Market snapshot
Pricing for Generative AI agencies in the UK
Of the 17 generative ai agencies on this page, 8 publish complete hourly rate ranges. Across them, rates span €20–€130, with a median around €65/hr. Across the register, rated agencies in the UK bill €65–110/hr (27 rated).
European AI agency hourly rates by country and region →
| Tier | Hourly rate | Agencies |
|---|---|---|
| Budget | €50–99/hr | 8 — Imobisoft, Kortical, Blueberry Consultants, iCentric Agency, Mercury Labs, N-iX, Opinov8, Pixelette Technologies |
Team capacity in the UK
Of the 17 agencies on this page, 15 disclose team size. The distribution breaks down as:
- Boutique (<10)2 agencies — Kortical, Nebuli
- Small/mid (10-49)4 agencies — Imobisoft, Blueberry Consultants, iCentric Agency, Mercury Labs
- Mid studio (50-99)5 agencies — Datatonic, Elsewhen, Neurons Lab, Tom & Co, Ekimetrics
- Large studio (100+)4 agencies — Kainos, N-iX, Opinov8, Pixelette Technologies
Ranked agencies
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Datatonic
#1London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 8 documented clients overall
Best for: Enterprises standardizing ML delivery on Google Cloud or AWS, especially where a regulator has to be satisfied.
Faculty
#2London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 3 documented clients overall
Best for: Enterprises and public bodies that need AI deployed under regulatory or safety scrutiny.
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Imobisoft
#3London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 4 documented clients overall
Best for: Health and industrial companies taking a risk-scoring or compliance-reporting workflow from paper to a regulated digital platform.
Kortical
#4London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 8 documented clients overall
Best for: Enterprises with a defined prediction or document-automation problem that want a model in production in weeks.
Elsewhen
#5London, United Kingdom
Elsewhen is a London product consultancy working with technology and financial-services companies, pairing product design and engineering with AI and cloud delivery.
Neurons Lab
#6London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 2 documented clients overall
Best for: Financial institutions that need agentic AI shipped inside regulatory constraints—training through production.
Kainos
#7Belfast, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 5 documented clients overall
Best for: UK public bodies and regulated enterprises buying delivery at program scale, with AI as one workstream inside a larger build.
Tom & Co
#8London, United Kingdom
Tom & Co is a London e-commerce agency building Adobe Commerce and headless storefronts for retail brands, with a separate AI practice covering generative imagery and workflow automation.
Blueberry Consultants
#9Birmingham, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 3 documented clients overall
Best for: Businesses hardening an AI prototype into a supportable production application, or embedding an LLM into software they already run.
iCentric Agency
#10London, United Kingdom
iCentric Agency is a London and Bedfordshire digital consultancy building custom platforms for enterprise clients, with machine-learning pricing, document processing and agentic tooling among its published specialisms.
Ekimetrics
#11London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 4 documented clients overall
Best for: Consumer and industrial brands that need marketing spend measured and modeled rather than an AI system built.
Nebuli
#12London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 5 documented clients overall
Best for: Organizations wanting a private, self-hosted generative AI workspace over their own documents rather than a public LLM.
The AI Consultancy
#13London, United Kingdom
Client evidence: 2 documented clients overall
Best for: UK small businesses that want a working system and a named person answering the phone.
Mercury Labs
#14London, United Kingdom
Mercury Labs is a London senior-led AI consultancy working from discovery through production on machine learning, retrieval systems and data engineering, and an approved supplier on the Crown Commercial Service AI framework.
N-iX
#15London, United Kingdom
Engineering services group with a dedicated data, AI and machine-learning practice covering generative AI consulting and implementation, AI agents and MLOps. London office; registered in Malta with delivery centers across Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Sweden, India and Colombia.
Opinov8
#16London, United Kingdom
Opinov8 is a London-headquartered engineering firm founded in 2017, running an AI consulting and data practice and its own agent deployment platform alongside cloud and modernization services.
Pixelette Technologies
#17London, United Kingdom
Pixelette Technologies is a London technology firm founded in 2018, building computer-vision and data-automation systems alongside its wider engineering practice.
