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Manatal
Low-cost applicant tracking and recruitment CRM with candidate enrichment, sold to both in-house teams and agencies
As of 31 August 2026, Manatal's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A Bangkok-built ATS that puts AI candidate scoring and social profile enrichment at a price point normally reserved for basic tracking tools. Softwr lists it under Recruitment. Manatal is available on Web.
Overview
What Manatal does
Manatal is an applicant tracking system and recruitment CRM founded in Bangkok in 2018. It handles job posting and multi-board distribution, CV parsing, a candidate database, pipeline management, interview scheduling and reporting, and adds candidate enrichment that pulls public social and professional profile data onto a candidate record, plus scoring that ranks applicants against the job description. The distinguishing decision is price relative to capability. Enrichment and AI scoring are typically features of products costing several times as much, and Manatal sells them on a published per user per month rate at the low end of the market. It also ships an agency mode with client and placement management alongside a corporate mode, which lets a small recruitment firm and an in-house team buy the same product. That breadth is genuine, but note that per user pricing is the wrong shape for companies that want every hiring manager in the system, and it is not comparable with the per job slot or per employee pricing that competing ATS vendors use. Buyers are small and mid-sized companies and independent recruitment agencies, heavily weighted to Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Europe. The trade-off is ecosystem: integrations with major HRIS and payroll platforms are thinner than Western competitors, support runs on Indochina time, and enrichment accuracy varies by region because it depends on how much public profile data exists for a given market.
What people use it for
- A small recruitment agency that needs client, candidate and placement tracking without an enterprise contract
- An in-house team in Asia Pacific that wants candidate enrichment without paying enterprise ATS prices
- A company processing high applicant volume that needs automated ranking to triage a shortlist
- A recruiter running both contingent search and internal hiring from one database
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about 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.
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What people choose instead of Manatal
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- ManatalvsJazzHR
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- ManatalvsBreezy HR
Breezy HR: A similarly priced ATS for small in-house teams with better North American and European support coverage
Pricing
What Manatal costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Professional
On request
- Per recruiter seat
- Unlimited jobs and candidates
- Candidate enrichment and AI scoring
- Careers page and multi-board posting
Enterprise
On request
- Per recruiter seat at a higher rate
- Custom fields and advanced permissions
- Recruitment CRM for agency use
- Priority support
Custom
On request
- Negotiated terms for larger teams
- Single sign-on and security review
- Dedicated account management
- Quoted rather than published
Capabilities
Features
Candidate enrichment
Public social and professional profile data appended to candidate records automatically
AI candidate scoring
Applicants ranked against job requirements with an explainable score
Recruitment CRM
Client, contact and placement management for agency use
Multi-board posting
Distribution to global and regional job boards from a single action
CV parsing
Bulk resume import with structured field extraction
Careers page builder
Hosted branded careers site with application forms
Custom pipelines
Per-job stages, automation rules and permission control
Reporting
Placement, source and recruiter activity dashboards
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
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.
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.
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.
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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