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For most US engineering teams, Ryz Labs is the better choice. You get top 1% senior engineers who join your team, your standups and your repos from week one, on US business hours. When you need AI built, you get an AI pod team that works in your cloud and ships 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.
Gun.io is a Nashville-based platform that places vetted freelance engineers from a global network on contract, contract-to-hire or full-time terms. Its own FAQ says the platform is "mostly optimized for individual freelancers." It can make sense if you want one freelancer anywhere in the world on a path to a direct hire. 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, not one route among several.
New York hours by design. Every Ryz engineer is in Latin America and works on US business hours. Code review, pairing and standups happen the same day. With a global network, you screen each candidate for overlap; with us it's built in.
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, with recruiter review before and after. AI scores are advisory; people make the decisions. You get a recruiter-curated shortlist and run the final interview yourself. See our vetting process.
AI pod teams that ship to production. Our second business is dedicated pods of senior engineers that build AI systems in your cloud, repos and CI, 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. 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.
You see the team and the price 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. If you want to hire someone directly, we also offer direct-hire placement and executive search.
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, so your security and procurement teams get clear answers.
Gun.io is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and its About page dates it to 2013. It says it has about 1,000 engineers in its "Elite Engineer Corps," and that 70% of currently engaged developers have 10+ years of experience. Clients typically start with a one-time block of hours, then move to a recurring retainer; contract-to-hire and full-time placement (at 20% of first-year salary) are also offered. Gun.io handles contracts, hours tracking and billing. Its model is built around placing individuals from a global network; ours is built around senior people who join your team on US hours.
Gun.io says it doesn't have standard prices. It offers retainers based on your needs, the project and the developer's salary expectations, and says the full price is shown on each developer's profile, with no additional fees. Full-time salaried placement costs 20% of first-year salary. Clients sign a two-year non-solicitation agreement, and taking a developer off-platform requires a negotiated buy-out. Clutch lists a minimum project size under $10,000. For the full breakdown, see Gun.io pricing.
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.
Keep comparing: our Gun.io alternatives and our guide to staff augmentation for senior engineers.
Gun.io says every developer passes an algorithmic screening, a work history and background review, and a live technical interview with a senior engineer, and that about 100 of roughly 1,000 monthly applicants are approved. At Ryz, only the top 1% of tens of thousands of interviewed engineers make it.
20% of the negotiated first-year salary, per Gun.io. Contract rates vary by developer and aren't published. Ryz typically costs $7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month, scoped per team, with names attached.
Yes. Our engineers work on US business hours, in your standups and repos from week one. They are based in Latin America. Talk to us.
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