How many cloud and data companies are in Saudi Arabia?
Hosting, cloud computing, big data, blockchain and call-centre services.
11.3K
active registrations list cloud, data & hosting activities — 0.8% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
11,304 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list cloud, data & hosting activities as of 16 September 2026 — 0.8% of all classified registrations, the 52nd-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
3,020 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +28.5% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (6,864), Jeddah (1,620) and Dammam (457) lead. Relative to its size, Riyadh is the most concentrated: cloud and data companies make up 2.0× the share they hold nationally.
78.6% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 50,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 11,304
- 0.8% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 3,020
- +28.5% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 78.6%
- 8,886 of 11,304
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where cloud and data companies are registered
Column height: cloud and data companies by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh6,8642.0×
- Jeddah1,6201.3×
- Dammam4570.9×
- Makkah4390.8×
- Khobar4251.7×
- Madinah3020.7×
- Buraydah1030.4×
- Jubail830.3×
- Taif730.3×
- Dhahran612.7×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Cloud, data & hosting: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Web hosting and data processing infrastructure2,936Activity code 631121
- Big data and data analytics2,650Activity code 631113
- Distributed ledger technologies1,397Activity code 631112
- Contact center services861Activity code 631123
- Cloud computing services850Activity code 631125
- Digital certification services821Activity code 631111
- Geospatial database development509Activity code 631132
- Geospatial platform and portal development and operation488Activity code 631131
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC8,60676.1%
- Sole proprietorship2,34320.7%
- JSC1681.5%
- SJSC870.8%
- Foreign branch680.6%
- General partnership150.1%
- Limited partnership100.1%
- GCC branch70.1%
Common questions
How many cloud and data companies are there in Saudi Arabia?
11,304 active commercial registrations list cloud, data & hosting activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most cloud and data companies?
Riyadh, with 6,864 — 60.7% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 1,620.
Is the number of cloud and data companies growing?
3,020 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +28.5% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in cloud, data & hosting in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
Starting a business in cloud, data & hosting?
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