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Checked on 12 Nov 2026. Written by the WrenchLane team. We sell an AI diagnosis tool, so read this as a vendor's guide: every price below has a date and a source you can check yourself, and we say where the other tools are stronger than ours.
Most workshops in Europe pay for at least one repair-data library, and many pay for two. The trouble is that almost nobody publishes a straight comparison. Prices sit behind distributor quotes, trials turn into yearly contracts, and in 2026 every big name started talking about AI. This guide puts the seven providers that European workshops use most side by side, with what each one is best at, what it costs where a price is public, and what its AI actually does today.
Who this guide is for
- Independent workshops in the UK, the Nordics, DACH, Poland and the rest of the EU that are choosing or renewing a repair-data subscription.
- Workshops that already have a library (Autodata, HaynesPro by Infopro Digital Automotive, a Bosch or Hella Gutmann tester) and want to know whether to add an AI tool on top.
- Owners who want the contract terms in plain words before they sign: how long, how it renews, what hardware it ties you to.
It is not a review of data quality. We cannot test seven licensed libraries against each other fairly, and we license one of them ourselves, so we stick to facts that can be checked: price, terms, hardware, languages and what ships.
Quick answer
Prices are list prices excluding VAT unless stated. The source number in brackets points to the source list at the bottom. Every public price in one dated table, updated each quarter: Repair Data Price Index, Q4 2026.
| Provider | Price where public (date, source) | Contract | Hardware needed | Languages | AI today (12 Nov 2026) | How you buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autodata (Solera) | UK: £77 to £182 per month by product and users; DE: from €94 (Service & Maintenance) and €156 (Diagnostic & Repair) per month (Autodata sites, 12 Nov 2026 [1][28]) | 12 months, renews automatically; trial converts to the annual plan [3] | None | About 16, incl. SV, NO, DA, FI [4] | Nothing AI-branded in the product; an "AI Advisor" concept reportedly shown in 2026 [5] | Direct online, 31 country sites [6] |
| HaynesPro by Infopro | Via distributors, price on request (see "How to buy" in its section) | Annual licence per workshop or workstation [4] | None (often bundled with scan tools) | 27 [7] | Infopro's AI Data Switch is sold to tool makers, exclusive to TEXA in diagnostics [8] | Through distributors and tool bundles only [9] |
| TecRMI (TecAlliance) | Not published, quote only [10] | Special TecRMI terms in TecAlliance's GTC [11] | None | Not checked | "Verified Repairs" links codes to tested fixes; no generative AI found [12] | Mostly built into workshop systems and DMS, often with TecDoc [13] |
| ALLDATA Europe (AutoZone) | No official EU price, quote only [4] | Set per offer; 14-day trial on request [14] | None | EN, DE, FR, IT, ES [4] | Diagnostic Intelligence: launched in the US, listed as a new EU add-on on 12 Nov 2026 [15] | Direct or via resellers such as CAB Group (SE) and Autologic [4][16] |
| Bosch ESI[tronic] | UK list Oct 2025: £774, £1,287 or £1,579 per year by package, plus KTS hardware £2,130 to £2,740; DE quote only [4] | Annual software licence | KTS device for vehicle communication | Not checked | KI-Assistent ships with ESI 2026/4 at the end of 2026, Advanced and Master [17] | Bosch dealers; often required in German workshop concepts [18] |
| Hella Gutmann (FORVIA HELLA) | macsData PRO €35 or €80 per month; mega macs X €2,490 (Sept 2026 [2]) | Running licence fees not published | mega macs tester for macsNova | Not checked | macsNova (8 Sep 2026) ranks likely causes on mega macs PRO, S20, PLUS [19] | Hella Gutmann and its dealers |
| TEXA (IDC6, TEXPACK) | TEXPACK Car €850 at one Baltic dealer, period not stated [20] | TEXPACK subscription | Navigator or AXONE tester | Not checked | AI functions included in TEXPACK since Feb 2025 [21] | TEXA dealers; Inter Cars in Poland and CEE [22] |
For reference, WrenchLane is a different kind of tool, an AI diagnosis layer rather than a full library: Small €69 per month (749 kr in Sweden), monthly, cancel any time, one plan for the whole workshop, 26 app languages, no hardware, works with any scan tool (wrenchlane.com/pricing, 12 Nov 2026). In Europe it runs on licensed HaynesPro data by Infopro. More in where WrenchLane fits.
