Manatal is a recruitment ATS with AI candidate enrichment and social media sourcing, priced per user from $19 a month. Dover is a free, easy-to-use ATS built for startups, with unlimited jobs and unlimited users. The comparison is mostly about billing shape: Manatal’s bill is your team size times a per-seat price, and Dover’s is $0 or a flat $199. Here’s the full breakdown of what each costs, where each is stronger, and how to tell which one makes sense for you.
Key takeaways
- Dover's ATS has a free plan with unlimited jobs and users. Dover's Premium plan is $199/mo flat with no contracts - turn it on when you want more features, off when you're not hiring.
- Manatal is $19, $39, or $59 per user per month billed monthly. Professional is $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo, and Enterprise Plus $59/user/mo. Paying yearly brings those to $15, $35, and $55.
- Manatal bills per seat, so the price goes up as your team grows. Dover's price doesn't. A five-person team on Manatal Enterprise is $195/mo; ten people is $390/mo. Dover Premium is $199/mo no matter how many people you add.
- The cheapest Manatal plan caps you at 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates. Unlimited jobs start at Manatal Enterprise, $39/user/mo. Dover has no job cap on any plan, including free.
- Manatal's per-user model charges for hiring managers too. Everyone who needs to look at a candidate is a seat. Dover's free plan has unlimited users, so looping in a hiring manager costs nothing.
- API access, SSO, and advanced reporting are Manatal's top tier only. Those land on Enterprise Plus at $59/user/mo - $295/mo for a team of five, before any add-ons.
Pricing
Dover's ATS is available for free with unlimited seats and jobs. Dover's Premium plan is no-contract and flat-rate - so when you need premium features you can turn it on, and turn it off when you aren't hiring. Manatal prices per user per month, from $19 to $59 billed monthly, and caps open jobs on its entry plan. Which means the two bills move in opposite directions as your team grows.
The whole comparison here is per-seat versus flat. Manatal's headline $19/user/mo looks like the cheapest ATS in this category, and for a solo recruiter with a handful of roles it is. But the number multiplies: by everyone who needs access, including hiring managers who just want to leave a note on a candidate. And the entry plan caps you at 15 jobs, so a team hiring at any real volume is on Enterprise at $39/user/mo. Dover's free plan has unlimited jobs and unlimited users, and Premium is $199/mo flat however many people you add.
Dover
$0-$199
per month, flat - free plan, or Premium with no contract
Free - unlimited users and jobs
- Candidate tracking and CRM
- 100+ job boards
- Gmail, Outlook, Slack integrations
- Careers page and candidate portal
- Reporting and analytics
- Sourcing
- Custom email, scorecards, and interview plans
Premium - $199/mo flat, everything free, plus
- AI Applicant Scoring
- AI Notetaker
- Advanced scheduling
- Free LinkedIn posts
- Bulk actions for emails and stage updates
- Candidate offer management
- Onboarding and premium support
Source: dover.com/pricing · verified September 2026
Manatal
$19-$59
per user, per month - so the bill scales with headcount
Manatal Professional - $19/user/mo, up to 15 jobs
- Applicant tracking and recruitment CRM
- Up to 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates per account
- Sourcing from LinkedIn and job boards
- AI candidate enrichment and recommendations
- No workflow automation
Manatal Enterprise - $39/user/mo, unlimited jobs
- Unlimited jobs and unlimited candidates
- Workflow automation
- Everything in Professional
- No API access, SSO, or advanced reporting
Manatal Enterprise Plus - $59/user/mo
- Advanced reporting
- API access and SSO
- Candidate portal
- LLM integration - ChatGPT, Claude
- Priority support and beta features
Prices shown are month to month. Paying yearly brings them to $15, $35, and $55 per user per month. Every user counts against the bill, hiring managers included. Manatal offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card, and a Custom plan priced on request. There is no free plan.
Source: manatal.com/pricing · verified September 2026
Features
Both products cover the ATS fundamentals - pipelines, job posting, candidate records, a CRM, and some form of sourcing. The differences that matter are how each one bills, whether your open roles are capped, and what sits behind the top tier.
| Feature |  | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing and getting started | ||
| Price | Free, or $199/mo Premium flat with no contract | $19 to $59 per user, per month |
| Free plan | Free forever, unlimited jobs and users | None - 14-day trial, no credit card |
| Cost for a team of five | $0 free, or $199/mo Premium | $95/mo Professional, $195/mo Enterprise, $295/mo Enterprise Plus |
| Cost of adding a hiring manager | $0 - unlimited users on every plan | Another $19 to $59 per month |
| Open job limit | Unlimited on every plan, including free | 15 jobs on Professional; unlimited from Enterprise |
| Candidate limit | Unlimited | 10,000 on Professional; unlimited from Enterprise |
| Commitment | Month to month, cancel any time | Monthly available; yearly saves about 20% |
| Core ATS | ||
| Applicant tracking | Full pipeline, unlimited jobs and users | Full pipeline, within the plan's job cap |
| Candidate CRM | Included free | Recruitment CRM on every plan |
| Structured interviews and scorecards | Included free | Scorecards and evaluation forms included |
| Workflow automation | Bulk actions in Premium | Manatal Enterprise and above, $39/user/mo |
| Offer management | Included in Premium | Not a published feature |
| Sourcing and job boards | ||
| Job boards | 100+ job boards, you choose where to post | Free and premium job boards, plus career page |
| Sourcing | Free, included on the free plan | LinkedIn and social media sourcing on every plan |
| Candidate enrichment | Not offered | AI enrichment from social profiles, every plan |
| AI, reporting, and data | ||
| AI applicant scoring | Included in Premium | AI candidate recommendations and scoring, every plan |
| AI notetaker | Included in Premium | Not offered |
| Reporting | Standard hiring reports and analytics, free | Standard reporting; advanced on Enterprise Plus, $59/user/mo |
| API access | Not offered | Manatal Enterprise Plus only, $59/user/mo |
| SSO | Google and Microsoft sign-in | Manatal Enterprise Plus only, $59/user/mo |
Manatal leads on price at the very smallest scale: one recruiter with a few roles open pays $19/mo, which nothing else here matches. It also has a genuinely deep AI enrichment and social media sourcing story. Dover leads on cost at every scale above that, on job board reach, and on not charging you to add a person. The deciding question is your seat count. Manatal's bill is your team size times $19 to $59 every month; Dover's is $0, or $199 flat. Those two lines cross almost immediately - and after they cross, they keep diverging.
