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.
EPAM Systems is an S&P 500 engineering and consulting firm with about 62,850 people and $5.457B in FY2025 revenue. It sells managed delivery, dedicated teams and consulting, plus the AI/Run suite and DIAL, its open-source orchestration platform. Its largest delivery locations are India, Ukraine, Poland and Belarus, and Clutch lists a $100,000+ minimum project size. Buyers usually look at alternatives when they want something more specific: a dedicated team of senior engineers that builds an AI system in their own cloud and repos, on New York hours, and ships it to production. For that, our pick is Ryz Labs. Here's how the field compares.
If you want an AI system built in your own cloud and shipped to production, we're the best alternative to EPAM. Fortune 500 engineering teams trust us for exactly this. Our AI pod teams are dedicated pods of senior engineers (often around seven, including a tech lead, an ML engineer and backend engineers) that work in your repos, CI and standups as one team, on US business hours, with weekly demos. They build in AWS, Azure, GitHub and Postgres, with Anthropic and OpenAI models. The process: talk, match a team scoped to your stack, join, then grow the pod or have the whole system handed over to your team.
The work is in production. Fraud detection for a global fleet company has scored 244K+ invoices in under 30 seconds each and surfaced $5.94M in fraud confirmed by the client's own fraud team. A marketing-compliance system for a global capital management firm took review of 8,000+ documents from days to hours. An AI voice platform has made 1M+ outbound calls, and an AI driver-support agent handles 218K driver questions a year in three languages. See our case studies.
Only the top 1% make it, out of tens of thousands of engineers interviewed. Recruiters source, 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 choose from a recruiter-curated shortlist and run the final interview yourself. Our vetting process page shows every step.
Before you sign, you get a scoped plan, a price, and the names of the people who would do the work. We serve enterprises in every industry, including financial services. For a head-to-head, see Ryz Labs vs EPAM.
Globant is NYSE-listed, was founded in Buenos Aires, and had 28,773 employees at the end of 2025. Its "AI Pods" are a monthly subscription with token-metered capacity, in which AI agents do the work under Globant expert supervision, billed as a minimum usage fee plus a variable fee. It also sells traditional engineering through industry AI Studios, including a Financial Services AI Studio.
Thoughtworks is an engineering-led consultancy founded in 1993 and taken private by Apax Funds in 2024. It sells AI strategy and agentic AI consulting, plus two 2026 platforms: AI/works for agentic development and modernization, and Agent/works, a control plane for running agents in production. At its last public filing, 63.1% of its people were in Asia-Pacific.
Accenture launched an Accenture Anthropic Business Group with about 30,000 professionals trained on Claude, including "reinvention deployed engineers" who embed Claude in client environments, and playbooks for regulated industries such as financial services. It's a strategy and transformation firm, organized around enterprise-wide programs.
Endava is NYSE-listed and has a dedicated payments practice; they claim "90% of largest payment companies count on us." It delivers nearshore from Eastern Europe and Latin America, so working hours depend on where your team sits.
If you have an AI system that needs to reach production, and you want a senior pod building it in your stack on New York hours, talk to us. Our guide to partners to take an AI pilot to production covers that situation in depth.
Ryz Labs, for US teams that want a dedicated AI pod team of top 1% senior engineers building in their own cloud and repos, on New York hours, and shipping to production. You see a scoped plan, a price and the names of your engineers before you sign.
Yes. Ryz Labs scopes a pod to the system you need to ship, rather than to a program. Clutch lists a $100,000+ minimum project for EPAM. See our guide to alternatives to big consultancies for building AI.
Ryz engineers work on US business hours. EPAM, Thoughtworks, Accenture and Endava deliver from several regions, and Globant has a large Latin American base, so ask each one where your team would sit.
None publishes rates. Globant bills AI Pods as a monthly minimum usage fee plus a variable fee, and the others quote per engagement. Ryz quotes $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month, scoped per team, with the names of the people who would do the work.
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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