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.
BairesDev and Globant were both founded in Buenos Aires, and the real difference is what you buy. BairesDev is a nearshore software company that sells staff augmentation, dedicated teams run by its own PMs, and outsourced projects. Globant is a NYSE-listed digital services firm that sells transformation programs through industry AI Studios, plus "AI Pods": AI agents supervised by Globant experts on a token-metered subscription.
For most US teams that want senior engineers inside their own team on US hours, or an AI pod team that builds inside their cloud and ships to production, the better choice is Ryz Labs. You get top 1% senior engineers, and before you sign you see a scoped plan, a price and the names of the people who would do the work.
BairesDev was founded in 2009 in Buenos Aires and has US operations in San Francisco. It says it has 4,000+ engineers across 100+ technologies and 500+ client companies. It sells staff augmentation, dedicated teams led by BairesDev's technical PMs, and full project outsourcing, with AI and ML development as one of its technology services. It says teams are ready in 2-4 weeks. It doesn't publish rates; Clutch lists $50-$99/hr and a $50,000+ minimum project.
Globant was founded in Buenos Aires in 2003 and is NYSE-listed, with 28,773 employees at the end of 2025 and $2.45B in FY2025 revenue. It sells digital engineering through industry AI Studios, including a Financial Services AI Studio. Its AI Pods, launched in 2025, are a monthly subscription with token-metered capacity, where agents on Globant Enterprise AI do the work and Globant experts supervise; they're bought through Glob.AI in three pod models. Clutch lists $25-$49/hr and a $5,000+ minimum project.
Senior engineers who become part of your team. Our senior Latin American engineers join your standups, repos and roadmap from week one, within about one hour of US time zones. They work to your leads, so the code and the knowledge stay with your team. Review and pairing happen the same day.
Top 1%, out of tens of thousands interviewed. Recruiters source candidates, our in-house ARC system ranks the pipeline, structured NTRVSTA AI interviews test each one, and recruiters review before and after. AI scores are advisory; people make the decisions. Our vetting process page shows every step.
AI pod teams that ship to production. A dedicated pod of senior engineers (about 7, including a tech lead, an ML engineer and backend engineers) builds inside your cloud, repos and CI, with weekly demos, in AWS, Azure, GitHub, Postgres, and Anthropic and OpenAI models. Our pods built AI fraud detection for a global fleet company (244K+ invoices scored in under 30 seconds each, $5.94M in fraud confirmed by the client's own team) and compliance review for a global capital management firm that took 8,000+ documents from days to hours. See our case studies.
You see the team before you commit. You get a scoped plan, a price, and the names of the people who would do the work. You sign one contract with Ryz. Our engineers work with us as independent contractors, and we handle paying them.
Trusted by Fortune 500 engineering teams. We work with US enterprises in every industry, including financial services, with decades of LatAm expertise. We follow GDPR and CCPA/CPRA, and our recruiting AI is governed under EU AI Act high-risk requirements.
Globant: 28,773 people versus BairesDev's 4,000+ engineers (its claim). What matters more for most US teams is who works on your code. With Ryz, you see their names before you sign.
Neither publishes rates. Clutch lists Globant at $25-$49/hr and BairesDev at $50-$99/hr, but compare real quotes for the same scope. See BairesDev pricing.
If you want senior engineers building an AI system inside your own stack and shipping it to production, Ryz Labs. Globant sells supervised agent capacity, and BairesDev offers AI as one of its technology services. See Ryz Labs vs Globant.
See Ryz Labs vs BairesDev and BairesDev vs Toptal, or talk to us for a scoped plan.
We checked pricing and services for every provider here in October 2026. This changes often, so double-check before you sign anything.