Company Index Stats

How many SaaS companies are there?

There are 4,813,766 SaaS companies in the DiscoLike index as of October 2026.

Companies can carry several industry labels, so counts overlap.

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SaaS covers companies selling software as a subscription product. Assignment reads the site as selling a product you sign up for rather than an engagement you scope.

Where it meets Software

Software includes firms that build software for clients. SaaS is the product side. A consultancy that also ships a product carries both, which is why the groups overlap rather than compete.

B2B sellers dominate SaaS
61% sell to businesses (B2B), against 33% index-wide, so business-focused companies dominate this group.
Small firms are less concentrated
70% have 1-10 employees, below 76% index-wide; 87,327 companies sit in the 11-50 band.
AI Platform is largest specialty
996,085 carry AI Platform, versus 638,518 Analytics Software; the 6 sub-industries overlap, so specialty counts are not unique companies.

3,044,993 carry SaaS as their main industry; 1,768,773 carry it as an additional label.

By Country

Top 30 countries for SaaS

1United States1,323,743
2United Kingdom258,465
3India188,582
4Germany183,300
5Brazil180,830
6China144,478
7France128,762
8Canada128,021
9Australia89,222
10Spain86,243
11Russia76,110
12Netherlands76,070
13Italy68,322
14Japan50,930
15Switzerland50,513
16Türkiye49,724
17Indonesia44,872
18Poland37,096
19Portugal36,302
20Czechia35,466
21South Korea31,922
22Sweden31,130
23Mexico30,061
24South Africa29,878
25Belgium27,209
26Denmark24,294
27United Arab Emirates23,648
28Argentina22,485
29Austria21,585
30Nigeria21,522
All 196 countries with SaaS companies

By Company Size

Employee-size distribution

1-10 employees270,803
11-50 employees87,327
51-200 employees22,966
201-500 employees4,125
501-1000 employees1,166
1001-5000 employees756
5001-10000 employees106

By Sub-Industry

Top sub-industries

These 6 sub-industries account for 51% of the 4,813,766 SaaS companies by label rather than by distinct company. Sub-categories can span adjacent industries, and a company carrying several labels is counted under each.

1AI Platform996,085
2Analytics Software638,518
3Marketing Software391,529
4CRM Software278,763
5Developer Tools125,367
6Helpdesk Software34,338

By Region

Regional rollups for SaaS

European Union

883,564

DACH

255,398

Nordics

91,914

Benelux

106,556

GCC

39,820

ASEAN

119,105

ANZ

103,497

Map

Where SaaS companies are

Most SaaS companies are concentrated in United States, United Kingdom, India.

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Methodology

Aggregate counts from the DiscoLike index of 80M+ companies. Companies without a resolvable location are counted under 'unknown', and cells below the minimum count threshold are folded into an 'other' bucket. Industry and business-type categories overlap: a company carrying several labels is counted in each.

Updated monthly. Current snapshot: October 2026. See the full Company Index Stats.

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DiscoLike, "SaaS companies", Company Index Stats, October 2026. https://discolike.com/company-stats/saas/

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