Top Staffing Agencies for US Companies Hiring in Costa Rica

Costa Rica has become one of the most popular nearshore moves for US companies: the country aligns with US time zones, has a well-educated, bilingual workforce, and a stable business environment. For a company that’s never hired outside the US before, though, figuring out how to find and vet Costa Rican talent is its own project.

That’s where the best staffing agencies in Costa Rica come in. These firms handle sourcing, screening, and often payroll and compliance too, so a US company can bring on a Costa Rica-based hire without setting up a local entity or building a vetting process from scratch. The right partner can turn what would be months of trial and error into a shortlist of qualified candidates in a matter of days.

I put together this list to make that choice easier. Below, you’ll find ten staffing agencies that place talent in Costa Rica, what each one does well, and how they compare on pricing, specialization, and client ratings, so you can narrow down your options fast.

How I Chose These Costa Rica Staffing Agencies

To create this list of the best staffing agencies in Costa Rica, I used two criteria. A company made the cut if it met either one:

• At least 50 client reviews on an established platform (G2, Clutch, Trustpilot, GoodFirms, or ClearlyRated, client ratings only) with a rating of 4.5 or above.
• A verifiable track record with large, recognizable enterprise clients, even where review data was limited.

The second route applies when a company’s client roster speaks to a level of delivery quality that enterprise procurement validates in a way review platforms often don’t capture. Large enterprises don’t re-engage vendors that underdeliver, and that accountability carries weight.

Then came the gate specific to this article. Every company here names Costa Rica as a country it sources from on its own site, verified on September 3, 2026. That rules out plenty of firms with real Latin America practices. 

This list also assumes the market decision is behind you. If it isn’t, we made the case for nearshoring to Costa Rica separately. If you want the same bar applied across the whole region, we keep a similar roundup of the best nearshore staffing companies.

The table below lines up all ten by hiring model, rating or track record, and the situation each one fits.

What Are the Best Staffing Agencies in Costa Rica for US Companies?

The best staffing agencies for US companies hiring in Costa Rica are Hire With Near, Insight Global, SGF Global, Pierpoint, Korn Ferry, Auxis, Revelo, Tecla, BEON.tech, and CloudDevs. 

Each takes a different approach, from full-service nearshore staffing to specialized tech recruiting to global enterprise search, so the right fit depends on the roles you’re hiring for, your budget, and how much of the employment relationship you want to manage yourself. 

Here’s a closer look at what each one does well:

Hire With Near

Website: hirewithnear.com

Hire With Near is a full-service staffing and recruiting agency that helps US companies hire top-performing remote talent in Latin America across all departments and industries. We run the search end to end: sourcing, screening, candidate presentation, and support once the person starts.

In Costa Rica, we work from a pre-vetted pool of 160,000+ Latin American professionals and source fresh for every search, so the shortlist you see is built for your role. You get that candidate shortlist with video introductions in three to five days, and most of our clients make a hire in under three weeks. 

According to Hire With Near’s 2026 State of LatAm Hiring Report, Costa Rica is one of the countries where some roles fill within a week. Our recruiters screen past the resume for what our Chief Operating Officer, Franco Pereyra, calls the three traits that decide whether a remote hire works out: autonomy, judgment, and ownership.

Our model is placement. We find the person, they join your team, and they report to you. There’s no upfront cost, and you don’t pay anything until you make a hire. 

We fill 97% of the roles we take on, every placement carries a 180-day replacement guarantee (double the industry standard), and 80% of our hires stay two or more years. We’ve hired for more than 950 companies, and we’re ranked No. 118 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

Rating: 4.9/5 on G2 (155+ reviews)

Client perspective: “The quality of the candidates they provide is much better compared to other agencies, and they find candidates faster. They helped us find a good operations manager, which was crucial since our operations were unstable, and the person they found matched our needs perfectly.” — Customer review on G2

Best for: Hire With Near is the strongest fit if you want people in Costa Rica who join your own team full time, with one partner covering searches across finance, sales, software engineering, design, and operations.

Limitations: If you’re running an entire function with its own employees rather than placing hires on your team, filling a board seat or C-suite role, or staffing a large contract workforce quickly, another firm is the better call. 

