What consulting costs in Germany: 34 prices vs the market
A managing director in Frankfurt asking for a consulting proposal in 2026 usually sits through three meetings before anyone shows a number. The average calculated consulting day in Germany cost €1,300 net in 2025, 2% below the year before (BDU, December 2025). We publish all 34 prices of our six practices and put each one beside the German market range with its source, so you know before the first call whether we are the right size of firm for what you have in mind.
Nothing here is legal or tax advice. Your Steuerberater and Anwalt decide before anything binds.
The decision
You can decide on this page whether Hamnett Enterprises GmbH fits your project, without booking anything. Our from-prices run from €900 (copywriting) to €9,500 (custom software, AI pilot, due-diligence preparation, succession). Each buys a named minimum scope, and each sits at the bottom of the German market range or below it, a range we researched from sources on 14 and 15 August 2026 and re-checked for this post on 25 August 2026. If you need an eight-week project with a team of four consultants, a top-tier firm charges partner day rates of €3,500 to €6,000 (Langguth 2025) and is the right place for it. If you want a defined scope at a price known in advance, it is below, line by line beside the market. Should the BDU fee study 2026 report the average day rate falling by more than 5% in December, we re-examine the 21 prices we raised in August 2026.
What consulting costs in Germany: how to read the tables
Each practice has a table with four columns. "Our from-price" is the published fixed price for the minimum scope. A fixed price, in German a Festpreis, is a price agreed in writing before the work starts that does not move with the hours it takes. "German market range" states what German providers charge for a comparable scope, with source and date. "What the from-price buys" names the minimum scope you get for that money. Larger projects get a written fixed-price proposal within 48 hours of a free 30-minute scoping call.
All prices are net of VAT. The market ranges come from trade-association studies (BDU, DDIM, AIMP), from the BAFA funding guideline and from published price pages of German providers. Where no German price sheet exists, the column says "Hamnett Enterprises estimate" and shows the arithmetic behind it, usually consultant days times a published day rate. The fees of McKinsey, BCG and the Big Four are not public and are not part of the ranges. They are a different market.
Consulting costs in the Mittelstand: strategy and management
The Mittelstand is the German band of owner-run small and mid-sized companies, and it is the buyer this practice is priced for. Here the day rate drives the prices more than anything else. The BDU average is €1,300 a day (the Bundesverband Deutscher Unternehmensberatungen is the German consulting industry association and publishes the only reliable German fee study), boutiques charge €1,400 to €2,800 (Langguth 2025), and senior strategy consultants €1,900 to €2,600. Where no provider publishes a price sheet, the market column derives project prices from those rates.
| Service | Our from-price | German market range (source) | What the from-price buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business strategy & planning | from €4,900 | 5 to 10 boutique days at €1,400 to €2,800 give €7,000 to €28,000 (Hamnett Enterprises estimate from Langguth 2025) | One company, 5 to 8 interviews, two workshops, a written strategy with a 12-month roadmap |
| Operations & process improvement | from €3,900 | 2 to 4 days at the BDU rate of €1,300 give €2,600 to €5,200 for a process analysis, programmes over 3 to 6 months €10,000 to €40,000 (Hamnett Enterprises estimate from BDU 2025) | One process mapped end to end, a prioritised action list |
| Pricing & business-model review | from €4,900 | Senior strategy consultants €1,900 to €2,600 a day (Langguth 2025), so a 2-to-4-day pricing audit is €3,800 to €10,400 | Desk benchmark of one product line with an elasticity read |
| Market entry & internationalisation | from €6,500 | Market research alone €8,000 to €12,000 per project, competitor analysis €5,000 to €10,000 (intotheminds 2025), a consulting study for one target country €10,000 to €50,000 (Hamnett Enterprises estimate) | One target country, desk research on regulation, competition and distribution, a written entry recommendation |
| Interim & project leadership | part-time from €6,500 per month | German interim day rate €1,297 (2025), €1,317 expected for 2026 (DDIM market study 2026), €1,338 (AIMP 2024) | 4 to 5 days a month on a defined mandate |
As of August 2026, prices net of VAT, sources retrieved 25 August 2026.
