Disclosure: we're Ryz Labs, and we compete with the companies on this page. Here's why we think we're the right call for most teams, with sources for every fact about the others.
For most US engineering teams, Ryz Labs is the better choice. You get top 1% senior engineers, chosen from tens of thousands interviewed, who join your standups and your repos from week one, on US business hours. When you need AI built, you get an AI pod team of senior engineers that works in your cloud and ships systems 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.
Distillery is a nearshore software firm founded in 2012 in California, with over 250 professionals across Latin America and Eastern Europe. It sells staff augmentation, dedicated agile teams and end-to-end custom development with its own QA, UX and project management. It can fit if you want a vendor to own a whole build. If you want senior engineers working on your team, on New York hours, pick Ryz.
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, so the code and the knowledge stay with your team. That is the whole model, built around your engineering organization rather than a vendor's project structure.
Top 1% vetting you can actually see. 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 candidate before and after. AI scores are advisory, and people make the decisions. You get a recruiter-curated shortlist and run the final interview yourself. Our vetting process page walks through every step.
All on New York hours. Every Ryz engineer works from Latin America, on US business hours. Standups, pairing and code review happen the same day.
AI pod teams that build systems, not just write code faster. Our pods build AI systems in your cloud, repos and CI, in your standups, with weekly demos. A typical pod is about 7 people, including a tech lead, an ML engineer and backend engineers, working in AWS, Azure, GitHub, Postgres, and Anthropic and OpenAI models. The work is in production. 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 own fraud team. An AI voice platform has made 1M+ outbound calls, an AI driver-support agent handles 218K driver questions a year in three languages, and an AI real-estate agent works 24/7. See our case studies.
You see the team before you commit. 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, across industries. We work with US enterprises in every industry, including financial services, and bring decades of LatAm expertise. Our recruiting AI is governed under EU AI Act high-risk requirements, and we follow GDPR and CCPA/CPRA. We also run direct-hire placement and executive search when you want to hire someone outright.
Distillery was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California. It says it has over 250 professionals, with people in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Poland, Romania and Georgia. It sells staff augmentation, dedicated agile teams, custom software development, QA, UX/UI design and project management. It lists Anthropic and OpenAI among its partners and joined the Claude Partner Network in September 2026. It says it can staff up "within just a few weeks." It doesn't publish rates.
Distillery doesn't publish rates; its site offers custom contracts and a quote form. Clutch lists Distillery at $50-$99/hr with a $25,000+ minimum project size. Those are directory figures, not a Distillery price list.
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 the quote 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, or an AI pod team that ships to production, and you know exactly who they are.
Still comparing? See our list of Distillery alternatives, Ryz Labs vs Wizeline, and our guide to dedicated development team providers for enterprises.
Our typical cost is $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month, so ask for a written quote for the same roles and seniority and compare. Clutch lists Distillery at $50-$99/hr with a $25,000+ minimum. Our quote names the people who would do the work.
Distillery offers AI, ML and data engineering and lists Anthropic and OpenAI as partners. Ryz has a dedicated AI pod team business with systems in production, from fraud detection that has scored 244K+ invoices to a voice platform with 1M+ outbound calls. If you want a pod that builds in your stack, talk to us.
Its headquarters is in Manhattan Beach, California, with offices in Argentina and Mexico City and people in Eastern Europe. All of our engineers are in Latin America on US hours.
Everything here was checked against each company's own site and public sources in October 2026. Vendors change terms often, so confirm before you sign.
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