Autodata (Solera)
Best at: fast, standardised information for everyday work across a very wide range of cars. Autodata says it is trusted by 80,000 professional workshops and lists 420,000+ wiring diagrams, 826,000 procedures and 46,000+ models [6]. In our experience, its labour times are a common reference in the UK and the Nordics when a workshop quotes a job.
Price: on the UK site on 12 Nov 2026, Diagnostic & Repair costs £132, £150 or £182 per month for 1, 2 or 5 users, and Service & Maintenance £77, £90 or £109, ex VAT, after a 14-day trial for £9.99 [1]. On the German site the same day, Diagnostic & Repair is from €156 per month and Service & Maintenance from €94, one user [28]. Full breakdown, including Sweden and Poland, in our Autodata price 2026 guide.
Contract: a 12-month contract that renews automatically. You cancel at least 24 hours before renewal, the trial converts automatically to the annual plan, and more than one user means calling sales [3]. Monthly billing is not the same as a monthly contract; read the terms before the trial ends.
AI: as of 12 Nov 2026 we found nothing AI-branded inside the product. Solera reportedly showed an "Autodata AI Advisor" for hands-free access to technical information in a "Digital Workshop of the Future" concept at Automechanika 2026 [5]. Treat that as announced, not shipped.
Our head-to-head: WrenchLane vs Autodata.
HaynesPro by Infopro Digital Automotive
What it is: HaynesPro WorkshopData comes from HaynesPro BV in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, part of Infopro Digital Automotive [4]. It comes as Tech, Electronics and Smart packages, in Car, Truck and Moto editions, and as APIs that tool makers such as Autocom, Launch, TEXA and Autel build into their scan tools. It covers 27 languages and claims 99% of the EU car parc [7].
Best at: breadth. Truck and moto editions sit next to cars, the Electronics package includes VESA, a guided diagnosis that takes up to 7 fault codes, and the Smart package adds SmartFIX bulletins and SmartCASE, more than 4,600 validated fixes across 43 brands [4][7]. If you work on vans and trucks as well as cars, few libraries cover as much in one place.
How to buy: you cannot buy WorkshopData directly from HaynesPro as an end workshop. Licences are issued to distributors, and the price is set by the distributor, often as an annual licence per workshop or for a number of workstations [4][9]. In practice you get it from a parts wholesaler or bundled with a scan tool. Ask your parts distributor or tool dealer for a quote, and ask how many workstations the licence covers.
AI: Infopro Digital Automotive showed AI Data Switch, a natural-language assistant and API over its databases, and it was a finalist for the Automechanika Frankfurt 2026 Innovation Award [8]. It is sold to tool makers, and since 16 Sep 2026 TEXA has exclusive access to it in the diagnostic-solutions sector [8]. We found no source showing a natural-language AI search inside the EU WorkshopData product as of 12 Nov 2026.
A note on us: WrenchLane licenses HaynesPro data from Infopro for European cars. That is why there is no WrenchLane vs HaynesPro page and why we do not quote HaynesPro prices: it is our data source, not a rival.
Using HaynesPro by Infopro? WrenchLane runs on licensed HaynesPro data and adds AI diagnosis
If your workshop already has HaynesPro by Infopro, keep it. A library answers the question you ask it. The hard part of a diagnosis is often knowing which question to ask when a car comes in with four stored codes and a vague complaint.
That is the step WrenchLane adds. You type the fault codes and the symptoms, or take a photo of your scan tool screen, and WrenchLane ranks the likely causes for that car and lists the checks that confirm or rule out each one. When a check needs a value, a pin table or a procedure, it comes from licensed HaynesPro data by Infopro: adjustment values with tolerances, lubricants and capacities, repair procedures with special tools, repair times, component tests, pin tables with wire colours and warning lights. We license a selection of HaynesPro data, not the whole WorkshopData product, so truck and moto editions, VESA and SmartCASE stay with your HaynesPro licence.
So the honest answer to "do I need both?" is: if you want the full library, keep HaynesPro by Infopro. If you want help getting from codes to a likely cause, add WrenchLane on top.