At €6,500 for four to five days our interim price works out at €1,300 to €1,625 a day, so at or above the DDIM average. The other four rows sit below the derived boutique ranges because the minimum scope is cut small: one company, one process, one product line, one country.
Marketing and growth
Marketing is a retainer market. German prices run per month, and the range depends on the number of channels and on whether original creative work is produced.
| Service | Our from-price | German market range (source) | What the from-price buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Positioning & messaging | from €3,900 | One-day positioning workshop €3,800, with six months of support €5,600 (markenhexe.de 2026) | One-day workshop, three competitors, a positioning statement |
| SEO & GEO | technical review from €1,900, GEO baseline report from €1,900, monitoring from €1,200 per month | SEO audit €1,500 to €5,000 fixed price (Growsta, July 2026). GEO: no German agency offer found, tracking tools $29 to $489 per month (Otterly 2026), US agencies $1,500 to $5,000 per month for small firms (WebFX, May 2026) | Crawl of up to 500 pages with a prioritised fix list. GEO baseline across the major AI engines with 25 prompts |
| Content marketing | programme from €1,900 per month | Small retainer package €1,000 to €3,000 per month (TWOSEE, June 2026), content agencies for small brands €2,500 to €5,000 per month (chaerry 2026) | One channel, a few pieces a month |
| Copywriting & bilingual editing | from €900 | Copywriter day rate €500 to €900 (TWOSEE, June 2026), translation at €1.80 to €2.10 per standard line under the JVEG, the German statute that sets court-appointed translator rates (BDÜ Nord) | One short piece, two rounds of revision |
| Social media marketing | from €1,500 per month | Small agency €1,200 to €2,500 per month, full service €2,500 to €5,000 (unaice, May 2026) | One platform, planning and the basics |
| Paid advertising | management from €1,200 per month plus media budget | Agency fee €800 to €4,000 per month or 8% to 15% of the ad budget (Ledist, July 2026) | One platform, conversion tracking |
| Marketing analytics & reporting | setup from €1,900 | Setup with a consent tool and server-side tagging €1,000 to €4,000 (Webmasterei Prange 2026) | GA4 set up cleanly with standard events |
As of August 2026, prices net of VAT, sources retrieved 25 August 2026.
The GEO row is the only one without a German comparison. GEO stands for generative engine optimisation, the work of getting ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews to name a company in their answers. On 25 August 2026 we found no German agency offering such a visibility report as a standalone product with a price. The comparison therefore runs over US agencies and over the tools.
Software and technology
The spread between from-price and upper limit is widest here, because user roles, integrations and sites multiply the effort. Accessibility under the Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG, the German law that obliges many consumer-facing digital offerings to be accessible) belongs in the scope of every website proposal.
| Service | Our from-price | German market range (source) | What the from-price buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Websites & web applications | business website from €6,500 | Business website with custom design €5,000 to €20,000, CMS site with a shop €8,000 to €30,000 (graphek 2026) | 5 to 8 pages, CMS, GDPR basics |
| Custom software & internal tools | from €9,500 | Small internal tool €5,000 to €15,000, mid-sized application €15,000 to €50,000 (xmethod, March 2026) | One workflow, one or two user roles, no integrations |
| Automation & system integration | from €4,900 | Quick win with one workflow €2,500 to €8,000, workflow package €8,000 to €25,000 (Digi Match, March 2026) | Two or three systems connected, simple logic |
| Legacy modernisation | assessment from €6,500 | Assessment from €3,000, module refactoring €14,000 to €56,000, staged migration €70,000 to €350,000 (groenewold 2026) | Code audit, dependency map, options paper |
| IT security review & hardening | review from €2,900, programmes up to €50,000 | Automated scan €500 to €3,000, basic audit from €990, combined technical audit €5,000 to €25,000, NIS2 gap analysis €3,000 to €10,000 (APASEC, June 2026). Network pentest from €3,500, SME pentests €1,500 to €15,000, day rate €900 to €1,800 (SBS, August 2026) | Perimeter scan, configuration review of the core stack, a prioritised fix list written for a non-technical managing director |
| Fractional CTO & technology advisory | from €3,400 per month | Germany: advisory retainer €2,400 to €3,200, standard €4,200 to €6,000, intensive €8,500 to €12,000 per month (941consulting, August 2026) | Two days of architecture and vendor decisions |
As of August 2026, prices net of VAT, sources retrieved 25 August 2026.
