AI in Czech companies: the 2025 data

Every year Eurostat asks companies across the EU whether they use artificial intelligence and what kind. The latest published data are for 2025 and cover companies with ten or more employees. They exclude the financial sector, agriculture, mining, public administration, education and healthcare.

Source: Eurostat, Use of artificial intelligence in enterprises

How many companies use AI?

Year	Czechia	EU
2021	4.5%	7.7%
2023	5.9%	8.1%
2024	11.3%	13.5%
2025	17.6%	20.0%

In two years the share of Czech companies using AI roughly tripled. Part of the growth, however, comes from a change in the indicator: since 2025, generating images, video and audio also counts as an AI technology. Czechia ranks 17th of 27 in the EU. Denmark has the highest share of companies using AI (42.0%), Romania the lowest (5.2%).

The figure reflects the moment a company filled in the questionnaire, which in Czechia was usually between January and August 2025. Eurostat plans the next update for December 2026.

Sources: Eurostat, Artificial intelligence by size class of enterprise, Eurostat, Use of artificial intelligence in enterprises

Small companies lag behind, large ones do not

Company size	Czechia	EU
10–49 employees	13.4%	17.0%
50–249 employees	28.8%	30.4%
250 or more employees	54.1%	55.0%

Large Czech companies are on a par with the rest of Europe, and more than half of them use AI. The overall gap comes mainly from small companies.

Source: Eurostat, Artificial intelligence by size class of enterprise

What kind of AI do Czech companies use?

Technology	Czechia	EU
Generating text, speech or code	12.8%	8.8%
Generating images, video and audio	9.7%	9.6%
Text analysis	7.2%	11.8%
Machine learning	6.9%	5.1%
Process automation with AI elements	4.1%	5.4%
Speech recognition	3.6%	7.2%
Image recognition	2.1%	3.8%

Share of all companies with 10 or more employees, 2025.

The first row is the one to watch. 12.8% of Czech companies generate text, speech or code, well above the EU average, which puts Czechia 9th in the EU. In 2023 the figure was 0.7% of Czech companies. According to the CZSO, 73% of Czech companies that use AI use it to generate text or code, against 44% in the EU.

Older types of AI, such as text analysis or speech and image recognition, are used less often by Czech companies than by companies elsewhere in Europe.

Sources: Eurostat, Artificial intelligence by size class of enterprise, CZSO, Use of ICT in the business sector 2025 (in Czech), CZSO, What companies use artificial intelligence for (in Czech)

What do companies use AI for?

Among Czech companies that use AI, 59% deploy it in marketing and sales, against 35% in the EU. Next come administration and management (40%, EU 31%), cybersecurity (24%, EU 20%), accounting and finance (24%) and research and development (23%). 18% of Czech companies with AI use it in production, fewer than in the EU (21%).

By industry, IT services lead as you would expect, with 64% of companies using AI. In construction the figure is 8%, and in transport and storage 6%. Energy is well behind Europe: 13% of Czech companies against 34% in the EU.

Sources: CZSO, Use of ICT in the business sector 2025 (in Czech), Eurostat, Artificial intelligence by NACE Rev.2 activity

Why do companies not adopt AI?

Eurostat does not publish the reasons for Czechia. Across the EU, companies that had considered AI but not adopted it most often cited a lack of expertise (70%), unclear legal consequences (54%) and data protection concerns (53%). Just under a fifth (18%) said AI would not be useful to them.

Source: Eurostat, Use of artificial intelligence in enterprises

What does this mean for companies?

In Czechia, AI has spread mainly as a tool for text and code. Companies start where the benefit shows soonest: marketing, sales and administration.
Small companies have ground to make up. Among large companies Czechia is at the European level, among small ones it lags behind.
People and rules are the main obstacles. A shortage of experts and unclear rules hold AI back across Europe. Our articles AI Act in 2026 and AI literacy for employees focus on the rules. What AI actually does for programmers is covered in the article Does AI make programmers faster?

Summary

17.6% of Czech companies with ten or more employees use AI (EU 20.0%). The share roughly tripled in two years, partly because of a broader definition.
Large companies are at the EU level (54%), small ones lag behind (13% against 17%).
Czech companies are above the EU average in generating text and code, and they use AI most often in marketing and sales.

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Eurostat data as of the update of 15 June 2026, CZSO data from the publication released on 21 January 2026. We will update this article once data for 2026 are published.