For the agency that pays for Manatal per user to have an ATS and still has nobody to put forward for the open role, HeyTalent is the best Manatal alternative: its ATS costs €0, and its fee, charged per organisation, covers LinkedIn search, email and phone lookup and outreach sequences, while in Manatal external search runs on a quota and contact data is a credit-based add-on. Manatal is an ATS with a recruitment CRM, and it pays off when the outstanding work is organising applications, clients and reports that already exist. The decision depends on where the days are lost: before the candidate exists in your database, or after.
What is Manatal and what is HeyTalent
Manatal is an ATS (applicant tracking system) with a recruitment CRM: it centralises jobs, candidates, clients, stages and reports, and scores candidates with AI. An ATS is defined as the system that stores every application and its stage; the guide on what an ATS is covers it in detail.
HeyTalent is an AI-powered direct search tool for recruitment agencies and headhunters: it extracts current LinkedIn profiles, people beyond the team's own connections included, ranks them with AI variables the agency writes, finds email and phone, and schedules the invitation, follow-ups and InMail on LinkedIn. It comes with its own ATS.
Manatal organises the candidates you already have; HeyTalent brings in the ones you have not met yet.
HeyTalent vs Manatal in 2026: comparison by criterion
In 2026, HeyTalent and Manatal differ in how they charge and in what the fee includes. Manatal's data comes from its pricing page and help centre, as of November 9, 2026.
| Criterion | HeyTalent | Manatal |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | LinkedIn sourcing, contact data and outreach | ATS and recruitment CRM |
| How it charges | One fee per organisation, no cap on users | Every user, every month |
| Lowest published price | Recruiter, €93/month billed annually | Professional, $15 per user per month billed annually |
| ATS | Included, €0 | Its core product |
| Email and phone | Included in all three plans | Separate credit-based add-on, price not published |
| Search beyond your database | LinkedIn extraction, up to 2,000 candidates/month on Recruiter | Sourcing Hub: 10 searches/month on Professional and Enterprise |
| First contact | Automated LinkedIn campaigns: invitation, follow-ups and InMail | Mass email and SMS; workflow automations from Enterprise up |
| GDPR | Public data under legitimate interest, never resold | Consent status per profile, data export and deletion on request |
What HeyTalent adds at the search stage that Manatal does not cover
HeyTalent's job ends where Manatal's begins: it delivers people you can already talk to, before they have a record in any ATS. A two-sentence brief or the job ad is enough for HeyTalent to build the LinkedIn search with its advanced filters; it also accepts your own Boolean string.
Every search reads LinkedIn live, so the title and company HeyTalent shows are today's, and it reaches professionals outside your network without requiring a LinkedIn licence. The list is then ranked with AI variables written by the team, for example the type of current employer or the level of English. Those variables set the reading order; a person still confirms the skill.
Once the recruiter approves the list, HeyTalent fills in email and phone and schedules the campaign: invitation, follow-up messages and an InMail if the invitation is not accepted. Every HeyTalent campaign runs on LinkedIn; the email it finds is there for the recruiter to write from their own inbox.
Replies land in a single inbox, filterable by role or recruiter, and anyone can answer from a colleague's LinkedIn account. One click in the conversation moves the candidate into the HeyTalent ATS.
HeyTalent reports that its users gain an average of 60% in speed during their first month, thanks to shorter, better-filtered lists: a figure from the company itself, not externally audited, and not the same as hiring sooner.
What HeyTalent does not do and Manatal does: it has no client CRM, no revenue tracking and no employee portal for internal mobility. An agency that bills and reports from its ATS needs those pieces in another system.
How much Manatal costs in 2026 and how it charges
Manatal charges for each user separately and publishes the price of three of its four plans. Its pricing page lists, as of November 9, 2026, Professional at $15 per user per month billed annually and $19 billed monthly; the Custom plan is quoted on demand.
| Manatal plan | Annual billing, $ per user/month | Monthly billing, $ per user/month | Limits and what it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional | $15 | $19 | Up to 15 jobs per account and up to 10,000 candidates |
| Enterprise | $35 | $39 | Unlimited jobs and candidates, workflow automations |
| Enterprise Plus | $55 | $59 | Open API, SSO, user groups, report builder and priority support |
| Custom | On demand | On demand | Dedicated account manager and custom integrations |
Manatal's bill grows with every user; HeyTalent's, charged per organisation, does not depend on how many users there are. The 15-job limit on Professional applies per account, not per user. Manatal's trial lasts 14 days with no card, but it excludes job board posting, mass email, email automations and the GDPR consent request tool.
What Manatal charges on top of the licence
Contact data is not part of the Manatal licence. According to its help centre, as of November 9, 2026, email and phone lookup is a separate add-on that is not included in Professional, Enterprise or Enterprise Plus; it comes in packages of 30, 100, 200 or 400 credits per month, and Manatal does not publish the price. Each credit unlocks one profile and is only deducted when at least one email or phone number comes back; the balance resets every month.
Searching Manatal's external database, the Sourcing Hub, also runs on a quota: 10 searches a month on Professional and Enterprise, roughly 1,000 candidates, and 300 on Enterprise Plus. Each search uses a credit even when it returns no profiles, and unused quota does not roll over to the next month.
How much HeyTalent costs and what its free ATS includes
HeyTalent's plans, as of November 9, 2026, cost €93/month (Recruiter), €182/month (Agency) and €509/month (Ultra) on annual billing; the fee is per organisation and users are unlimited. All three include email and phone lookup and unlimited CSV export; volume runs from up to 2,000 to up to 14,000 candidates a month, and priority support is Ultra only.
HeyTalent does not charge for its ATS: a branded careers page, public job posts (which reach Google Jobs) or link-only posts, configurable application forms, a searchable candidate database and one pipeline per job with your own stages all cost €0. The client sees the shared pipeline, only at the stages you choose, CVs included. What you pay for is finding and contacting: profiles, emails and phone numbers, and LinkedIn campaigns.
To put per-user licences, per-organisation fees and credits on the same sheet, use the overview of what sourcing tools cost.
Where each tool fits in the recruitment funnel
HeyTalent covers search and first contact; Manatal covers assessment and closing. 38% of Spanish organisations close a hiring process in under a month and another 33% take between one and two months, according to the InfoJobs-Esade labour market report.
Companies struggling to find suitable profiles went from 55% in 2017 to 70% in 2025, according to the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in the analysis published by SEPE on supply and demand mismatches. Organising applications does not create candidates.
Between search and interview there are three states: profile found, usable contact and interested candidate. In Manatal, moving from the first to the second uses credits from a separate add-on; in HeyTalent, email and phone are part of the plan fee.