The security row is the only one carrying a published upper limit. €50,000 buys a programme for three sites with an internal and an external pentest, a NIS2 gap analysis (NIS2 is the EU directive that obliges companies in critical sectors to run demonstrable cyber risk management), ISO 27001 preparation and six months of implementation support. For comparison, APASEC quotes €8,000 to €30,000 for a full NIS2 compliance review and €2,000 to €5,000 per month for an ongoing CISO retainer.
AI and digital transformation
The EU AI Act makes staff AI literacy a duty (Article 4), so companies now buy training as a compliance line. At the same time German AI consultancies publish their prices more openly than any other practice, which makes the comparison easy.
| Service | Our from-price | German market range (source) | What the from-price buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI adoption strategy | from €4,900 | Potential analysis from €2,900, strategy and roadmap from €5,900, consultant day from €1,950 (KI-Beratung Deutschland, August 2026) | 2-to-4-week assessment, a scored use-case shortlist |
| AI-native operations | from €9,500 | Pilot project from €4,990, departmental rollouts €10,000 to €50,000, back-office workflows €20,000 to €50,000 (KI-Beratung Deutschland 2026) | One department, one or two agents in real workflows |
| AI, tech & agile training | one-day workshop from €3,400 | Full-day workshop for up to 12 people from €2,680 (KI-Beratung Deutschland, August 2026), Haufe Akademie €150 per person per day for each person beyond the 12th on top of the day rate | In-house day for up to 20 people with exercises on your own processes |
| AI pilots & prototypes | from €9,500 | Production pilot from €6,900, chatbot with integration €10,000 to €25,000 (KI-Beratung Deutschland, August 2026) | One workflow on a standard model, one data source, proof of concept |
| AI governance & readiness | from €6,500 | AI Act readiness scan from €1,950, compliance package €4,500 fixed price, larger mandates on request (Elsen GRC 2026) | Inventory of up to five systems, risk classification, an AI usage policy, a literacy plan |
As of August 2026, prices net of VAT, sources retrieved 25 August 2026.
On the governance row our €6,500 sits above the visible German fixed price of €4,500. The difference is scope, our entry level includes the usage policy and the literacy plan that a readiness scan does not deliver. It is also the row where we are most likely to be wrong, see below. One note on funding: seminars and workshops are not funded by the BAFA (BAFA flyer), so the training day is not eligible, while the adoption strategy as an individual consulting engagement can be.
Finance and transactions
Here consulting runs into a legal boundary. A signed valuation opinion carrying expert liability is reserved to a Wirtschaftsprüfer, the German state-licensed statutory auditor. Our indicative valuation therefore delivers a value range without a signature and without liability, and an opinion under IDW S1 (the valuation standard courts and tax offices expect) is arranged through a partner Wirtschaftsprüfer. We have not had this boundary reviewed by a lawyer, it is our reading.
| Service | Our from-price | German market range (source) | What the from-price buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Financial modelling | from €3,900 | Specialist advisers €3,500 to €7,000, premium and fractional CFO €7,000 to €15,000 (UpXcale, April 2026) | One entity, annual granularity, base case |
| Pitch decks & investor materials | from €3,400 | Agency €2,000 to €10,000 (UpXcale, April 2026) | 10 to 15 slides, custom design on an existing story |
| Business plans & bankability | from €2,900 | BAFA-registered start-up advisers €1,500 to €3,500, specialist advisers €3,500 to €7,000 (UpXcale, April 2026) | 15 to 20 pages with a P&L forecast, bankable |
| Due-diligence preparation | from €9,500 | Due diligence on companies under €5M of revenue €15,000 to €30,000 (Deal Origination, April 2026) | Two years normalised, a data room of up to 100 documents, a fact book |
| Indicative valuation | from €3,900 | Opinion under IDW S1 €4,000 to €10,000 and up (KERN, June 2025), fixed-price offer €7,900 (DIfU) | Multiple range for one entity with a short written rationale, no signature and no liability |
| Succession & exit preparation | from €9,500 | Specialist adviser flat fees €3,000 to €25,000, M&A advisers 3% to 8% of the purchase price plus a retainer (onlinebilanz, July 2026), retainer €2,000 to €5,000 per month plus a 3% to 10% success fee (Firmenzukaufen, January 2026) | Readiness check, value range, data room, an owner-dependency review |
As of August 2026, prices net of VAT, sources retrieved 25 August 2026.
