Buyer's shortlist — Georgia (Tbilisi & Batumi)
The best IT outsourcing companies in Georgia
Eight providers delivering from Tbilisi, Batumi and the wider Caucasus — compared on published rates, engagement model and where each one is genuinely strongest. This is Georgia the country, at GMT+4, not the American state.
Talk to usWhy Georgia, and how this list was built
First, the disambiguation that costs buyers the most time: this page is about Georgia the country — Tbilisi, Batumi, Kutaisi, GMT+4, the Georgian lari — and not the US state of the same name. The two markets appear in the same search results constantly and have nothing to do with each other. If you landed here looking for an IT firm in Atlanta, this is not that list.
Georgia the country has become a serious outsourcing destination for structural reasons rather than marketing ones. It sits at GMT+4, giving a full working-day overlap with Europe and the Gulf and a workable morning overlap with the US East Coast. Company formation is fast and the tax regime is deliberately friendly to software: Virtual Zone Person status gives qualifying IT companies 0% corporate income tax on income earned from foreign clients, with dividends taxed at 5%, while International Company status offers 5% profit tax with 0% on dividends. English is standard in technical teams, and engineering salaries remain well below Western European levels.
The providers below were selected on four criteria: a verifiable connection to Georgia, whether that is an office, a local entity or a recruiting operation; a clearly stated engagement model, because employer of record, staff augmentation, dedicated teams and project delivery are genuinely different products; published commercial information, since a provider willing to print rates is easier to compare; and honest scope. Every claim was checked against the provider's own website. We are one of the eight, and we have said plainly what we are not good for.
The providers — and what each is genuinely best at
Gegidze — blended tech and go-to-market teams
Founded in 2017 in Tbilisi, Gegidze publishes monthly starting prices across its service lines: software development from €2,000/month, digital marketing from €1,500, HR and recruiting from €1,400, sales development from €1,200, design and motion from €1,200 and customer support from €900. It offers fixed projects, staff augmentation and dedicated teams, plus employer-of-record services. Best when you need engineering and commercial roles from one partner.
Qubit Labs — multi-country offshore development centres
Recruits across Tbilisi, Batumi, Kutaisi and Rustavi and publishes monthly salary benchmarks for Georgia — junior Python from $900, mid-level JavaScript from $2,500, senior AI engineer from $4,700, senior data scientist from $5,500 — alongside dedicated teams, ODC setup, payroll, HR and compliance. Its listed offices are in Estonia, the UK, Canada, Sweden and Poland rather than Georgia. Best when Georgia is one country in a wider Eastern European hiring plan.
Hyperion360 — compliant EOR with transparent burdened cost
Operating since 2009, Hyperion360 offers employer of record, contractor of record, staff augmentation and contingency recruiting for Georgia, and is unusually open about total cost: it publishes fully-burdened annual estimates of roughly $22,000 for a junior developer against a $18,000 base, $36,000 against $30,000 for mid-level, and $58,000 against $48,000 for senior. Best for US companies that need employment compliance and a realistic budget, not a headline rate.
UnitedCode — hourly-rate transparency
Publishes a full hourly rate card for Georgian developers, starting around $18/h and rising by specialism — PHP $18, Angular $19, Vue $20, React $21, Node $24, Java $25, Python $29, data engineering $31, generative AI $33, AI/ML $35 and Web3 around $38–39. It describes a five-step, AI-assisted vetting process and lets you contract directly with the developer after a month. Its listed entities are in Austin and Fort Worth, Texas. Best for fast, price-anchored individual hires.
ALLSTARSIT — dedicated R&D and support centres
Runs an office in Tbilisi and offers three explicit models — staff augmentation, dedicated teams for R&D, QA, DevOps and support centres, and EOR or contractor management. It puts the size of the local market at roughly 15,000+ developers. No rates are published. Best when you want to stand up a functional centre in Georgia — a QA team, a support desk, a DevOps group — rather than hire individuals.
Helpdesk.ge — internal IT support inside Georgia
A genuinely different purchase from the rest of this list: Helpdesk supports IT infrastructure for organisations operating in Georgia, from 7 Tsotne Dadiani Street in Tbilisi, with a team it says has been running software, server and network support since 2014. Services cover network, system, CCTV, VoIP, cloud and NAS administration, and its site offers a calculator that estimates a monthly fee from your computer, printer and server counts. Best if you have staff in Georgia who need local IT support.
Outsource-Georgia — multilingual contact centre and BPO
Based at 27 Kavtaradze Street in Tbilisi, running a 24/7 multilingual inbound and outbound contact centre with back-office BPO, data entry, IT support and translation. It states it provides services in English, German and Russian, with French, Italian, Spanish and other European languages available on request. Best for customer-support operations and back-office volume work rather than software engineering.
Techies — long-running dedicated product teams
We build and retain dedicated engineering teams from our Tbilisi office on Bakhtrioni Street and our delivery presence in Batumi, with a Riyadh office and a US entity in Sheridan, Wyoming behind them. Our strength is continuity: teams that stay on one product long enough to know it properly, working your hours on the GMT+4 overlap, with recruitment, payroll, workspace and retention handled under Georgian law. Best for multi-year product work rather than short bursts of capacity.
