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Boundev vs Turing

Turing finds the engineer.
We ship the feature.

Turing's promise is faster matching to vetted talent. Boundev's promise is the merged PR. We hire and review our engineers ourselves, run an engineering-lead review on every delivery, and ship as a clean GitHub PR within 5–7 days. No matching cycle, no hourly meter, no DIY code review.

No matching cycle·No hourly tracking·First task free if > 7 days
5.4 d
Median time to first PR
$3,500
/mo flat — Pilot tier
100%
PRs reviewed by an engineering lead
0
Hourly tracking, ever
Where matching marketplaces stop short

Faster matching doesn't ship the feature.

Turing pushed the matching cycle from weeks to days — that's a real improvement. But the fundamental shape of the engagement (hourly contractor, you-manage, you-review) hasn't changed. For AI-engineering tasks specifically, that gap costs you weeks of management and review.

01
Vetted talent ≠ shipped feature
Turing's claim is the talent layer is AI-vetted. That's a hiring-side promise. The delivery layer — code review, eval suite, deploy guide — is still your team's responsibility once the engineer is matched.
02
Hourly underneath the matching
Once Turing matches you, the engagement runs on hourly rates with the same management overhead and timer-based incentives as any contractor relationship. The matching speed doesn't change the unit economics.
03
Generic AI vetting, not production AI judgement
AI-vetting in Turing's sense usually means coding-test signals. Production AI engineering — RAG chunking strategy, eval design, prompt-cache discipline, fallback routing — isn't what their tests measure.
04
You're managing the engineer, again
Turing finds someone for you to manage, scope tasks for, review PRs from, and replace if the fit's wrong. The matching is faster than Toptal but the operating model is the same.
Why team-of-record beats matching

Six things only an in-house bench delivers.

The matching layer is solved. The delivery layer is where production AI engineering actually breaks — and it's exactly what a managed subscription makes default.

TEAM
We're the team-of-record
Boundev hires, pays, and reviews our engineers full-time. You get the team, not a name. If an engineer leaves or rotates, your task ships on the same SLA from the next on-shift engineer.
OUTPUT
Output-priced subscription
You don't track hours. You don't approve timesheets. You submit a task, we ship a PR. The unit of value is the merged PR — same monthly number whether the engineer takes 4 hours or 40.
REVIEW
Engineering-lead review on every PR
Every Boundev delivery passes a senior review against our internal AI-engineering checklist before it lands in your repo. Turing matches the engineer; we ship reviewed code.
FOCUS
AI engineering specialty
RAG, MCP, agents, LLM integrations, evals, cost optimisation. Our bench is hired specifically for production AI work — not a general engineering pool with AI-tagged resumes.
RISK
First task free if shipped > 7 days
We refund the full month if your first task isn't merge-ready in 7 business days. No save offer. Turing's two-week trial doesn't cover delivery time.
EXIT
Cancel any month, code is yours
No hourly contract to wind down, no minimum hours commitment. All code, prompts, evals, IP delivered to your repo and licensed to you. Walk away whenever.
Side-by-side

Boundev vs Turing — feature by feature.

FEATUREBOUNDEVTURING
Engagement modelOutput-priced subscriptionVetted contractor matching
PricingFlat $3,500–$12,000/moHourly contractor rates after matching
Time from brief to first PR5–7 days (median 5.4d)Match in 3–5 days, then ramp
Code reviewEngineering lead reviews every PRYour responsibility
Tests + eval suite + deploy guideAlways includedWhatever you negotiate
Who manages the engineerWe doYou do
AI-engineering specialtyRAG, MCP, agents, LLM, evals, costGeneric AI-vetted profiles
What you measureOutput (PR shipped, eval pass)Hours logged
Replacement on bad fitWe rotate internallyRe-match cycle
CancellationOne click, any monthHourly contract cleanup
Best forDiscrete AI tasks, ship in a weekHourly contractor placements
MSA / DPA / SOC 2 / HIPAAOn Scale + EnterpriseStandard MSA only
Pricing

One flat number. Three cadences.

No hourly tracking. No platform fees. Cancel any month. First task free if not shipped in 7 business days.

Pilot
$3,500/mo
  • ✓1 AI task / month
  • ✓Async Slack
  • ✓GitHub PR + 1 revision
  • ✓Cancel anytime
Start with Pilot
POPULAR
Growth
$6,500/mo
  • ✓2–3 tasks / month
  • ✓Daily Slack updates
  • ✓Unlimited revisions
  • ✓Dedicated AI Ops Manager
Subscribe to Growth
Scale
$12,000/mo
  • ✓Unlimited within capacity
  • ✓Dedicated engineer
  • ✓Private Slack channel
  • ✓Weekly stakeholder sync
Talk to us
Turing-specific FAQ

What teams ask before switching.

Turing is a matching service: faster vetting, faster intros, but the engagement after matching is still hourly contractor work that you scope, manage, and code-review yourself. Boundev is a managed delivery: same senior caliber, but the engineer, the engineering lead reviewing the PR, the eval suite, the tests, and the deploy guide are all included for one flat monthly number.
Ship the feature, not just match the engineer.

Your next AI feature, shipped in a week.

Free 20-minute scoping call. We'll tell you whether the task is genuinely a fit for Boundev or better as a Turing match — whether you sign up or not.

WHAT YOU GET ON THE CALL
  • ✓20-min call with our AI Ops Manager
  • ✓Verbal scope of your AI feature
  • ✓Written summary in your inbox in 4 hours
  • ✓Honest fit assessment (Turing vs us)
  • ✓Zero pitch deck. Zero SOW.