AI Development + France
Best AI Development Agencies in France (September 2026)
19 AI Development agencies based in France. Top-ranked: Artefact, Converteo, Wavestone.
These agencies specialize in AI Development with a presence in France. Listed rates in Europe run €65–110/hr across 147 rated agencies.
Market snapshot
Pricing for AI Development agencies in France
Of the 19 ai development agencies on this page, 4 publish complete hourly rate ranges. Across them, rates span €45–€130, with a median around €86/hr. Across the register, rated agencies in Europe bill €65–110/hr (147 rated).
European AI agency hourly rates by country and region →
| Tier | Hourly rate | Agencies |
|---|---|---|
| Budget | €50–99/hr | 4 — Yield Studio, FFFACE.me, Preste, Serokell |
Team capacity in France
Of the 19 agencies on this page, 14 disclose team size. The distribution breaks down as:
- Boutique (<10)4 agencies — Qweri, Flowt, Mozza, DataGenius
- Small/mid (10-49)2 agencies — FFFACE.me, Preste
- Mid studio (50-99)4 agencies — Yield Studio, ActinVision, Datalyo, Serokell
- Large studio (100+)4 agencies — Artefact, Converteo, Wavestone, AVISIA
Ranked agencies
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Artefact
#1Paris, France
Client evidence: 5 documented clients overall
Best for: Large consumer and industrial groups that want AI agents adopted across a workforce, not piloted in one team.

Converteo
#2Paris, France
Client evidence: 4 documented clients overall
Best for: Retail and consumer brands putting a customer-facing agent into production, with the evaluation and rollback to match.
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Wavestone
#3Paris, France
Client evidence: 3 documented clients overall
Best for: Regulated organizations whose AI program has to satisfy a supervisor, an auditor or a board risk committee.

AVISIA
#4Lyon, France
Client evidence: 3 documented clients overall
Best for: Large French consumer businesses industrializing scoring or support automation that already runs past the pilot stage.

AI Sisters
#5Paris, France
Client evidence: 15 documented clients overall
Best for: Large French employers that want their own people building agents rather than a vendor owning them.

Yield Studio
#6Lyon, France
Client evidence: 6 documented clients overall
Best for: French mid-market firms adding a document-analysis or automation layer to a SaaS or internal platform they already operate.

Qweri
#7Lyon, France
Qweri is a Lyon data-marketing consultancy building web analytics, data engineering and data-science pipelines for retail, e-commerce and B2B clients.
Flowt
#8Lyon, France
Flowt is a Lyon data and AI agency taking projects from framing to production across business intelligence, data engineering, data science and generative AI.
Mozza
#9Paris, France
Client evidence: 2 documented clients overall
Best for: Companies that want an honest read on whether an AI project is worth building before commissioning one.

Automato
#10Paris, France
Automato is a Paris studio building custom software for small and mid-sized companies, combining internal tools with AI assistants and editorial automation in place of per-seat SaaS licenses.
Upscale Paris
#11Paris, France
Upscale Paris is a Paris AI consultancy working on operating-model change, from AI strategy and governance through prototype builds to adoption programs inside client teams.

ActinVision
#12Lyon, France
ActinVision is a data and AI consultancy with a Lyon office building data platforms, visualization, data science and generative AI for industry, retail and logistics clients.

Datalyo
#13Lyon, France
Datalyo is a Lyon data and AI consultancy building data platforms, machine-learning models and business intelligence for industrial, retail and public-sector clients.

FFFACE.me
#14Paris, France
FFFACE.me is an augmented-reality and AI try-on studio with a Paris office, founded in 2019. It builds virtual try-on experiences, AR mirrors, and generated content for fashion, beauty, and consumer brands.

Preste
#15Paris, France
Preste is a Paris AI firm founded in 2019, working across computer vision, anomaly detection, document processing, conversational agents, and molecular design. It is an NVIDIA embedded software partner building on Jetson platforms.

Serokell
#16Paris, France
Serokell is a software firm with a Paris office, founded in 2015, combining functional-programming engineering with machine-learning delivery. Its ML practice covers predictive maintenance, computer vision, and natural-language systems.
CZ Multimedia
#17Lyon, France
CZ Multimedia is a web and AI agency in the Lyon area building chatbots, retrieval assistants, document vision and machine-learning integrations for small businesses.

