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Enterprise Software Adoption in France

France is fifteenth of 16 on CRM cloud adoption, with only Greece (4.97%) behind it. In 2023, 7.42% of enterprises with 10 or more employees paid for CRM software as a cloud service; the EU27 average was 11.34%.

7.42%
CRM cloud adoption, 2023
8.79%
ERP cloud adoption, 2023

CRM and ERP in France, against the EU27

Growth has been slower than the bloc's: up 0.57 points from 6.85% in 2018, while the EU27 average gained 4.69. In 2018 France was above the EU27 average of 6.65%; it has since dropped behind it. Ranked on the 2018 figures it would have been eighth, so it has lost 7 places.

CRM and ERP run close to level here: 8.79% for ERP in 2023 against 7.42% for CRM, with ERP ahead by 1.37 points. That is 2.94 points below the EU27's 11.73% and thirteenth of 16, 2 places higher than on CRM. Here the figure moved against the EU27 average: it was 8.98% in 2021 and has fallen 0.19 points, while the average rose 2.08. In the CRM ranking France sits between Portugal (7.7%) and Greece (4.97%).

Cloud adoptionFranceEU27Difference
CRM, 20237.42%11.34%-3.92 pts
CRM, 20186.85%6.65%+0.2 pts
ERP, 20238.79%11.73%-2.94 pts
ERP, 20218.98%9.65%-0.67 pts

Source: Eurostat, ICT usage in enterprises survey (isoc_cicce_use), fetched September 14, 2026. View the underlying table.

Vendors in our rankings headquartered in France

France is the headquarters given for 87 of the 1723 listings in our software rankings: 82 vendors in 55 of the 132 categories. Listed in more than one category: Brevo (3), Crisp (2), Livestorm (2) and Mistral AI (2). That makes it the fifth-largest headquarters country in the dataset, behind Canada (88) and ahead of the Netherlands (55).

Among the 16 countries on these pages France is second by number of listings but fifteenth by CRM cloud adoption. Revenue & Growth is the largest category group with 39 listings, followed by IT & Collaboration (22), Operations (16), AI software (7), Finance (2) and Vertical (1). There is none in People.

28 of the 87 hold a top-three place:

