# Best AI Development Agencies in Austria > 8 agencies. Top-ranked: craftworks, Cloudflight, enliteAI. Canonical page: https://www.aiagencies.eu/services/ai-development/austria Generated: 2026-09-21 · Curated by Gabor Kiss · No paid placements — inclusion, score, and rank are never sold. ## Ranked roster 1. **craftworks** — Vienna, Austria · rate not published · team 10-49 · founded 2014 · services: AI Development, Generative AI · 5 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-07 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/craftworks 2. **Cloudflight** — Graz, Austria · rate not published · team 250+ · services: AI Development, Generative AI, AI Consulting · 2 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-09 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/cloudflight 3. **enliteAI** — Vienna, Austria · rate not published · team 10-49 · founded 2017 · services: AI Development, AI Agents, AI Consulting · 5 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-07 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/enliteai 4. **Waterglass** — Vienna, Austria · rate not published · team 10-49 · founded 2024 · services: AI Agents, AI Automation, AI Consulting, AI Development · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-08-04 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/waterglass 5. **Dev House Austria** — Vienna, Austria · €20-40/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2012 · services: AI Development, Generative AI, AI Consulting · 1 documented client engagement with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-09 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/dev-house-austria 6. **DatenVorsprung** — Vienna, Austria · €45-85/hr (directory-listed) · team 2-9 · founded 2020 · services: AI Development, AI Consulting · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/datenvorsprung 7. **eMentalist** — Vienna, Austria · rate not published · team 2-9 · founded 2016 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/ementalist 8. **Data Technology** — Vienna, Austria · rate not published · services: AI Consulting, AI Development · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/data-technology ## 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): - craftworks vs enliteAI: https://www.aiagencies.eu/compare/craftworks-vs-enliteai - craftworks vs Waterglass: https://www.aiagencies.eu/compare/craftworks-vs-waterglass - enliteAI vs Waterglass: https://www.aiagencies.eu/compare/enliteai-vs-waterglass ## About this market What gets built in Austria skews industrial. craftworks has worked since 2014 on predictive-quality, predictive-maintenance and computer-vision systems for industrial clients, and enliteAI builds reinforcement learning and computer vision for energy, transport and public-sector buyers. DatenVorsprung describes its output as verifiable AI systems, a framing that points at how a model is checked rather than at what it predicts, and its TU Wien lineage sits behind that. Cloudflight in Graz is the only entry at engineering-group scale, with more than 250 staff across AI, data engineering and cloud-native software. The rest are smaller Vienna practices: Dev House Austria on custom AI applications, language-model integrations and process automation since 2012, Data Technology on analytics and machine learning for finance, retail and media, and eMentalist on predictive analytics with Munich and Frankfurt offices behind the Vienna base. Team size decides the shape of a development contract more than capability does, and this roster is stratified almost entirely by it. Rates are mostly invisible: Dev House Austria publishes €20–40/hr, DatenVorsprung €45–85/hr, and nobody else publishes anything, so scope the work before you compare quotes. Waterglass is the only entry that has been through an editorial review, and what the review found worth trusting was the operating posture: agent systems built, run and hosted on European infrastructure, and a site that states plainly there is no Munich office and that on-site work means travel. Its own products carry the checkable record, including Pxl, a builder with 100 million interactions now being rebuilt as an agentic business. Ask any candidate for one system still in production and the name of whoever maintains it. ## Questions buyers ask ### How much do AI Development agencies in Austria charge? Of the 8 AI Development agencies on this page, 2 publish complete hourly rate ranges. They range from €20 to €85, with a median around €48. Across the register, rated agencies in Europe bill €65–110/hr (146 rated). 2 agencies operate under €100/hr: Dev House Austria, DatenVorsprung. ### Which are the top-rated AI Development agencies in Austria? Based on our editorial scoring (portfolio quality, business credibility, and case study depth), the top-ranked AI Development agencies in Austria are craftworks, Cloudflight, enliteAI. See the full review on each agency's profile. ### Are there Austria AI Development agencies specializing in Manufacturing? Yes — 5 agencies on this page list Manufacturing experience. Top examples include craftworks, Cloudflight, enliteAI. ### How recent are these AI Development agency reviews? 5 of the 8 agencies on this page have been editorially reviewed between Aug 4, 2026 and Sep 9, 2026 — the most recent being Dev House Austria. See our review methodology for how scores are calculated. ### What's the smallest team size available for ai development in Austria? DatenVorsprung, eMentalist are the boutique studios (under 10 people) on this page, ideal for projects needing senior-level attention without large-team overhead. --- 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