TecRMI (TecAlliance)
Best at: OE-level depth on premium German brands, inside the systems a workshop already runs. TecAlliance, the company behind the TecDoc parts catalogue, reports about 4 million diagnostic, repair and maintenance instructions and about 8 million OE technical values [13]. In 2026 it added TecRMI Service Book, which registers workshops in OEM digital service-book portals [23].
Price and contract: we could not find a published price; it is quote only [10]. TecRMI is usually sold built into a dealer management system or a workshop concept, often next to TecDoc [13]. Its contract terms are a separate section of TecAlliance's general terms [11].
AI: "Verified Repairs" links fault codes to tested fixes. We found no generative AI product as of Oct 2026 [12].
ALLDATA Europe (AutoZone)
Best at: unedited factory repair information. The EU product covers Repair, Labour Times and Maintenance for 44 brands in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish [4].
Price and contract: there is no official EU price list. You ask for a quote, buy online, or go through a reseller such as CAB Group in Sweden or Autologic, ALLDATA's preferred partner [4][16]. A 14-day trial is available on request [14]. Very low "ALLDATA Europe per year" offers found online are not official listings, and we could not verify them.
AI: ALLDATA's Diagnostic Intelligence starts from codes or a symptom and suggests probable causes, checks and known fixes, with no tester needed. It launched as a US add-on, and on 12 Nov 2026 the EU site listed it as a new add-on to ALLDATA Repair, with a form to register interest and no public price [15]. It needs an ALLDATA Repair subscription.
Our head-to-head: WrenchLane vs ALLDATA.
Bosch ESI[tronic]
Best at: the tester and the data in one system. With a KTS device, ESI[tronic] does ECU-level work: actuations, coding, service resets and secure gateway access. In many German workshop concepts it is part of the required equipment [18].
Price: the UK list from Oct 2025 shows Diagnostic £774, Advanced £1,287 and Master £1,579 per year, plus a KTS 560 or 590 at £2,130 to £2,740. In Germany it is sold by quote [4].
AI: the Bosch KI-Assistent won an Automechanika Innovation Award 2026. Bosch says it ships with ESI 2026/4 at the end of 2026, in the Advanced and Master packages, at no extra cost [17]. On 12 Nov 2026 we could not confirm it had shipped.
Our head-to-head: WrenchLane vs Bosch ESI[tronic].
Hella Gutmann (mega macs, macsData, macsNova)
Best at: its own case data. With macsNova, launched on 8 Sep 2026, a mega macs tester runs an automatic diagnosis that ranks prioritised causes, and an AI Smart Help Call sends vehicle data to Hella Gutmann's hotline and returns a proposal. Hella Gutmann says it is grounded exclusively on its own data: more than 100 million vehicle histories, 100 billion measurement points and about 2 billion fault-code evaluations [19].
Price: macsData PRO, the repair-data product, is reported at €35 or €80 per month, and a mega macs X tester at €2,490 plus VAT [2]. In the UK a mega macs PLUS is £3,195 including a two-year software licence, or £1,995 on your own Windows device [24]. Running licence fees are not published.
Hardware: macsNova runs on mega macs PRO, S20 and PLUS [19].
TEXA (IDC6, TEXPACK)
Best at: multi-brand diagnostics with a strong parts-distribution channel, especially in its home market, Italy. In Poland and Central Europe, Inter Cars integrated its catalogue into TEXA IDC6 in Sep 2025 [22].
Price: one Baltic dealer lists TEXPACK Car at €850, without stating the period [20]. TEXA prices are set by dealers.
AI: TEXA says every diagnostic solution subscribed with TEXPACK includes its advanced AI functions, since Feb 2025 [21]. On 16 Sep 2026 TEXA and Infopro Digital Automotive announced that HaynesPro content will open inside IDC6 and that Infopro's AI Data Switch will connect to TEXA's AI. The go-live date is not public [8].
Hardware: a TEXA Navigator or AXONE tester.
The 2026 AI wave in one paragraph
2026 is the year every big name started shipping or announcing AI. Hella Gutmann's macsNova is live on mega macs testers. Bosch's KI-Assistent arrives with ESI 2026/4 at the end of the year. TEXA has included AI in TEXPACK since 2025 and signed the Infopro AI Data Switch deal in September. Qira, a joint venture of Clarios, FORVIA HELLA, Niterra and ZF, sells a conversational assistant in Germany at €79 to €89 per month [25]. ALLDATA's Diagnostic Intelligence launched in the US and was listed as a new add-on on ALLDATA's EU site on 12 Nov 2026, and Autodata's AI Advisor was shown as a concept. The pattern: most of this AI lives inside a tester you have to buy. Full status, updated on each release: AI in repair data, 2026.