  • Scaleway Generative APIs, #1 in LLM API providers. Pricing: Billed per token on serverless endpoints with a free tier; dedicated deployments are available when a team wants isolation.
  • Kavkom, #1 in call center software. Pricing: Basic Pack €10/user/month (€8 with a 12-month term); Plus Pack €50/user/month (€42 with a 12-month term, €30/€24 for French SMEs); Custom Pack quoted; predictive dialer add-on from €50/user/month; published for the first two tiers
  • URLR, #1 in link shortener software. Pricing: Free plan with 10 links a month; paid tiers add links, tracked visits, branded domains and users, with a 14-day free trial and annual billing at two months free.
  • Custplace, #1 in reputation management software. Pricing: Free plan; Business €35/month, Premium €125/month and E-Commerce €49/month (up to 200 requests), excl. VAT, billed annually; multi-location Elite plan quoted.
  • Kaspr, #1 in sales intelligence software. Pricing: Free plan (15 B2B email, 5 phone and 5 direct-email credits a month, no exports); Starter €45/user/month billed annually or €59 monthly; Business €79/user/month annually or €99 monthly; Enterprise is custom-priced. Also listed in GBP and USD.
  • Hyperping, #1 in uptime monitoring software. Pricing: Free plan with 20 monitors at 5-minute checks and one basic status page; Essentials from $24/month billed yearly with 30-second checks, on-call and a custom-domain status page.
  • Tuleap, #1 in version control software. Pricing: Free and open source to self-host; the hosted myTuleap cloud and enterprise support are priced on request.
  • api.video, #1 in video hosting software. Pricing: Pay-as-you-go: video encoding free for unlimited minutes; hosting from $0.00285 per minute stored; delivery from $0.0017 per minute delivered. Enterprise plan available with custom terms, wire transfer and annual billing.
  • HYVOR Talk, #1 in website commenting software. Pricing: Personal plan at 5 euros a month billed annually for 2,500 credits; Premium from 12 euros; Business from 40 euros; Enterprise on request.
  • Kameleoon, #1 in website personalization software. Pricing: 30-day free trial, no credit card required; PBX Starter from $495 a month for 50,000 tested visitors; Enterprise quoted, and personalization, AI targeting and feature management are Enterprise-only
  • Windmill, #1 in workflow automation software. Pricing: Free and open-source self-hosted edition; Enterprise is seat-based at $20 per developer and $10 per operator a month, plus compute units at $50 a month per 2 CU.
  • OVHcloud AI Endpoints, #2 in LLM API providers. Pricing: Billed on a Public Cloud project with a payment method; anonymous use is limited to 2 requests per minute per IP and model.
  • Affilae, #2 in affiliate marketing software. Pricing: Build €99/month + 2.5% per validated sale (1-month free trial, 3-month commitment). Grow €249/month + 2% per validated sale, adds growth consulting and recruitment. Scale: custom-priced with a dedicated account manager.
  • Odigo, #2 in call center software. Pricing: Essential (5-500 users), Enterprise (500-5,000+ users) and CXaaS (1,000-50,000+ users) tiers, all quoted on request
  • mediarithmics, #2 in customer data platform software. Pricing: Not published; every deployment is quoted after a sales conversation. No free trial is advertised.
  • Youtrust (formerly Yousign), #2 in electronic signature software. Pricing: Free plan for one user with two signature requests a month, a single-user One plan at €9 a month, then Plus and Pro per user per month with unlimited simple signatures; advanced and qualified signatures are paid add-ons (QES from €10 each), and API plans start around €104 a month.
  • Brevo, #2 in email marketing software. Pricing: Free plan with a daily sending cap, then paid plans priced mainly by monthly email volume; SMS and WhatsApp credits bought separately.
  • Mistral AI, #2 in generative AI platform. Pricing: Per-token pricing published for the API in Mistral Studio, with batch (50% discount) and cached input (up to 90% off) pricing; commercial self-hosting and private deployment quoted separately
  • Kolsquare, #2 in influencer marketing software. Pricing: Three packages (Discovery, Listening, Enterprise), each quoted after a demo; no published prices on the vendor's site. Special rates for B Corps and non-profits, and 30% off for startups under three years old with under EUR 500K raised and fewer than 10 employees.
  • Klaxoon, #2 in online whiteboard software. Pricing: Free tier with 500 MB; Starter $24.90 per host per month billed annually for up to 4 Pro users; Enterprise by quote with 5 Pro users minimum.
  • La Growth Machine, #2 in sales engagement software. Pricing: Basic €60/month per identity: 250 leads enriched/month, up to 3 identities, LinkedIn+Email. Pro €120/month per identity: 400 leads enriched/month, 5 sending emails/identity, up to 6 campaigns, LinkedIn+Email+Calls. Ultimate €120/month per identity: 1,000 leads enriched/month, 10 sending emails/identity, unlimited campaigns, LinkedIn+Email+X+Calls, HubSpot and Pipedrive. Agency and Custom plans from €150/month, 6 identities minimum. Prices billed annually.
  • GraphComment, #2 in website commenting software. Pricing: Free basic plan; Starter at 25 dollars a month and Pro at 51 dollars a month billed annually; Enterprise on request.
  • Strapi, #3 in CMS (content management system) software. Pricing: The core is free and open source under MIT license to self-host; paid self-hosted Growth and Enterprise plans add features, and Strapi Cloud sells managed hosting per project on a published table.
  • Hivebrite, #3 in community platform software. Pricing: Core $895/month billed annually; Flex $1,995/month billed annually; Prime and Custom Fit quoted after a discovery call; no free trial
  • Switchy, #3 in link shortener software. Pricing: Tiers are priced by tracked clicks per month, from $47 for up to 10,000 clicks to over $1,000 a month at multi-million click volumes.
  • iodéOS, #3 in operating systems. Pricing: The OS is free; the company's income comes from smartphone sales, premium subscriptions and donations.
  • Magileads, #3 in sales engagement software. Pricing: From €25/month excluding tax, set by a configurator on LinkedIn accounts, sender emails, enrichment volume and mobile numbers rather than fixed tiers; every feature is included at every price, 20% off billed annually. White-label available at standard subscription rates.
  • OpenReplay, #3 in session replay software. Pricing: Self-hosted open-source edition is free; Dedicated managed instances start at $199 a month, billed hourly at $0.276, with no user, recording or retention limits.

