Nearshore software development company in LATAM

Nearshore software development with LATAM engineers who share your day: Senior USD 45–⁠50 an hour and fixed-price packages from USD 4,000, all published. They overlap 6 to 8 hours with Mexico City and at least 4 with US Eastern, in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

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Updated October 6, 2026

Hours you share with our engineers

Our engineers work between UTC−3 and UTC−5.

Your team · Mexico City6 to 8 of 9 hours
Your team · US Easternat least 4 of 8 hours
Your team · US Central (Chicago)at least 4 of 8 hours
Your team · US Pacificat least 2 of 8 hours

Each block is one hour of an 8-hour working day. The filled blocks are the hours shared with our engineers, at least. Mexico City is drawn on a 9-hour day, 9 to 18. The paler blocks are shared only when our engineers sit at UTC−5.

What is the difference between nearshore and offshore software development?

Nearshore software development uses engineers in nearby countries with overlapping working hours; offshore uses engineers far away, often many time zones apart. For a US team, nearshore usually means Latin America: the region's time zones fall within the Americas and overlap the US business day. Offshore often means hand-offs across a night. Clouditive is nearshore, with LATAM engineers working in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

Overlap matters for the work we do. A release, an incident or a code review moves faster when the engineer can join the call the same day. Ours work between UTC−3 and UTC−5: 6 to 8 hours of overlap with Mexico City, at least 4 with US Eastern and US Central time and 2 with US Pacific.

Onshore, nearshore, offshore

	Onshore	Nearshore	Offshore
Working hours	Full overlap	Overlap within the Americas	Many time zones apart
A question at 11 a.m.	Answered the same hour	Answered the same day	Often answered the next day
Joining your call	Yes	Yes	Usually at the edge of the day

Software development outsourcing

Software development outsourcing means hiring an outside team to do software work instead of building the team in-house. With Clouditive there are two ways: add engineers to your own team by the hour, where you direct the work, or buy a fixed-scope package with a published price, duration and scope, where we deliver the outcome. Both run with LATAM engineers in time zones that overlap the US working day.

Staff augmentation is billed per hour worked at the published rate by seniority, with a 6-month minimum: Senior USD 45–⁠50, Lead or Architect 55–⁠60, Mid 35–⁠40, Junior 30. Fixed-scope packages start at USD 4,000 for 2 weeks, and Discovery, USD 7,000 for 1–⁠4 weeks, is the way in when the scope is still open.

Which nearshore software development companies publish their rates?

We checked the pricing pages of 13 firms that sell remote engineering talent, most of them nearshore, on 2026-10-06. Eight publish a number on their own site and five showed none. What they publish differs: an hourly rate card, an annual cost, a fee, a project price or a salary benchmark.

Firm	What it publishes	The figure, as published
Clouditive	An hourly rate by seniority and a fixed price for every package	Lead or Architect USD 55–⁠60, Senior 45–⁠50, Mid 35–⁠40, Junior 30 an hour; packages from USD 4,000
CloudDevs	An hourly rate card	“Our rates range from $45 - $75 per hour” (clouddevs.com/pricing)
Tecla	Hourly averages	Junior $28, Mid $48, Senior $58 an hour on average (tecla.io/pricing)
Arc.dev	An hourly range, for global talent and not only LATAM	Freelance hires “$15 - $110+” per hour (arc.dev/pricing)
Revelo	An annual all-in cost, not an hourly rate	A senior full-stack engineer with 6+ years: “$111k–$128k” a year (revelo.com/pricing)
Howdy	A fee model and no rate card	“Howdy charges 15% of salary” (howdy.com blog)
Azumo	Project pricing, with no hourly rates	“$499–$899 per Delivery Unit” (azumo.com/get-pricing)
Scalable Path	A minimum engagement and market averages, with no rate card of its own	“Our minimum engagement is 150 hours or $7,500 USD” (scalablepath.com/services)
Near	Salary benchmarks, not its own fee	Mid-level software engineer $4,500 – $6,000 a month, “salaries only” (hirewithnear.com/pricing)
BairesDev	No rate figure found	Its /pricing page returned 404
Toptal	No rate figure found	Its /pricing page redirects to /why
Andela	No rate figure found	Its /pricing page redirects to a discovery-call page
Turing	No rate figure found for clients	Its /pricing page returned 404
Lemon.io	No rate figure found	Its /pricing page redirects to the home page

