Market finding · 2026-10-12
General recommendations give Ukrainian IT firms a strong starting point.
We asked AI this buyer question
What are the best software development companies in Central and Eastern Europe?
Asked in English, German.
What we foundN-iX appears in every CEE answer in this test, in both English and German. That does not establish its position in other services.
A positive example: N-iX
answers include N-iX in their CEE recommendations
This is a mention in the study, not a company profile or a ranking of suppliers.
What AI actually said
Ukraine-rooted, multi-country CEE delivery, strong in cloud-native and data.
Dedicated engineering teams, cloud, data, embedded systems and IoT
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Exact questions and test conditions
Questions and test conditions
CEE leaders
What are the best software development companies in Central and Eastern Europe?
Other languages
German
Was sind die besten Softwareentwicklungsunternehmen in Mittel- und Osteuropa?GPT-5.6 Sol · Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Gemini 3.8 Flash · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Search off and search available · 3 answer rounds · each answer in a new conversation. With search available, models could search and open pages, but were not forced to.
Search recorded by the API in search-available answers: GPT-5.6 Sol 30 of 30 · Claude Sonnet 5.5 30 of 30 · Gemini 3.8 Flash 1 of 30 · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 30 of 30. All four models stay in the comparison. No record does not prove that a model did not search.
Counts describe sampled API answers, not market share, supplier quality or delivery safety. Reasons and risks are what AI said; we did not check them. We tested models through their APIs. Chat apps may give different answers.
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