Full disclosure: we're Ryz Labs, and CI&T is a competitor. We think we're the better pick for most US engineering teams, and we explain why below. Every fact about CI&T comes from its own website, its 2025 annual report filed with the SEC, or its Clutch listing, linked at the end.
For most US engineering teams, Ryz Labs is the better choice. You get top 1% senior engineers who join your standups, your repos and your roadmap, working US business hours. When you need AI built, an AI pod team of senior engineers builds it in your cloud, alongside your people, and ships it to production. Before you start, you get a plan, a price and the names of the people who would do the work, and we can usually start in under two weeks once you say go.
CI&T is a technology services company founded in Brazil in 1995 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange (CINT). It reported US$489.7 million in 2025 revenue and 7,993 employees, most of them in Brazil. It sells what it calls "AI Deployment" for large enterprises, built on its own CI&T FLOW platform and Lean AI method. It fits if you want a listed, multi-thousand-person partner to run a long enterprise program. If you want senior engineers working on your team, to your leads, pick Ryz.
Your team stays in charge. CI&T is built to run programs: work is defined in statements of work and delivered by CI&T teams. That's a fair model for a big outsourced program. Ours starts from your team. Our engineers work in your repos and CI, report to your leads and follow your process, so the code, the decisions and the context stay with your people.
AI pod teams with no platform attached. CI&T's AI offer runs through its own CI&T FLOW platform and Lean AI method. Our pods are dedicated senior engineers who build AI systems in your AWS or Azure account, on your GitHub, with your data in Postgres and models from Anthropic and OpenAI. One accountable team, no proprietary platform lock-in. When the system is done, you can grow the pod or take it over. See how AI pod teams work.
Production proof. Our pods have shipped fraud detection for a global fleet company that has scored 244K+ invoices in under 30 seconds each, with $5.94M in fraud confirmed by the client's own fraud team. A marketing-compliance system for a leading alternative asset manager took review of 8,000+ documents from days to hours. An AI voice platform has made 1M+ outbound calls. See our case studies.
Top 1% vetting you can inspect. We've interviewed tens of thousands of engineers, and only the top 1% make it. Recruiters source, our in-house ARC system ranks the pipeline, and every candidate goes through a structured NTRVSTA AI interview, with recruiter review before and after. AI scores are advisory, people decide, and you run the final interview from a curated shortlist. Our vetting process page shows every step.
Named engineers, no project minimum. You meet the named engineers before the engagement starts, and we scope to the team you need rather than a $100,000+ project.
CI&T was founded in 1995 in Campinas, Brazil, where it is still headquartered, and trades on the NYSE as CINT. It calls itself a "Tech-Integrated Business Solutions partner" and sells "AI Deployment": business strategy, AI-native execution and reusable IP for large enterprises, with CI&T FLOW as its enterprise AI management system. Its annual report says US teams focus on strategy, design and selected engineering, while most software engineering and testing is done by nearshore teams in Brazil and Colombia. CI&T lists recognition as a Leader in The Forrester Wave for Modern Application Development Services (Q1 2025), a place in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Custom Software Development Services, and ISO 27001 certification.
Here is every public price signal we found, checked October 2026. Most firms in this market don't publish a rate card, so we show the hourly band on their Clutch listing and convert it to a monthly figure for one full-time engineer.
Monthly figures are our math at 160 hours a month. Directory bands are entered by the firms themselves and are not quotes, so ask each vendor for a written monthly price for the same roles at the same seniority.
CI&T doesn't publish rates. Its 2025 annual report says most of its revenue comes from time-and-materials work billed at hourly rates, with a share of fixed-price projects. Clutch lists CI&T at $50 to $99 an hour with a $100,000+ minimum project. Those are directory figures entered by the firm, not a quote.
Our pricing is per engineer. Typical cost is $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month. Mid-level engineers (comparable to Amazon L5) run $7,000 to $10,000 a month, senior engineers (comparable to Amazon L6) run $10,000 to $15,000, and leads are $15,000+ and quoted per team. A five-person senior pod is about $50,000 to $75,000 a month. Our AI engineer rates page breaks it down by role.
Still comparing? See our CI&T alternatives, Ryz Labs vs Globant AI Pods, and our guide to enterprise AI development companies.
Partly. CI&T sells LATAM nearshore delivery from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, and most of its people are in Brazil. It also has teams in China, Portugal, the UK and elsewhere, and its US staff focus on strategy and design.
CI&T doesn't publish rates, so ask for a written monthly price for the same roles at the same seniority. Our typical cost is $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month.
If you want CI&T's platform and a large program team, CI&T. If you want a dedicated team of senior engineers building in your stack and shipping to production, Ryz.
Ryz engineers work on your team, reporting to your leads. Talk to us to scope your team.
We checked CI&T's site and filings in October 2026. Pricing and services change, so confirm the details with CI&T before you sign.
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