Agency Comparison
Fuzzy Labs vs Sputnik Digital
Two top-rated AI Development agencies in Manchester.
Comparison updated August 2026
Side by side
Published data on both agencies. Where one side measurably differs, the dot marks it: the higher score, the lower published rate, the larger team, the more recent review. Which of those is an advantage depends on your brief.
| Attribute | Fuzzy Labs | Sputnik Digital |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial score | Higher score: 56.3/100 | 51/100 |
| Hourly rate | Contact for rates | €85-130/hr |
| Team size | Larger team: 2-9 | |
| Location | Manchester, United Kingdom | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Founded | — | 1998 |
| Last reviewed | Aug 4, 2026 | Aug 4, 2026 |
What we said about each
Our take on Fuzzy Labs
The Zally case study is the kind most agencies avoid publishing: a specific number attached to a specific bottleneck, model deployment cut from two days to five minutes by a custom MLOps pipeline. The PEBL work puts computer vision on edge devices for seaweed farm monitoring, which is a harder engineering problem than it sounds—inference has to run where there is no reliable connection. Open-source MLOps is the stated specializm and the published work supports it, though a third case study for…
Reviewed Aug 4, 2026
Read the full assessment →Our take on Sputnik Digital
Two named clients carry AI work here: Hollr, a generative-AI platform producing personalized video messages, and Invntry, which identifies and values household belongings from photographs for home-insurance claims. The Invntry write-up is the more useful of the two, describing an agnostic LLM integration and structured prompt design—an architecture choice that keeps the client off a single model vendor, and worth asking about directly. Neither case publishes an outcome figure, and the wider…
Reviewed Aug 4, 2026
Read the full assessment →Best for
Where each agency measurably leads on the published data — team capacity, declared specializations, editorial scoring, and rates where both publish them. Use these to match an agency to your project priorities.
Choose Fuzzy Labs if you need
- closer collaboration at a smaller team scale
- disclosed specialization in Manufacturing
- a higher overall editorial score
Choose Sputnik Digital if you need
- larger team capacity for multi-stream or enterprise-scale programs
- disclosed specialization in FinTech
Strengths and watch-outs
Both upsides and risks, straight from our editorial assessments.
Fuzzy Labs
Strengths
- Publishes a hard before-and-after metric—two days to five minutes on deployment—which almost no agency on this register does
- Edge deployment for PEBL shows inference running outside a data center, not just in one
- Open-source tooling by preference, so the pipeline stays inspectable and portable after handover
Watch-outs
- No published team size or founding year—ask about capacity and who would run your engagement
- Specializm is the production path rather than model research; if you need novel modeling, check the fit
Sputnik Digital
Strengths
- Two separate named-client AI builds, in different techniques—generative video and image recognition
- Model-agnostic integration is a stated design choice, not an afterthought
- Full product capability around the AI work: discovery, UX, engineering and optimization in one team
Watch-outs
- No outcome figures on either AI case—ask what accuracy or adoption looked like after launch
- No published founding year, headcount or rates
Service coverage
Both agencies cover the same services — on this axis there is nothing to separate them, so decide on the evidence behind the work rather than its labels.
Industry coverage
Where the two overlap, and where each covers ground the other does not.
Pricing math
What a 12-week engagement at one full-time equivalent (~480hours) costs at each agency’s published rate. An arithmetic projection, not a quote — real scopes move with seniority mix and team shape.
Fuzzy Labs
Contact for rates
Sputnik Digital
Rate: €85-130/hr
€40,800–€62,400
Only Sputnik Digital publishes a rate, so there is no gap to measure. Fuzzy Labs quotes per engagement — ask for a rate card early, since a comparison that starts on scope and ends on price tends to end late.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has more SaaS & B2B experience, Fuzzy Labs or Sputnik Digital?
- Both agencies show documented SaaS & B2B work and have similar industry breadth. Compare directly on the agency profiles: Fuzzy Labs and Sputnik Digital.
- Which scores higher overall, Fuzzy Labs or Sputnik Digital?
- Fuzzy Labs scores 56.3/100, 5.3 points higher than Sputnik Digital at 51/100. Both portfolio quality and business credibility feed into the score — see our methodology for the full breakdown.
- When should I consider both Fuzzy Labs and Sputnik Digital?
- Consider running parallel discovery briefs with Fuzzy Labs and Sputnik Digital if your project spans multiple workstreams, you want competitive proposals to compare scope and approach, or you're undecided between the specialization angles each brings (see the Best for cards above). Most engagements ultimately go with one — but the parallel-brief phase is a low-cost way to validate fit.
Read the full reviews
A side-by-side is a starting point. The full assessments carry the portfolio analysis, documented engagements, and the evidence behind every strength and watch-out above.