What to check before hiring a software company in Tbilisi
- How the contract is priced. A fixed-scope contract ties cost to an agreed specification, while a dedicated team or staff augmentation bills for people over time. AzRy’s Managed Delivery fixes scope, timeline and budget at the start, Omedia staffs its fixed-price projects with 5+ developers, and AKDev Group works on Dedicated Team or Time & Materials terms.
- Who leads delivery on the vendor side. Ask who manages the project day to day and how senior that person is. An Omedia dedicated team includes a delivery and project manager and a tech lead, and at Leavingstone a specialist with 8+ years of domain experience leads each engagement.
- Security and confidentiality. Software Country’s ISO 27001 certificate from BSI covers its Tbilisi office, AKDev Group limits access to code and data to the engineers assigned to a project, and Leavingstone’s team knows PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GDPR and FCA requirements.
- Georgian payment integrations. A product that takes payments in Georgia needs local bank connections. INNOVATE integrates Bank of Georgia and TBC Bank payments, and AzRy Pay, part of the AzRy group, appears on the National Bank of Georgia’s register of payment service providers.
- Ownership of code and accounts. Keep the code repository, the domain and the AWS, GCP or Azure accounts registered to your own company, with the developer added as a user, so the work stays with you when the contract ends.
Software development costs in Tbilisi
Leavingstone publishes its fees. A discovery engagement of four to six weeks costs $15,000 to $25,000 at a fixed price, and an agile product team with product, design and engineering people starts from $20,000 a month.
On Clutch, Redberry, Omedia, Itransition, AKDev Group and Digipal all show hourly rates of $25 to $49. Their minimum project sizes spread further, from $5,000 at AKDev Group and $10,000 at Omedia and Digipal to $25,000 at Redberry and Itransition.
To start, Digipal lets new clients try 1 sprint free, Coherent Solutions offers a free 1-hour consultation and INNOVATE holds a 30-minute discovery call.
Tbilisi software studios, international firms and team augmentation
Tbilisi companies. AzRy and INNOVATE date from 2004, Omedia has worked since 2006, Leavingstone was founded in Tbilisi in 2010, Redberry started in 2014 and AKDev Group in 2017. AzRy’s clients include Bank of Georgia and Georgian Railway, and Omedia’s include Georgia Capital and Silknet. That local client base suits a product built for users and banks in Georgia.
International engineering firms with a Tbilisi office. Itransition (founded 1998, 3000+ engineers), Coherent Solutions (founded 1995, in Georgia through its subsidiary ISsoft) and Software Country (started 1993, Georgian office since 2022) bring large delivery benches and formal credentials such as Itransition’s Microsoft, SAP and Atlassian partner tiers and Software Country’s ISO 27001. This group suits enterprise buyers who work through a vendor checklist.
Team augmentation. Digipal supplies engineers and whole teams to agencies, startups and SMEs. Redberry, Omedia and Software Country also sell staff or team augmentation beside their project work, which suits a company that already has its own product lead and wants more developers.
