# Best AI Agencies for Project-Based Work in Berlin > 12 agencies. Top-ranked: Merantix Momentum, ontolux, Lautmaler. Canonical page: https://www.aiagencies.eu/for/project-based/berlin Generated: 2026-09-28 · Curated by Gabor Kiss · No paid placements — inclusion, score, and rank are never sold. ## Ranked roster 1. **Merantix Momentum** — Berlin, Germany · rate not published · team 50-249 · founded 2019 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, Generative AI · 12 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-24 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/merantix-momentum 2. **ontolux** — Berlin, Germany · rate not published · team 10-49 · services: AI Development, AI Consulting, Generative AI · 11 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-24 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/ontolux 3. **Lautmaler** — Berlin, Germany · rate not published · team 10-49 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, Generative AI · 8 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-05 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/lautmaler 4. **Hybrid Heroes** — Berlin, Germany · €85-130/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2015 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, Generative AI, AI Agents · 7 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-05 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/hybrid-heroes 5. **Contiamo** — Berlin, Germany · rate not published · team 10-49 · founded 2012 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, Generative AI · 6 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-24 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/contiamo 6. **dida** — Berlin, Germany · €130-175/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2018 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, AI Automation · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-04 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/dida 7. **Dr. Mark Wernsdorfer** — Berlin, Germany · rate not published · team 1-9 · founded 2014 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-05 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/dr-mark-wernsdorfer 8. **DAIN Studios** — Berlin, Germany · €130-175/hr (directory-listed) · team 50-249 · founded 2016 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-04 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/dain-studios 9. **wegewerk** — Berlin, Germany · rate not published · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, Generative AI · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-05 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/wegewerk 10. **Birds on Mars** — Berlin, Germany · rate not published · founded 2017 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-04 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/birds-on-mars 11. **punktum digital** — Berlin, Germany · €45-85/hr (directory-listed) · team 2-9 · founded 2022 · services: AI Development, AI Consulting · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-04 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/punktum-digital-gmbh 12. **Limebit** — Berlin, Germany · rate not published · team 2-9 · founded 2016 · services: AI Development, AI Consulting · 2 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-09 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/limebit ## Compared head-to-head Curated comparison pages (published rates, team size, coverage, projected 12-week engagement cost, and the curator's verdict on both sides — pairings are never sold): - dida vs Merantix Momentum: https://www.aiagencies.eu/compare/dida-vs-merantix-momentum ## About this market Berlin's project bench is wide, and the useful difference is what each project left in the client's hands. Birds on Mars released Quantified Trees, the irrigation-forecasting model for Berlin's borough tree services, as an open-source stack with its pipeline and monitoring. Merantix Momentum delivered rail noise-barrier detection for DZSF as an open-source plugin and handed its citizen-inquiry proof of concept to the Federal Chancellery for integration. DAIN Studios built Bettermile's ETA prediction in phases and transferred it to the client's own analysts, and Contiamo describes phased delivery that ends in knowledge transfer. dida and Lautmaler leave the method on record: dida's track-anomaly work for Deutsche Bahn is written up down to the model, and Lautmaler's sipgate chatbot comes with a technical whitepaper. Scope discipline is stated rather than implied at several firms. Dr. Mark Wernsdorfer promises a clear price frame and a clear end and does not offer retainers; his AMPEL decision-support system is deployed across more than 1,500 beds at University Hospital Leipzig. Limebit works to a written scope with a fixed team, and punktum digital quotes fixed prices. For a Berlin buyer the sorting question is the handover inventory. Ask for the list of artifacts the last comparable project delivered—code repository, data pipeline, evaluation set, runbook—and who on the client side could run the system without the agency. Where a reference is a proof of concept or a strategy program, ask what happened after the final invoice. ## Questions buyers ask ### How many AI agencies work with project-based in Berlin? 12 agencies in our directory combine verified project-based client evidence with a Berlin base. The current top-ranked are Merantix Momentum, ontolux, Lautmaler — ordered by depth of documented client evidence, then our editorial scoring (portfolio quality, credibility, completeness); placement is never paid. ### How much does an AI agency cost in Berlin? Published rates across this page's agencies run €45–175 per hour (median ~€130). Project totals depend on scope — the rate index at /rates breaks the computed bands down by region, country and team size. ### How is the project-based model verified? Every agency here documents project-based work on its own site or in a published case study, describing the engagement structure rather than a service-list claim. We never infer the model from portfolio tone, so this list only contains agencies that operate project-based engagements deliberately. --- Source: AIAgencies.eu — the curated register of European AI agencies. Rate provenance: "agency-confirmed" = disclosed via submission or claimed profile; "directory-listed" = Clutch or two agreeing B2B directories (lone unverified sources are never written). Full method: https://www.aiagencies.eu/methodology · Rate index: https://www.aiagencies.eu/rates