Every category where a model named Manatal for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
AI recruiting assistants	Talent acquisition	12%	3 of 84	5%	19	accepted challenger
Recruitment marketing and career sites	Talent acquisition	10%	4 of 81	11%	9	under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 16%
Recruiting CRM and sourcing	Talent acquisition	9%	3 of 88	0%	17	accepted challenger
Applicant tracking systems	Talent acquisition	2%	8 of 50	0%	10	accepted challenger
Talent intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	55 of 77	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17%
Job advertising and distribution	Talent acquisition	0%	31 of 109	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21%
HR AI assistants	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	62 of 119	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Manatal yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Manatal across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	1	1	5
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	2	0	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	3	1	1	0	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	4	1	1	7
Mistral Small	0	4	4	0	8
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	4	2	0	9
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	1	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Kimi K2	1	3	2	1	7
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	5	1	0	6
MiniMax M2.5	2	2	1	0	5

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct23 labels6

Paraphrase31 labels8

Comparative46 labels12not counted in share

Budget-constrained81 labels31

Scale-constrained8 labels2

Negative13 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative202 labels in all, every segment counted; 47 of the 62 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“If you need a fully-featured, modern platform with AI matching but cannot afford premium systems... this is the top pick.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · budget prompt · first choice

“I'd suggest starting with Manatal at $19/user/month or Pin if you want to test before committing (free tier)” MiniMax M2.5 · AI recruiting assistants · budget prompt · first choice

“Manatal ($15/user/month) offers the best combination of AI features, affordability, and ease of use” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI recruiting assistants · budget prompt · first choice

“Manatal is an excellent budget-friendly option, with plans starting from just $15/user/month” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Recruitment marketing · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“built for SMBs that want one platform instead of a toolchain, though it's not as sophisticated as enterprise platforms” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI recruiting assistants · comparative prompt · soft negative

“Interface only available in English ... Limited customer support ... No scheduling options for drip campaigns” Kimi K2 · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · soft negative

“Manatal (ATS Alternative) | Trial | $15/user/mo ... Basic ATS, not pure TI” Grok 4.1 Fast · Talent intelligence · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Manatal, over the 202 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Manatal was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zoho Recruit86 of 2029Not in the top three

Workable75 of 20213Compare →

Pin66 of 20229Not in the top three

Breezy HR63 of 20218Not in the top three

JazzHR45 of 2026Not in the top three

Juicebox42 of 2023Not in the top three

hireEZ34 of 2021Not in the top three

LinkedIn Recruiter33 of 2022Not in the top three

Gem32 of 2025Compare →

SeekOut28 of 2020Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Manatal. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 186 of the 202 answers that named Manatal and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com138

pin.com99

hiretruffle.com93

peoplemanagingpeople.com61

g2.com50

leonar.app50

learn.g2.com47

metaview.ai44

manatal.comYour site36

herohunt.ai34

616 of the 652 domain citations in answers naming Manatal came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/best-candidate-sourcing-tools44

hiretruffle.com/blog/ai-recruiting-software38

learn.g2.com/best-recruitment-marketing-platforms35

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/recruitment-marketing-software35

leonar.app/blog/best-talent-sourcing-platforms34

pin.com/blog/best-ai-recruiting-tools-small-teams34

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/ai-recruiting31

lindy.ai/blog/best-ai-recruiting-tools-202429

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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