Comparison updated
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 | 10Clouds | DEPT |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial score | 61.8/100 | Higher score: 64/100 |
| Hourly rate | Lower published rate: €45-85/hr | €130-170/hr |
| Team size | 50-249 | Larger team: 1000-9999 |
| Location | Warsaw, Poland | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Founded | 2009 | 2016 |
| Last reviewed | More recent review: Sep 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 |
What we said about each
Our take on 10Clouds
The financial-services case studies are the ones to read: a live lead engine for Polfund, a credit-guarantee fund, that screens up to 5,000 public tenders a day on the firm's own AIConsole platform, and a credit-assessment redesign at an unnamed Polish bank that cut analysis time from 90 to 19 minutes per case and reports 698 analyst hours saved a month. The stack is named throughout—Dynamics 365, Azure OpenAI, Whisper, DeepFace—and an internal AI-recruiter write-up describes what failed before…
Reviewed Sep 3, 2026
Read the full assessment →Our take on DEPT
Signs is the most visible AI work here: a sign-language learning platform using computer vision to check the learner's signing, which reached more than 20 million people in its first week and recorded 20,000 signs learned in ten days. It is a collaboration with NVIDIA and the American Society for Deaf Children rather than a commissioned client project, which is worth knowing when you read it as evidence. The commissioned AI work is more ordinary and more useful as a guide: a return-value…
Reviewed Aug 6, 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 10Clouds if you need
- a more cost-effective engagement (~57% lower rate)
- closer collaboration at a smaller team scale
- disclosed specialization in FinTech / Healthcare
- broader service offering — also covers AI Agents
Choose DEPT if you need
- larger team capacity for multi-stream or enterprise-scale programs
- broader service offering — also covers AI Marketing
- a higher overall editorial score
Strengths and watch-outs
Both upsides and risks, straight from our editorial assessments.
10Clouds
Strengths
- Published rates of €45–85/h against production fintech deployments, well under the €100–200/h EU band
- AIConsole is the firm's own open-source orchestration platform and appears in three of the four fintech studies, so you are buying a repeated pattern rather than a first build
- Third-party corroboration is visible: 90-plus Clutch reviews at 4.9, Deloitte Fast 50 and FT1000 listings, and a Select-tier Claude Partner Network listing
Watch-outs
- The strongest metrics (79% faster analysis, 698 hours a month) belong to an anonymized bank—ask for a speakable reference behind that study
- The homepage claims 120-plus AI deployments while the site publishes about eight AI case studies—ask for the list behind the number
- Positioning since the merger is finance-only; if your brief sits in another vertical, confirm who would staff it
DEPT
Strengths
- Named clients with figures attached across three sectors: retail returns, clinical search, sports fan engagement
- Computer vision applied to genuinely hard interaction problems, not generative demos
- International delivery capacity, so multi-market rollouts do not need a second agency
Watch-outs
- Signs is collaborative work with NVIDIA, not a client engagement—judge the commissioned cases separately
- Published AI work is weighted toward audience-facing products—ask for an operated system with an SLA if that is what you need
- At this scale, insist on knowing the named team, not the agency's aggregate credentials
Service coverage
Where the two overlap, and where each covers ground the other does not.
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 (~480 hours) costs at each agency’s published rate. An arithmetic projection, not a quote — real scopes move with seniority mix and team shape.
10Clouds
Rate: €45-85/hr
€21,600–€40,800
DEPT
Rate: €130-170/hr
€62,400–€81,600
At this scope the published midpoints are about €40,800 apart, with 10Clouds lower. DEPT publishes AI Marketing work that 10Clouds does not — that is the one difference on this page that bears on the gap. If your brief does not touch it, the gap is buying something this comparison cannot see.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is cheaper, 10Clouds or DEPT?
- 10Clouds is cheaper by roughly 57% — €65/hr median vs €150/hr at DEPT. Published rates cover different things at different agencies — seniority mix, discovery and included revisions are the usual variables — so treat the gap as a question to ask, not a verdict.
- Which has more SaaS & B2B experience, 10Clouds or DEPT?
- Both agencies show documented SaaS & B2B work. 10Clouds has the broader industry stack overall, with disclosed experience in FinTech, Healthcare beyond their shared focus.
- Which scores higher overall, 10Clouds or DEPT?
- DEPT scores 64/100, 2.2 points higher than 10Clouds at 61.8/100. See our methodology for how scores are calculated.
- When should I consider both 10Clouds and DEPT?
- Consider running parallel discovery briefs with 10Clouds and DEPT 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.