# Best AI Development Agencies in Vienna > 7 agencies. Top-ranked: craftworks, enliteAI, Waterglass. Canonical page: https://www.aiagencies.eu/services/ai-development/vienna 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. **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 3. **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 4. **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 5. **DatenVorsprung** — Vienna, Austria · €45-85/hr (directory-listed) · team 2-9 · founded 2020 · services: AI Development, AI Consulting · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/datenvorsprung 6. **eMentalist** — Vienna, Austria · rate not published · team 2-9 · founded 2016 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/ementalist 7. **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 Custom AI development in Vienna is industrial before it is anything else. craftworks is the clearest case, building predictive-quality, predictive-maintenance and computer-vision systems with Wien Energie, ÖBB, VERBUND, ZKW Group and voestalpine among named clients—a roster that reads like a list of Austrian industry. Dev House Austria has traded since 2012 and publishes three named-client AI builds. DatenVorsprung brings the academic end, and enliteAI works reinforcement learning where the problem is sequential decision-making rather than prediction. Data Technology and Waterglass work alongside them. The screen that matters here is deployment: industrial AI dies between the pilot and the line more often than anywhere else, so ask what happened after the proof of concept and who operates the model now. Ask too where it runs—on the machine, at the edge, or centrally—because in a plant that constraint decides the architecture. Vienna prices below Munich and Zurich for comparable engineering, which is much of the reason these teams retain the people they train. ## Questions buyers ask ### How much do AI Development agencies in Vienna charge? Of the 7 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 Vienna? Based on our editorial scoring (portfolio quality, business credibility, and case study depth), the top-ranked AI Development agencies in Vienna are craftworks, enliteAI, Waterglass. See the full review on each agency's profile. ### Are there Vienna AI Development agencies specializing in Manufacturing? Yes — 4 agencies on this page list Manufacturing experience. Top examples include craftworks, enliteAI, DatenVorsprung. ### How recent are these AI Development agency reviews? 4 of the 7 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 Vienna? 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