True cost · HR, payroll, and hiring software
Manatal true cost: the 36-month total
Manatal costs $5,400 over 36 months on Professional at 10 users, billed annually, before 5 cost lines that sit outside the plan price.
What Manatal costs over 36 months
Every figure below is Manatal's own published rate, annualised and multiplied out over 36 months at 10 users. Where Manatal publishes no rate, the row says so instead of guessing.
Billing Manatal monthly instead of annually costs $190 a month rather than $150, a difference of $1,440 across the 36 months. That is the single largest lever on this page that costs nothing to pull.
The same plan at four team sizes
Manatal charges per user, so the 36-month figure scales linearly with headcount. These are Professional totals, on annual billing, with no fees added.
Renewal sensitivity: three scenarios, not a forecast
Nobody knows what Manatal charges in 2029. The table below is arithmetic on a rate you choose, not a prediction: it compounds the year-one total forward at 0%, 5% and 10% so you can see how much of the 36-month figure is exposed to a renewal you have not negotiated yet.
Scenario arithmetic on Manatal's own published year-one figure. Uplift rates are illustrative inputs, not observed or predicted rates.
What sits outside the Manatal list price
5 lines, sorted by when in the contract lifecycle they land. Lines marked as derived are arithmetic on Manatal's own tier table rather than vendor prose.
Each line, what triggers it, and how to avoid it
Paid add-on or module
Stated on the pricing page: AI Interviewer video screening add-on billed separately
What triggers it. Triggered by needing the capability, and then charged every cycle afterwards. Add-ons attach to the Professional subscription permanently, so this is a recurring line the $5,400 figure does not contain.
How to avoid it. Build the shortlist at like-for-like scope. Price Manatal with the add-ons you actually need against rivals with theirs, or the $5,400 comparison is measuring different products.
Seat expansion
Stated on the pricing page: Branded guest portal add-on
What triggers it. Triggered by hiring. Every figure above is priced at 10 users; this line is what each unit past that costs, and it compounds for the remainder of the term rather than the remainder of the month.
How to avoid it. Audit entitlements quarterly. On a three-year term, seats assigned to people who left are the most reliably wasted money in the whole applicant tracking budget.
Tax, FX and payment processing
Stated on the pricing page: Singapore GST of 9 percent applied to local customers
What triggers it. Triggered by where you buy from and how you pay. Manatal's published per-user recruitment crm with annual discount sets the list rate; jurisdiction and payment rail set what sits on top of it.
How to avoid it. Ask for a tax-inclusive quote in your own currency. Cross-border billing on a three-year term is where FX drift quietly eats a discount you negotiated once.
Contract and commitment terms
Derived from the published tiers: Manatal Professional is $190 a month billed monthly against $150 on annual commitment, a $1,440 difference over 36 months at 10 users.
What triggers it. Contract mechanics rather than a fee. They decide whether the $5,400 total is locked, and how expensive changing your mind in month 14 turns out to be.
How to avoid it. Price both routes before choosing. Committing three years to Manatal for a discount is only rational if your applicant tracking requirement is genuinely stable that long.
Feature gated to a higher tier
Derived from the published tiers: Moving from Professional to Enterprise Plus costs a further $14,400 over 36 months at 10 users, which is 3.7x the entry total.
What triggers it. A gate rather than a fee. It costs nothing until the day it costs a full tier upgrade, and it invalidates the $5,400 figure above the moment it does.
How to avoid it. Ask whether the capability can be bought as an add-on to Professional. Vendors frequently unbundle when the alternative is losing the deal.
How that compares across hr, payroll, and hiring software
The median hr, payroll, and hiring software tool we track charges $75 a month at its cheapest paid tier. Re-expressed on the same basis as the figure above, 10 users for 36 months, that median works out at $27,000.
Manatal lands $21,600 below that figure, 80.0%, measured across 34 tracked tools. A gap either way is a question, not a verdict: cheaper often means fewer included seats or a thinner support tier, and the fee lines below are where that difference usually reappears.
What changes at enterprise scale
Everything above prices the self-serve ladder. Enterprise sits off that ladder, which means the $5,400 figure is a floor for a large deployment rather than an estimate of one.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Manatal cost over three years?
$5,400 on Professional at 10 users, billed annually, which is $150 a month held flat for 36 months. That figure covers the subscription only.
Does paying Manatal annually save money?
Yes. Monthly billing costs $190 a month against $150 on annual commitment, a difference of $1,440 over 36 months at 10 users.
What does Manatal charge for outside the plan price?
5 lines: paid add-on or module, seat expansion, tax, fx and payment processing, contract and commitment terms and 1 more. Each one is broken down above with what triggers it and how to avoid it.
Could Manatal cost more at renewal?
Possibly, and nothing on this page predicts it. If the rate held flat the three-year total would be $5,400; at a hypothetical 10% a year it would be $5,958. Cap the uplift in the contract and the question stops mattering.
What does Manatal cost for a team of 25?
$13,500 over 36 months on Professional, billed annually. Manatal charges per user, so that scales directly with headcount.
Price Manatal on your own numbers
This page holds the term axis. The pricing breakdown holds the seat axis: every tier, the per-seat calculator, and the same fee list against the monthly figure.
Sources and method
- List rates and fee disclosures: Manatal official pricing page, verified 17 May 2026.
- 36-month totals: the published annual-equivalent rate multiplied by 36, at 10 users. No inflation, no discount, no fee estimates included.
- Renewal rows: scenario arithmetic on rates stated in the table. They are inputs, not observations.
- Category median: the cheapest paid monthly tier of every tool we track in the same category, re-expressed over 36 months.