Full disclosure: we're Ryz Labs, and we're one of the options on this page. We think we're the better choice for most teams, and we'll show you why, including when you should stay with Unosquare. Everything we say about other companies comes from their own sites and public listings, linked at the end.
Unosquare is a digital engineering firm founded in 2009 and headquartered in Portland, with delivery hubs in Mexico (Guadalajara, León, Aguascalientes), Colombia, Bolivia and other Latin American countries, plus Belfast. It says it has over 1,000 delivery professionals, and it publishes project tiers: about $50K-$150K for an MVP, $100K-$600K for a Scale build and $300K-$1M+ for an Enterprise build. Buyers look at alternatives when their scope won't sit still long enough to price as a project, when they want senior engineers working their own backlog, or when they want an AI team with systems already in production. For those, our pick is Ryz Labs.
Unosquare's tiers are a good fit when you know what you're building. When you don't, a fixed project becomes a series of change orders. We price per engineer, so the team works your backlog as it moves. Fortune 500 engineering teams trust us for exactly this. Our engineers join your standups, your repos and your CI from week one, on US business hours including New York hours, and report to your leads.
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. See our vetting process.
When you need AI built, our AI pod teams build it in your cloud and repos and ship it to production. A typical pod is about seven senior engineers, including a tech lead, an ML engineer and backend engineers, with weekly demos. Pods have shipped an AI voice platform with 1M+ outbound calls, an AI real-estate agent that runs 24/7, and fraud detection for a global fleet company that has surfaced $5.94M in fraud confirmed by the client's fraud team. See our case studies.
Our rates are public: mid-level $7,000-$10,000 a month, senior $10,000-$15,000, leads quoted per team. Compare it with Unosquare's tiers by converting to monthly cost: four senior engineers for five months is 4 × $10,000-$15,000 × 5, or $200,000-$300,000, and you can change what they work on every sprint. You get a plan, a price and the names of the people before you start. For a head-to-head, see Ryz Labs vs Unosquare.
Where we're not the right fit: 24/7 managed operations for live systems, follow-the-sun coverage across Europe and Asia, or a fixed-price contract where the vendor carries the scope risk. Unosquare or Softtek fit those better.
Gorilla Logic, founded in 2002 and headquartered in Colorado, runs delivery centers in San José, Costa Rica and Medellín, Colombia, plus teams in Mexico. It sells staff augmentation, "Gorilla Pods" and multi-stream delivery, with published ramp ranges from one to two weeks up to four to eight weeks. It's Unosquare's closest peer in size and model. See Ryz Labs vs Gorilla Logic.
Softtek, founded in 1982 in Monterrey, says it has 16,000 people and sells nearshore outsourcing and managed services on SLAs. It cites CMMI Level 5 and ISO 42001 certifications and uses its own GenAI platform, FRIDA, in delivery. If Unosquare's managed services are why you chose it, Softtek is the larger Mexico-rooted option. See Softtek alternatives.
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. See Ryz Labs vs Wizeline.
If you want top 1% senior engineers on your own team, or an AI pod team that ships to production, talk to us. Our guides to nearshore outsourcing companies and LatAm staff augmentation companies cover the wider field, and our LatAm developers page covers roles and stacks.
For US teams that want top 1% senior engineers on their own team on US business hours, Ryz Labs. You see a 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.
It depends on how stable your scope is. A fixed tier puts scope risk on the vendor; per-engineer pricing lets you change priorities each sprint. If you expect to learn as you build, staff augmentation or a dedicated pod usually fits better.
Softtek is the largest Mexico-rooted option, and Gorilla Logic and Wizeline both have teams in Mexico. Ryz engineers are across Latin America and work US business hours.
Ryz engineers work on your team, reporting to your leads. Talk to us to scope your team.
We checked these firms' sites and Clutch profiles in October 2026. Pricing and services change often, so confirm the details with each firm before you sign.
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