Full disclosure: we're Ryz Labs, and we're one of the options on this page. We think we're the better choice for most teams, and we'll show you why. Everything we say about other companies comes from their own sites and public listings, linked at the end.
EPAM Systems and Globant are both large, NYSE-listed engineering and digital services firms. The real difference is where they deliver from and how they sell AI. EPAM (about 62,850 people) delivers mostly from India and Central and Eastern Europe and sells consulting-led programs plus its open-source DIAL platform. Globant (28,773 people) was founded in Buenos Aires, has a large Latin American base, and sells "AI Pods" as a token-metered subscription in which AI agents do the work under expert supervision.
For most US teams that want senior engineers inside their own team on US hours, or an AI pod team of senior engineers that builds inside their cloud and ships to production, the better choice is Ryz Labs. You get top 1% engineers, within one hour of US time zones, and you see a scoped plan, a price and the names of the people before you sign.
EPAM is an S&P 500 company headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania, with about 62,850 people (about 56,600 in delivery) and FY2025 revenue of $5.457B. Financial services is its largest vertical, at 24.1% of revenue. It sells managed delivery, dedicated teams and consulting, plus AI/Run.Transform, the open-source DIAL orchestration platform and agents on the AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces. Its largest delivery locations are India, Ukraine, Poland and Belarus.
Globant was founded in Buenos Aires in 2003 and is registered in Luxembourg. It had 28,773 employees at the end of 2025 and FY2025 revenue of $2.45B. It sells traditional project and time-and-materials engineering through industry AI Studios, including a Financial Services AI Studio. Its AI Pods (launched June 2025) and the Glob.AI catalog (August 2026) sell AI work as a subscription with three pod models, billed as a monthly minimum usage fee plus a variable fee. Glob.AI lists partnerships with Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI and Google Cloud.
Senior engineers inside your team. Our Latin American engineers join your standups, your repos and your roadmap from week one, and work to your leads. The code and the knowledge stay with your team. We've interviewed tens of thousands of engineers, and only the top 1% make it, through recruiter sourcing, our in-house ARC ranking, structured NTRVSTA AI interviews and recruiter review before and after. AI scores are advisory; people decide. You choose from a recruiter-curated shortlist and run the final interview yourself. See our vetting process.
AI pod teams with systems in production. Where Globant's AI Pods sell agent output by subscription, our AI pod teams are senior engineers. A typical pod is about 7 people, including a tech lead, an ML engineer and backend engineers, building inside your cloud and repos in AWS, Azure, GitHub and Postgres, with Anthropic and OpenAI models, and showing working software in weekly demos. 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 fraud team. A marketing-compliance system for a global capital management firm took review of 8,000+ documents from days to hours, and an AI voice platform has made 1M+ outbound calls. See our case studies.
New York hours, every day. Every Ryz engineer works within one hour of US time zones, so review, pairing and decisions happen the same day.
You see the team before you commit. You get a scoped plan, a price, and the names of the people who would do the work before you sign, scoped to the team you need. You sign one contract with Ryz. Our engineers work with us as independent contractors, and we handle paying them.
Trusted by Fortune 500 engineering teams. We work with US enterprises in every industry, including financial services, with decades of LatAm expertise. We follow GDPR and CCPA/CPRA, and our recruiting AI is governed under EU AI Act high-risk requirements.
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Yes. EPAM had about 62,850 people and $5.457B in FY2025 revenue; Globant had 28,773 people and $2.45B.
Neither publishes rates. Clutch lists EPAM at $150-$199/hr with a $100,000+ minimum and Globant at $25-$49/hr with a $5,000+ minimum, but those are directory bands. Compare written proposals for the same scope, and get a Ryz quote alongside them: ours includes the names of the people who would do the work.
Ryz Labs: every engineer works within one hour of US time zones. Globant has a large Latin American base, and EPAM's largest delivery locations are in India and Central and Eastern Europe, so ask either one where your team would sit.
Globant's AI Pods are a subscription in which AI agents do the work under Globant expert supervision. Ryz AI pod teams are senior engineers who build AI systems inside your cloud and repos and ship them to production. Talk to us about scope.
We checked pricing and services for every provider here in October 2026. This changes often, so double-check before you sign anything.