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Insight Global

Website: insightglobal.com

Insight Global earned a spot on this best staffing agencies in Costa Rica list for the scale of its placement operation. Founded in 2001 and now running more than 70 offices, the firm places roughly 60,000 consultants a year across technology, healthcare, customer service, and professional roles. 

Its Costa Rica page names San José, Heredia, and Alajuela as the areas it recruits from. It describes its approach there as pairing global recruiting practice with local market knowledge, drawing on a network that reaches more than 50 countries. 

Insight Global places people onto your team through surge support, set-duration contract work, contract-to-hire, and permanent placement, and it also takes on recruitment process outsourcing when a company wants it to run the hiring function itself. 

It doesn’t publish a Costa Rica-specific screening process, so that’s a question for the call.

Rating: 4.6/5 on ClearlyRated (525+ reviews)

Best for: Insight Global is the right call when you need to staff a contract or contract-to-hire team in Costa Rica at volume and you want a large, established recruiting operation behind it.

Limitations: If you want a boutique partner with a Costa Rica-only focus rather than a large-scale, multi-country provider, another firm may be the better call. Insight Global operates across 50+ countries and is built for companies running blended nearshore, onshore, and offshore programs at scale, which can be more infrastructure than you need for a single Costa Rica hire.

SGF Global

Website: sgfglobal.com

SGF Global is here for a client roster few staffing firms can match. The Florida-based company has been in business for more than 30 years and works across 35 countries, Costa Rica among them, with clients that include IBM, Unilever, and Dell. 

It describes the same recruiting sequence for every market: a detailed read of the role and the business first, then targeted sourcing, evaluation, and placement. In Costa Rica, it recruits in the local market directly, including at university job fairs there. 

SGF Global places people onto client teams through temporary staffing, direct hiring, and full recruitment process outsourcing, and it also takes on outsourced projects that it manages itself, so the scope is worth pinning down early.

Rating: No ratings, but made this list because of its client roster that includes IBM, Unilever, and Dell. 

Client perspective: “Working with the SGF team on our Direct Hire FSP program has been a pleasure. They are extremely responsive to our requests and always show up to spotlight calls when needed.” — Customer review on SGF Global’s website

Best for: SGF Global suits a company that wants one staffing partner covering Costa Rica alongside a dozen other countries, and that takes comfort from a vendor large enterprises keep re-hiring.

Limitations: If you need deep, focused Costa Rica expertise, another firm is the better call. SGF Global spans 35+ countries and services, so its strength is breadth, not depth in any single market. No public reviews available on independent review platforms. 

Pierpoint‍

Website: pierpoint.com

What stood out about Pierpoint is how it’s set up: it embeds recruiters inside your hiring function instead of sending resumes in from outside it. 

The firm’s North America delivery team runs recruitment programs in Costa Rica alongside Canada, Mexico, and cities across the United States, and it works across six regions in total. 

Pierpoint sources with multilingual recruiters and uses AI tooling to find and target qualified candidates, and it reports a time-to-hire reduction of up to 80% and cost savings above 50% against traditional recruitment. 

The work runs from full recruitment process outsourcing and high-volume hiring of 250 roles or more down to a single recruiter on demand. It’s also a certified minority-owned business.

Rating: 4.8/5 on G2 (15+ reviews), but made this list because of its client roster that includes Amazon, Nike, Accenture, and Microsoft.

Client perspective: “I have several years of experience with Pierpoint. Every person I have worked with has been very experienced with relevant skills and a strong work ethic. They go above and beyond to deliver exceptional results… always.” — Customer review on Pierpoint’s website 

Best for: Pierpoint fits a company that wants to rebuild its own hiring process for Costa Rica with recruiters working inside it.

Limitations: If you want a single direct placement, another firm is the better call. Pierpoint runs on an RPO model, embedding a recruiting team into your process, which suits ongoing, high-volume hiring more than a one-off hire.

Korn Ferry

Website: kornferry.com

Korn Ferry is on this list because it has been doing search longer than almost anyone and it has consultants on the ground in Costa Rica. The firm has worked with clients for more than five decades and now operates as a global organizational consulting business with search as one of its practices. 

Its San José office covers Central America and the Caribbean, with a principal there leading executive search, professional search, and recruitment process outsourcing for the region. A Costa Rica search runs through consultants who work that market day to day. 

