What AI development costs in Europe, by country

Few firms in this guide publish a price. Of the eighteen firms after Reveneau and Fluxon, one prints prices on the pages read, two publish how long their first steps take, and the pages read for the other fifteen show neither. The wages of the people who do the work are public, though, because national statistics offices publish them. This page gives both: the prices and durations firms print, and the official pay of software developers in three European countries. Every page was read on 21 October 2026.

Reveneau and Fluxon

Reveneau has no office in Europe. Its offices are at 435 Utah Street in San Francisco and on Floor 33, 909 Mainland Street, in Vancouver. On cost, Reveneau says it uses AI in place of hiring more engineers, and puts the money that saves into the prices its clients pay. It says AI writes 100 percent of its code, and that every change must pass a large eval suite, a set of automated tests written from the specification, before release. It says Jev grades the suite and makes it run ten times faster than its previous grader did, and that Reveneau takes responsibility for the whole project through production and after release. To describe a project, contact Reveneau.

Fluxon hires in Poland and Portugal, by its own careers page, and no page read names a European office.

The prices one firm prints

Miquido, a product studio in Kraków, prints two prices on its AI Kickstarter page [1]. Each row below quotes the page.

Offer	Price, as printed	Delivery, as printed	What the page says it covers
AI Kickstarter	"$ 15,000 +"	"3-5 weeks delivery"	"The cost of developing 1 GenAI solution with AI Kickstarter. Includes advanced cost tracking, optimization, and monitoring."
AI Development	"$ 40,000 +"	"6-7 weeks delivery"	"The cost of developing 1 GenAI app with traditional ground-up AI development, without advanced cost tracking or monitoring."

The page asks buyers to contact Miquido "for a personalised quote". GenAI is short for generative AI, AI that writes text or creates images. Cost tracking and monitoring, in this sense, mean watching how much the AI model costs to run and whether it keeps working. The prices are in US dollars, as the page prints them. Miquido's figures are its own, and the page does not show how a final price is worked out.

The lengths two firms print

Monterail's AI page says, "Most AI projects take 8 to 20 weeks, depending on scope and complexity." [5] It splits the work into three steps: Diagnose, 2 to 4 weeks; Prove, 4 to 6 weeks; and Ship, 8 to 16 weeks. Its homepage describes one client project, for SPIE Belgium, as "live in seven weeks at a fixed price" [7]. A fixed price is one sum agreed before the work starts.

N-iX's homepage describes a pilot step for AI engineering tools: "4 to 6 weeks: Three to five workflows run on your real code, with your real engineers, against a baseline agreed at the start." [6] A baseline is the measurement taken before the change. Neither firm prints a price on the pages read.

Official pay for software developers, by country

National statistics offices publish what people in each job earn. Each office uses its own measure, and the table gives each figure exactly as the office states it.

Country	Statistics office	Job group	Figure	Period	Conditions
Denmark	Statistics Denmark	2512 Software developers	DKK 69,686.37 average standardized monthly earnings; DKK 416.97 median standardized hourly earnings	2025	Includes pension and fringe benefits; table updated 29 September 2026
Netherlands	Statistics Netherlands (CBS)	0814 Software and application developers	EUR 34.5 median gross hourly wage	2025	Provisional; final figures due November 2026
Poland	Statistics Poland (GUS)	251 Computer systems analysts and programmers	PLN 15,629.51 average gross monthly pay	October 2024	Study published every two years; all sectors

Denmark

Statistics Denmark's table LONS20 gives software developers, code 2512 in the Danish job list, average standardized monthly earnings of DKK 69,686.37 for 2025, across all sectors and all forms of pay [2]. It gives median standardized hourly earnings of DKK 416.97 and counts 33,423 full-time employees in the group. For all occupations together, the same table gives DKK 52,846.17 a month and a median of DKK 299.78 an hour. Standardized earnings, in Statistics Denmark's terms, include pension and fringe benefits, meaning things of value an employer gives on top of pay, so the figure is higher than a base salary.

The Netherlands

Statistics Netherlands, known as CBS, publishes hourly wages by occupation in its table 86355NED, "Werknemers; uurloon en beroep", which means employees, hourly wage and occupation [3]. For occupation 0814, "Software- en applicatieontwikkelaars", or software and application developers, it gives a median gross hourly wage of EUR 34.5 for 2025 and a 25th percentile of EUR 26.8. It counts 176 thousand employees in the group. The median for all occupations is EUR 26.9. CBS marks its 2025 figures as provisional. A provisional figure is the first published estimate, which the office may still change, and CBS says the final figures are due in November 2026.

Poland

Statistics Poland, known as GUS, publishes its study of pay by occupation every two years. Its publication page says "wydanie co 2 lata", Polish for "published every 2 years". The latest study, published on 10 February 2026, covers October 2024 and gives average gross monthly pay of PLN 15,629.51 for group 251 across all sectors, and PLN 15,865.65 in the private sector [4]. The group's Polish name, "Analitycy systemów komputerowych i programiści", means computer systems analysts and programmers. October 2024 is the latest month covered.

The UK and Sweden

The separate guide to what forward deployed engineering costs in Europe gives the official figures for the United Kingdom and Sweden, with their sources.

Which firms work in these three countries

The pay figures matter most for the firms whose staff work in the same country. The offices below come from the firms' own pages, a register or a filing, as the list of AI development companies in Europe shows for each one. Reveneau and Fluxon name no office in any of the three countries.

Country	Firms in this guide with an office there	Enterprises using AI, 2025 (Eurostat)
Denmark	Netcompany, with its head office in Copenhagen and offices in Aarhus and Aalborg	42.03%
Netherlands	Infinum (Amsterdam), ML6 (Amsterdam and Eindhoven), dataroots (Utrecht), Netcompany (The Hague), adesso (Utrecht), Reply (Bodegraven)	33.21%
Poland	Software Mansion, Miquido, Monterail and deepsense.ai, with head offices there; Unit8, Netcompany, N-iX and Reply, with offices there	8.36%

Endava's annual filing also lists Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland among the EU countries where it has delivery locations, without naming a city, so it is left out of the table. Capgemini is counted only at its Paris seat, because the pages read give no list of its other offices.

The last column is Eurostat's share of enterprises with 10 or more employees that used at least one AI technology in 2025 [8]. Denmark had the highest share of any EU country, and Poland one of the three lowest. These shares describe local enterprises as users of AI. A firm with an office in one of these countries may staff your project from another country, so ask each firm where the people on your project will work, and which country's pay its price is built on.

How to read these figures

An average adds up everyone's pay and divides by the number of people. A median is the middle value, with half the group earning more and half less. A 25th percentile is the value below which a quarter of the group falls. Gross pay is pay before tax. Each office here uses a different one of these measures, for a month or an hour, for a year or a single month. So set the three figures side by side only with their conditions attached, and this guide converts none of them into another currency.

A firm's price is higher than its staff's pay. The firm also pays for offices, sales, managers and the weeks between projects, and it adds its profit. The pay figures show one part of what the work costs a firm in one country. The price shows what the work costs you.

What a quote should state

Ask every firm for a quote in writing, in one currency, and check that it answers these questions.

• What does each step cost, and what does the step deliver?
• Is the price fixed, or charged by the hours worked?
• Which costs are outside the price: the charges for using the AI model, the servers, licences for other software?
• Does the price include tracking and monitoring what the AI costs to run? Miquido's two offers differ on this point.
• Who owns the code, the data and the tests at the end?
• Where will each person on the team work, and is the price the same for each location?

The European AI project brief template puts these questions into a document you can send to every firm on your shortlist. For the firms themselves, return to the list of AI development companies in Europe.