Software Development Companies in Serbia

An alphabetical, unranked comparison of twelve software development companies with engineering operations in Serbia, maintained by StepTo, with figures taken from each company's own pages or its Clutch profile and checked on 2026-10-08 and 2026-10-09.

Reviewed by Igor Gazivoda, Founder & CEO of StepTo · Published · Updated

Which Software Development Companies Operate in Serbia?

StepTo, which builds nearshore development teams from Belgrade, Serbia, maintains this comparison of twelve software development companies with engineering operations in Serbia. It is ordered alphabetically, not by rank: there are no scores, no winner and no best-of label, and StepTo appears ninth because that is where the alphabet puts it. Every figure below is taken from each company's own public pages or, where the entry says so, its Clutch profile.

The twelve are Bakson, Devtech, HTEC Group, Intens, Levi9, PanonIT, Quantox, Rare Crew, StepTo, Symphony, TNation and Vega IT. They are not variations on one supplier. One is a 15-20 person team in a single Belgrade office; another states 2,500 people in 20 centres and builds hardware as well as software. Between those two ends sit organisations of several hundred people with delivery spread across the region, a Bratislava-headquartered firm with a Belgrade branch, and a specialist whose work is cloud and marketplace enablement rather than general product engineering.

That range is why a ranking would be the wrong instrument. The useful question is not which company is best, but which company is best for which buyer, and the honest answers diverge sharply: some of the buyers below should not talk to StepTo at all, and the entries say so. Four things separate these companies in practice, and they are the four columns of the table: how large the supplier is, where its engineers physically sit, whether you can read a price before you ask for one, and the shape of work it is built to take on.

For the market context behind all twelve, see the Serbia Software Development Industry Report 2026, and for how the country compares with other nearshore destinations, the comparison of nearshore countries for 2026. Once you have a shortlist, send every company the same brief; the software development RFP template has the sections and a method for scoring the replies.

How Do Serbian Software Companies Differ?

Twelve companies in alphabetical order, on the four things that actually change a buying decision

CompanyScale, as publicly statedWhere the engineers sitPricing transparencyBest for
BaksonClutch lists 50-249 employees (read 2026-10-08)Belgrade headquarters per Clutch; further locations not stated in the sources readNot published; Clutch lists $25-49/hr and a $10,000+ minimum project sizeLong-term embedded teams, enterprise application modernisation and applied AI
DevtechHeadcount not published (the team-size counter on its site shows no figure); names five countries of presenceOffices listed in San Francisco, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Belgrade and Novi Sad; the split of engineers between sites is not statedNot publishedISV, telco and cloud-provider work on marketplace and ecosystem enablement, cloud-native migration and R&D as a service
HTEC GroupPer its own site: 2,500 people and 20 development and business centresBelgrade origin; Serbian locations listed on its site include Belgrade, Niš, Subotica and KragujevacNot published; scoped per programmeProgrammes spanning hardware and software, deep regulated-vertical work, and staffing several sites at once
IntensStates 70+ engineers on its own siteNovi Sad, per its own siteNot published; no Clutch profile foundOne Novi Sad firm covering QA, DevOps, managed services and data and AI alongside bespoke software
Levi9States 1200+ professionals across 4 countries; the Serbian share is not publishedNovi Sad and Belgrade per its careers page; also centres in Romania and Ukraine. Its about page still lists Zrenjanin, which Serbian press reported in April 2026 it is closingNot published; scoped per engagementBuyers who want a Dutch or EU contracting entity with delivery capacity in Serbia behind it
PanonITIts own site states 150+ people; Clutch lists 50-249; third-party profiles give lower figuresNovi Sad, SerbiaNot published; Clutch lists $25-49/hr and a $5,000+ minimum project sizeProject work with named phase deliverables, research-heavy work, and QA staff augmentation
QuantoxStates 500+ dedicated professionals across 13 development centres in 7 countriesBelgrade headquarters; its site says it opened 7 offices in Serbia, and its contact page lists Belgrade, Čačak and BerlinNot published; negotiated per engagementAbsorbing a large or sudden requirement, and delivery reach across several countries
Rare CrewIts own pages give both 190+ and 150+ staff; Clutch lists 50-249Bratislava headquarters; Clutch also lists offices in Los Angeles, London and Belgrade; the split of engineers between sites is not statedNot published; Clutch lists $50-99/hr and a $10,000+ minimum project sizeLegacy software modernisation that starts with an audit, and buyers who require a supplier stating ISO/IEC 27001 and partner status
StepTo15-20 person in-house engineering teamOne Belgrade office, everyone in the same roomPublished: $25-85/hr by seniority, from $13.5K/month for three engineersBuyers who want a meaningful share of a small supplier's attention, everyone in one room, and a price they can read before they ask
SymphonyStates an 800+ global team across four continents; the same page also cites a full-time team of over 700Engineering hubs in Southeast Europe and LatAm, with Belgrade labelled on its page imagery, plus consulting centres in Western Europe and the USNot published; priced per engagementBuyers who want consulting presence in the US or Western Europe alongside offshore engineering capacity
TNationIts own pages give both 100+ and 130+ people; Clutch lists 50-249Belgrade headquarters; London and Copenhagen officesNot published; Clutch lists $25-49/hr and a $5,000+ minimum project sizeBuyers who want a Belgrade-headquartered outsourcing firm with enterprise references and offices in London and Copenhagen
Vega ITStates 900+ engineers and 200+ clients; one homepage passage says over 800 developersSerbia: Novi Sad, Belgrade, Zrenjanin and Niš; its contact page also lists Podgorica, London, New York, the Netherlands, Riyadh and AbujaNot published; priced per engagementBuyers who want an established large Serbian firm with broad sector coverage

