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Recruiting CRM and sourcing · September 2026 Edition

Gem vs Manatal

Six of twelve models named Gem first on the direct prompt; zero named Manatal. Gem was named by twelve of the twelve models and Manatal by eleven and Gem carries 39 labels and Manatal 17, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Gem

accepted challenger

Named in six categories this edition.

Manatal

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

First-choice share18%9%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate3%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#3A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels3917A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Gem reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.SeekOut was named alongside these two in nine of the twelve direct answers. Lever vs Gem · Lever vs Manatal

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the Recruiting CRM and sourcing page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
GemFirst choices, of twelve modelsManatal
Direct60
Paraphrase20
Comparative20
Budget-constrained04
Scale-constrained00
Negative101 against Gem
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Gem and Manatal stood in it.

Gem first, Manatal an alternative

6 of 12 modelsManatal was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Gem, hireEZ alternatives: Jobvite, Loxo, SeekOut
Gemini 3.5 FlashGem alternatives: Fetcher, SeekOut, ZoomInfo Talent, hireEZ
Perplexity SonarGem alternatives: Fetcher, SeekOut, Workable, hireEZ
Mistral SmallGem, Lever alternatives: Juicebox, SeekOut, hireEZ
DeepSeek V4 FlashGem alternatives: LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, hireEZ
GLM 4.7 FlashXGem alternatives: Juicebox, Manatal, SeekOut, hireEZ

Neither was the first choice, one was named

3 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Qwen 3.7 FlashLinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: Gem, Gorilla Search, SeekOut
Kimi K2hireEZ alternatives: Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter
MiniMax M2.5Lever, SeekOut alternatives: Findem, Gem, hireEZ

Neither was named

3 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniLinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: SeekOut, Workable, Zoho Recruit
Grok 4.1 FastLever alternatives: LinkedIn Recruiter, Workable
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Manatal leads by nineteen points.
Manatal21%#2 of 13
Gem2%#7 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Gem leads at mid-market.
Gem18%#2 of 11
Manatal9%#3 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Gem leads by ten points.
Gem10%#4 of 6
Manatal0%#– of 6
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Gem

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.

“Gem — widely praised for workflow, but users repeatedly report inaccurate/outdated email addresses and scraping issues” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“The Best Standalone CRM: Gem ... Gem is the market standard for high-growth B2B companies with outbound-heavy sourcing models.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Outbound, high\u2011volume, want CRM + analytics | Gem | Best\u2011in\u2011class CRM + AI sourcing; strong reporting for ROI.” MiniMax M2.5 · comparative prompt · first choice

What the models said about Manatal

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared
Lever vs GemLever vs ManatalThe full Recruiting CRM standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.