How many software development companies are in Taif?
Companies writing, testing and supporting software and apps. Figures for Taif, compared with the rest of the Kingdom.
174
active registrations in Taif — 9th among Saudi cities.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
Taif has 174 active commercial registrations listing software development activities as of 16 September 2026 — 0.7% of the Kingdom's total and the 9th-most of any city.
Software development account for 0.6% of Taif's classified registrations, below their 1.8% share nationally.
Across the Makkah region as a whole there are 4,936.
- Software development in Taif
- 174
- 0.7% of the Kingdom
- City rank
- 9 of 67
- Cities with registrations in the sector
- Concentration
- 0.3×
- Below the national average
- Nationally
- 25,774
- 1.8% of classified registrations
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Common questions
How many software development companies are there in Taif?
174 active commercial registrations in Taif list software development activities as of 16 September 2026 (Ministry of Commerce data).
How does Taif compare with other cities?
Taif ranks 9th of 67 cities for software development companies, with 0.7% of the national total.
How do I set up in software development in Taif?
Confirm the activity code and its licence conditions, obtain a MISA investment licence (for foreign owners), register the company with the Ministry of Commerce, then get the municipal (Balady) licence for your premises in Taif. Alpha Consultancy runs the whole sequence.
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.
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