AI Consulting Companies
AI consultancies help decide what to build, what to buy and what to leave alone — covering use-case selection, data readiness, governance and compliance. Compare vetted firms and request quotes.
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We will help your potential customers find you with contextual and targeted advertising, create a cool website and fill social networks with individual creatives.Day after day, in…
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- $100+
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- $3k+
Since our company was founded, we've helped our clients find exceptional solutions for their businesses by creating memorable brands and digital products. Our knowledge grows every…
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Our company is engaged in development and support of large projects on the Internet, development of business solutions, Internet marketing, design. The main directions of our activ…
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Before you shortlist anyone
All calculatorsThe short answer
1,000 AI consulting companies are listed. 63% publish a minimum project budget; the median floor is $10k. Most work starts in the $3–10k range. Median published rate is $25/hr across 68 companies.
Best supplied: Russia (420) · United States (131) · India (77)
Recalculated 2026-10-02 from live profiles.
What it costs, by country
Each cell counts companies whose published minimum project budget falls in that band. Only countries with at least 5 listed companies appear.
| Country | under $3k | $3–10k | $10–20k | $20–30k | $30k+ | Median rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia420Widest choice | 3 | 82 | 72 | 55 | 47 | $30/hr |
| United States131 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 13 | 46 | $35/hr |
| India77 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 10 | $18/hr |
| Belarus61 | 4 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | $25/hr |
| Ukraine50 | — | 12 | 5 | 9 | 3 | — |
| Germany30 | — | 2 | — | 5 | 1 | — |
| Netherlands26 | — | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | — |
| Poland23 | — | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | — |
| United Kingdom21 | — | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | — |
| Kazakhstan13 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Uzbekistan11 | 1 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Armenia9 | — | 3 | 2 | — | — | — |
| Australia7 | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | — | — |
| Israel5 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| Canada5 | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | — |
How this table is built
- Figures are minimum project budgets companies publish on their own profiles — the floor below which they decline work, not the price of a finished project.
- USD only. Companies quote in six currencies and averaging across them produces a number nobody charges.
- Budgets outside $300–$2,000,000 and rates outside $5–$500/hr are dropped as data-entry errors.
- A country needs 5 listed companies for a row, and 5 published rates before a median rate is shown.
What will your budget reach?
Move the slider. Every figure below is a count of companies whose published minimum project budget sits at or under that amount.
208 of 627 companies (33%) take projects at this size.
Where the entry thresholds sit
- under $3k
- 21
- $3–10k
- 187
- $10–20k
- 145
- $20–30k
- 127
- $30k+
- 147
Goes furthest in Russia — 85 companies
This says who will engage, not what your scope should cost. A budget that reaches most of the market still buys very different things depending on what you are building.
Who is focused, and who has proved it
Horizontal: how concentrated a company is on AI consulting. Vertical: how much checkable evidence stands behind it. 59 of 1000 companies are plotted — the rest have fewer than 2 evidence signals, so placing them would be guesswork.
- Big Drop IncLeaders
- FueledLeaders
- IntellectsoftLeaders
- moodleyLeaders
- The Digital EmbassyLeaders
- Vergani&GascoLeaders
How a company is placed
- Focus is the inverse of how many categories a company claims, blended with the share of its portfolio tagged with this one. A firm listing three technologies is concentrated; a firm listing forty also appears here.
- Proven delivery adds published reviews (to 20), portfolio projects (to 25), Ahrefs Domain Rating (to 60) and years listed (to 10). Each is capped so no single signal carries a company to the top.
- Positions are relative to the other companies on this page: the median company sits at the centre of each axis, so a quadrant boundary means "ahead of half the companies listed here". Raw scores are in each bubble's tooltip.
- Deliberately excluded: the star rating, which sits in too narrow a band to separate anyone; the editorial rank, which is a hand-assigned sort weight; and paid verification, which does not move anything on this chart.
- Leaders:
- Concentrated on this work and with the record to show for it.
- Specialists:
- This is most of what they do, but the public evidence is still thin.
- Established generalists:
- A substantial track record, spread across many categories.
- Emerging:
- Building both focus and evidence.
Customer Reviews about AI consulting
Web Chemists
Заказывали у Web-Химиков работы по сайту и дальнейшей оптимизации. До этого уже был опыт с другими исполнителями, поэтому подход сравнить есть с чем. Здесь понравилась организованность: сначала собрали информацию, уточнили цели, потом предложили понятный план действий. В процессе не пропадали, держали связь и нормально реагировали на замечания. Отдельно отмечу, что не было ощущения, будто тебе просто продают услугу — чувствовалось, что люди реально погружены в проект. По итогу сайт стал удобнее, а по продвижению начали появляться заметные сдвиги. Впечатление положительное, работать было комфортно.
ХакТайка
Заказали Telegram-бот + мини-приложение для записи на уроки и оплаты, плюс личный кабинет инструкторам. Всё работает стабильно, ученики записываются сами — звонки почти исчезли. Быстро, качественно, рекомендую! (248 символов)
Студия Akademia
Сотрудничаем с Akademia в рамках реализации комплексных мультимедийных и интерактивных проектов. Ценим команду за высокий уровень экспертизы, технологический подход и способность находить эффективные решения даже для сложных задач. Работа всегда выстроена профессионально – от обсуждения концепции до реализации проекта.
What AI consultants are for
Consulting is worth buying when the question is which problem to solve, not how to solve it. A good engagement ends with a ranked portfolio of use cases, an honest read on your data, and a build-or-buy decision for each — usually in four to eight weeks, and usually cheaper than one failed build.
- Use-case discovery and ranking. Value against feasibility, with the ones to reject named explicitly.
- Data readiness audit. What you actually hold, how clean it is, who owns it and what is legally usable.
- Build, buy or partner. Honest comparison against off-the-shelf products, including the ones that make the custom build unnecessary.
- Governance. Acceptable-use policy, model inventory, risk classification, human-oversight rules and incident handling.
- Compliance. EU AI Act risk tiers, GDPR implications, sector rules and the documentation each requires.
- Enablement. Training so internal teams can carry the work after the engagement ends.
How to choose an AI consultancy
- Prefer firms that also build. Advice from people who have shipped systems is calibrated differently from advice from people who have not.
- Ask for a deliverable from a past engagement, redacted. It tells you more than any pitch.
- Check independence: if the firm resells a platform, ask how that affects the recommendation.
- Agree on the artefacts up front — a ranked backlog, an architecture note and a costed plan, not a deck.
- Cap the discovery. Anything past eight weeks before the first build is usually the consultancy pacing itself, not the problem being hard.
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