Korn Ferry places hires onto client teams and also sells the assessment, succession, and organization-design work around them, which is a wider scope than a straight staffing engagement.

Rating: 4.2/5 on G2 (40+ reviews), but made this list because of more than five decades in search, with its own office in San José, Costa Rica

Client perspective: “When I need temporary help Korn Ferry is my first choice. And if they don’t have someone immediately, they will find someone.” — Customer review on G2

Best for: Korn Ferry fits a company hiring a senior or executive role in Costa Rica that wants a structured search process and formal assessment behind the shortlist. It’s also worth a look for mid-level professional hiring at scale, through its separate Professional Search and RPO practice, though that’s a different engagement model than its better-known executive search work.

Limitations: If you’re hiring a single mid-level role rather than an executive search or a large-scale RPO program, another firm is the better call. Korn Ferry’s executive search pricing runs on retained fees that can reach six figures, and its RPO practice is built for enterprise-scale, multi-country hiring rather than a one-off Costa Rica placement.

Auxis

Website: auxis.com

Auxis is the one company on this list that works a different way, and it’s worth saying plainly: Auxis runs the function with its own employees rather than placing hires onto your team. 

In business since 1997, it operates its main delivery hub in Heredia, Costa Rica, and hires, trains, and manages the accountants, IT operations staff, customer service teams, and back-office specialists who do the work from there. It publishes its reasoning for the country as well, pointing to the education level and English fluency of the local workforce. 

If you want someone who joins your team, reports to your managers, and sits in your stand-ups, that’s a different arrangement from what Auxis sells. If you want to hand over a whole function and hold one company accountable for it, that’s exactly what it sells.

Rating: 4.8/5 on Clutch (3 reviews), but made this list because of its client roster that includes Subway, Equifax, Condé Nast, and GoTo Foods.

Client perspective: “Their responsiveness is outstanding. They follow through, assess issues, and adjust based on those issues.” — Customer review on G2

Best for: Auxis fits a company that wants to hand an entire finance, IT, or customer service function to a partner that staffs and runs it with its own employees.

Limitations: If you want to directly employ a dedicated hire, another firm is the better call. Auxis’s model is built around taking over entire business functions and running them with its own staff, not placing individual hires on your team.

Revelo

Website: revelo.com

Revelo is on this list for the size of its engineering network and how fast it moves. The platform’s network spans 18 countries in Latin America, and Costa Rica is one of the markets it covers directly, with more than 400,000 vetted software engineers in the pool. 

Revelo names its screening stages openly: identity confirmed, skills tested, human screened. It places full-time remote engineers who work directly on your team, on month-to-month engagements, and it publishes its own clock, a curated shortlist in 48 hours and an average of 14 days from start to hire. 

There’s a 14-day risk-free trial, and you pay only if you hire. Coverage runs from back-end, front-end, and full-stack engineers to data engineers, QA, and specialists who work on large language model training.

Rating: 4.8/5 on G2 (160+ reviews)

Client perspective: “The company is responsible, supportive, and always looking for ways to improve the experience for both devs and clients.” — Customer review on G2

Best for: Revelo suits a company hiring engineers in Costa Rica that wants a shortlist within days and the option to end the engagement month to month.

Limitations: If you’re hiring outside software engineering, another firm is the better call. Revelo focuses exclusively on technical roles and works more as a marketplace, with less involvement after the hire is made.

If you’re weighing a marketplace model against a full-service nearshore partner, see how Hire With Near compares to Revelo.

Tecla

Website: tecla.io

The reason Tecla made this list of the best staffing agencies in Costa Rica is its step-by-step screening process. The Dallas-based firm names Costa Rica directly among the nine Latin American countries it recruits from, and it runs candidates through four gates: an AI screen against the role, a technical assessment with coding challenges and a system design review, a recruiter interview covering soft skills and English fluency, and reference checks. 

Tecla reports that 94% of the candidates who clear the AI screen go on to pass the technical assessment. Its network holds more than 50,000 vetted professionals. 

Placements are full-time hires who join your team, staff augmentation, or fractional technical leadership, and the shortlist usually arrives within days. Coverage is engineering-heavy: back-end, front-end, mobile, DevOps, AI and machine learning, data, QA, Salesforce, and CTO or VP-level leadership.