Head-to-head
Industry experience among UK Generative AI agencies
Of the 17 agencies on this page, 17 publish their industry focus. Among those:
| Industry | Agencies with stated experience |
|---|---|
| FinTech | 10 of 17 — Datatonic, Faculty, Kortical, Elsewhen, Neurons Lab, Ekimetrics, Mercury Labs, N-iX, Opinov8, Pixelette Technologies |
| Healthcare | 9 of 17 — Datatonic, Faculty, Imobisoft, Kortical, Kainos, Blueberry Consultants, Nebuli, The AI Consultancy, Mercury Labs |
| SaaS & B2B | 8 of 17 — Elsewhen, Kainos, Blueberry Consultants, iCentric Agency, Nebuli, N-iX, Opinov8, Pixelette Technologies |
| E-commerce | 7 of 17 — Datatonic, Imobisoft, Tom & Co, iCentric Agency, Ekimetrics, Opinov8, Pixelette Technologies |
| Manufacturing | 5 of 17 — Imobisoft, Kortical, Ekimetrics, N-iX, Opinov8 |
| Public Sector | 4 of 17 — Faculty, Kainos, Nebuli, Mercury Labs |
| Legal | 1 of 17 — Faculty |
Services frequently bundled with Generative AI in the UK
Beyond Generative AI itself, agencies on this page most commonly offer:
- AI Consulting16 of 17 — Datatonic, Faculty, Imobisoft, Kortical, +12 more
- AI Development16 of 17 — Datatonic, Faculty, Imobisoft, Kortical, +12 more
- AI Agents6 of 17 — Faculty, Neurons Lab, The AI Consultancy, N-iX, +2 more
- AI Automation4 of 17 — Faculty, Tom & Co, iCentric Agency, Opinov8
- AI Marketing1 of 17 — Ekimetrics
Frequently asked questions — Generative AI in the UK
- How much do Generative AI agencies in the UK charge?
- Of the 17 Generative AI agencies on this page, 8 publish complete hourly rate ranges. They range from €20 to €130, with a median around €65. Across the register, rated agencies in the UK bill €65–110/hr (27 rated). 8 agencies operate under €100/hr: Imobisoft, Kortical, Blueberry Consultants, iCentric Agency.
- Which are the top-rated Generative AI agencies in the UK?
- Based on our editorial scoring (portfolio quality, business credibility, and case study depth), the top-ranked Generative AI agencies in the UK are Datatonic, Faculty, Imobisoft. See the full review on each agency's profile.
- Are there UK Generative AI agencies specializing in FinTech?
- Yes — 10 agencies on this page list FinTech experience. Top examples include Datatonic, Faculty, Kortical.
- How recent are these Generative AI agency reviews?
- 13 of the 17 agencies on this page have been editorially reviewed between Aug 4, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026 — the most recent being Kainos. See our review methodology for how scores are calculated.
Local Insight
Generative AI Agencies in the UK
Generative AI in the UK is sold mostly by data consultancies and cloud partners rather than by creative studios, and the published work shows it. Datatonic and Ekimetrics arrive from data platforms and marketing-mix modeling. Faculty AI's generative tooling was deployed inside Tide's support operation. Neurons Lab shipped Visa a 20-language marketing system in under two months, with compliance designed against PCI DSS and GDPR. Nebuli builds generative workspaces and responsible-AI tooling for public bodies and research institutions. The specific builds are worth reading closely. Tom & Co generate lifestyle photography variants across a catalog of more than 10,000 SKUs at roughly a tenth of traditional production cost, with every image queued for manual approval before it goes live. The AI Consultancy runs MoverAI on Gemini Flash at temperature zero, because a removals quote cannot vary between runs. Blueberry Consultants in Birmingham has built its own model-routing, speech-to-text and retrieval tooling, and publishes a band at the bottom of the page's range.
Fewer than half of these listings publish a rate, so budget from scope, and expect a pilot to cost a fraction of a deployment. The governing question is what happens when the model is wrong, and credible answers already sit in the work above: a human approval queue, deterministic settings where the output has to be quote-grade, a routing layer that keeps a client off a single model vendor. Weak answers arrive as prompt engineering. Ask to use a system in production rather than a sandbox, ask who reads the evaluation output, and ask what a request costs at ten times current volume. That last figure is what turns a working demonstration into an unaffordable one.
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