Barred from places 1 to 3 as dominant incumbents in a category: Contentsquare (Hotjar), DraftSight, LumApps, SOLIDWORKS and Sweep. 26 of the 87 sell on quote only (30%), above the 25% across all 1723 listings.

RankingVendorPlaceBest forPricing modelFree option
AI agent platformsDust
Company-wide agents on your internal knowledge
#7 of 13Knowledge-heavy teams, EU or US hostedFree + paid tiersFree plan
AI image generatorsPhotoroom
AI product photography and background editing
#7 of 13Online sellers and catalog teamsFlat monthlyFree trial
LLM API providersScaleway Generative APIs
Serverless open-weight model endpoints from a Paris data center
#1 of 12EU companies with data-residency dutiesUsage-basedFree plan
LLM API providersOVHcloud AI Endpoints
Serverless open-model API from a French cloud provider
#2 of 12EU teams already on OVHcloudUsage-basedFree plan
LLM API providersMistral AI
French model maker with EU-hosted API and open-weight models
#9 of 12EU teams wanting a European model makerUsage-based + plansFree plan
generative AI platformMistral AI
French frontier models you can rent by token or self-host
#2 of 11Buyers who want a contractual exit: self-host the same weights if the vendor relationship endsPer token (API) or quoted (self-hosted licence)Free plan includes access to Mistral Studio with $10 a month in API credits for testing; no perpetual free production tier
transcription softwareGladia
Speech-to-text API from a French company
#9 of 11Developers who want a European vendorUsage-basedFree trial
CMS (content management system) softwareStrapi
Open-source, self-hostable headless CMS with a Node.js core
#3 of 14Developers wanting an open-source, self-hostable headless CMSOpen source + paid tiersOpen source
CRM softwarefolk
Relationship CRM for networks and outreach
#17 of 18Founders, agencies and investor teamsPer seat / monthFree trial
PIM softwareAkeneo
Free open-source Community Edition, Growth cloud tier from $45,000/year
#4 of 13A technical team that wants to self-host real PIM software for nothing before any sales conversationFree open-source + published Growth starting price + quote-only upper tiersOpen source
PIM softwareQuable
French PIM inside Oslo-headquartered Ibexa Group
#6 of 13A mid-market team that wants a PIM backed by a larger software group rather than a single-product startupTwo-tier, quote-onlyNone
SMS marketing softwareBrevo
Email-led marketing suite with prepaid SMS
#9 of 12European senders sending SMS and emailPrepaid SMS creditsFree plan
affiliate marketing softwareAffilae
Bordeaux platform, fee charged only on validated sales
#2 of 16Brands wanting network-style recruitment support but with the variable cost tied to confirmed revenuePublished tiers, subscription plus percentage on validated sales onlyFree trial
affiliate marketing softwareKwanko
French network with offices across Europe and Brazil
#11 of 16Advertisers running campaigns across several European markets plus Brazil from one vendorQuote onlyNone
affiliate marketing softwareEffinity
Paris platform and agency, formerly Effiliation, 45,000+ partners
#12 of 16Advertisers wanting agency-style account management layered on affiliate tracking technologyQuote only, performance-based per vendorNone
chatbot softwareCrisp
French all-in-one messaging platform with a no-code AI chatbot builder and flat per-workspace pricing
#4 of 11Flat per-workspace pricing with a block of seats included (4 on Mini, 10 on Essentials, 20 on Plus): a part-time marketer who occasionally jFlat per workspaceFree plan
community platform softwareHivebrite
Paris-built membership platform for associations and alumni networks, with published entry pricing
#3 of 13Associations and alumni networks needing dues, chapters and donations alongside discussionFlat monthly / annualNone
customer data platform softwaremediarithmics
Cookieless-first CDP with built-in audience monetization
#2 of 12Publishers and consumer brands planning their personalization and monetization strategy around the end of third-party cookiesQuote onlyNone stated
customer data platform softwareCommanders Act
French CDP bundled with server-side tag management and consent
#7 of 12European marketing and data teams that want consent, server-side tag collection and the CDP profile from one French vendorQuote onlyNone stated
digital adoption platform softwareLemon Learning
