Details
| Founded: | 2006 |
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| Hourly Rates: | $150 - $199 |
| Employees: | 50 - 249 |
| Avg. Project Cost: | $100,000+ |
| Ratings: |
4.7
6 Reviews
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About
8th Light is a software development company that is enthusiastic about making fruitful long-term partnerships with clients. They believe that they will have full clarity and control projects in real-time conversations. Their team of skilled app developers tries to serve their customers by direct, collaborative, and sustainable campaigns that produce beneficial results.
8th Light Reviews
The rebuilt site went from something we apologized for to something our sales team leads with
Kenji Watanabe / Director of IT Strategy | May 26, 2026The easiest thing to praise is the technical output itself — solid test coverage, a deployment pipeline that just works, documentation that people actually reference instead of ignoring. But what I keep coming back to is the number of conversations we haven't had to have since launch. No 2am incident calls. No emergency patches. No post-mortems about what went sideways. That absence is really the whole pitch, if you ask me.
Project summary
This project had a board-facing deadline tied to a wider strategic push. We needed a partner who'd treat that date like it was their own problem, not just ours.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Web Development |
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| Project Cost: | $500,000+ |
| Project Duration: | Apr 2025 - Feb 2026 |
| Business Type: | Mining & Metals |
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| Location: | Yokohama, Japan |
Questions & Answers
Resolved a network fault at 2am before a single person walked into the office
Reem Al-Ghamdi / VP of Engineering | Apr 25, 2026The easiest thing to praise is the technical output itself — solid test coverage, a deployment pipeline that just works, documentation that people actually reference instead of ignoring. But what I keep coming back to is the number of conversations we haven't had to have since launch. No 2am incident calls. No emergency patches. No post-mortems about what went sideways. That absence is really the whole pitch, if you ask me.
Project summary
Our product thinking internally was solid, but our execution depth in this particular technical domain wasn't. We needed real specialists, not another generalist team.
| 5.0 Overall Rating |
| 5.0 Quality |
| 5.0 Schedule |
| 5.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | IT Managed Services |
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| Project Cost: | $10,000 to $49,999 |
| Project Duration: | Oct 2025 - Feb 2026 |
| Business Type: | Human Resources |
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| Location: | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
Questions & Answers
Presented real trade-offs instead of a single pre-decided answer dressed up as options
Sameer Kapoor / Chief Data Officer | Apr 11, 2026Five months post-launch, we're running at roughly double the transaction volume we'd specified in the original scope document, and the platform hasn't needed a single structural change to handle it. That's the real tell for whether a team designed for what you told them versus what you were actually going to need. We're now scoping a second phase and I expect this to be a multi-year relationship at this point.
Project summary
How long it took us to launch a new tariff had become a genuine competitive disadvantage, and the product configuration layer was the obvious bottleneck to fix first.
| 5.0 Overall Rating |
| 4.5 Quality |
| 5.0 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | IT Consulting |
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| Project Cost: | $50,000 to $149,999 |
| Project Duration: | Aug 2025 - Feb 2026 |
| Business Type: | Telecommunications |
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| Location: | Gurugram, India |
Questions & Answers
They clearly understood the gap between an AI demo and an AI that survives production
Faisal Al-Dosari / Head of Innovation | Mar 22, 2026We handed this team an aggressive deadline, a genuinely complicated scope, and a client-side team on our end that was stretched thin and slow to respond at times. They handled all of it without complaint. When they needed something from us they asked precisely and on time. When they didn't, they just kept moving. The project still landed on schedule despite our side being the weaker link for a good chunk of it, which tells you something about how they operate under pressure.
Project summary
A previous project had worked fine in staging and fallen apart in production. We approached vendor selection this time with a lot more scrutiny as a direct result.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 5.0 Quality |
| 4.5 Schedule |
| 5.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | AI & Machine Learning |
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| Project Cost: | $150,000 to $499,999 |
| Project Duration: | Jul 2025 - Dec 2025 |
| Business Type: | Fashion & Apparel |
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| Location: | Dammam, Saudi Arabia |
Questions & Answers
Resolved a network fault at 2am before a single person walked into the office
Franziska Wagner / Chief Innovation Officer | Mar 06, 2026We had proposals in hand ranging from roughly half to well over double what we eventually paid this team. What set their proposal apart wasn't the price — it was that the number matched what they actually delivered, almost line for line. I've been burned before by proposals that were really just opening offers in a negotiation that continues throughout the project. That wasn't the case here, and I don't say that lightly.
Project summary
This project had a board-facing deadline tied to a wider strategic push. We needed a partner who'd treat that date like it was their own problem, not just ours.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | IT Managed Services |
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| Project Cost: | $150,000 to $499,999 |
| Project Duration: | Jun 2025 - Jan 2026 |
| Business Type: | Environmental Services |
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| Location: | Frankfurt, Germany |
Questions & Answers
Certification time dropped and trainees actually prefer the VR module over the old process
Marcus Teo / CTO | Feb 09, 2026Five months post-launch, we're running at roughly double the transaction volume we'd specified in the original scope document, and the platform hasn't needed a single structural change to handle it. That's the real tell for whether a team designed for what you told them versus what you were actually going to need. We're now scoping a second phase and I expect this to be a multi-year relationship at this point.
Project summary
Remote care had gone from a pilot program to a core part of our business, and our technology hadn't caught up. We needed a compliant telehealth platform on a timeline the market wasn't going to wait for.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 5.0 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | AR/VR Development |
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| Project Cost: | $10,000 to $49,999 |
| Project Duration: | Feb 2025 - Nov 2025 |
| Business Type: | Healthcare |
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| Location: | Singapore |
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