Heads up: we're Ryz Labs, and Endava competes with us for some of the same buyers. This is the case we make on calls, including where Endava is the better fit. Facts about Endava come from its own site and investor releases, listed at the end.
For most US engineering teams, Ryz Labs is the better choice. You get top 1% senior engineers who work on your team, in your standups and repos, on US business hours. When the job is building AI, you get a dedicated AI pod team that builds in your cloud and ships to production. Before you start, you see a plan, a price and the names of the people, and our per-engineer prices are public.
Endava is a London-headquartered, NYSE-listed (DAVA) technology services firm founded in 2000, with 11,225 people at March 31, 2026, operating in over 25 countries. It sells digital transformation, "AI-native" delivery, core modernization and cloud, and it has unusually deep payments experience. If you're a payments company or a large financial institution that wants a global firm to run a multi-year modernization program, Endava is a strong option. If you want a senior team on your hours, working to your leads, pick Ryz.
A team that works your hours, to your leads. Endava runs programs from delivery centers across Europe, Latin America and other regions, and the overlap you get depends on where your team sits. Every Ryz engineer works on US business hours. A design question at 2pm Eastern gets answered at 2pm, and code review happens the same day. Our engineers join your standups and repos from week one, so the architecture and the knowledge stay with your team.
AI pods that ship, not a framework to adopt. Endava's AI pitch is "AI-native" delivery across its frameworks. Ours is a dedicated AI pod of about 7 senior engineers (a tech lead, an ML engineer and backend engineers) building one system in your cloud, repos and CI, with weekly demos. When it's done, you grow the pod or take the system over. Our pods built 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 fraud team. They also built an AI driver-support agent covering about 218,000 driver calls a year in three languages. See our case studies.
Top 1% vetting with people in charge. We've interviewed tens of thousands of engineers, and only the top 1% make it. AI scores in our process are advisory; recruiters and hiring managers decide. The full vetting process is public.
Prices you can see. Endava doesn't publish rates. We do, and every quote names the people who would do the work.
Financial services experience without a finance-only lens. Endava's payments depth is real. We work with enterprises across industries, including financial services, where our pods built marketing compliance review for a global capital management firm that took 8,000+ documents a year from days to hours. Our recruiting AI is governed under EU AI Act high-risk requirements, and we follow GDPR and CCPA/CPRA.
Endava was founded in 2000 by John Cotterell and is headquartered in London. It sells digital transformation, AI-native delivery, core modernization and cloud through three frameworks: Dava.Flow, Dava.X and Dava.Studios. Its payments practice claims 20+ years of experience and says 90% of the largest payment companies and 70% of the largest acquirers use its services, across platform modernization, integrations, FX, orchestration, KYC/AML and card management. Its finance and banking page cites 320 clients, 200 projects and 200 financial-services subject matter experts, with a focus on core system modernization across retail and commercial banking and capital markets. Partners include AWS, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Stripe, Visa and Guidewire. Its Latin American delivery sites include Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Rosario in Argentina, São Paulo, Bogotá, Cali and Medellín, Monterrey, and Montevideo.
Endava doesn't publish rates, minimums or contract terms. Ask for a written quote by role and seniority, and ask which delivery center would staff your work.
We publish ours. Typical Ryz cost is $7,000-$15,000 per engineer per month. Mid-level (comparable to Amazon L5 / SDE II) is $7,000-$10,000. Senior (comparable to Amazon L6) is $10,000-$15,000. Leads are $15,000+ and quoted per team. A pod is priced the same way: team size × duration × monthly rate, so a six-person senior pod for three months is $180,000 to $270,000. Run your own numbers in our AI development cost calculator.
Endava doesn't publish rates, so get written quotes for the same roles and seniority from both. Ours are public: $7,000-$10,000 a month for mid-level and $10,000-$15,000 for senior engineers.
For a large payments platform modernization run by a specialist firm, Endava has deep, specific experience. For a senior team that builds on your roadmap, on your hours, Ryz. See our AI engineering teams for financial institutions guide.
Endava operates in over 25 countries on six continents, with nearshore delivery from Eastern Europe and Latin America. Every Ryz engineer is in Latin America and works US business hours.
Ryz engineers work on your team, reporting to your leads. Talk to us to scope your team.
We checked Endava's site and investor releases in October 2026. Details change, so confirm them with Endava before you sign.
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