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Recruiting CRM and sourcing · September 2026 Edition

Lever vs Manatal

Three of twelve models named Lever first on the direct prompt; zero named Manatal. Lever was named by ten of the twelve models and Manatal by eleven and Lever carries 16 labels and Manatal 17, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Lever

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

Manatal

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

First-choice share20%9%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels1617A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Lever 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 · Gem 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.
LeverFirst choices, of twelve modelsManatal
Direct30
Paraphrase60
Comparative00
Budget-constrained04
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
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 Lever and Manatal stood in it.

Lever first, Manatal not the choice

3 of 12 modelsManatal was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Grok 4.1 FastLever alternatives: LinkedIn Recruiter, Workable
Mistral SmallGem, Lever alternatives: Juicebox, SeekOut, hireEZ
MiniMax M2.5Lever, SeekOut alternatives: Findem, Gem, hireEZ

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GLM 4.7 FlashXGem alternatives: Juicebox, Manatal, SeekOut, hireEZ

Neither was named

8 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Gem, hireEZ alternatives: Jobvite, Loxo, SeekOut
GPT-5.4 miniLinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: SeekOut, Workable, Zoho Recruit
Gemini 3.5 FlashGem alternatives: Fetcher, SeekOut, ZoomInfo Talent, hireEZ
Perplexity SonarGem alternatives: Fetcher, SeekOut, Workable, hireEZ
DeepSeek V4 FlashGem alternatives: LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, hireEZ
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashLinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: Gem, Gorilla Search, SeekOut
Kimi K2hireEZ alternatives: Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter

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
Lever2%#– of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Lever leads at mid-market.
Lever20%#1 of 11
Manatal9%#3 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Lever leads by eight points.
Lever8%#– of 6
Manatal0%#– of 6
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Lever

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

“If you want one default recommendation without more context, Lever is the best starting point for a mid-sized B2B in-house recruiting team.” Perplexity Sonar · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Lever: Ideal for mid-sized in-house teams wanting an all-in-one ATS + CRM with native sourcing and nurturing capabilities” Mistral Small · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd start with Lever as the default recommendation due to its strong balance of CRM capabilities and ATS integration” MiniMax M2.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about Manatal

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared
Lever vs GemGem 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.