Rating: 4.8/5 on Trustpilot (70+ reviews)

Client perspective: “They provided excellent communication and quality candidates who met or exceeded the role requirements.” — Customer review on Clutch

Best for: Tecla fits a company hiring engineers or technical leaders in Costa Rica and wants to see a documented screening process before it starts interviewing.

Limitations: If you’re hiring for sales, marketing, finance, or operations, another firm is the better call. Tecla sources exclusively for technical roles like developers, QA, and data scientists.

For a closer look at engineering-only recruiting versus a broader nearshore partner, see how Hire With Near compares to Tecla.

BEON.tech

Website: beon.tech

BEON.tech is here because of who does the vetting. Its own tech leads screen every candidate personally and write a detailed report on each profile, and the firm aims at the top 3% of the profession in Latin America. It works across 23 countries in the region and publishes hiring and cost guidance specific to Costa Rica. The result it points to is a 3:1 submit-to-hire ratio, so you interview roughly three people per hire.

The network holds around 72,000 vetted candidates across more than 100 roles, from full-stack and mobile engineers to data and AI specialists. BEON.tech places engineers as embedded team members through staff augmentation and contract-to-hire, and says they’re ready to start work in under two weeks. You’re charged only if you onboard someone. Clients include Superhuman, SimplePractice, and Recurly.

Rating: 4.9/5 on Clutch (70+ reviews)

Client perspective: “BEON.tech has provided us with a senior software engineer who has been a key contributor across our software engineering team. The engineer has been responsible for building and growing key features that hundreds of thousands of users interact with daily.” — Customer review on Clutch

Best for: BEON.tech suits a company adding engineers to an existing team in Costa Rica that wants a short, high-signal interview loop.

Limitations: If you’re an early-stage company without in-house technical leadership, or hiring a non-technical role, another firm is the better call. BEON.tech works best with funded, engineering-led companies and covers software roles only.

CloudDevs

Website: clouddevs.com

CloudDevs is here for the speed of its matching and the depth of its Costa Rica coverage. The Delaware-based platform puts its network at more than 500,000 developers and says it can have someone in front of you within 24 hours. It runs Costa Rica-specific pages for individual stacks, from Python and Django to React and Next.js, so you can see what local supply looks like before you talk to anyone. 

Screening happens in three stages: a video call on communication and attitude, a technical evaluation by senior engineers, and a live coding challenge monitored for plagiarism. 

Engagements run hourly or full time on a rolling weekly contract with no minimum commitment, and there’s a seven-day risk-free window with a replacement or a refund if the match is wrong.

Rating: 4.9/5 on G2 (160+ reviews)

Client perspective: “From the beginning, everything was clearly communicated, timelines were respected, and expectations were well aligned. The team handled every step with professionalism, making the experience smooth and stress-free.” — Customer review on G2

Best for: CloudDevs fits a company that needs a developer in Costa Rica working this week and wants to keep the commitment short while it evaluates the fit.

Limitations: If you’re hiring outside software development and design, or need a junior-level hire on a tighter budget, another firm is the better call. CloudDevs is built around fast, senior-level technical placements, and its pricing reflects that.

Final Thoughts

Every agency on this list has real strengths, and picking the right one for a Costa Rica hire comes down to where they source, how much support you get after the placement, and whether their model fits the way you like to work.

Where Hire With Near differs is what happens before any sourcing starts. Our recruiters spend time on how your team works day to day and what a strong hire looks like inside it, then run the search against that instead of a job description. 

Conversion Logix, an Inc. 5000 digital advertising and software solutions agency in Austin, came to us after their offshore Philippines team created communication barriers that slowed training and hurt productivity. Through Hire With Near, they filled 15 roles across the agency and saved $781,000 annually.

The best way to know whether any agency fits is to get on a call and ask how they source, how they screen, and what happens if a placement doesn’t work out. If you’re looking wider than one country, our roundup of the best LatAm staffing firms covers the region, and we have the same list for staffing agencies in Mexico.

When you’re ready, book a free consultation to talk through your specific requirements with our team. You’ll come away with salary ranges for the roles you’re filling in Costa Rica and a clear picture of how the search would run, whether or not you hire through us.

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