Rows are alphabetical, not ranked. Every figure is drawn from the company's own published pages, or its Clutch profile where the cell says so, and has not been confirmed directly with the company. Last checked: . Verify current figures with the provider before deciding.

Which Serbian Company Fits Which Buyer?

One entry each, in alphabetical order, ending with the buyer that company genuinely suits

Bakson

Headquartered in Belgrade; describes itself as established in 2005

Bakson is headquartered in Belgrade and describes itself on its own site as established in 2005. Clutch lists it in the 50-249 employee band, at $25-49/hr with a $10,000+ minimum project size, and shows a Staff Augmentation category badge for 2026. Its own site is rendered by script, so confirm the details below with the company directly.

It positions itself around long-term embedded teams, enterprise application modernisation and applied AI rather than short-term staffing, which makes it a closer fit for a multi-year engagement than for topping up a single role for a few months.

Best for: buyers who want an embedded team for the long term, enterprise application modernisation, or an applied-AI assessment from a long-established Belgrade firm.

Sources, checked : Bakson site

Devtech

Founded 2012; six offices listed, none labelled as headquarters on the pages read

Devtech dates its cloud track record to 2012 and lists offices in San Francisco, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Belgrade and Novi Sad, including two in Serbia. None is labelled as the headquarters on the pages read, and third-party directories disagree on which city it is, so this page names none. Its team-size counter shows no figure, so this page states no headcount, and an earlier edition of this page that gave roughly 200 people has dropped it. Its site names five countries of presence: the USA, Canada, the UK, Serbia and the Netherlands.

Its site lists five service lines: R&D as a Service, AI Enablement, Cloud Native Transformation, System and Platform Migration and Ecosystem Enablement, aimed at ISVs, telcos, cloud service providers and managed service providers. That focus is the thing to settle first, because it decides most shortlists on its own: it is a narrower and deeper capability than general product engineering, and firms that have it are not interchangeable with firms that do not.

Best for: an ISV or telco working on marketplace and ecosystem enablement or a cloud-native migration, and buyers who want a supplier with US, UK and Canadian offices as well as Serbian ones. Where the contracting entity sits is worth asking, because the pages read do not say.

Sources, checked : Devtech about page, Devtech contact page

HTEC Group

Founded in Belgrade in 2008; headquarters Palo Alto with London and Belgrade, per its own site

HTEC Group was founded in Belgrade in 2008. Its own site (htec.com/about, read 2026-10-08) states 2,500 people and 20 development and business centres, with headquarters in Palo Alto alongside London and Belgrade. Its Serbian locations include Belgrade, where its Belgrade page states about 600 experts, plus Niš, Subotica and Kragujevac. Its range spans software, hardware and product design rather than software alone.

That combined range is genuinely uncommon. Very few suppliers anywhere can carry a programme that has hardware, product design and software inside the same scope, and fewer still can do it under the governance that regulated industries require.

Best for: programmes that span hardware and software, deep work in regulated verticals, and buyers who need several sites staffed at once rather than a single team.

Sources, checked : HTEC about page, HTEC contact page

how a single-discipline software team compares with HTEC Group

Intens

Based in Novi Sad, Serbia

Intens is based in Novi Sad and states on its own site that it has 70+ engineers. It lists six service lines: data science and AI, QA, DevOps, managed services, bespoke software and software development. Its site also lists ISO 9001:2015 certification and enterprise client references in the US, Canada and Australia.

