Is Breezy HR or Manatal cheaper?

Breezy HR starts at Free (Bootstrap, one active position); paid plans from $157 per month billed annually (free plan available). Manatal starts at $15 per user per month billed annually ($19 monthly) on the Professional plan (14 days trial).

Breezy HR vs Manatal

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

Editorial assessment

Breezy HR compared with Manatal

Different buyers wearing the same category label. Manatal is built for recruitment agencies and search firms, with client management, AI candidate matching, and per-user pricing that starts very low, so a solo recruiter can run it for the price of a lunch. Breezy is built for an employer hiring for itself and charges per company. If you place candidates at other companies, Manatal; if you fill your own roles with an interview panel, Breezy.

Choose Breezy HR if

Small and mid-sized employers hiring on an ongoing basis (roughly 10 to 500 staff) who want a complete, self-serve ATS with the whole interview panel inside it, and who value flat per-company pricing with unlimited users over a cheap single-seat licence.

Choose Manatal if

Recruitment agencies, headhunters, and in-house HR teams of roughly 2 to 50 people that want a complete applicant tracking system plus a client-side CRM for a per-seat price closer to a CRM than to a talent suite, and that value breadth of workflow over depth of analytics.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Breezy HR	Manatal
Category	Hiring	Hiring
Starting price	Free (Bootstrap, one active position); paid plans from $157 per month billed annually (free plan available)	$15 per user per month billed annually ($19 monthly) on the Professional plan (14 days trial)
Pricing model	Flat monthly subscription per company, not per user and not per open role. All plans include unlimited team members; the free Bootstrap plan is limited to one active position or candidate pool, and paid plans allow unlimited positions. Tiers gate capability rather than volume. Annual billing is advertised as two months free. AI credits, SMS, Onboard, and Perform are separate add-ons.	Per user per month, billed monthly or annually, with annual billing discounted. Hiring managers are unlimited and free on every plan, so cost scales with recruiters rather than with everyone who touches a hire. Job and candidate limits apply per account, not per seat, and the entry tier is capped on both. Paid job board contracts, the branded guest portal, and the AI Interviewer are separate purchases.
Free plan	Bootstrap: unlimited users and candidates, one active position or pool, career site, 50+ job board distribution, resume parsing, GDPR tools	No
Free trial	14 days on paid plans, no credit card required, including 100,000 Breezy Intelligence credits	14 days, no credit card required
Best for	Small and mid-sized employers hiring on an ongoing basis (roughly 10 to 500 staff) who want a complete, self-serve ATS with the whole interview panel inside it, and who value flat per-company pricing with unlimited users over a cheap single-seat licence.	Recruitment agencies, headhunters, and in-house HR teams of roughly 2 to 50 people that want a complete applicant tracking system plus a client-side CRM for a per-seat price closer to a CRM than to a talent suite, and that value breadth of workflow over depth of analytics.
Setup time	A first job can be live in under an hour: create the position, connect a calendar and mailbox, publish to the career site and boards. A properly configured setup with pipeline templates, questionnaires, email templates, and scorecards is realistically a day of work spread over a week.	A single recruiter can be posting a job the same afternoon: account creation, mailbox and calendar connection, and a first job take under an hour. A migration from an existing database is the longer piece, typically a few days for bulk import, field mapping, and duplicate cleanup.
Learning curve	Low for candidate reviewers, who mostly live in Slack, email, and the mobile app. Moderate for the administrator, since the value is in the automations and templates, and a pipeline configured without them is just a nicer inbox.	Low. The interface follows the Kanban conventions most recruiters already know, and hiring managers need no training to review and comment. The parts that take longer are configuring workflow automations (on plans that have them) and getting the reporting you want out of a suite that is not especially deep.
Platforms	Web application, iOS app, Android app, Browser sourcing extension, Hosted career site	Web application, iOS app, Android app, Chrome sourcing extension
Compliance	GDPR, EEOC and OFCCP reporting, ISO/IEC information security certification, Candidate consent and data retention controls	GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, ISO 27001
Founded	2014	2019
Headquarters	Jacksonville, Florida, United States	Bangkok, Thailand
Ownership	Owned by Learning Technologies Group, which was taken private by General Atlantic in March 2025	Independent, venture-backed

Strengths and limitations

Breezy HR

Strengths

Unlimited users on every plan including the free one, which removes the usual tax on getting hiring managers into the ATS.
A free plan that is genuinely usable for one open role, complete with career site, job board distribution, resume parsing, and GDPR tooling.
Fully self-serve: a 14-day trial with no credit card and no mandatory demo, unusual in a category dominated by sales-led vendors.
The drag-and-drop pipeline with stage-triggered automation is the clearest implementation of the model in this price bracket, and non-recruiters understand it immediately.

Limitations

Reporting is the weakest area and the most consistent theme in user reviews: fixed dashboards, no report builder, and limited ability to slice pipeline data your own way.
The pricing has no rung between free and $157 per month, so a company that simply needs two concurrent openings faces a full-price decision.
API access is restricted to the quote-only Pro tier, which blocks custom integrations for anyone on the published plans.
Core collaboration features are tiered higher than buyers expect: scorecards, interview guides, and multiple pipelines are Growth, not Startup.

