Embedded engineers vs offshore development companies
A large offshore development company suits you when you need volume on well-specified work and have the management capacity to run it. Embedded engineers suit you when you want a smaller number of senior engineers who work inside your team and are vetted in the open.
How the two compare on what matters
The table covers the eight criteria buyers ask about most, from time to start to compliance.
| Miyagami engineers | Offshore development companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to start | Five working days to a shortlist, three weeks to first commit | Weeks |
| All-in cost | €5,600 to €8,000 a month per engineer, no recruitment fee | Low rates, at scale |
| Who vets the engineers | Two live assessments, AI off and on, scorecards shared | The supplier |
| Who manages the work | Your lead, in your sprints | The supplier's delivery manager |
| When it goes wrong | Replaced at our cost | Escalation through account management |
| Commitment | Three-month minimum | Often multi-year contracts |
| Compliance and IP | Employed by us, ISO 27001, IP yours on payment | Varies by supplier |
| Best for | Senior capacity in your team for months or years | High volume on well-specified work |
A partner that thinks about your project
Large offshore suppliers grow by filling seats, so the brief tends to turn into a headcount. Miyagami has built products since 2017 and reads your brief the way it would read one of its own, with no volume discounts and no incentive to add engineers you don't need.
We start from your project
Before anyone is proposed, we go through your brief, your stack and your roadmap with you. You get a view on which roles the work needs and how many, and if it needs fewer engineers than you planned, we'll tell you.
Matched on how they work with AI
Every engineer is assessed twice in a real codebase, once with AI tools off and once with their own agents on. That lets the match cover how someone works with agents on your kind of problem, on top of the stack.
Matched to the team you have
The match also looks at the people already in your team: the seniority your lead needs, how your sprints run and which hours of the CET afternoon your rituals sit in.
The bar we set for our own builds
Miyagami ships its own products with the same engineers, so a placement has to meet the standard we'd set for our own team. If the fit turns out wrong, we replace the engineer at our cost.
When offshore development companies fit better
Where offshore development companies do better
Scale
Large offshore companies can staff big teams quickly across many technologies.
Enterprise stacks
They have deep benches in enterprise platforms such as SAP, Salesforce and Java.
Where embedded engineers do better
Seniority you can check
Every engineer passes two live assessments and you see both scorecards before you meet them.
Inside your team
Engineers report to your lead, with no delivery layer between you and the work.
Questions about this comparison
You can read how we vet engineers, then compare the cost against a local hire.
How we vetWhen should I choose offshore development companies over embedded engineers?
A large offshore development company suits you when you need volume on well-specified work and have the management capacity to run it. Embedded engineers suit you when you want a smaller number of senior engineers who work inside your team and are vetted in the open.
How fast can embedded engineers start compared with offshore development companies?
You get a shortlist within five working days of your brief, and a first commit three weeks after that. Offshore development companies: weeks.
Who vets Miyagami engineers?
Miyagami engineers run two sixty-minute assessments in a real codebase, the first with AI tools off and the second with the candidate's own agents on, and you see both scorecards.
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