Its public footprint is small. The site does not publish prices, case-study metrics or named people, and no Clutch profile was found on the check date, so there is less to verify independently than for most firms here. Asking for references directly is the practical step.

Best for: buyers who want a single Novi Sad supplier spanning development, QA, DevOps and managed services, and who look for a listed ISO 9001:2015 certificate.

Sources, checked : Intens about page, Intens services

Levi9

Contact address in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with Serbian delivery centres

Levi9 gives an Amsterdam contact address and states 1200+ professionals across 7 offices in 4 countries: Serbia, Romania, Ukraine and the Netherlands. Its careers page lists Belgrade and Novi Sad as its Serbian offices. Its about page still describes a third Serbian centre in Zrenjanin, and Serbian press reported in April 2026 that Levi9 was closing that office and keeping Belgrade and Novi Sad, so the two pages do not agree. Levi9 does not publish a Serbian headcount; the same report quotes CompanyWall data of about 650 people employed in Serbia in 2024, down from 735 in 2023, which is a registry figure and not a statement by the company.

That structure is the point of it for many buyers. The commercial relationship, the contract and the escalation path sit with a Netherlands-based company, while a large share of the engineering capacity sits in Serbia, with Romania and Ukraine alongside. For a European buyer whose legal and procurement teams would rather contract inside the EU, that split is a feature rather than a compromise.

Best for: buyers who want an EU contracting entity, and specifically a Dutch one, with delivery capacity in Serbia behind it.

Sources, checked : Levi9 about page, Levi9 careers page, Biznis.rs report on the Zrenjanin closure

how a Belgrade-run supplier compares with Levi9 on structure

PanonIT

Based in Novi Sad; Clutch gives 2007 as its founding year

PanonIT is based in Novi Sad, and Clutch gives 2007 as its founding year. Its headcount differs by source: its own site states 150+, Clutch lists the 50-249 band, and third-party profiles give lower figures, so this page states no single number. Clutch lists its focus as enterprise application modernisation (20%) and AI (10%), at $25-49/hr with a $5,000+ minimum project size.

Its site sets out a project lifecycle with named deliverables: initiation, planning with a functional design specification and a user requirements specification, implementation, and closing with documentation transfer. It also lists ISO 9001, 14001, OHSAS 18001 and 27001 certifications, EU-funded research projects, and a staff augmentation page for QA.

Best for: buyers who want a project run through documented phases, work with a research or certification dimension, or QA engineers added to an existing team.

Sources, checked : PanonIT about page, PanonIT project process, PanonIT on Clutch

Quantox

Founded in Čačak, headquartered in Belgrade

Quantox was founded in Čačak and is headquartered in Belgrade. Its homepage states 500+ dedicated professionals working from 13 development centres in 7 countries, and says it has opened 7 offices across Serbia. Public reporting names those countries as Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Romania and Germany. It also states 200+ completed projects and 50+ active in a year. Its contact page lists only three offices: Belgrade, Čačak and Berlin.

Sources disagree on its founding year, so this page does not state one: its own homepage says it started 16 years ago in one place and cites 15+ years of experience in another. The figures above are the ones Quantox publishes about itself.

Best for: absorbing a requirement that arrives large or arrives suddenly, where a small supplier would simply run out of people, and for delivery that has to be staffed from more than one country.

Sources, checked : Quantox site, Quantox contact page

Rare Crew

Headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia, with a branch in Belgrade

Rare Crew is headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia, and has a branch in Belgrade; Clutch lists offices in Los Angeles, London and Belgrade. It is included under the same rule as every other entry, engineering operations in Serbia, through that Belgrade branch. It is not a Serbian-headquartered company, and the sources read do not say how its engineers divide between sites.

Its own pages disagree on size, giving 190+ in one place and 150+ in another, so this page gives both rather than choose. Its site states ISO/IEC 27001 certification and Microsoft Solutions Partner and AWS Partner status, and it leads with an audit-first approach to legacy software modernisation, covering rehosting, replatforming, refactoring and rebuilding.

Best for: legacy modernisation that begins with an assessment, and buyers whose procurement asks the supplier to state ISO/IEC 27001 certification and cloud partner status.

Sources, checked : Rare Crew site, Rare Crew legacy modernization, Rare Crew ISO/IEC 27001 page

StepTo

Belgrade, Serbia; building teams since 2014

StepTo is in Belgrade, Serbia, and has been building teams since 2014. It is a 15-20 person in-house engineering team working from one office, so a team can be assembled and productive in 2-4 weeks, with NDA, DPA and IP assignment signed before any work starts. Everyone works CET, which gives 3-4 hours of daily overlap with the US East Coast and a full shared day with the EU and UK.

