Heads up: we're Ryz Labs, so we're not neutral here. We compete with Globant and CI&T for the same engineering budgets. We'll still tell you when each is the right choice. Both firms are public companies, so most facts below come from their SEC filings.
Decide whose platform you want in your delivery. Globant runs AI work through Glob.AI, where pods are metered per supervised token or per output, and its new Glob.AI OS can sit across your whole company. CI&T runs long programs through squads under statements of work, built on its own "Enterprise AI Management System," CI&T FLOW, and bills mostly by the hour. Choose Globant for consumption pricing and a governance layer. Choose CI&T for a traditional services relationship with a strong Brazil delivery base.
If you'd prefer to keep your own tools and add senior engineers who answer to your leads, Ryz Labs is the option we'd point you to.
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.
Billing philosophy. Globant says companies are charged for what they produce, per output or per consumption, "never per seat or per hour." Its Glob.AI plans carry a monthly minimum usage fee that consumption counts toward. CI&T's 20-F describes the opposite default: most revenue comes from time-and-materials work billed hourly, with some fixed-price work, under master agreements and SOWs.
Where the people are. CI&T is concentrated: 6,980 of its 7,993 employees were in Brazil at the end of 2025, with the rest mainly in Colombia, China and the US, and it says nearshore engineering runs "in compatible time zones" while US staff focus on strategy and design. Globant is spread across 31 countries.
Size and customers. Globant's revenue is about five times CI&T's, and it reported 944 customers over $100,000 in 2025. CI&T says it serves "100+ large enterprises," and its largest client was 11.1% of revenue.
Both have leaned into Anthropic: Globant with Claude-powered AI Pods, CI&T through the Claude Partner Network. In practice that means either one may arrive with Claude already wired into its own tooling. If your company has standardized on other models, or on its own internal AI platform, ask early how much of the delivery depends on the vendor's system and what happens to it when the engagement ends.
Both firms bring their own AI system into your work. That can help, and it also means part of your delivery runs on their stack.
One accountable team, no lock-in. Ryz engineers and AI pod teams work in your accounts: your repos, cloud and tools. You control access and can revoke it at any time, and you own all the code and IP. When you're done, there's nothing to migrate off.
A real AI system, built on your side. One Ryz pod built an AI real-estate agent that runs 24/7 for the client. Pods of about seven senior engineers work in your CI with weekly demos. See AI pod teams and case studies.
Engineers who report to you. Rather than a vendor squad on an SOW, Ryz engineers work on your team, reporting to your leads. You meet the named engineers before they start, and we sign your NDA before we share profiles.
Monthly, not hourly or metered. Mid-level engineers run $7,000 to $10,000 a month and senior engineers $10,000 to $15,000. Leads are quoted per team.
See our one-on-one pages, Ryz Labs vs Globant and Ryz Labs vs CI&T, plus Globant alternatives, CI&T alternatives, Globant competitors and CI&T competitors.
CI&T calls it an "Enterprise AI Management System." It's the proprietary platform behind its "AI Deployment" work.
Announced October 27, 2026, it's Globant's "unified layer to govern and adopt AI across the enterprise," running as SaaS or in your own cloud.
By revenue mix, CI&T: financial services was about 36% of its 2025 revenue. Globant runs a Financial Services AI Studio among several industry studios.
175 at the end of 2025, per its 20-F. Most engineering happens in Brazil. Ask us about engineers on US hours.
Facts were checked in October 2026 against filings and company sites. Confirm terms with each vendor before you sign.
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