Quick note before we start: Ryz Labs wrote this page, and we're one of the options on it. We believe we're the stronger pick for most US engineering teams. Facts about other providers come from public sources, listed below.
Distillery is a nearshore software firm founded in 2012 and based in Manhattan Beach, California. It says it has over 250 professionals across Latin America and Eastern Europe, and it sells staff augmentation, dedicated agile teams and end-to-end development with its own QA, UX and project management. It doesn't publish rates, and Clutch lists a $25,000+ minimum project size. Buyers usually look at alternatives when they want senior engineers who work on their own team, to their own leads, all on New York hours, or a dedicated team that builds and ships AI systems. For that, our pick is Ryz Labs. Here's how the field compares.
If you want senior engineers working on your own team, we're the best alternative to Distillery. Fortune 500 engineering teams trust us for exactly this. Our engineers join your standups, your repos and your roadmap from week one, all on US business hours, so review and pairing happen the same day. They work to your leads, and the knowledge stays with your team.
Only the top 1% make it, out of tens of thousands of engineers interviewed. Recruiters source candidates, our in-house ARC system ranks the pipeline, every candidate goes through a structured NTRVSTA AI interview, and recruiters review each one before and after. AI scores are advisory; people decide. You get a recruiter-curated shortlist and run the final interview yourself. Our vetting process page shows every step.
If you came to Distillery for AI work, our AI pod teams are built for it: dedicated pods of senior engineers (often around seven, with a tech lead and an ML engineer) that build AI systems in your cloud and repos, with weekly demos. Their work is in production: fraud detection that has scored 244K+ invoices in under 30 seconds each and surfaced $5.94M in fraud confirmed by the client's fraud team, an AI driver-support agent handling 218K questions a year in three languages, and an AI voice platform with 1M+ outbound calls. See our case studies.
Before you sign, you get a scoped plan, a price, and the names of the people who would do the work. For a head-to-head, see Ryz Labs vs Distillery.
BairesDev, founded in 2009 in Buenos Aires, says it has 4,000+ engineers across 100+ technologies. It sells staff augmentation, dedicated teams led by its own technical PMs and full project outsourcing, and says teams can be ready in 2-4 weeks.
Wizeline, founded in 2014, says it has about 2,000 employees. It sells Studio, Project and Staff models plus "Agentic Pods," which it describes as agile pods augmented by AI agents, and Forward Deployed Engineers.
Jobsity places Latin American developers with US companies through staff augmentation or dedicated teams, on flat monthly rates. It publishes a 30-day risk-free trial and a 30-day notice to downsize, and it also sells contact center staffing.
Nortal, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, acquired Nearsure in 2025. It says it has 2,700+ people and sells LatAm and European staff augmentation, platform-certified staffing and "AI-native teams" alongside consulting, with a stated 4-8 week ramp for staff augmentation.
If you want senior engineers on your own team on New York hours, or an AI pod team that ships to production, talk to us. Our guide to the best partners to take an AI pilot to production compares the wider field.
For US teams that want top 1% senior engineers on their own team on US hours, Ryz Labs. You see a scoped plan, a price and the names of your engineers before you sign, and you can add an AI pod team when you need AI built and shipped.
If you want a dedicated team of senior engineers that builds and ships an AI system in your cloud, Ryz Labs' AI pod teams have systems in production, from fraud detection to an AI voice platform with 1M+ outbound calls. See our nearshore AI engineering teams guide.
Almost nobody here publishes rates. Jobsity uses flat monthly rates, and Clutch lists minimums of $25,000+ for Distillery, $50,000+ for BairesDev and $100,000+ for Wizeline. Get written quotes for the same seniority and stack, and ask who exactly would do the work. We include the names in ours.
Ryz engineers all work in Latin America on US business hours. Jobsity says its developers work in your time zone, and BairesDev is mainly Latin America. Wizeline and Nortal also deliver from Europe or Asia, so ask where your team would sit.
Everything here was checked against each company's own site and public sources in October 2026. Vendors change terms often, so confirm before you sign.
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