McLeuker
#18Paris, France
McLeuker is a Paris agentic AI and fashion-tech consultancy that ships engagements onto its own multi-agent platform or builds an equivalent stack inside the client's infrastructure.
DataGenius
#19Lyon, France
DataGenius is a Lyon machine-learning consultancy building predictive models, language processing and production data-science modules for pharma, health and SME clients.
Industry experience among France AI Development agencies
Of the 19 agencies on this page, 19 publish their industry focus. Among those:
| Industry | Agencies with stated experience |
|---|---|
| E-commerce | 11 of 19 — Artefact, Converteo, AVISIA, Qweri, Flowt, Mozza, Upscale Paris, ActinVision, FFFACE.me, CZ Multimedia, McLeuker |
| FinTech | 10 of 19 — Artefact, Wavestone, AVISIA, AI Sisters, Yield Studio, Mozza, Upscale Paris, ActinVision, Serokell, CZ Multimedia |
| Manufacturing | 10 of 19 — Artefact, Converteo, AI Sisters, Flowt, Automato, ActinVision, Datalyo, Preste, Serokell, DataGenius |
| Healthcare | 9 of 19 — Wavestone, AVISIA, Yield Studio, Mozza, Upscale Paris, Datalyo, Preste, Serokell, DataGenius |
| SaaS & B2B | 7 of 19 — Yield Studio, Qweri, Flowt, Automato, Preste, Serokell, DataGenius |
| Public Sector | 2 of 19 — AI Sisters, Datalyo |
Services frequently bundled with AI Development in France
Beyond AI Development itself, agencies on this page most commonly offer:
- AI Consulting15 of 19 — Artefact, Converteo, Wavestone, AVISIA, +11 more
- AI Automation8 of 19 — Artefact, Wavestone, Mozza, Automato, +4 more
- AI Agents7 of 19 — Artefact, Converteo, AI Sisters, Yield Studio, +3 more
- Generative AI6 of 19 — AVISIA, Yield Studio, Flowt, ActinVision, +2 more
- AI Marketing2 of 19 — Converteo, FFFACE.me
- AI SEO1 of 19 — Qweri
Frequently asked questions — AI Development in France
- How much do AI Development agencies in France charge?
- Of the 19 AI Development agencies on this page, 4 publish complete hourly rate ranges. They range from €45 to €130, with a median around €86. Across the register, rated agencies in Europe bill €65–110/hr (147 rated). 4 agencies operate under €100/hr: Yield Studio, FFFACE.me, Preste, Serokell.
- Which are the top-rated AI Development agencies in France?
- Based on our editorial scoring (portfolio quality, business credibility, and case study depth), the top-ranked AI Development agencies in France are Artefact, Converteo, Wavestone. See the full review on each agency's profile.
- Are there France AI Development agencies specializing in E-commerce?
- Yes — 11 agencies on this page list E-commerce experience. Top examples include Artefact, Converteo, AVISIA.
- How recent are these AI Development agency reviews?
- 16 of the 19 agencies on this page have been editorially reviewed between Aug 5, 2026 and Sep 10, 2026 — the most recent being DataGenius. See our review methodology for how scores are calculated.
Local Insight
AI Development Agencies in France
Custom AI development means three different purchases in France, and this roster carries all of them. The narrowest is deep engineering. Preste works across computer vision, anomaly detection, document processing, conversational agents and molecular design, and is an NVIDIA embedded software partner building on Jetson platforms, which makes it the only listing here that reaches the edge device. Serokell pairs functional-programming engineering with predictive maintenance, computer vision and language systems from a Paris office open since 2015, and FFFACE.me builds virtual try-on and AR mirrors for fashion and beauty brands. The second purchase is a data platform with models on top, and Lyon supplies most of it: AVISIA since 2007, ActinVision and Datalyo since 2014, then DataGenius, Qweri, Flowt, and Yield Studio building custom applications for mid-sized French companies. The third is the consultancy tier—Artefact, Converteo, Wavestone, AI Sisters, Upscale Paris—which will build, but sells the program wrapped around the build. Automato, Mozza and McLeuker sit outside all three, on internal tooling, product audits and fashion-tech.
Where rates are published at all they fall into two bands: Preste and Serokell at €45–85/hr, FFFACE.me and Yield Studio at €85–130/hr, everyone else on request. Sort by size fit before capability, because a small Lyon practice and a 2,500-person consultancy will not answer the same brief or price it within the same order of magnitude. Then make stack specificity the test. Ask which models, in whose cloud account, with what in the handover package—and treat vagueness as an answer in itself. Automato's published work names no model, framework or provider anywhere, which matters far more for a build than it does for a workflow.
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