Deep guidance for Salesforce, SAP and Workday, now covering desktop apps too
#11 of 11Large enterprises standardizing guidance across Salesforce, SAP or WorkdayQuote onlyNone stated
ecommerce platformsPrestaShop
Open-source ecommerce from France
#8 of 11European SMEs with an agency partnerOpen source + paid modulesOpen source
email marketing softwareBrevo
Send-volume pricing with transactional email and SMS built in
#2 of 13Large lists mailed occasionallyUsage-basedFree plan
influencer marketing softwareKolsquare
Compliance-first platform, GDPR and French disclosure law built in
#2 of 16Brands and agencies with a legal department to satisfyQuote onlyNone stated
influencer marketing softwareLefty
Fashion and beauty gifting, event-coverage tracking
#10 of 16Fashion and beauty brands seeding products and tracking event coverageQuote onlyNone stated
influencer marketing softwareSkeepers
Volume micro-influencer gifting, content supply focus
#12 of 16Consumer brands wanting volume user-generated content in exchange for productQuote onlyNone stated
influencer marketing softwareFavikon
AI creator authenticity scoring, published pricing
#16 of 16Brands and agencies wanting AI-driven creator authenticity scoring alongside discoveryPublished tiers7-day free trial
link shortener softwareURLR
French-hosted link shortener and QR code platform
#1 of 11European teams with GDPR-driven procurementPer workspace / monthFree plan
link shortener softwareSwitchy
Branded links with retargeting pixels for social traffic
#3 of 11Social-first marketers retargeting link clickersPer tracked clicks / monthNone
live chat softwareCrisp
All-in-one messaging inbox with flat workspace pricing
#5 of 16Small teams wanting chat plus inboxFlat per workspaceFree plan
marketing automation softwareBrevo
Email, SMS and WhatsApp automation from Paris
#13 of 15Budget-minded SMBs with big listsPer email volume / monthFree plan
proposal and quote-management softwareSellsy
French quote-to-invoice CRM with e-signature at every published tier
#7 of 12SMEs that want quotes, e-signature and invoicing in one systemPer user / month, bundled with CRM & invoicingFree trial
reputation management softwareCustplace
NF-certified reviews plus local-listing management
#1 of 11Multi-site retail and service chains wanting reviews, listings and local marketing in one NF-certified platformPer month, published tiersFree plan
reputation management softwareGuest Suite
Multi-location listings, reviews and surveys
#5 of 11Multi-location networks wanting listings, reviews and satisfaction surveys in one consolePer month, published tiersFree trial
sales engagement softwareLa Growth Machine
French multichannel prospecting across LinkedIn, email, X and calls
#2 of 11Teams wanting the widest channel mix in one sequence and willing to pay per identity for itPer identity / monthFree trial
sales engagement softwareMagileads
French multichannel outreach, published entry price from €25/month
#3 of 11Small French or EU teams wanting a low-cost entry into multichannel sequencingUsage-basedFree trial
sales engagement softwareLemlist
French multichannel sequencing, published pricing from $55/month
#4 of 11Teams wanting transparent published pricing across email, LinkedIn and callsFlat or per user / monthFree trial
sales engagement softwareWaalaxy
LinkedIn-first sequencing, published per-user pricing from €19/month
#5 of 11LinkedIn-first prospecting teams wanting predictable per-seat pricingPer user / monthFree trial
sales intelligence softwareKaspr
Paris-built LinkedIn prospecting extension, owned by Cognism
#1 of 11Teams prospecting directly from LinkedIn who want a lightweight extensionFree + paid tiersFree plan
session replay softwareOpenReplay
Open-source session replay you can host yourself
#3 of 11Engineering teams that must own recordingsOpen source + paid tiersOpen source
session replay softwareContentsquare (Hotjar)
Experience analytics that now includes Hotjar
#5 of 11Teams outgrowing basic heatmapsQuote onlyFree plan
social media management softwareAgorapulse
Publishing, shared inbox and reporting for teams and agencies
#4 of 16In-house teams and small agenciesPer user / monthFree trial
social media management softwareIconosquare
Social analytics and scheduling, born on Instagram
#15 of 16Brands that live by Instagram metricsPer profile bundle / monthFree plan
web analytics softwareHotjar