How to choose
No published market-share survey exists for repair-data tools in any EU country, so what follows is our reading of distributor channels, local websites and search demand, not hard data.
By workshop type
- You need ECU work: coding, actuations, adaptations. You need a tester ecosystem: Bosch ESI[tronic] with KTS, Hella Gutmann mega macs or TEXA. No library or AI tool replaces that.
- You quote a lot of jobs on labour times and wiring. A broad library is the core tool. Autodata is the common reference in the UK and the Nordics; HaynesPro by Infopro is common through parts distributors across Central and Eastern Europe.
- You work on vans and trucks as well as cars. Check truck coverage first: HaynesPro has a Truck edition, and OEM portals such as Mercedes-Benz Trucks sell time-based access [26].
- You are a small or mobile workshop that wants low fixed costs. Read the contract length before the price. A monthly price on a 12-month contract is a yearly commitment.
- Your bottleneck is the diagnosis itself, not the lookup. That is where an AI diagnosis tool helps, whichever library you have.
By country (our reading)
| Region | Usual set-up |
|---|---|
| UK, Ireland | Autodata (home market), HaynesPro by Infopro, Autologic, Bosch |
| Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland | Autodata, HaynesPro by Infopro through Autocom and PROmeister in Sweden, Bosch; chain workshops also have their chain's tools |
| Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Tester ecosystems: Bosch ESI[tronic], Hella Gutmann; HaynesPro by Infopro through wholesalers, Autodata, TecRMI built into systems |
| Poland | Autodata and HaynesPro by Infopro both large; Inter Cars channel with TEXA |
| Czechia, Baltics, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary | HaynesPro by Infopro through distributors and tool bundles; Autodata has no Czech, Hungarian or Bulgarian site [6] |
| France | ETAI and Atelio (Infopro), HaynesPro by Infopro through tool dealers, Autodata |
| Italy | TEXA (home market), Autodata, HaynesPro by Infopro |
Official manufacturer portals (RMI) are always there as the baseline: exact OEM data, sold brand by brand by the hour, day or year [26]. The EU's Delegated Regulation 2026/699 clarified access rules for batteries and ADAS this year [27].
Where WrenchLane fits
Keep your library. Add the diagnosis.
WrenchLane is not a replacement for a full library or a tester, and we would rather say so here than after you sign up. What it does:
- From codes to a likely cause. Enter fault codes and symptoms, or a photo of your scan tool screen, and get the likely causes ranked for that car, with the checks to confirm each one.
- AI diagnosis with HaynesPro data by Infopro built in, for European cars.
- Works with the scan tool you already own. No hardware to buy, any brand.
- Simple terms: Small €69 per month (749 kr in Sweden), monthly, cancel any time, one plan for the whole workshop, 26 languages (wrenchlane.com/pricing, 12 Nov 2026).
What it does not do:
- No bi-directional control or coding. Keep your Bosch, Hella Gutmann, TEXA, Autel or Launch tester for that.
- Not the broadest library. Autodata and HaynesPro by Infopro cover more wiring diagrams, labour times and vehicle types than we show.
- Not the cheapest way to get data alone. If all you need is a data subscription, a library on its own costs less. WrenchLane is for workshops that want the diagnosis step too.
See it on your own cars. Book a demo and bring a recent job with its fault codes. Or compare us one by one: vs Autodata, vs ALLDATA, vs Bosch ESI[tronic], vs Qira, or all comparisons.
Methodology
- When: prices and features were checked between Aug and 12 Nov 2026. Each price shows the date of the source. Where we could only find a third-party report (for example German prices reported in Sept 2026), we say so.
- What we compared: list prices, contract terms, hardware, languages and AI features that are public. We did not compare data quality.
- What we left out: reseller-only offers we could not verify, and grey-market "all-in-one" accounts. We do not link to those.
- Our interest: WrenchLane sells an AI diagnosis tool and licenses HaynesPro data from Infopro Digital Automotive. We do not rate HaynesPro against our own product.
