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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.

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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 →

TierHourly rateAgencies
Budget€50–99/hr4Yield 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:

Ranked agencies

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Artefact

#1

Paris, 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.

1000+Contact for rates
AI ConsultingAI DevelopmentAI Automation

Converteo

#2

Paris, 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.

250+Contact for rates
AI ConsultingAI AgentsAI Development

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Wavestone

#3

Paris, 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.

1000+Contact for rates
AI ConsultingAI DevelopmentAI Automation

AVISIA

#4

Lyon, 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.

250+Contact for rates
AI ConsultingAI DevelopmentGenerative AI

AI Sisters

#5

Paris, 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.

Contact for rates
AI ConsultingAI AgentsAI Development

Yield Studio

#6

Lyon, 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.

50-249€85-130/hr
AI DevelopmentGenerative AIAI Agents

Qweri

#7

Lyon, France

Qweri is a Lyon data-marketing consultancy building web analytics, data engineering and data-science pipelines for retail, e-commerce and B2B clients.

2-9Contact for rates
AI ConsultingAI DevelopmentAI SEO

Flowt

#8

Lyon, 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.

2-9Contact for rates
AI DevelopmentAI ConsultingGenerative AI

Mozza

#9

Paris, 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.

2-9Contact for rates
AI ConsultingAI DevelopmentAI Automation

Automato

#10

Paris, 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.

Contact for rates
AI AutomationAI Development

Upscale Paris

#11

Paris, 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.

Contact for rates
AI ConsultingAI DevelopmentAI Automation

ActinVision

#12

Lyon, 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.

50-249Contact for rates
AI ConsultingAI DevelopmentGenerative AI

Datalyo

#13

Lyon, 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.

50-249Contact for rates
AI ConsultingAI Development

FFFACE.me

#14

Paris, 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.

10-49€85-130/hr
Generative AIAI MarketingAI Development

Preste

#15

Paris, 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.

10-49€45-85/hr
AI DevelopmentAI AgentsAI Consulting

Serokell

#16

Paris, 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.

50-249€45-85/hr
AI DevelopmentAI ConsultingAI Automation

CZ Multimedia

#17

Lyon, 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.

Contact for rates
AI DevelopmentGenerative AIAI Automation

McLeuker

#18

Paris, 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.

Contact for rates
AI ConsultingAI AgentsAI Development

DataGenius

#19

Lyon, France

DataGenius is a Lyon machine-learning consultancy building predictive models, language processing and production data-science modules for pharma, health and SME clients.

2-9Contact for rates
AI DevelopmentAI Consulting

Industry experience among France AI Development agencies

Of the 19 agencies on this page, 19 publish their industry focus. Among those:

Services frequently bundled with AI Development in France

Beyond AI Development itself, agencies on this page most commonly offer:

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.
What's the smallest team size available for ai development in France?
Qweri, Flowt, Mozza are the boutique studios (under 10 people) on this page, ideal for projects needing senior-level attention without large-team overhead.

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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