What Manatal costs
From $15 per user a month billed annually ($19 monthly) (prices checked October 2026)
Manatal's pricing page lists Professional at $15 per user a month billed annually ($19 monthly), with up to 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates; Enterprise at $35 ($39 monthly) with unlimited jobs; Enterprise Plus at $55 ($59 monthly); and a custom plan. There is a 14-day free trial with no credit card. Its AI Interviewer, which runs automated video screening, is a separate add-on without a published price.
Sources: Manatal pricing page. HRBlade costs $99 a month, or $79 a month billed annually: see HRBlade pricing.
HRBlade vs Manatal, feature by feature
Competitor details come from their public pages. "Not listed" or "not stated" means the vendor's public pages do not say; it is not a claim that the feature is missing.
Who Manatal is good for
- Recruitment agencies that need client and candidate CRM features
- Lean HR teams that want the cheapest per-user ATS with AI candidate recommendations
- Teams that post to many free and premium job channels
Where Manatal is better than HRBlade
- A much lower entry price for one recruiter: $15 per user a month billed annually
- Agency features such as a recruitment CRM alongside the ATS
- Job posting to thousands of free and premium channels, with LinkedIn and Indeed listed
- Open API, Zapier and an MCP server on its Enterprise Plus plan
- A 14-day free trial with no credit card
Why a one-person HR team picks HRBlade
- AI first interviews by video, phone or chat are part of the plan, not an add-on with an unpublished price
- A shortlist of five with quotes from answers, rather than a ranked list you still have to phone
- Built for in-house hiring at a 20 to 200 person company, not for agency client management
- No face, voice or emotion analysis, attested in writing
- Candidates can interview in 20 languages
HRBlade analyses no faces, no voices and no emotions; only the text of answers is scored. Read the attestation. Built for companies with one HR person: HRBlade for small businesses.
Frequently asked questions
Is HRBlade cheaper than Manatal?
Not for a bare ATS: Manatal Professional is $15 per user a month billed annually. HRBlade Small Business is $99 a month, or $79 billed annually, and includes AI screening and AI first interviews, while Manatal's AI Interviewer is an add-on with no published price. Busy months can need top-ups, available on any plan: +100 AI interviews for $39, +1,000 resume screens for $19 and +100 voice minutes for $49.
Can I use HRBlade alongside Manatal?
There is no native HRBlade integration with Manatal listed today. You can run HRBlade as the screening and first-interview layer and keep Manatal for the rest of your process, moving finalists across by hand, or use the ATS built into HRBlade instead.
Does Manatal use AI to score candidates?
Manatal lists automated candidate recommendations based on the job description on all plans, and an AI Interviewer add-on for automated video screening.
Which is better for an in-house HR person?
If you want a cheap system of record and will screen and call candidates yourself, Manatal. If the time sink is the screening and the first calls, HRBlade does that work and gives you a top five to decide on.
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