# Best AI Agencies for Project-Based Work in Budapest > 7 agencies. Top-ranked: Lexunit, Hiflylabs, TechnoLynx. Canonical page: https://www.aiagencies.eu/for/project-based/budapest Generated: 2026-09-28 · Curated by Gabor Kiss · No paid placements — inclusion, score, and rank are never sold. ## Ranked roster 1. **Lexunit** — Budapest, Hungary · €45-85/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2017 · services: AI Development, AI Automation, AI Consulting · 9 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-03 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/lexunit 2. **Hiflylabs** — Budapest, Hungary · rate not published · team 250+ · founded 2015 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, AI Automation · 8 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-03 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/hiflylabs 3. **TechnoLynx** — Budapest, Hungary · €85-130/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2019 · services: AI Development, AI Automation · 4 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-23 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/technolynx 4. **R-Szoft** — Budapest, Hungary · €20-40/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2018 · services: Generative AI, AI Automation, AI Consulting · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-23 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/r-szoft 5. **VisualLabs** — Budapest, Hungary · €45-85/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2017 · services: AI Automation, AI Agents, AI Consulting · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-23 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/visuallabs 6. **Grepton** — Budapest, Hungary · rate not published · team 50-249 · founded 2001 · services: AI Automation, AI Agents, AI Consulting, AI Development · 5 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-23 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/grepton 7. **Dmlab** — Budapest, Hungary · rate not published · team 10-49 · founded 2007 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development · 2 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-09 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/dmlab ## 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): - Dmlab vs Hiflylabs: https://www.aiagencies.eu/compare/dmlab-vs-hiflylabs ## About this market The Budapest projects documented here differ most in what they left behind. TechnoLynx publishes its test sets and baselines—a barcode pipeline that beat a Dynamsoft baseline 86.7% to 80% on the same 30-video set—and several of its engagements end in a proof of concept or audit handed to the client. Hiflylabs took Billingo's text-to-SQL and RAG agent from proof of concept through pilot to full production, and its Semilab RAG chatbot was a proof of concept with automated evaluation that continued as a multi-sprint project. Lexunit's Astotec vision line runs on-premise without internet access, while its Atlas Copco optimizer stopped at verification on legacy data. Dmlab describes workshops followed by iterative analytics sprints; VisualLabs pairs Dynamics implementations with onboarding and training; Grepton's published path runs a six-to-eight-week pilot before rollout. R-Szoft's named projects are conventional software builds, and its AI results are credited to unnamed clients. For a buyer scoping a fixed project in Budapest, the sorting question is what you own when the invoice is paid. A benchmark you can rerun, an evaluation set, a documented pipeline and an on-premise deployment are assets; a pilot report is not. Ask each candidate how many of its pilots reached production and who ran them afterward, and write the handover items into the scope. The curator notes that Hiflylabs' Semilab and Adaptive Recognition work are named proofs of concept, so ask what has run in production since. ## Questions buyers ask ### How many AI agencies work with project-based in Budapest? 7 agencies in our directory combine verified project-based client evidence with a Budapest base. The current top-ranked are Lexunit, Hiflylabs, TechnoLynx — 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 Budapest? Published rates across this page's agencies run €20–130 per hour (median ~€65). 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. ### Can these agencies embed consultants with our team? 4 of the agencies on this page document an embedded / team-extension working model. See the team-extension page for the full verified list, or check the engagement chips on individual profiles. --- 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