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Codility vs Manatal

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Codility

Recruitment

Technical coding assessment platform priced by annual invite volume, not by seat count alone

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Manatal logo

Manatal

Recruitment

Low-cost applicant tracking and recruitment CRM with candidate enrichment, sold to both in-house teams and agencies

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Codility pricing is capped by candidate invites per year, not by hiring headcount, so a busy recruiting quarter or hiring surge can exhaust the allowance faster than a company's growth plan anticipated.; Manatal pricing is per recruiter seat, so putting every hiring manager into the system to review candidates multiplies the licence count and erases the price advantage.
  • They diverge on capability: Codility covers Coding task library, Manatal covers Candidate enrichment.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Codility and Manatal actually diverge.

Attributes where Codility and Manatal differ
AttributeCodilityManatal
Pricing modelPer year by candidate invite volume, with platform user limits per tierPer user per month

Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), platforms (Web), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Recruitment).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Codility

  • Coding task library
  • Automated scoring
  • Plagiarism detection
  • Live coding interviews
  • ATS integrations
  • Candidate experience reporting

Only in Manatal

  • Candidate enrichment
  • AI candidate scoring
  • Recruitment CRM
  • Multi-board posting
  • CV parsing
  • Careers page builder
  • Custom pipelines
  • Reporting

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Codility

  • An engineering team with a steady, moderate hiring volume that fits comfortably within the Starter or Scale invite allowancenot Manatal
  • A company that wants automated coding assessments integrated directly into an existing applicant tracking systemnot Manatal
  • A hiring team concerned about AI-generated or copied solutions wanting built-in plagiarism detectionnot Manatal
  • An organisation running live, interviewer-led coding sessions in addition to take-home assessmentsnot Manatal

Manatal

  • A small recruitment agency that needs client, candidate and placement tracking without an enterprise contractnot Codility
  • An in-house team in Asia Pacific that wants candidate enrichment without paying enterprise ATS pricesnot Codility
  • A company processing high applicant volume that needs automated ranking to triage a shortlistnot Codility
  • A recruiter running both contingent search and internal hiring from one databasenot Codility

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Codility

  • Pricing is capped by candidate invites per year, not by hiring headcount, so a busy recruiting quarter or hiring surge can exhaust the allowance faster than a company's growth plan anticipated.
  • The Starter plan supports only one platform user, making it impractical for any team with more than a single recruiter or hiring manager needing direct access.
  • Annual-only billing on the Starter tier requires a full year's commitment before a company knows whether its actual invite usage matches the plan it bought.
  • As with any automated coding assessment, over-reliance on it as an early filter risks screening out strong candidates who do not perform well under artificial timed test conditions.
  • Its assessment format is squarely aimed at software engineering roles, so it offers no coverage for non-technical or adjacent technical hiring needs that HackerRank's broader question library covers.

Manatal

  • Pricing is per recruiter seat, so putting every hiring manager into the system to review candidates multiplies the licence count and erases the price advantage.
  • Candidate enrichment depends on public profile data, so accuracy drops sharply in markets where professional networking sites have low penetration and the scores become misleading rather than useful.
  • Integrations with major HRIS and payroll systems are limited compared with Western competitors, so new hire handover is frequently a CSV export rather than a sync.
  • Support operates on Indochina business hours, which leaves European afternoons and all of North American working hours outside the responsive window.
  • Reporting covers recruiter activity and source data but lacks the cohort and quality-of-hire analysis a mature talent function expects, and custom analysis means exporting to a spreadsheet.

Pricing, plan by plan

Codility

On request
  • Starter$1200/year
    • Up to 120 assessment invites per year
    • 1 platform user
    • Annual billing only
  • Scale$500/month
    • Up to 300 assessment invites per year (25 a month)
    • 3 platform users
    • Discount available on annual billing
  • Custom$undefined/year
    • Custom quote
    • Unlimited or high-volume invites
    • Unlimited users, SSO, integrations and dedicated support

Manatal

On request
  • Professional$undefined/month
    • Per recruiter seat
    • Unlimited jobs and candidates
    • Candidate enrichment and AI scoring
  • Enterprise$undefined/month
    • Per recruiter seat at a higher rate
    • Custom fields and advanced permissions
    • Recruitment CRM for agency use
  • Custom$undefined/year
    • Negotiated terms for larger teams
    • Single sign-on and security review
    • Dedicated account management

Which should you pick?

Choose Codility if

  • You need coding task library.
  • You also want automated scoring.
Codility review

Choose Manatal if

  • You need candidate enrichment.
  • You also want ai candidate scoring.
Manatal review

Questions people ask

Is Codility or Manatal better?
Neither clearly leads. Codility starts at On request and Manatal at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Codility or Manatal?
Codility starts at On request and Manatal at On request.
Does Codility or Manatal run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Codility best used for?
Codility is most often used for an engineering team with a steady, moderate hiring volume that fits comfortably within the starter or scale invite allowance, a company that wants automated coding assessments integrated directly into an existing applicant tracking system, a hiring team concerned about ai-generated or copied solutions wanting built-in plagiarism detection, an organisation running live, interviewer-led coding sessions in addition to take-home assessments. Of those, an engineering team with a steady, moderate hiring volume that fits comfortably within the starter or scale invite allowance and a company that wants automated coding assessments integrated directly into an existing applicant tracking system are not what Manatal is typically brought in for.
What can Codility do that Manatal cannot?
Codility covers Coding task library, Automated scoring, Plagiarism detection, Live coding interviews. Manatal covers Candidate enrichment, AI candidate scoring, Recruitment CRM, Multi-board posting.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Codility: What counts against the invite limit?

Each candidate assessment invitation sent counts toward the plan's annual (or monthly, for Scale) invite allowance.

Manatal: Is it for agencies or in-house teams?

Both. The agency mode adds client and placement management; the corporate mode is a conventional ATS. Buying the wrong mode means paying for modules you never open.

Codility: What happens if we exceed our invite allowance?

Additional invites beyond the plan limit typically incur per-invite charges or require an upgrade to a higher tier.

Manatal: How is it priced compared with other ATS products?

Per recruiter seat per month. That is not comparable with vendors that charge per active job slot or per employee, so model your real user count before comparing headline numbers.

Codility: Is there a free tier?

No published free tier exists; all plans require payment, with Starter billed annually only.

Manatal: Where is candidate data hosted?

On cloud infrastructure with GDPR commitments, but region-specific residency guarantees are weaker than EU-native vendors offer, which matters for regulated European buyers.

Manatal: Does the AI scoring actually work?

It ranks reliably against structured requirements such as skills and experience length. It is far less reliable where enrichment data is sparse.

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