Figures are quoted as each firm published them on 2026-10-06, and pages change. A rate is not the whole price: compare the minimum term, what happens if an engineer leaves, and who owns the code.

Working language

The service is delivered 100% in English, Spanish or Portuguese, your choice.

EnglishSpanishPortuguese

Where we work

Engineers in Latin America, for teams in the USA and Latin America.

Nearshore at work

Can you give me an example of nearshore outsourcing?

MojoTrek, a US consultancy, uses Clouditive's nearshore LATAM engineers to meet its own clients' demand. Clouditive sources that talent across LATAM more economically, so MojoTrek competes better, and the work spans multiple projects across AI, platform, DevOps, SRE and QA. Another example: a Clouditive platform lead works alongside the developers of MPI on its portfolio-analytics SaaS platform.

When our clients need engineers, Clouditive places LATAM engineers on the work, in English, Spanish or Portuguese, across AI, platform, DevOps, SRE and QA. We've run multiple projects this way, and the sourcing cost lets us compete for new work.

Marina Perla, CEO

What nearshore engineering costs with Clouditive

By the hour: Lead or Architect USD 55–⁠60, Senior USD 45–⁠50, Mid USD 35–⁠40, Junior USD 30, with a 6-month minimum for staff augmentation. A Senior for 160 hours comes to USD 7,200–⁠8,000.

Fixed-price packages start at USD 4,000 for 2 weeks. If an engineer leaves or doesn't fit, we replace them and cover the handover at no cost.

Lead / ArchitectUSD55–⁠60per hour
SeniorUSD45–⁠50per hour
MidUSD35–⁠40per hour
JuniorUSD30per hour

USD per hour, drawn to one scale

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring?

Offshoring moves work far away, usually across many time zones. Nearshoring moves it to a nearby region with overlapping hours: for US teams, Latin America.

Which is better, onshore or offshore?

Onshore gives full overlap at local cost; offshore gives distance in hours. Nearshore sits between them: time zones within the Americas, at our published LATAM rates.

How should I compare nearshore software development companies?

On what you can check before signing: published rates, whether you interview the engineer who works, the minimum term, the working language and real cases with figures. The table above shows which firms publish rates, checked on 2026-10-06; ours are all on this site.

Do your engineers speak English?

Yes. The work runs 100% in English, Spanish or Portuguese, whichever your team uses, and you interview the engineer before they start.

Which hours do your engineers work?

Between UTC−3 and UTC−5. That gives 6 to 8 hours of overlap with Mexico City, at least 4 with US Eastern and US Central time and 2 with US Pacific.

Do you work with companies in Latin America too?

Yes. Clouditive serves the Americas: the USA and Latin America.

Who is the legal entity behind Clouditive?

DX Clouditive LLC, a Florida limited liability company, document number L26000219015, incorporated in April 2026 (effective 2026-04-17). Clouditive has worked since 2024.

How do I start?

Price your case on the pricing page, then book a 30-min call or send your request; we reply within 1 business day. Start by the hour through staff augmentation, or with a fixed-price package such as Discovery: USD 7,000, 1–⁠4 weeks.

What is a nearshore developer?

A nearshore developer is a software engineer based in a country near the client's, working remotely in overlapping hours. For companies in the United States, nearshore developers are usually in Latin America. At Clouditive they are LATAM engineers who join a team by the hour or deliver a fixed-scope package, and they work 100% in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

Our engineers cover AI engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE and observability, and QA, manual and automated.

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