Manatal

Strengths

Entry pricing that is genuinely small-business accessible, with a 14-day trial and no card required, in a category where quote-only pricing is common.
Unlimited free hiring-manager seats on every plan, which removes the usual per-seat penalty for involving the rest of the company in hiring.
A real recruitment CRM alongside the ATS, so agencies track clients, placements, and fees without buying a second system.
AI features shipped earlier and more broadly than most SMB-priced competitors, including scoring, enrichment, an asynchronous video interviewer, and an MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Limitations

Reporting is the most consistently criticised area in verified G2 and Capterra reviews: standard recruiter-performance metrics are thin, and the custom report builder is locked to the $55 Enterprise Plus tier.
Search and filtering across a large candidate database frustrates power users, with limited ability to filter on custom criteria drawn from CV or application content.
Mass email is metered by credits, so outbound nurture at any real volume runs into a cap rather than a soft limit.
No built-in sourcing database or verified contact data; enrichment works on profiles you already found, so a separate sourcing tool is often still needed.

Pricing compared

Breezy HR

Flat monthly subscription per company, not per user and not per open role. All plans include unlimited team members; the free Bootstrap plan is limited to one active position or candidate pool, and paid plans allow unlimited positions. Tiers gate capability rather than volume. Annual billing is advertised as two months free. AI credits, SMS, Onboard, and Perform are separate add-ons.

Bootstrap$0
Startup$157
Growth$273
Business$439
ProCustom

Per company rather than per seat is the right shape for small-business hiring, and at Startup the effective cost is well under what a single recruiter seat costs on several competitors once you have four or five people in the system. The value case is weakest at the two extremes. Below two concurrent roles the free plan is excellent and the paid plans are poor value; at the top, Business at $439 per month plus add-ons is real money for a company that still lacks a report builder and API access. The sweet spot is a 30 to 300 person employer running several openings at once with a distributed interview panel, where Growth at $273 per month replaces a spreadsheet, a scheduling tool, a video screening tool, and a reference-check habit nobody was keeping.

Manatal

Per user per month, billed monthly or annually, with annual billing discounted. Hiring managers are unlimited and free on every plan, so cost scales with recruiters rather than with everyone who touches a hire. Job and candidate limits apply per account, not per seat, and the entry tier is capped on both. Paid job board contracts, the branded guest portal, and the AI Interviewer are separate purchases.

Professional$15
Enterprise$35
Enterprise Plus$55
CustomQuote

On raw capability per dollar Manatal is close to unbeatable in this category: $15 a seat buys multi-board posting, parsing, a full pipeline, a career page, AI scoring, and an agency CRM, where several Western competitors start above $150 a month for a comparable list. Two caveats shape the real figure. Feature gating is steeper than the headline suggests, with automation at $35 and SSO, API access, and custom reporting at $55, and the entry tier's account-wide caps are easy to outgrow. Judged honestly, a small agency that stays inside 15 open jobs gets one of the best-value purchases on this list, while a team that needs API access and real reporting is comparing $55 a seat against mid-market vendors rather than against the $15 headline.

Editorial verdict on each

Breezy HR

Breezy HR is the most straightforward answer for a small or mid-sized employer that hires continuously and wants everyone who interviews to be inside the system. The unlimited-user, flat-per-company pricing is the right shape for that buyer, the drag-and-drop pipeline with stage automations is immediately legible to non-recruiters, and the screening stack (questionnaires, one-way video, scheduling, scorecards, references, e-signature) is more complete than the price suggests. The free Bootstrap plan is one of the few genuinely useful free tiers in recruiting software. Against that, reporting is thin and unlikely to satisfy anyone who wants to analyze their funnel, API access is locked behind a quote-only tier, several features buyers assume are core (scorecards, multiple pipelines, HRIS export) sit higher up the plan ladder than expected, and the leap from free to $157 per month leaves the two-jobs-a-year company with nowhere sensible to land. Buy it if you are running three or more openings at once with a distributed panel; stay on the free plan if you are not, and look at Workable or Ashby if analytics are the point.

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Manatal

Manatal is the clearest value argument in small-business recruiting software. Fifteen dollars a seat buys a complete applicant tracking system, a genuine agency CRM, multi-board posting, multilingual parsing, a branded career page, and an AI layer that several far more expensive vendors have only recently matched, with a 14-day trial and no card required to check. The honest caveats are gating and depth: automation starts at $35, and SSO, API access, and custom reporting all sit at $55, so the price a growing team actually pays is not the headline. Reporting and candidate search are the real functional weaknesses, and if analytics is the reason you are shopping for an ATS, buy something else. For an agency, a headhunter, or an HR team of a few people that needs breadth quickly and cheaply, it is among the highest-return purchases in the category.

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Breezy HR profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; Manatal last reviewed 2026-08-23. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.