The succession row shows the largest structural difference. The market charges a retainer (a monthly base fee) plus a success fee of 3% to 10% of the purchase price. On a €2M sale that is €60,000 to €200,000 of success fee. Our €9,500 buys the preparation, and we quote the sale process itself separately, on terms fixed in writing before the start.
People and talent
The market here counts in percent of salary. The BDU average for recruitment is 27.8% of gross annual target salary, which on a €70,000 role is €19,460 (Instaffo 2026). We count in fixed prices known before the start, never in percent.
| Service | Our from-price | German market range (source) | What the from-price buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Executive search & recruiting | key-hire package from €6,500, tiered by salary up to €14,500 | Success fee 20% to 35% of annual salary, BDU average 27.8%, so €19,460 on €70,000 (Instaffo 2026) | One role up to €60,000 of salary. €9,500 up to €100,000, €14,500 above that |
| Technical & specialist assessment | from €1,400 per role | A few hundred euros per person for standardised online formats up to several thousand per participant for bespoke management assessments (spendit, August 2026) | Structured screen of one role with a scorecard |
| Recruiting process design | from €2,900 | 2 to 6 consultant days at the BDU rate of €1,300 give €2,600 to €7,800 (Hamnett Enterprises estimate). For comparison, one hire costs German firms €4,200 to €8,500 (Mission Personal, May 2026) | Audit of the current process with prioritised recommendations |
| Employer branding & job marketing | from €3,900 | Small projects with a workshop, a first analysis and basic positioning €5,000 to €15,000 (Raven51, July 2026). One StepStone listing €219 to €5,499, standard package €1,449 (Personalturm, July 2026) | Positioning workshop, candidate personas, an employer promise with core messages |
| Onboarding design | from €3,400 | No German price sheet for programme design found, Hamnett Enterprises estimate €5,000 to €15,000. The induction itself costs €2,260 (retail) to €11,660 (IT) per hire (TalentMatch24 2026) | One role level with a 30-60-90-day programme, a checklist, a manager briefing |
As of August 2026, prices net of VAT, sources retrieved 25 August 2026.
Consultant day rates 2026: what a managing director in Frankfurt pays
No published fee study breaks out Frankfurt or Hessen. The BDU publishes national figures, and so do the freelancer surveys. The table therefore shows the German ranges by provider type and works a ten-day project through, as it would be quoted to a managing director in Frankfurt.
| Provider type | Day rate net | Source | Ten-day project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freelancer | €800 to €1,500 | Langguth 2025. freelancermap: €103 an hour on average in 2026, about €820 for an eight-hour day | €8,000 to €15,000 |
| BDU member firms, average | €1,300, analyst €700, partner or managing director €1,600 | BDU, Honorare im Consulting 2025 | €13,000 |
| Interim manager | €1,297 (2025), €1,317 expected 2026 | DDIM market study 2026 | €12,970 to €13,170 |
| Boutique consultancy | €1,400 to €2,800 | Langguth 2025 | €14,000 to €28,000 |
| Top-tier strategy and Big Four, partner level | €3,500 to €6,000 and up | Langguth 2025 | €35,000 to €60,000 and up |
As of August 2026, day rates net of VAT, sources retrieved 25 August 2026.
Travel costs come on top. Münker & Partner reports an average surcharge of €190 per assignment, and only 57% of consultancies carry their overheads inside the day rate (July 2026). With us, travel inside the Rhein-Main region is included in the fixed price. The market is also moving down: the BDU average fell 2% in 2025, and the freelancer hourly rate fell in 2026 for the first time since the survey began, from €104 to €103 (Gründerküche, March 2026). For 2026 the BDU nonetheless expects the market to grow 4.5% to €51.1bn, carried by strategy (+5.2%) and IT (+4.7%) (BDU, March 2026).
For €4,900 you get a strategy scope from us that a boutique charges €7,000 to €28,000 for at its own day rates. That works because we run AI-assisted and because the minimum scope is cut tight. If you need more interviews, more sites or a financial model with scenarios, you get a new fixed price for it, known before the start.