Where we are the right choice — and where we are not
We are the right partner when you want a stable, long-running team rather than a stream of contractors: an engineering group that learns your domain, joins your stand-ups on your hours, uses your tools and standards, and is still there in year three. That is what Tbilisi and Batumi are genuinely good for, and it is what we optimise for — recruiting against your stack, handling Georgian employment and payroll, providing the workspace, and doing the unglamorous retention work that keeps the same people on your product. We also cover the managed side once the software exists: cloud, security operations and business systems, in English, Arabic and Russian.
We are the wrong choice in three cases. If you need pure employer-of-record payroll for people you have already found and want nothing else, a specialist such as Hyperion360 or ALLSTARSIT will do it more cheaply than we will. If you want a single developer next week at a published hourly rate with no relationship attached, UnitedCode's rate card is the faster route. And if what you actually need is a large multilingual contact centre, Outsource-Georgia is built for that and we are not. We would rather tell you now than three weeks into a sales process.
How to choose between the models
Match the model to the shape of the work, not to the lowest rate. Employer of record suits a company that has already identified people and needs compliant employment without opening a Georgian entity. Staff augmentation suits a defined skills gap on an existing team with a known end date. A dedicated team suits ongoing product work where continuity and accumulated context are the whole point, and where churn is the main risk. BPO and contact-centre outsourcing is a different industry again, priced per seat or per interaction. Then ask every provider the same four questions: who legally employs the people, who owns the intellectual property, what happens to the team if you pause for a quarter, and what notice period applies on each side.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this about Georgia the country or the US state?
- The country — the one in the South Caucasus, with Tbilisi as its capital, Batumi on the Black Sea coast, and a time zone of GMT+4. It is a common and expensive confusion, because search engines mix results for the country and the American state constantly. Every provider on this page delivers from the country. If you need an IT services firm in Atlanta, Savannah or Augusta, none of this applies to you and you should search specifically for the state.
- Why do companies outsource IT to Georgia?
- Four reasons that hold up. Time zone: at GMT+4 a Georgian team shares a full working day with Europe and the Gulf and overlaps the US East Coast morning. Cost: engineering salaries sit well below Western European levels while quality remains high. Tax and administration: Virtual Zone Person status gives qualifying IT companies 0% corporate income tax on foreign-client income, and company formation is fast. And language and culture: English is standard in technical teams, and for Gulf and CIS-facing companies, Russian and Arabic capability is easy to find.
- How much does a developer in Georgia cost?
- Published figures from providers on this list give useful anchors. UnitedCode publishes hourly rates from about $18 for PHP to $29 for Python and $35 for AI/ML. Qubit Labs publishes monthly benchmarks from $900 for a junior Python developer to $5,500 for a senior data scientist. Hyperion360 publishes fully-burdened annual costs of roughly $22,000 junior, $36,000 mid and $58,000 senior. Gegidze quotes team services from €2,000 per month. Expect real quotes to vary with seniority, stack and whether the price includes employment overheads.
- What is the difference between EOR, staff augmentation and a dedicated team?
- Employer of record means a provider legally employs people on your behalf so you avoid opening a local entity — you direct the work, they handle payroll, tax and compliance. Staff augmentation means adding individual specialists to your existing team for a defined period, managed by you. A dedicated team means a persistent group working only on your product, where the provider owns recruitment, retention and workspace and you own the roadmap. Cost rises across that spectrum, and so does continuity — pick based on how long the work will last.
- What are Virtual Zone and International Company status?
- Two Georgian tax regimes designed to attract IT work. Virtual Zone Person status exempts qualifying IT companies from corporate income tax — 0% instead of the standard 15% — on income earned from foreign clients for services actually delivered from Georgia, with a 5% tax on distributed dividends. International Company status instead applies 5% profit tax with 0% on dividends and 0% property tax on qualifying assets, and generally requires a track record before it is granted. They matter to you mainly because they explain why local delivery costs what it does.
- Should I choose Tbilisi or Batumi?
- Tbilisi has the larger and longest-established talent pool, the most tech employers and the widest range of specialisms, which also makes it the more competitive place to hire and retain. Batumi is smaller and newer, with a lower cost of living, its own coastal international airport and noticeably better retention — engineers who settle there tend to stay. A common approach is to build the core team in Tbilisi and use Batumi to widen the pool and reduce the risk of competing for the same handful of candidates. Both sit on the same time zone and the same legal framework.
- Do Georgian teams speak English?
- In software and IT, yes — English is the working language of the technical sector, and you should expect fluent written and spoken English from engineers and project management. Russian is also widely spoken, which matters for CIS-facing businesses, and Outsource-Georgia states it delivers contact-centre services in English, German and Russian with other European languages on request. Interview for it rather than assume it, especially for client-facing roles.
- Who owns the intellectual property?
- You should, unconditionally, and the contract should say so rather than imply it. Check three things: that IP assignment is explicit and covers work by every individual on the team, not just the supplier entity; that it survives termination; and that the same terms flow down to subcontractors and individual contractors. That last point matters most where you contract directly with a developer after an introduction period, which is how some platforms on this list operate.
- How quickly can a team be assembled in Georgia?
- It depends on the model, and honest answers vary. Individual hires from an existing bench or platform can start in one to three weeks. A recruited dedicated team on a specific stack more realistically takes four to eight weeks to shortlist, interview, offer and onboard, longer for scarce specialisms such as senior AI or embedded engineering. Be sceptical of anyone promising a full team in days: either they are placing whoever is available rather than the right people, or the timeline excludes notice periods, which in practice are the real constraint.
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