AI Development Companies: Hire a Vetted AI Team
AI development companies build the models, pipelines and products that put machine learning into production — from LLM-powered assistants to computer-vision inspection lines. Compare vetted vendors, read client reviews and request quotes.
A young Russian company with a strong international team of professionals at its core. In partnership with colleagues from Switzerland and Ireland, we successfully develop and impl…
- Min. project
- $10k+
Arnika is an online business management system for the beauty industry based on extensive experience in studying business processes. The idea of a service for automating salon busi…
- Min. project
- $100+
The agency has been working for more than 3 years in all regions of the Russian Federation. There are projects with access to near and far abroad. The agency has ongoing and succes…
- Min. project
- $3k+
Our web-studio is engaged in the creation of online stores, and also carries out the development of sites for travel agencies, construction companies, manufacturing companies and o…
- Min. project
- $10k+
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- $3k+
Web - integrator Solar group. We have been developing and supporting online businesses since 2014. We are official partners of 1C: Bitrix and Bitrix24. We design and create website…
- Min. project
- $10k+
Just Work was founded by engineers with years of development experience. We specialize in back-end and front-end outsourcing for large companies. Our team designs and develops serv…
- Min. project
- $30k+
Branding & digital studio Services of the studio: - Branding of goods and services, corporate identity development, package design. - Website development, interactive design, UX/UI…
- Min. project
- $3k+
Our slogan "DIGITIZE BUSINESS" fully reflects the general vector of our activity - "digitalization of business". More specifically, we have deep expertise in E-COMMERCE projects, c…
- Min. project
- $10k+
Listening and understanding people. We do branding, websites and interfaces. We create high-quality websites: we come up with design concepts, make sketches, draw layouts, layout t…
- Min. project
- $10k+
The company "Digital Wolf" started its activities on November 17, 2016 in the city of Izhevsk. We set a goal: To become a reliable technological assistant for you in the developmen…
- Min. project
- $3k+
All kinds of developments on 1C platform. We have been working since 2008 on the automation of processes at enterprises. We have the best specialists, affordable prices and fast de…
Our main focus is developing projects for the crypto industry using blockchain technology. We have combined our years of experience in developing complex online services with a dee…
- Min. project
- $30k+
We create high-class and effective IT solutions for your business. Our main areas of activity: development of business applications, complex systems, web applications, websites, UX…
Professional team of developers average experience of programmers, designers and layout designers in our team is 10 years. The studio was founded in 2010. During this time we have…
- Min. project
- $3k+
Communication is one of the most important parts of succeeding in business these days. To create quality business communication between a group of people, there is a need for a con…
- Min. project
- $100+
We provide result-oriented solutions in the field of Digital. Since 2006, we have been effectively promoting and developing our clients' business, helping them to achieve success o…
- Min. project
- $100+
IVA Technologies is a Russian brand of telecommunications equipment and software produced by HaiTech Group. The strategic goal of creating a production line within the Group of Com…
Our team specializes in comprehensive internet marketing for corporate company websites, online stores and large portals. We work based on current fashionable trends in graphic des…
- Min. project
- $100+
Our specialization: development and support of projects in PHP, Yiiframework 1.x/2.x development of APIs for mobile applications and services automation of testing of PHP projects…
- Min. project
- $100+
Evorate also offers a range of online advertising services. SEO optimization, media advertising, SMM - all these options pay off well, and their effectiveness is easy to monitor. A…
- Min. project
- $100+
Custom development of mobile applications, games, services and software. Platforms iOS, Android, Web, Windows.