Heatmaps and session replay, now operated under Contentsquare
#13 of 14Teams that want to see, not just count, how visitors use a pagePer session tier / monthFree plan
webinar softwareLivestorm
Browser-based webinars with attendee-credit pricing
#4 of 13Marketing teams running frequent live and automated sessionsPer attendee credit / yearFree trial
website personalization softwareKameleoon
AI-scored personalization and server-side testing with an EU hosting option
#1 of 14Mid-market and enterprise teams that want predictive targeting with EU data residencyPublished entry tier, Enterprise quotedFree trial
website personalization softwareAB Tasty (now part of Wingify)
Testing, personalization and feature flags for product and marketing teams together
#9 of 14Mid-market and enterprise teams running both marketing and product experimentationQuote onlyFree trial
budgeting and planning softwarePigment
Multidimensional planning across finance, sales and headcount
#9 of 14Scale-ups planning beyond financeQuote onlyFree trial
expense management softwareSpendesk
Pre-approval spend control for European companies
#11 of 13European finance teams wanting pre-approvalQuote onlyNone
CAD softwareSOLIDWORKS
Mechanical 3D CAD in three annual plans
#9 of 14Suppliers to larger manufacturersPer user / yearNone
CAD softwareDraftSight
2D DWG drafting for Windows and Mac
#10 of 14Drafters working in DWG all dayPer user / yearFree trial
Third-party risk management softwareEcoVadis
Sustainability ratings agency with 175,000+ rated companies
#5 of 11Suppliers whose customers already require an EcoVadis scorecardTiered by company sizeNone
Third-party risk management softwareCyberVadis
Expert-validated third-party cyber risk assessment platform
#7 of 11Analyst-validated cyber assessments rather than a passive outside-in scoreQuote onlyNot stated by the vendor
call center softwareKavkom
Cheapest published entry price, from €10/user/month
#1 of 15Small French/European sales teams on a tight budgetPer user / monthFree trial
call center softwareOdigo
European sovereign cloud CCaaS, four decades of heritage
#2 of 15Large enterprises that require a sovereign-cloud deploymentQuote onlyNone
call center softwareAircall
250+ integrations and AI voice agents, from $30/license/month
#5 of 15Teams that live inside a CRM or helpdesk alreadyPer license / monthFree trial
call center softwareRingover
AI receptionist bundled in, buyable online without a sales call
#6 of 15Small teams that want self-serve setup with AI transcriptionPer user / monthNone
call center softwareDiabolocom
Enterprise predictive dialing, published from ~$60/license
#7 of 15Enterprise outbound and blended contact centersPer named license, 3-year termNone
call center softwareVocalcom
Operating since 1995, native predictive dialing
#11 of 15Financial services, insurance and outsourcing operationsQuote onlyNone
digital signage softwareTelelogos
French signage and device management for regulated estates
#11 of 14Banks, hospitals and industrial sites needing on-premises deploymentQuote onlyNone
digital signage softwareCenareo
Cloud signage with a published GDPR charter, plus structured video production
#12 of 14Enterprise marketing teams producing their own screen and video contentQuote only (scaled to fleet size)None
electronic signature softwareYoutrust (formerly Yousign)
European e-signature with eIDAS signature levels
#2 of 15EU businesses needing higher signature levelsPer user / monthFree plan
esg and sustainability reporting softwareGreenly
Paris carbon accounting platform for SMBs with three clearly named pricing tiers
#4 of 11SMBs and mid-market companies wanting a clearly staged entry pointQuote only, named tiersNone
esg and sustainability reporting softwareSami
Paris decarbonisation and ESG platform with 2,000+ clients, majority-owned by Swiss testing group SGS since Nov 2025
#7 of 11French and European companies wanting software, consulting and training from one providerQuote onlyNone
esg and sustainability reporting softwareSweep
Paris-founded carbon and ESG platform named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape and Verdantix Green Quadrant
#10 of 11Companies wanting independent analyst validation before shortlisting a vendorQuote onlyNone
API management softwareAxway Amplify
Legacy-integration-focused API management, part of listed 74Software
