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Hungary

EDRIX Score

6.37

Tier

Specialized Contender

EDRIX Pillar Scores (normalized 0–10)

Developer Ecosystem 1.57 / 10
Grassroots Adoption 5.49 / 10
Private sector resilience 9.53 / 10
Public sector resilience 8.89 / 10

Raw metrics

The underlying values before min-max normalization across the EU27.

GitHub developers (per-capita index) 2.16
Linux share on desktops and laptops 3.81%
Sovereign browser share (Firefox + Opera) 19.46%
Domain sovereignty rating — all (national TLD) 0.612
Domain sovereignty rating — public sector 0.889

See the surveyed domains and their hosting details →

Hungary scores 6.19, anchored by strong public-sector hosting (8.89) and excellent private-sector results (.hu raw 0.59 — top six in the EU27). The pillar holding Hungary down is developer density, at 1.57 — among the lowest in the EU27.

Strengths

  • Strong public-sector hosting — DR_PUB_SCT 8.89; the official domains we sampled are predominantly EU-hosted.
  • Top-tier private-sector hosting — .hu raw rating 0.59 places Hungary in the top six EU27.
  • Above-average sovereign browser share — 19.46% Firefox + Opera, top quartile.

Weaknesses

  • Very low developer density — 1.57 per-capita index, in the bottom third of the EU27.
  • Linux desktop share of 3.81% — slightly below the EU27 mean.

Outlook

Hungary's hosting infrastructure is genuinely strong. The constraint is the developer pipeline — without a larger per-capita pool, the country can't capitalise on its hosting strengths to grow a domestic SaaS or cloud sector. Public investment in technical education would be the lever.

Historical context

2020 baseline

In 2020, Hungary was an "emerging" country with a balanced, medium-level approach and clear political will, demonstrated through legally binding decrees promoting OSS.

2024 progression

The promotion of open source appears to have slowed since the mid-2010s. The national strategy that replaced the one for 2014-2020 does not mention open source. However, OSS continues to be used at the local level, for example by the Budapest City Council.

Historical reference

OSOR Fact Sheet (PDF, 2024) — the country-level Open Source policy report used by the retired Public Policy pillar in EDRIX 1.0.