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Oplantia vs Manatal

Cheapest entry price. But no AI agents, no enrichment, no signals, and you pay to export.

Genuinely the cheapest real ATS for recruitment agencies. $19/seat Professional covers the basics — ATS, basic AI, career page builder. But AI agents don't exist. Enrichment doesn't exist. Contact data doesn't exist. Signals don't exist. You pay extra to export your own resume data.

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Time to first candidate
60 seconds
vs Hours (no sourcing DB)
Pricing model
Flat $0–$399/mo
vs $19–$59 / user / month
Free trial
Yes · no card
vs Yes
AI agents
Included on paid plans
vs AI Interviewer on Enterprise Plus ($59/seat)
Recommended
Oplantia
$0–$399/ month, flat

No per-seat pricing. WhatsApp, SMS, Email, LinkedIn, AI agent — all included.

  • AI sourcing from 1B+ profiles
  • Autonomous TRU agents
  • Multi-channel sequences
  • Career-site widget
  • Hiring-signal watchers
Manatal
$19–$59 / user / month

Professional $15/user/mo (annual) or $19/mo (monthly): 15 job cap, 10K candidates. Enterprise $35/mo annual ($39 monthly). Enterprise Plus $55/mo annual ($59 monthly): adds LLM, AI Interviewer, API, SSO.

Free trial
Yes
Built for
Small agencies (1–10 recruiters) with tight budgets
Feature-by-feature

What you actually get for the money.

A side-by-side look at the capabilities recruiters use every day.

Capability
Oplantia
Manatal
Transparent pricing
Free trial (no card)
AI sourcing across 1B+ profiles
Limited
Multi-channel sequences (Email + LinkedIn + WhatsApp + SMS)
WhatsApp integration
SMS messaging
Career-site AI chatbot
Autonomous AI inbox agent (24/7)
Voice-note + CV parsing
Limited
Zero-touch interview booking (Google + Outlook)
Limited
ATS + CRM included
Unlimited users & roles
No per-seat pricing
Hiring-signal watchers (19 signals)
Founder pricing locked for life
Why teams switch

Real reasons recruiters move from Manatal.

Not marketing fluff — pulled from what users actually say in G2, Capterra, Reddit, and our own founder conversations.

1

Manatal has 0 AI agents

It's a form-based ATS. No sourcing DB. No enrichment. No signals. No TRU-style inbox agent. At $19/seat it feels like a deal until you need to actually source candidates.

2

Export tax

You pay to export your own data. Oplantia has free CSV exports on all plans. Your data is yours.

3

15-job cap on Professional

Most recruiters handle 20–50 job orders. Manatal charges you to go beyond 15. Oplantia Free has 1 job; Solo has 5; Team has 20. No artificial caps at higher tiers.

Real complaints

What Manatal users wish was different.

Aggregated from G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, Reddit, and buyer-intel sources. We're not making this up — these are the actual pain points buyers report.

Pay to export your own candidate data (verified Trustpilot complaints)
No dedicated contact-data enrichment (no phone/email lookup)
No sourcing DB
15-job cap on Professional
No SMS, no in-app calling, weak Boolean search
Job boards feature reportedly broken (Trustpilot)
Account-lockout billing disputes (Trustpilot)
Resume parser breaks on edge cases
Fair credit

What Manatal genuinely does well.

Cheapest legitimate ATS for agencies
Easy onboarding and clean UI
Chrome sourcing extension
AI Interviewer on top tier
Switch in 30 seconds

Already on Manatal?
We'll handle the move.

White-glove migration is included with founding access. You keep every candidate, every note, every sequence — we just rebuild it where it actually works.

01

Export from Manatal

One CSV or a read-only API token. We accept whatever format your account spits out.

02

We map and migrate

Candidates, notes, sequences, pipeline stages — mapped to Oplantia in under 48 hours by our team.

03

You ship hires

Walk into Oplantia with your full history intact. First placement on the new stack — same week.

One extra placement pays for the whole year.

Founding agencies lock in the lowest price forever. No per-seat tax. No surprise invoices.

No credit card. No spam. 60 seconds to your spot.