The BAFA grant: a worked example for Hessen
The programme "Förderung von Unternehmensberatungen für KMU" run by the Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle (BAFA, the federal agency that pays consulting grants to small and mid-sized companies) subsidises consulting costs up to an assessment base of €3,500 net per engagement. In the old federal states, which include Hessen, the rate is 50% and the grant is capped at €1,750 (BAFA funding guideline in the version of 12 December 2024, section 5.2). In the new federal states and in the Lüneburg and Trier regions it is 80% and capped at €2,800. Up to five engagements per company are eligible, no more than two a year, and the guideline runs for applications until 31 December 2026.
Worked example for a VAT-registered GmbH in Frankfurt with 40 employees:
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Business plan & bankability, from-price | €2,900 net |
| Eligible costs (cap €3,500) | €2,900 |
| BAFA grant 50% | €1,450 |
| Net own contribution | €1,450 |
| Second example: business strategy, from-price | €4,900 net |
| Eligible costs, capped | €3,500 |
| BAFA grant 50%, maximum | €1,750 |
| Net own contribution | €3,150 |
As of August 2026, funding rates per the BAFA funding guideline in the version of 12 December 2024, retrieved 25 August 2026.
The conditions: an SME under the EU definition, an application filed before the consulting starts through the BAFA platform, an adviser registered with the BAFA, and a single engagement of at most five days. Seminars and workshops are not funded, nor is consulting that mostly covers legal, tax or grant-application questions, and the grant cannot be combined with other public subsidies (BAFA flyer). Since 15 November 2025 the BAFA calculates the grant for applicants who cannot reclaim input VAT on the gross amount, and StartHub Hessen then states an assessment base of €4,165 and a maximum grant of €2,082.50. A VAT-registered GmbH stays at €3,500 and €1,750. Whether a project qualifies is stated in our proposal. The go-digital programme that many adviser pages still list expired on 31 December 2024 (BMWK, January 2025).
Fixed price, never an hourly rate
Every proposal we write is a fixed price for a defined scope. If the scope grows, we agree a new fixed price before carrying on. Five published numbers carry that rule.
- Price works eightfold. On McKinsey's analysis of an average S&P 1500 income statement, a 1% price rise at constant volume lifts operating profit by 8%, three times the effect of 1% more volume (McKinsey, "The power of pricing"). For you as the buyer that means an adviser billing by the hour earns on slowness. A fixed price buys the outcome, and the efficiency gained from AI-assisted work stays with the adviser who built it rather than disappearing into the timesheet.
- Only 17% of companies price on value. In Hinterhuber's survey, 17% used value-based pricing, 44% priced against competitors and 37% against cost (Journal of Business Strategy, 2008). Hourly rates are cost prices. They say nothing about what the outcome is worth to you.
- 67% of B2B buyers want to buy without a sales conversation. Gartner surveyed 646 B2B buyers, 67% prefer a rep-free buying process, up from 61% the year before (Gartner, March 2026). A published price list serves exactly that majority.
- Price rises land at only 32%. Simon-Kucher's Global Pricing & Sales Study across almost 2,000 companies found firms achieve on average 32% of a planned price increase, and 97 in 100 miss their target (Simon-Kucher, October 2017). That is why the annual 4% adjustment each January is written into every retainer contract instead of being renegotiated each year.
- Discount customers are worth 32% less. Paddle analysed billing data from 88 software companies: customers acquired through discounts had a 32.41% lower lifetime value and churned considerably more often (Paddle, July 2022). So we give no discounts. Anyone who wants to push the price down gets a smaller scope.
The remaining terms are on the price list: 50% on order and 50% on delivery for projects up to €10,000, milestone-based above that. Retainers run for a minimum of three months with defined monthly deliverables and 30 days' notice after that.
What we changed in August 2026
On 14 and 15 August 2026 we checked every line of the price list against the German market range, using the sources in this post. The result: no line sat above its range, most sat below it, and three sat below the market floor that the cheapest German providers set themselves. On 20 August 2026 we raised 21 prices and lowered none.
