier rather than assuming Enterprise covers them.
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