It is the only company on this page that publishes rates: $25-85/hr by seniority, and from $13.5K/month for three engineers. That is possible because the engagements are narrow and similar in shape, which is a consequence of being small rather than a virtue in itself.

Best for: buyers who want a meaningful share of a small supplier's attention, every engineer in one room, and a budget they can build before they make contact.

StepTo is the wrong choice for a thirty-person ask next quarter, or for a hardware-plus-software programme. A 15-20 person company cannot staff either one, and those requirements belong with the larger firms on this page: HTEC Group for hardware and software together, and HTEC Group, Quantox, Symphony or Vega IT for volume.

Sources, checked : StepTo pricing

the published rate card by seniority

Symphony

Founded 2007, with a Belgrade engineering hub

Symphony was founded in 2007 and describes itself as an 800+ global team across four continents, although the same page also says its full-time team has grown to over 700, and its structured data gives a range of 500 to 1,000 employees, so this page treats the headcount as approximate. It describes its footprint as engineering hubs in Southeast Europe and LatAm plus consulting centres in Western Europe and the US. The text of its who-we-are page names no city; Belgrade appears in its page imagery, and a 2022 post on its own site lists engineering hubs in Sarajevo, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Skopje and Niš.

The consulting-plus-engineering split is what distinguishes it here. A buyer gets a senior counterpart inside their own timezone and business culture, with the engineering capacity carried elsewhere, which is a different proposition from buying engineering capacity on its own.

Best for: buyers who want a consulting presence in the US or Western Europe sitting alongside offshore engineering capacity, under one supplier.

Sources, checked : Symphony about page, Symphony engineering hubs post (2022)

TNation

Headquartered in Belgrade, with London and Copenhagen offices listed on its homepage

TNation is headquartered in Belgrade and lists offices in London and Copenhagen on its homepage. Its own pages give its headcount as 100+ in one place and 130+ in another, and its founding year differs between its own site ("since 2008") and Clutch (2014), so this page gives both headcounts and states no founding year. Clutch lists it at $25-49/hr with a $5,000+ minimum project size.

Its homepage lists telecom and banking clients and an IT academy, and it publishes a blog archive on outsourcing and the Serbian IT market. Its own pages also give different team set-up times, so confirm that figure with the company rather than relying on either.

Best for: buyers who want a Belgrade-headquartered outsourcing partner with enterprise references and a presence in London and Copenhagen.

Sources, checked : TNation site

Vega IT

Headquartered in Novi Sad, Serbia

Vega IT is headquartered in Novi Sad. Most of its own pages state 900+ engineers, but one passage on its homepage says a team of over 800 developers, so this page treats its headcount as 800 to 900+ rather than choose. It states 200+ clients across sectors including finance, banking, insurance, healthcare, energy, retail and telecommunications. Its contact page lists Serbian offices in Novi Sad, Belgrade, Zrenjanin and Niš, and further offices in Podgorica, London, New York, the Netherlands, Riyadh and Abuja.

It is one of the most established names in Serbian software, and the sector spread is the practical consequence of that: a supplier with 200+ clients has almost certainly built something adjacent to whatever you are building, and can staff from a hiring pool across four Serbian cities.

Best for: buyers who want an established large Serbian firm with broad sector coverage and a long client list behind it.

Sources, checked : Vega IT about page, Vega IT contact page

how a small concentrated supplier compares with Vega IT

How Was This Comparison Built?

StepTo maintains this page, and StepTo is one of the twelve companies on it. That is worth stating plainly rather than in a footnote, because it is the single most important thing to know when reading a comparison. The response to it here is structural: the list is alphabetical, so StepTo sits ninth rather than first; there are no scores and no winner; and StepTo's own entry names the two kinds of buyer it cannot serve, who are pointed at the larger firms on this page.

Every figure comes from each company's own public pages, including headcounts, office and delivery-centre counts, country counts, client counts and project counts, plus the company's Clutch profile where an entry says so. Where a company states a figure about itself, this page says "states" or "per its own site"; where the figure comes from third-party reporting, it says "reportedly" or "reported at". Each entry links the pages behind its figures. Nothing here has been confirmed directly with the companies, and none of it is a measurement StepTo has taken. To score vendors on the same criteria yourself, use the vendor evaluation scorecard.

Last checked: . Devtech, Levi9, Quantox, Symphony and Vega IT were read against their own pages on that date. Bakson, HTEC Group, Intens, PanonIT, Rare Crew and TNation were read on 2026-10-08. Each entry shows the date its sources were last checked.