The largest moves: fractional CTO from €2,400 to €3,400 per month (German retainer floor €2,400 to €3,200), employer branding from €2,400 to €3,900 (market floor €5,000), onboarding design from €1,900 to €3,400, AI governance from €3,400 to €6,500, business website from €4,900 to €6,500 (market floor €5,000), market entry from €4,900 to €6,500, AI pilots from €6,500 to €9,500, and the GEO baseline report from €900 to €1,900 with a new monitoring retainer from €1,200 per month. Executive search is now tiered by salary instead of flat at €4,900. The security programme's upper limit now stands on the list at €50,000, where it previously read €8,000. And the price list names the BAFA grant in place of the expired go-digital programme. Proposals signed before 20 August 2026 stand unchanged.
What this means for you
- Managing director of a firm with 5 to 150 employees: the tables above are the price list. If your project fits a minimum scope, you now know the price. If it is bigger, you get a written fixed-price proposal within 48 hours of a free 30-minute scoping call, all six practices from €900.
- Owner over 60 thinking about selling: the indicative valuation from €3,900 delivers a value range in three to five working days without expert liability. Succession preparation from €9,500 builds the data room and the owner-dependency picture before a buyer asks.
- Steuerberater or bank contact beside a client (a Steuerberater is the German licensed tax adviser who files the accounts): the business plan from €2,900 is bankable and sits under the BAFA assessment base, and the net own contribution in Hessen is €1,450. A signed valuation opinion runs through a partner Wirtschaftsprüfer rather than through us.
- English-speaking reader checking whether a solo AI-native holding delivers at this depth: the prices are the same for every client, net in euros, and every market figure above carries a source with a retrieval date.
Where we could be wrong
- If the BDU fee study 2026 reports the average day rate in December more than 5% down, under €1,235, our 21 increases sit above a falling market, and we re-examine each of them.
- If more than half of the first 20 proposals after 20 August 2026 fail on price alone, the increase was too large for owner-run firms, and the affected lines go back one step.
- If the BAFA successor guideline from 1 January 2027 sets the assessment base below €3,500 or the rate in Hessen below 50%, the worked example above no longer holds, and the business-plan price loses its funding link.
- If a German agency publishes a standalone GEO report under €1,900, the GEO row is no longer without a German competitor, and if the German AI Act market settles at fixed prices around €4,500, our governance row at €6,500 needs a leaner entry tier.
FAQ
What does a consultant day cost in Germany in 2026?
The average calculated day rate of German consultancies was €1,300 net in 2025. Analysts cost €700 on average and partners or managing directors €1,600 (BDU, December 2025). Freelancers charge €800 to €1,500 a day, boutiques €1,400 to €2,800, and partners at the large strategy firms €3,500 to €6,000 and up (Langguth 2025). No BDU figures for 2026 exist yet, and freelancer hourly rates fell in 2026 for the first time.
Is consulting subsidised in Hessen?
Yes, through the BAFA programme "Förderung von Unternehmensberatungen für KMU". Hessen counts as one of the old federal states, the rate is 50% of eligible consulting costs up to €3,500 net, so a maximum of €1,750 per engagement. The application has to be filed before the consulting starts, the adviser has to be registered with the BAFA, and seminars or workshops are not eligible. The current guideline runs for applications until 31 December 2026.
Why no hourly rates?
An hourly rate pays for time, a fixed price pays for an outcome. Under an hourly rate the client carries the risk that the work takes longer, and the adviser earns on every extra hour. Under a fixed price with a defined scope the risk sits with the adviser, and the price stands before the start. Our price list therefore names a from-price with a minimum scope for each of the 34 services, and larger projects get a written fixed-price proposal within 48 hours.
What does consulting cost in Frankfurt?
There is no separate fee study for Frankfurt, the national figures apply. A ten-day project costs €8,000 to €15,000 with a freelancer, €14,000 to €28,000 with a boutique and €35,000 to €60,000 and up with a top-tier firm at partner level, each net of VAT and before travel costs. At Hamnett Enterprises in Eschborn a business strategy starts at €4,900, a process analysis at €3,900 and a business plan at €2,900, with travel inside the Rhein-Main region included.
Further reading
- Why our prices are public
- Selling a company in Rhein-Main: what a buyer reads first
- Pricing & business-model review from €4,900
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