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Hungary

EDRIX Score

6.23

Tier

Specialized Contender

EDRIX Pillar Scores (normalized 0–10)

Developer Ecosystem 1.46 / 10
Grassroots Adoption 5.30 / 10
Private sector resilience 9.25 / 10
Public sector resilience 8.89 / 10

Raw metrics

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

GitHub developers (per-capita index) 2.14
Linux share on desktops and laptops 4.03%
Sovereign browser share (Firefox + Opera) 18.91%
Domain sovereignty rating — all (national TLD) 0.589
Domain sovereignty rating — public sector 0.889

See the surveyed domains and their hosting details →

Narrative updated for the September 2026 edition.

Hungary keeps sixth place at 6.23 (June: 6.37). It combines the EU's third-best private-sector score (9.25; the .hu sample rates 0.59) with strong public-sector hosting (8.89, 5th) and a sovereign browser share of 18.92% (4th). The lowest pillar is developer density (2.14, 23rd).

Strengths

  • Private-sector hosting (9.25, 3rd). 61% of 488 measured .hu domains are EU-hosted, led by Rackforest, the government's KIFÜ and Magyar Telekom.
  • Public sector (8.89). kormany.hu and www.sandorpalota.hu run entirely on NISZ and Magyar Telekom.
  • Sovereign browser share of 18.92%, fourth in the EU.

Weaknesses

  • Developer density (2.14, 23rd).
  • Budapest's email runs on Microsoft; www.budapest.hu rates 0.67.
  • Cloudflare hosts 28% of the measured sample; 45% of email is routed outside the EU.

Outlook

Hungary's hosting pillars are top-five; its ceiling is the developer pillar, which changes slowly. The private pillar lost 0.28 this quarter.

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Historical reference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.