Manatal alternative
Manatal is the lowest published price in agency recruiting software at $15 per user per month. For a twenty-seat team that is $300 monthly, against Digital Arrow's $189 flat Growth plan, which also includes timesheets, invoicing and placement margin.
Manatal competes on price and on being quick to adopt. It is an applicant tracking system with AI candidate recommendations, sold per user at a rate no other established vendor matches.
Pricing side by side
Manatal is sold per user, per month. Digital Arrow is sold flat, so the gap widens as a team grows and narrows as it shrinks.
| Product | Published price | 20 seats / month |
|---|---|---|
| Manatal | $15/userper user, per month | $300 |
| Digital Arrow — Growth | $189flat, per month · up to 60 accounts | $189 |
Higher tiers cost more; this is the entry rate.
Source: G2, Manatal pricing. Vendors change prices; check theirs before deciding.
What Digital Arrow includes in every paid plan
No modules, no per-feature add-ons. This is the whole product at every tier; the tiers differ by how many accounts and AI credits they carry.
- Applicant tracking
- Configurable drag-and-drop pipeline stages, applicant search, and notes and scorecards on the board.
- Interview scheduling
- Google and Outlook calendar connections, free/busy checking across both, and iCalendar invitations.
- Screening
- Reusable questionnaires with text, choice and timed video-answer questions.
- Timesheets and time off
- Manual or timer entry by project, date-range totals, PDF export, and time-off requests.
- Client invoicing
- Branded PDF invoices, optionally built from an applicant's tracked time and an hourly rate.
- Placements and margin
- Bill rate and pay rate per placement, with margin and markup reported by client and by contractor, weighted by hours actually logged.
- Contracts and onboarding
- Multi-party e-signature contracts, plus onboarding material with quizzes and completion tracking.
- Careers page and job feed
- A branded careers page per company and an Indeed-format XML feed for aggregators.
- Public API and webhooks
- Scoped API keys with per-key rate limits, and signed webhooks for job and application events.
- GDPR tooling
- Candidate consent capture, retention policies, and erasure records.
Where Manatal is stronger
- The lowest entry price in the category, and the simplest to start using.
- Straightforward per-user pricing that scales down as well as up — a two-person agency pays $30.
- An established product with a large customer base and public reviews, which Digital Arrow does not yet have.
Choose Manatal if
- You are one to three recruiters and want the cheapest possible per-seat cost.
- You need an applicant tracking system only, with no back-office requirement.
Choose Digital Arrow if
- You place contractors and need hours, invoices and margin — Manatal is an ATS, not an agency back office.
- Your team is large enough that a flat rate beats a per-seat one. The two cross at about thirteen users.
What Digital Arrow does not do
- No LinkedIn Recruiter integration or LinkedIn job posting API — that requires LinkedIn Talent Solutions partner approval, which we do not hold.
- No sourcing browser extension for capturing profiles from LinkedIn or GitHub.
- No SSO or SAML.
- No built-in candidate texting or SMS.
- A much smaller integration marketplace than any established vendor.
Questions
Is Digital Arrow cheaper than Manatal?
It depends on team size. Manatal is $15 per user per month, so it is cheaper for very small teams — three users is $45 against Digital Arrow's $49 Starter. Above roughly thirteen users, Digital Arrow's flat pricing is lower, and at twenty seats it is $189 against $300. Digital Arrow also includes timesheets, invoicing and placement margin, which are not part of an applicant tracking system. Prices checked September 2026.
What does Digital Arrow have that Manatal does not?
Digital Arrow includes staffing back office in the base plan: timesheets by project, client invoices generated from tracked time, placements with bill and pay rates, and margin and markup reported by client and contractor. It also includes e-signature contracts, onboarding with quizzes, a branded careers page with an Indeed-format job feed, and a public API with webhooks.
See it against your own numbers
Pricing is published in full, so there is nothing to request. Put a placement in and the margin report shows bill against pay, weighted by the hours actually logged.
Manatal is a trademark of its owner and is named here only to identify the product being compared. Digital Arrow is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a partner of Manatal. Competitor pricing shown is the vendor's published list price, or a third-party report where the vendor does not publish one, read on .