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Choose Ryz Labs if you're a US enterprise and you want senior Latin American engineers embedded in your team, in your standups and repos, within one hour of US time zones. We're trusted by Fortune 500 engineering teams, only the top 1% make it through our vetting, and our AI pod teams build AI systems inside your cloud and ship them to production. Choose Distillery if you want a nearshore partner that can also take ownership of a full build, with design, QA and project management included, and delivery from both Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Full-service delivery. Distillery covers development, mobile, QA, UX/UI, project management and data in one engagement. If you want a vendor to own a whole build, including design and PM, Distillery offers that. Our model assumes your own leads run the work.
Visible AI partnerships. Distillery says it's an official Anthropic services partner and an OpenAI Select Partner, and it joined the Claude Partner Network in September 2026. It describes its engineers using Claude Code across research, design, development and testing, and one case study claims about 500 end-to-end tests built with it. If partner badges matter to your procurement, that's a plus.
Strong reviews and Eastern European reach. Distillery has a 5.0/5 Clutch rating from 14 verified reviews, and reviewers praise code quality and team integration. It also delivers from Poland, Romania and Georgia, which helps if you have European offices.
Top 1% vetting you can see. 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 decide. Only the top 1% make it, out of tens of thousands of engineers interviewed. You get a recruiter-curated shortlist and run the final interview yourself. Distillery doesn't publish an acceptance rate, and one Clutch reviewer said "It was hard to vet their quality" on a couple of hires. Our vetting process page shows how ours works.
Depth of bench. One Distillery reviewer, a VP of Engineering, said a project paused because "they weren't providing enough profiles for us to review." We've interviewed tens of thousands of engineers, so we can shortlist senior people across common and specialist stacks.
AI pod teams with production results. Using AI tools to write code faster is one thing. Building an AI system that runs in production is another. Our AI pod teams are dedicated senior engineers (often around seven, with a tech lead, an ML engineer and backend engineers) that build inside your cloud, repos and CI, with weekly demos. Our case studies include an AI voice platform with 1M+ outbound calls, a 24/7 AI real-estate agent, and fraud detection that confirmed $5.94M in fraud across 244K+ invoices.
All on US hours. Every engineer we place works in Latin America within one hour of US time zones, so standups and code review happen the same day.
Distillery doesn't publish prices; its site offers custom contracts and quotes. Clutch lists a $50-$99/hr band and a $25,000+ minimum project, which are directory figures.
Our pricing is a custom quote, scoped per team. You get a scoped plan, a price, and the names of the people who would do the work. If you want self-serve pricing first, neither of us offers it.
Still comparing? See our list of Distillery alternatives, Ryz Labs vs Wizeline, and our guide to dedicated development team providers for enterprises.
Neither of us publishes rates. Clutch lists Distillery at $50-$99/hr with a $25,000+ minimum. Ask both for quotes for the same roles and seniority.
Yes. It offers AI, ML and data engineering, and lists Anthropic, OpenAI, Snowflake and Databricks as partners. Ask for production case studies close to your problem, as you should with us.
Yes. See how we place QA automation engineers and DevOps engineers on US hours.
Its headquarters is in Manhattan Beach, California, with offices in Argentina and Mexico City.
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.