Heads up: we're Ryz Labs, and Cheesecake Labs competes with us for the same buyers. This is the case we make on calls, including where Cheesecake Labs fits better. Facts about Cheesecake Labs come from its own site and Clutch, listed at the end.
For most US engineering teams that want senior people building on their own roadmap, Ryz Labs is the better choice. You get top 1% senior engineers on your team on US business hours, and AI pod teams that build in your cloud and repos and ship to production. You see a plan, a price and the names of the people before you start. Fortune 500 engineering teams trust us for exactly this.
Cheesecake Labs is a product engineering and AI studio founded in 2013, with an office in San Francisco and its engineering hub in Florianópolis, Brazil. It says it has shipped 300+ products and sells fixed-scope AI implementations it says go "live in 8 to 12 weeks," plus modernization, data work and senior engineering teams. Choose Cheesecake Labs if you want a studio to design and launch a mobile or web product. Choose Ryz if you want senior engineers and AI pods working on your team.
A team that stays with your system. Cheesecake Labs is at its best on a defined build: a new app, a modernization, an 8-to-12-week AI implementation, then handoff with training. That's a good shape for a launch. Production AI rarely stops at launch. Prompts drift, data changes, edge cases pile up. Our AI pod teams work in your repos, your CI and your standups, show working software in weekly demos, and keep going. When you're ready, you can grow the pod, add disciplines, or take the whole system over.
Production results across industries. Our pods have shipped fraud detection for a global fleet company (244K+ invoices scored in under 30 seconds each, $5.94M in fraud confirmed by the client's fraud team), an AI driver-support agent that covers about 218,000 calls a year in three languages, an AI voice platform with 1M+ outbound calls, and compliance review for a global capital management firm that cut review of 8,000+ documents from days to hours. See our case studies.
A vetting process you can inspect. Cheesecake Labs doesn't publish how it hires. Ours is public: 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. Only the top 1% of the tens of thousands we've interviewed make it. See our vetting process.
Depth across Latin America. Cheesecake Labs' engineering hub is in Florianópolis, Brazil. We recruit senior engineers across Latin America, which widens the pool when you need a specific stack at senior level, whether that's a Python and AWS data platform or a TypeScript and React front end. All of them work US business hours, including New York hours.
Cheesecake Labs doesn't publish rates. Clutch lists $50-$99 an hour and a $50,000+ minimum project. For an AI implementation, ask for the fixed price, what's in scope at week 12, and what support costs after handoff.
We publish ours. Typical Ryz cost is $7,000-$15,000 per engineer per month, mostly mid-level to senior. Mid-level (comparable to Amazon L5 / SDE II) is $7,000-$10,000 a month. Senior (comparable to Amazon L6) is $10,000-$15,000. Leads are $15,000+ and quoted per team. An AI pod is team size × duration × monthly rate: four senior engineers for three months is 4 × $10,000-$15,000 × 3, or $120,000-$180,000. You get a plan, a price and the names of the people before you start.
Mostly a product and AI studio. It also offers senior engineers who join a client's team, as single engineers, pods or full ownership. Ryz offers staff augmentation and AI pod teams, priced per engineer.
That's its stated window for AI implementations, and it's plausible for a well-scoped RAG or search use case. Ask what "in production" means in the contract. Our pods don't promise a date up front; the plan names the people and the milestones.
Mainly Florianópolis, Brazil, with an office in San Francisco. Ryz engineers are across Latin America and work US business hours, including New York hours.
Ryz engineers work on your team, reporting to your leads. Talk to us to scope your team.
We checked Cheesecake Labs' site and Clutch profile in October 2026. Details change, so confirm them with Cheesecake Labs before you sign.
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