Heads up: we're Ryz Labs, so we have skin in this game. This is the case we make to buyers on calls. Facts about other providers come from their own published information, linked at the end.
For most US engineering teams, Ryz Labs is the better choice. You get top 1% senior engineers on your team, in your standups and your repos from week one, all on US business hours. When you need AI built, you get an AI pod team that works in your cloud and ships to production. Before you sign, you see a scoped plan, a price, and the names of the people who would do the work. Fortune 500 engineering teams trust us for exactly this.
Arc (arc.dev) is a global remote hiring platform: you hire individual developers, freelance or full-time, from a network that spans 190 countries by its own count, and you manage them yourself. It fits a self-serve hire of one developer at a published rate. If you want senior engineers working on your team on US hours, pick Ryz.
A quick note on names: Arc (arc.dev) is a separate company. Our in-house candidate-ranking system is also called ARC. They're unrelated.
Senior engineers who become part of your team. Our engineers join your standups, your repos and your roadmap from week one. They work to your leads, in your process, for the long run, so the code and the knowledge stay with your team.
New York hours, every time. Every Ryz engineer is in Latin America and works on US business hours. Standups, pairing and code review happen the same day. You don't have to screen each candidate for overlap.
Top 1% vetting, with people making the calls. We've interviewed tens of thousands of engineers, and only the top 1% make it. Recruiters source candidates, our in-house ARC system ranks the pipeline, and every candidate goes through a structured NTRVSTA AI interview. 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.
AI pod teams that ship to production. Our second business is dedicated pods of senior engineers that build AI systems in your cloud, repos and CI, with weekly demos. Pods work in AWS, Azure, GitHub, Postgres, and Anthropic and OpenAI models. A marketing-compliance system for a global capital management firm took review of 8,000+ documents from days to hours. Fraud detection for a global fleet company has scored 244K+ invoices in under 30 seconds each, with $5.94M in fraud confirmed by the client's fraud team. An AI driver-support agent handles 218K driver questions a year in three languages. See our case studies. When the system is done, you can grow the pod or have it handed over to your team.
A named team before you sign. After a first conversation you get a scoped plan, a price, and the names of the people who would do the work.
Trusted by Fortune 500 engineering teams. We work with US enterprises in every industry, including financial services, with decades of LatAm expertise. Our recruiting AI is governed under EU AI Act high-risk requirements, and we follow GDPR and CCPA/CPRA.
Arc launched in 2019 as the rebrand and expansion of CodementorX, and it is a sister brand to Codementor. It matches companies with pre-vetted remote developers through its talent network, its HireAI matching tool and human recruiters. Clients interview and hire individuals on freelance, full-time or contract-to-hire terms, including global hires. Arc says it has made 800+ hires.
Arc publishes its pricing. Its pricing page lists freelance developers at $15 to $110+ an hour, and its FAQ says most charge $60 to $100+. Freelancers are billed hourly (invoiced weekly) or on a weekly retainer. Full-time hires cost 20% of annual salary, and contract-to-hire conversion carries a fee Arc doesn't publish. Arc offers a trial of up to two weeks for freelance roles and a 3-month replacement guarantee for permanent hires. For the full breakdown, see Arc pricing.
Our typical cost is $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month (mid-level $7,000 to $10,000, senior $10,000 to $15,000, leads $15,000+ quoted per team), and every quote is scoped per team. With it you get a scoped plan, a price, and the names of the people who would do the work, before you sign anything. You're paying for top 1% senior engineers on New York hours who work on your team, or an AI pod team that ships to production.
Still comparing? See our list of Arc alternatives, Toptal vs Arc, and our guide to nearshore developers for New York companies.
Arc publishes a rate range; ours is $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month, scoped per team. Compare the same roles and hours, and include the time you'd spend screening for overlap and managing each hire. Our quote comes with the names of the people who would do the work.
It depends on the developer. Arc's pool is global, with most developers in the US, Europe and Latin America. Every Ryz engineer works on US business hours.
Arc places individual developers. Ryz has a dedicated AI pod team business with systems in production, from fraud detection that has confirmed $5.94M in fraud to a voice platform with 1M+ outbound calls.
No. Arc (arc.dev) is a separate company. ARC is the in-house system we use to rank candidates. To see how it works for your roles, talk to us.
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