Enterprise Software Adoption in Germany

CRM and ERP in Germany, against the EU27

The 2018 figure was 4.31%, so the share is now 2.4 times what it was. The EU27 average went from 6.65% to 11.34% over the same years. It was under the average in 2018 as well. Ranked on the 2018 figures it would have been fourteenth, so it has gained 5 places.

CRM and ERP run close to level here: 9.84% for ERP in 2023 against 10.26% for CRM, with CRM ahead by 0.42 points. That is 1.89 points below the EU27's 11.73% and twelfth of 16, 3 places lower than on CRM. It was 7.54% in 2021; the 2.3-point rise since then outpaces the 2.08 points the EU27 average added. In the CRM ranking Germany sits between Austria (10.85%) and Spain (10.02%).

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

Vendors in our rankings headquartered in Germany

Germany is the headquarters given for 132 of the 2658 listings in our software rankings: 125 vendors in 89 of the 210 categories. Listed in more than one category: Checkmk (2), Formbricks (2), Icinga (2), Leapsome (2), Nextcloud (2), Nextcloud Talk (2) and n8n (2). Only the United States (1517) and the United Kingdom (142) have more.

Among the 16 countries on these pages Germany is first by number of listings but ninth by CRM cloud adoption. IT & Collaboration is the largest category group with 52 listings, followed by Revenue & Growth (28), AI software (14), Operations (14), People (13), Vertical (7) and Finance (4).

49 of the 132 hold a top-three place:

• Langdock, #1 in AI agent platforms. Pricing: Business is listed at €25 per user per month and Business Max at €99; a Workflows add-on runs from €539 a month for 40,000 runs to €1,199 for 100,000 per workspace; Enterprise is custom.
• neuroflash, #1 in AI writing tools. Pricing: Essential is €42 a month and Pro is €84 a month per user, both billed annually plus VAT; Enterprise is custom. Generation is metered in daily credits.
• Leapsome, #1 in Performance management software. Pricing: Quote-based per-employee pricing; modules are bought singly or combined on contracts of at least a year, and the Customer Success team is reserved for contracts of 6,000 euros or more a year.
• Hetzner Cloud, #1 in cloud computing platforms. Pricing: Hourly billing with a monthly price cap per server; only outgoing traffic is billed, backups cost 20% of the server price, and current rates sit behind the price calculator.
• WoltLab, #1 in community platform software. Pricing: Cloud Starter €35.95/month billed annually (€39.95 month-to-month); Cloud Professional €71.95/month; Cloud Business €224.95/month; Cloud Enterprise quoted; self-hosted licence from €129.99 one-time; 14-day free demo
• Zeotap, #1 in customer data platform software. Pricing: Not published; every deployment is quoted after a sales conversation. No free trial is advertised.
• Leapsome, #1 in employee engagement software. Pricing: Engagement Surveys is a separate module at a published €4 per employee per month, with a calculator for other modules and no setup fee.
• Zammad, #1 in help desk software. Pricing: Free to self-host under an open-source license; hosted plans per agent per month from under €10, published.
• Lingoda, #1 in language learning apps. Pricing: Class-credit plans in euros: per-class prices from €7.49 to €26.99 depending on bundle size and class type as listed on the page we fetched, renewing every four weeks with unused credits rolling over.
• Paessler PRTG, #1 in network monitoring software. Pricing: Five subscription sizes, from PRTG 500 at $200 per month paid annually (about 50 devices) to PRTG 10000 at $1,642 per month, plus a freeware edition capped at 100 sensors.
• Conceptboard, #1 in online whiteboard software. Pricing: Free plan limited to three active boards; Starter 5 EUR, Advanced from 10 EUR and Corporate & Government from 14 EUR per user per month.
• Formbricks, #1 in survey software. Pricing: AGPL core free to self-host, with some features under a paid Enterprise license; cloud plans from a free tier of 250 responses a month to Pro at $74 and Scale at $325 a month, sized by monthly responses.
• Qdrant, #1 in vector databases. Pricing: Free single-node cluster (0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 4 GB disk); Standard is billed by usage with a calculator; Premium needs a minimum spend.
• Kdenlive, #1 in video editing software. Pricing: Free; the project asks for donations.
• Jamie, #2 in AI meeting assistants. Pricing: Free plan with 10 AI notes a month; Plus is €21, Pro €39 and Team €33 per user on annual billing, Enterprise on quote.
• Peec AI, #2 in AI visibility tracking tools. Pricing: Starter, Pro and Advanced are monthly plans covering 50, 150 and 350 prompts across three models you choose, with unlimited users; Enterprise is custom and annual. The pricing page we fetched showed no figures.
• Contentful, #2 in CMS (content management system) software. Pricing: A free Community tier covers a small team and limited API calls and records; paid tiers scale by API request volume, environments and users, with Enterprise quoted separately.
• SENAITE, #2 in LIMS. Pricing: No license fees under GPLv2; cost sits in hosting, configuration and support from a service provider such as RIDING BYTES, NARALABS or YME.
• IntegrityNext, #2 in Third-party risk management software. Pricing: Not published; sold through a sales conversation.
• mailbox.org, #2 in business email hosting. Pricing: Business plans priced net per user per month: Light €1 with 2 GB, Standard €4 with 20 GB of mail and 10 GB of drive, Premium €12 with 50 GB of mail and 100 GB of drive; 30-day free trial.
• eccenca Corporate Memory, #2 in data catalog software. Pricing: Quote-only for production use, demo-gated with no published tiers; a free community edition sandbox is offered
• Shopware, #2 in ecommerce platforms. Pricing: Free open-source Community Edition under the MIT license; paid Rise from €600 and Evolve from €2,400 a month, priced by GMV, with Beyond on request; self-hosted, PaaS or SaaS.
• HRlab, #2 in employee onboarding software. Pricing: Core €6/user/month; Core Premium €7/user/month; both require a 30-user minimum. Add-ons (Recruitment, Talent Management, Time & Absence) €2–€3/user/month each.
• Simplifier, #2 in low-code platforms. Pricing: Free 30-day trial for development and evaluation; production licences quoted.
• Checkmk, #2 in network monitoring software. Pricing: Community edition is free for roughly 100 hosts; Pro from €190 per month and Ultimate from €275 per month, billed annually; Cloud (SaaS) from €240 per month.
• Capacities, #2 in note-taking apps. Pricing: Basic is free; Pro lists at $9.99 per month; Believer from $12.49 per month.
• LibreOffice, #2 in office suites. Pricing: No licence fee; the project asks for voluntary donations and sells nothing per seat.
• Pitch, #2 in presentation software. Pricing: Free for up to five members; Plus €10, Team €15 and Business €20 per seat per month when paid yearly; Enterprise by quote.
• Meisterplan, #2 in project portfolio management software. Pricing: Priced by the number of planned resources and the edition, with unlimited free users and a 30-day trial; above 1,000 resources a custom quote applies.
• Lanes & Planes, #2 in travel management software. Pricing: Quoted against annual travel volume and selected modules, typically suited to companies from roughly 30,000 euros a year in travel spend.
• OpenVAS (Greenbone), #2 in vulnerability scanning software. Pricing: OPENVAS BASIC is listed at 2,524 euros per year; the larger OPENVAS SCAN appliances and virtual machines are quote-based, and the community edition is free.
• Black Forest Labs (FLUX), #3 in AI image generators. Pricing: API is prepaid in credits worth $0.01 each: FLUX.2 [klein] 4B from $0.014 per image, FLUX.2 [pro] from $0.03, FLUX.2 [max] from $0.07, priced by megapixel; self-hosting licenses are tiered by monthly image volume with prices shown only in the dashboard or by quote.
• LanguageTool, #3 in AI writing tools. Pricing: Basic is free; Premium and Teams are paid, with monthly, quarterly, annual and two-year billing and Teams priced by number of users. The price figures did not load when we fetched the page.
• Allplan, #3 in BIM software. Pricing: Per-user subscription by edition; the US shop shows Allplan Basic at $140 per user per month, billed yearly, and a 14-day free trial is offered.
• encoway CPQ, #3 in CPQ software. Pricing: Quoted per organisation, modular licences; no published list price.
• PDF24, #3 in PDF editors. Pricing: The vendor describes its online tools and its offline Creator for Windows as 100% free, with advertisements on the site.
• Small Improvements, #3 in Performance management software. Pricing: Published per-user prices starting at $3 a month billed annually, with $6 and $9 tiers and a minimum charge.
• Osapiens, #3 in Third-party risk management software. Pricing: Not published; sold through a sales conversation.
• Filen, #3 in cloud storage software. Pricing: Monthly euro plans from 1.99 for 200 GiB through 3.99 for 500 GiB and 8.99 for 2 TiB to 39.99 for 10 TiB, stackable on one account, plus a free tier.
• Exasol, #3 in data warehouse software. Pricing: Quote only: the pages we fetched call pricing simple but publish no figures. Exasol Personal is free for individuals and runs in the user's own AWS account.
• NoSpamProxy, #3 in email security software. Pricing: Quoted on request; 30-day free trial of Cloud or Server
• softgarden, #3 in employee onboarding software. Pricing: Core from €199/month (applicant management, templates, workflows, reporting); All-in-One custom-quoted to hiring volume. The onboarding solution is a bookable add-on on both plans, priced on request. Free trial via a booked demo.
• Plan A, #3 in esg and sustainability reporting software. Pricing: Quote only; three named plans (Essential, Pro and Enterprise) with no prices published.
• ProvenExpert, #3 in reputation management software. Pricing: Free plan (10 reviews shown, no platform integrations); Basic $39.99, Plus $79.99, Premium $149.99 a month on annual terms, $49.99/$99.99/$199.99 month to month.
• Pexels, #3 in stock photo sites. Pricing: Free: all photos and videos can be used and edited without payment or attribution under the Pexels license.
• Hetzner, #3 in web hosting. Pricing: Four plans, Webhosting S to XL, with a one-time setup fee; the monthly prices load dynamically and were not visible in the page we read.
• Jimdo, #3 in website builder software. Pricing: A free plan (Play) includes a Jimdo subdomain and branding; paid plans add a custom domain, more storage and ecommerce features on a published monthly table.
• LegalTegrity, #3 in whistleblowing software. Pricing: Essential €588/year (under 50 employees); Professional 250 €1,188/year (under 250); Professional 1000 €1,990/year (under 1,000); Enterprise on request above 1,000. Online and phone reporting included on every plan; operating the reporting office (OmbuTegrity) is an add-on.
• n8n, #3 in workflow automation software. Pricing: Cloud plans are published: Starter at 20 euros a month and Pro at 50 euros a month, both billed annually, with Business at 667 euros a month (self-hosted only) and a quoted Enterprise tier.

Barred from places 1 to 3 as dominant incumbents in a category: Awin, Babbel, Centric PXM (Contentserv), DataGuard, DeepL, IONOS, SAP API Management, SAP Ariba, SAP Business One, SAP Concur, SAP Digital Manufacturing, SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals, Siemens Opcenter Execution, Siemens Teamcenter, Staffbase and TeamViewer. 41 of the 132 sell on quote only (31%), above the 24% across all 2658 listings.

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