Where sources conflict, the figure is omitted rather than guessed. Quantox is a clear example: public sources disagree on its founding year, so this page states none. Rare Crew, TNation, PanonIT, Symphony and Vega IT are others: each company's own pages or directory profiles give different headcounts, and Levi9's own pages disagree on its Serbian offices. The entries say so plainly or give the range rather than choose one. The same rule applies to anything else that could not be traced back to a public statement by the company itself; where a cell says "not published", no figure was found in the sources read.

Companies without engineering operations in Serbia were excluded, no matter how often they appear on regional shortlists. A supplier delivering from Poland, Romania, Moldova or Latin America, with no engineering operations in Serbia, may be the right answer to a nearshore question, but it is not an answer to a question about Serbian companies.

What Do Buyers Ask About Serbian Software Companies?

Which software development companies operate in Serbia?

This page covers twelve, listed alphabetically: Bakson, Devtech, HTEC Group, Intens, Levi9, PanonIT, Quantox, Rare Crew, StepTo, Symphony, TNation and Vega IT. They range from a 15-20 person single-office team to organisations that state thousands of people across many centres. The list is not exhaustive and is not a ranking; the Serbian software industry is considerably larger than twelve companies.

Do all of these companies have engineers in Serbia?

Each of the twelve has Serbian roots or a stated Serbian presence. Bakson is headquartered in Belgrade. Devtech lists offices in Belgrade and Novi Sad. HTEC Group was founded in Belgrade in 2008 and states headquarters in Palo Alto alongside London and Belgrade. Intens and PanonIT are based in Novi Sad. Levi9 lists Serbian offices in Novi Sad and Belgrade. Quantox is headquartered in Belgrade. Rare Crew is headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia, with a branch in Belgrade. StepTo works from a single Belgrade office. Symphony shows Belgrade among its engineering hubs. TNation is headquartered in Belgrade. Vega IT is headquartered in Novi Sad and lists Belgrade, Zrenjanin and Niš as further Serbian offices.

Which of these companies publishes its prices?

Only StepTo publishes a rate card on its own site, at $25-85/hr by seniority and from $13.5K/month for three engineers. The other eleven price per engagement, which is the ordinary and defensible approach for firms whose engagements differ widely in shape. Clutch profiles show hourly bands for four of them: Bakson at $25-49/hr, PanonIT at $25-49/hr, Rare Crew at $50-99/hr and TNation at $25-49/hr, read on 2026-10-08. Those are directory listings, not quotes. The practical consequence for a buyer is that eleven of the twelve budgets start with a quote cycle.

Which Serbian companies offer outstaffing or staff augmentation?

Outstaffing and staff augmentation describe the same arrangement: engineers join your team and you direct their work, and some buyers use outstaffing for the long-term version. Among the firms on this page, Vega IT and PanonIT list staff augmentation on their own sites, and Bakson appears on The Manifest list of staff augmentation firms in Serbia and carries a Clutch staff augmentation badge for 2026. Other firms here may offer it as well; their own pages are the place to confirm, and none of this has been confirmed with the companies. StepTo sells it as staff augmentation, from $4,500 per developer per month, and as a dedicated team, from $13,500 per month for three engineers, with a start in 2-4 weeks.

See also: StepTo staff augmentation | Augmented team providers in Eastern Europe

Which company should a buyer talk to who needs thirty engineers next quarter?

Not StepTo, which is 15-20 people and would run out of engineers before the requirement was met. Volume of that kind points at the larger firms on this page: Quantox states 500+ dedicated professionals, Symphony describes an 800+ global team, Vega IT states 900+ engineers, and HTEC Group states 2,500 people across 20 development and business centres. A hardware-plus-software programme points specifically at HTEC Group, whose range covers hardware and product design as well as software.

How is this list ordered, and who maintains it?

Alphabetically, with no ranking and no scores. StepTo maintains the page and appears ninth of twelve, between Rare Crew and Symphony, because that is where the alphabet puts it. Figures come from each company's own public pages, or from its Clutch profile where the entry says so, and were last checked on 2026-10-08 or 2026-10-09, as each entry shows. None of it has been confirmed directly with the companies; verify current figures with the provider before deciding.

Why is a company with no Serbian presence not on this list?

Because the question this page answers is which software development companies have engineering operations in Serbia. Suppliers that deliver from Poland, Romania, Moldova or Latin America without engineering operations in Serbia may be excellent, and may well belong on a nearshore shortlist, but they do not belong in an answer about Serbian companies. Sigma Software is one example: its own site lists 21 countries and Serbia is not among them (read 2026-10-08). If the shortlist is about the region rather than the country, the comparison of nearshore countries is the more useful starting point.

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