- Corrections: prices change. If you see a figure that is out of date, write to support@wrenchlane.com and we will check and update it. We re-check this page every quarter.
Sources
- Autodata UK, buy page, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://www.autodata-group.com/uk/buy-autodata
- ki-syndikat.de, "Kfz-Diagnosesoftware im Vergleich", status Sept 2026: https://www.ki-syndikat.de/kfz-diagnosesoftware-vergleich/
- Autodata Poland, subscription page and terms, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://www.autodata-group.com/pl/wybierz-abonament/
- WrenchLane competitor research, Aug to Oct 2026 (vendor sites, price lists and dealer listings, kept on file).
- Briefglance summary of Solera at Automechanika 2026 (secondary source): https://briefglance.com/companies/solera-global-corp/pulses/85460
- Autodata global site, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://www.autodata-group.com/global
- HaynesPro products, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://acc.haynespro.com/products
- Infopro Digital Automotive at Automechanika 2026 (26 Aug 2026): https://www.infopro-digital-automotive.com/news/automechanika-frankfurt-2026/ and auto-infos.fr on TEXA and HaynesPro: https://www.auto-infos.fr/article/texa-ouvre-son-logiciel-idc6-aux-donnees-techniques-haynespro.293567
- HaynesPro distributors page, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://www.haynespro.com/nl/node/47
- Web search for a published TecRMI price, 12 Nov 2026: none found.
- TecAlliance general terms and conditions: https://a.storyblok.com/f/297549/x/d6dca87535/gtc-en.pdf
- WrenchLane competitor research, Oct 2026.
- TecAlliance via aftermarket.com.au: https://www.aftermarket.com.au/?p=40878 and reseller listing: https://www.AutoMARKET.rs/en/Product/TecRMI
- ALLDATA Europe, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://www.alldata.com/eu/en/ruby-anniversary-bundle
- ALLDATA US site, checked 27 Oct 2026, and ALLDATA Europe, Diagnostic Intelligence page, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://www.alldata.com/eu/en/diagnostic-intelligence-europe
- ALLDATA preferred partner agreement with Autologic: https://www.aftermarketnews.com/alldata-signs-preferred-partner-agreement-european-based-autologic-diagnostics-limited/
- Bosch press release on the ESI[tronic] AI assistant: https://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/efficiently-find-the-right-repair-solution-ai-assistant-optimizes-esitronic-diagnostic-software-from-bosch-283840.html and eurotransport.de on the 2026 Innovation Awards: https://www.eurotransport.de/fahrzeuge/lkw/automechanika-2026-innovation-awards-gewinner-werkstatt-aftermarket/
- autoservicepraxis, workshop systems overview: https://www.autoservicepraxis.de/downloadfile/3464528/90007_2023_27_12_I_040-045_n41_Werkstattsysteme_Ubersicht_3970_print.pdf
- HELLA press release, 8 Sep 2026: https://www.hella.com/en/Newsroom/Press-Releases/2026-09-08-macsNova-Hella-Gutmann-Solutions-presents-the-new-intelligence-for-modern-workshop-diagnostics-at-9694/
- balticdiag, TEXA services and updates, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://www.balticdiag.com/services-and-updates-car-texa
- TEXA IDC6 brochure: https://www.texa.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/pieghevole_IDC6_en-GB_V4.pdf
- strefainwestorow.pl, Inter Cars and TEXA IDC6, 8 Sep 2025: https://strefainwestorow.pl/wiadomosci/20250908/inter-cars-wprowadza-integracje-swojego-katalogu-z-texa-idc6
- TecRMI Service Book service description, 2 Jun 2026: https://a.storyblok.com/f/297549/x/fa41a78cbc/service-description-tecrmi-service-book.pdf
- HELLA mega macs PLUS flyer: https://www.hella.com/partnerworld/assets/documents/mega_macs_PLUS_Flyer_1.pdf
- WrenchLane competitor research, Qira price verified 6 Oct 2026.
- Mercedes-Benz Trucks service information: https://www.service-info.mercedes-benz-trucks.com/
- Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/699, EUR-Lex: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2026/699/oj/eng
- Autodata Germany, buy page, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://www.autodata-group.com/de/abonnieren/
- Autodata Sweden, buy page, checked 12 Nov 2026: https://www.autodata-group.com/se/abonnera-pa-autodata/