#14 of 16Enterprises modernizing legacy and mainframe systemsQuote onlyNone
data catalog softwareDataGalaxy
Built for business users, not just engineers
#5 of 11Business teams that need a usable glossary interfaceQuote onlyNone
data privacy management softwareEQS Data Privacy (Data Legal Drive)
French RGPD platform now owned by Germany's EQS Group
#6 of 11French and francophone organisations that need RGPD tooling built around French law, including the Sapin II anti-corruption regime, alongside GDPRQuote-onlyFree trial available; no permanent free tier
email security softwareMailinblack
French SMB-focused gateway with named anti-spearphishing detection and click-time link analysis
#7 of 12Click-time link analysis and a named anti-spearphishing layer, aimed specifically at targeted attacks rather than mass spam.Quote onlyNone
intranet and employee communication softwareLumApps
AI-powered employee hub, now combined with Beekeeper's frontline platform
#8 of 16Enterprises wanting one hub spanning corporate and frontline staffQuote onlyNone
intranet and employee communication softwarePowell Software
Governed intranet and knowledge layer built on top of Microsoft 365
#16 of 16Regulated organizations already standardized on Microsoft 365 and SharePointQuote onlyNone
mobile device management softwareTinyMDM
Android-only MDM from a French publisher
#13 of 14European firms with Android-only fleetsPer device / yearFree trial
observability and log management softwareCentreon
Open-source IT and network monitoring, scaling into observability
#5 of 11IT operations teams wanting an open-source monitoring core that scalesOpen core, published tiersFree plan
online whiteboard softwareKlaxoon
Visual collaboration for meetings and training
#2 of 12Trainers and meeting-led teamsPer host / monthFree plan
operating systemsiodéOS
Google-free Android with a built-in tracker blocker
#3 of 11Teams wanting tracker blocking on AndroidOpen source + paid tiersOpen source
operating systems/e/OS
De-Googled Android with a bundled online account
#4 of 11Teams leaving Google on phonesOpen source + paid tiersOpen source
translation softwareWeglot
Website translation layer for any CMS
#6 of 17SMB websites and online storesTiered by word countFree plan
uptime monitoring softwareHyperping
Paris-based monitor with on-call scheduling built in
#1 of 11Small teams that want on-call rotations without a separate toolFlat tier / monthFree plan
version control softwareTuleap
Open source Git, boards and CI in one platform
#1 of 15Teams wanting Git plus planning without stitching tools togetherOpen source + paid tiersOpen source
video conferencing softwareLivestorm
Browser-based webinars and virtual events for marketing teams
#14 of 14Marketing teams running webinarsAttendee credits / yearFree plan
video hosting softwareapi.video
Developer-first video API from OVHcloud
#1 of 14Developers building video into their own product without a hosted-page detourPay-as-you-go, usage meteredNone
video hosting softwarePeerTube
Federated, open-source video hosting from a French non-profit
#4 of 14Organisations that want free, non-commercial video infrastructure and are willing to run or join an instanceFree and open sourceOpen source
video hosting softwareVideas
French all-in-one video platform, API-first, pay-as-you-go
#14 of 14Teams that want hosting, AI subtitles, branded channels and an API in one product rather than assembled from separate vendorsPay-as-you-go creditsFree plan
web hostingOVHcloud
French hosting with agency tiers up to 14 vCores
#7 of 12Agencies and French or EU buyersPer month, promotionalNone
website commenting softwareHYVOR Talk
Credit-metered comments, reactions and ratings for websites
#1 of 11Blogs and small publishers wanting simple pricingUsage-based (credits)Free trial
website commenting softwareGraphComment
Threaded comment widget with a ranking algorithm and AI-assisted moderation
#2 of 11Blogs and media sites wanting ad-free commentsTiered by data loadsFree plan
workflow automation softwareWindmill
Open-source engine that turns scripts into workflows and UIs
#1 of 12Engineering teams that prefer codePer seat + compute / monthOpen source
nutrition tracking appsFoodvisor
French nutrition app with professional coaching
#8 of 12Users who want a human coachFree + Premium tiersFree plan

Counted from our own vendor dataset. Places can be paid for: placement disclosure.