- Min. project
- $10k+
We are a full-service agency "Paladin Engineering", our head office is located in St. Petersburg, we have been developing software and media products for large companies and startu…
- Min. project
- $10k+
We are a small studio from St. Petersburg. We used to specialize in releasing modules and components for the marketplace. More than 20 ready-made solutions for the marketplace have…
- Min. project
- $3k+
Consult Info" company has been working on the market of information technologies in Kaliningrad region since 2005 and has a large amount of knowledge and experience in this sphere.…
As an independent company, we started our activities in 2016. During this time, we have managed to overcome the path from a startup to a well-coordinated team with branches and rep…
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- $3k+
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- $100+
Optinum Digital Agency: budget development and promotion of web projects
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- $100+
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- $100+
- Min. project
- $3k+
A team of young, proactive and not indifferent to the tasks of employees. In 2018, 50% of projects were charitable. In 2019 we are leading 1 large project founded from 0, on the sa…
- Min. project
- $100+
Everything we do is aimed at customer satisfaction: the products we produce, the services we provide. In all our actions there is care for the client and a desire to be useful to h…
- Min. project
- $100+
Analytics - we work with any source material. Creative - we come up with a unique presentation of the material. Design - we make a unique design for each project. Layout - adaptive…
- Min. project
- $3k+
Before you shortlist anyone
All calculatorsThe short answer
1,000 AI development companies are listed. 63% publish a minimum project budget; the median floor is $10k. Most work starts in the $3–10k range. Median published rate is $25/hr across 71 companies.
Best supplied: Russia (437) · United States (124) · India (68)
Recalculated 2026-09-26 from live profiles.
What it costs, by country
Each cell counts companies whose published minimum project budget falls in that band. Only countries with at least 5 listed companies appear.
| Country | under $3k | $3–10k | $10–20k | $20–30k | $30k+ | Median rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia437Widest choice | 3 | 85 | 74 | 55 | 50 | $30/hr |
| United States124 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 45 | $35/hr |
| India68 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 9 | $18/hr |
| Belarus62 | 5 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 5 | $25/hr |
| Ukraine49 | — | 13 | 4 | 9 | 3 | — |
| Germany30 | — | 2 | — | 5 | 1 | — |
| Netherlands26 | — | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | — |
| United Kingdom21 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | — |
| Poland21 | — | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | $30/hr |
| Kazakhstan16 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| Uzbekistan11 | 1 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Armenia9 | — | 3 | 2 | — | — | — |
| Australia7 | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | — | — |
| Israel5 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| Canada5 | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | — |
How this table is built
- Figures are minimum project budgets companies publish on their own profiles — the floor below which they decline work, not the price of a finished project.
- USD only. Companies quote in six currencies and averaging across them produces a number nobody charges.
- Budgets outside $300–$2,000,000 and rates outside $5–$500/hr are dropped as data-entry errors.
- A country needs 5 listed companies for a row, and 5 published rates before a median rate is shown.
What will your budget reach?
Move the slider. Every figure below is a count of companies whose published minimum project budget sits at or under that amount.
210 of 626 companies (34%) take projects at this size.
Where the entry thresholds sit
- under $3k
- 23
- $3–10k
- 187
- $10–20k
- 146
- $20–30k
- 124
- $30k+
- 146
Goes furthest in Russia — 88 companies
This says who will engage, not what your scope should cost. A budget that reaches most of the market still buys very different things depending on what you are building.
Who is focused, and who has proved it
Horizontal: how concentrated a company is on AI development. Vertical: how much checkable evidence stands behind it. 59 of 1000 companies are plotted — the rest have fewer than 2 evidence signals, so placing them would be guesswork.
- SimbirSoftLeaders
- Big Drop IncLeaders
- FueledLeaders
- IntellectsoftLeaders
- moodleyLeaders
- The Digital EmbassyLeaders
How a company is placed
- Focus is the inverse of how many categories a company claims, blended with the share of its portfolio tagged with this one. A firm listing three technologies is concentrated; a firm listing forty also appears here.
- Proven delivery adds published reviews (to 20), portfolio projects (to 25), Ahrefs Domain Rating (to 60) and years listed (to 10). Each is capped so no single signal carries a company to the top.
- Positions are relative to the other companies on this page: the median company sits at the centre of each axis, so a quadrant boundary means "ahead of half the companies listed here". Raw scores are in each bubble's tooltip.
- Deliberately excluded: the star rating, which sits in too narrow a band to separate anyone; the editorial rank, which is a hand-assigned sort weight; and paid verification, which does not move anything on this chart.
- Leaders:
- Concentrated on this work and with the record to show for it.
