Non-EU vendorRecruitment & ATSHeadquarters: TH

Manatal: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Manatal is AI recruitment software for HR teams, recruitment agencies and headhunters. It combines applicant tracking with a recruitment CRM, customisable pipelines, client and revenue tracking for agencies, career pages and analytics. Jobs can be posted to a large number of job boards, and candidate profiles can be enriched with data from public platforms such as LinkedIn and GitHub. AI functions score candidates against job requirements and include an AI interviewer for automated screening. Manatal is a cloud service sold as a per-user subscription, with a mobile app.

Manatal lists offices in Singapore and Bangkok and names Sequoia and Surge as supporters. On its GDPR page the company states that its servers are in the United States and hosted on Amazon Web Services, and that it relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework for transfers; no EU hosting option is mentioned. The site shows GDPR, CCPA and SOC 2 badges. The software is not open source. European organisations should assess the US hosting and transfer basis for candidate data before choosing it.

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Sovereignty score

32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (TH)
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026

Headquarters	TH (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	No — no adequacy decisionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Recruitment & ATS
Type	Product
Website	manatal.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Manatal

The European alternatives to Manatal come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Manatal

Manatal is headquartered in TH, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Manatal hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Manatal is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Manatal together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Manatal?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Manatal include Adeptiq, Altamira Recruiting and Beetween. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Manatal?

Our list of EU alternatives to Manatal is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Manatal GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Manatal is headquartered in TH (OTHER) and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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