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Which ATS fits
Which software makes sense for your company and budget?
Both publish their prices, which makes this a clean comparison to run. It comes down to how many people need access to your hiring, and how many roles you keep open.
Dover fits
Teams where more than one or two people touch hiring
- Free, then flat - the ATS is free, and Premium is $199/mo however large the team gets
- Unlimited users - hiring managers, interviewers, and founders cost nothing to add
- No job cap - open as many roles as you need on any plan, including free
- No candidate cap - your database keeps growing without pushing you up a tier
- 100+ job boards - far wider distribution, and you pick where each job goes
- Reporting on the free plan - the hiring metrics teams act on, not a $59/user/mo tier
You want everyone who interviews in the tool without a line item for each of them.
Manatal fits
A solo recruiter or agency with a handful of open roles
- The cheapest entry price here - $19/user/mo billed monthly, or $15 if you pay for the year
- Per-seat billing - fine at one or two users; it's the growth curve that stings
- 15 jobs is enough - the Professional cap works if you run a few roles at a time
- 10,000 candidates is enough - the Professional database cap suits a young or narrow pipeline
- Sourcing and enrichment - LinkedIn and social sourcing with AI enrichment on every plan
- API and SSO, if you need them - available, but only on Enterprise Plus at $59/user/mo
You are one or two seats, hiring at low volume, and want deep candidate enrichment.
Why teams pick Dover
Dover's ATS is fantastic! It offers everything other ATS's offer but with a more appealing interface.
We use Dover to consolidate applications into one place, automate scheduling, and quickly filter candidates based on ideal characteristics. Hiring processes can be unorganized and frustrating, using Dover’s free ATS has been refreshing!
Dover has been one of the best user experiences in terms of intuitive navigation through the dashboards and display of information. And the support team has been the best I have ever experienced anywhere.
Dover made it super easy to manage all of our recruiting activities and allowed us to find our first engineers effortlessly. Having all of our recruiting functions taken care of in one platform was incredibly helpful and made it a breeze. Dover integrated seamlessly with Slack and made it effortless to get stared. I can’t say enough good things.
Dover's ATS has given us more time back to spend in the lab and the tools we need to build our team
Other Manatal alternatives
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FAQ
How much does Manatal cost?
Manatal publishes three per-user plans. Billed monthly they are Professional at $19/user/mo, Enterprise at $39/user/mo, and Enterprise Plus at $59/user/mo. Paying yearly brings those to $15, $35, and $55 per user per month. There is also a Custom plan priced on request. Because pricing is per seat, the monthly bill is your user count times the plan price - a team of five on Enterprise is $195/mo, and a team of ten is $390/mo.
How many jobs can you post on Manatal?
Manatal Professional is capped at 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates per account. Unlimited jobs and unlimited candidates start on Manatal Enterprise at $39/user/mo. Dover has no job or candidate limit on any plan, including the free plan.
Does Manatal charge per user?
Yes. Every plan is priced per user per month, and that includes hiring managers - anyone who needs to see or comment on a candidate is a seat. That is the main structural difference from Dover, where every plan has unlimited users, so adding an interviewer or a hiring manager costs nothing.
Dover vs Manatal - which is cheaper?
Dover, at almost any team size. Dover's free plan is a full ATS - pipelines, CRM, 100+ job boards, scorecards, interview plans, reporting, and sourcing - at no cost, against Manatal's cheapest paid plan. Manatal is cheaper only in the narrow case of a single seat paying $19/mo for a paid product. Compared with Dover's $199/mo flat Premium plan, Manatal Enterprise passes it at six users and Enterprise Plus at four, and keeps climbing from there.
Does Manatal have a free plan?
No. Manatal offers a 14-day free trial that doesn't require a credit card, but its lowest paid plan is $19/user/mo and there is no free tier. Dover's free plan includes candidate tracking and CRM, 100+ job boards, custom interview plans, scorecards, reporting, and sourcing, with unlimited jobs and users.
Does Dover have an API like Manatal?
Not today. Manatal offers API access, and it's worth knowing that it sits on Enterprise Plus at $59/user/mo rather than on the lower plans - $295/mo for a team of five. Dover integrates with Gmail, Outlook, and Slack, and posts to 100+ job boards, but doesn't publish a public API. If you need to build against your ATS, that's a genuine reason to look at Manatal.
What are Manatal's pros and cons for a startup?
Pros: the cheapest published entry price in this category at $19/user/mo, AI candidate enrichment and social media sourcing on every plan, a recruitment CRM, workflow automation from Enterprise, and API, SSO, and LLM integrations available on the top tier. Cons: per-seat pricing that grows with your team and charges for hiring managers, a 15-job and 10,000-candidate cap on the entry plan, no free plan, advanced reporting and API held back to $59/user/mo, and no AI notetaker.
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On accuracy: Pricing, plan tiers, and feature availability change often and without notice. Every figure here was checked against each vendor's public pricing and documentation in September 2026. Feature comparisons reflect generally available functionality, not beta or enterprise-only capability. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll correct it.