- Specialists:
- This is most of what they do, but the public evidence is still thin.
- Established generalists:
- A substantial track record, spread across many categories.
- Emerging:
- Building both focus and evidence.
Customer Reviews about AI development
Web Chemists
Заказывали у Web-Химиков работы по сайту и дальнейшей оптимизации. До этого уже был опыт с другими исполнителями, поэтому подход сравнить есть с чем. Здесь понравилась организованность: сначала собрали информацию, уточнили цели, потом предложили понятный план действий. В процессе не пропадали, держали связь и нормально реагировали на замечания. Отдельно отмечу, что не было ощущения, будто тебе просто продают услугу — чувствовалось, что люди реально погружены в проект. По итогу сайт стал удобнее, а по продвижению начали появляться заметные сдвиги. Впечатление положительное, работать было комфортно.
MOSKVA PRODUCTION
Благодарим команду креативного агентства ООО «МЕДИА ПРОДАКШН ГРУПП» (MOSKVA PRODUCTION) в лице Директора Христенко Кирилла Игоревича за помощь с реализацией проекта по созданию корпоративных видеороликов для нашей компании. Особенно хочется отметить высокий профессионализм команды по всей цепочке создания видеопродукта: начиная с этапа планирования и написания сценария, реализации съемочного процесса и заканчивая финальным этапом монтажа и внесения правок и корректировок по нашей просьбе. Желаем новых творческих проектов, экономического процветания и надеемся на дальнейшее сотрудничество!
Asanov Agency
Обратились к ребятам по поводу редизайна нашего старого сайта. Отрисовали и сверстали все отлично. С нетерпением ждем релиза. Спасибо за работу!
What AI development covers
AI development is the engineering around a model rather than the model itself. Most commercial work today starts from a foundation model — GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama — and consists of retrieval, tooling, evaluation, guardrails and deployment. Training a model from scratch is rare outside research labs and a handful of well-funded product companies.
That changes what you should look for in a vendor. Data engineering, prompt and context design, evaluation harnesses, cost control and MLOps decide whether a system works in production. A team that can only demo a notebook will struggle at the point where latency, accuracy and unit economics start to matter.
What teams build most often
- Retrieval-augmented assistants. Internal search and Q&A over a company's own documents, tickets and wikis, with citations back to the source.
- Agentic workflows. Multi-step automations that call tools and APIs, with a human approval step on anything irreversible.
- Document and data extraction. Turning invoices, contracts, forms and email into structured records that feed an ERP or CRM.
- Predictive models. Demand forecasting, churn, credit scoring, predictive maintenance — classic ML, still the highest-ROI category in most industries.
- Computer vision. Defect detection, counting, OCR, medical imaging support and video analytics.
- Recommendation and ranking. Personalised feeds, search relevance, pricing and matching.
How to choose an AI development partner
- Ask what they have shipped to production, not what they have prototyped. The gap between the two is where most AI budgets are lost.
- Ask how they evaluate quality. A team without an evaluation set and a regression suite cannot tell you whether a change made the system better or worse.
- Check data handling. Where does your data go, which model providers see it, is anything retained for training, and can the whole system run in your cloud tenancy or on-premise?
- Get the running cost, not just the build cost. Inference, vector storage and observability are recurring, and a badly designed pipeline can cost more per month than it did to build.
- Insist on a bounded first phase. A four-to-six-week discovery or pilot with a defined success metric is cheaper than discovering in month seven that the use case was never viable.
Budgets, timelines and team shape
A scoped pilot — one use case, one data source, a working interface — typically runs $15,000–$60,000 over six to twelve weeks. A production system with integrations, evaluation, monitoring and access control is usually $80,000–$400,000, and ongoing model and pipeline maintenance runs 15–25% of the build cost per year.
Hourly rates vary more by geography than by skill: roughly $120–$250 in the US and Western Europe, $40–$90 in Eastern Europe and Latin America, $25–$60 in South and Southeast Asia. A typical delivery team is one ML or AI engineer, one backend engineer, a data engineer part-time, and a product owner who understands the domain well enough to judge whether an answer is correct.
Frequently Asked Questions
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