Dynius
Dynius is a Swiss AI platform that automates transfer pricing benchmarks end to end, sourcing comparable companies from public registries instead of Orbis, extracting their financials, computing the arm's-length range and drafting the report in the client's own template.
What is Dynius?
Dynius is an artificial intelligence platform dedicated to transfer pricing, published by Dynius GmbH, a company registered in Zug, Switzerland. Its promise, stated on the homepage, is that transfer pricing is finally automated: the benchmark study that normally consumes days of an adviser's time is produced the same day, and the vendor positions it as a replacement for a commercial comparables database. The product is built as four connected blocks. Search is a proprietary AI engine that surfaces candidate comparable companies straight from public financial registries and filed statements across jurisdictions, with every match traceable to its source document. Financials pulls each candidate's accounts from official filings, standardises them into a single format ready for quantitative screening, and can produce the underlying XBRL or PDF on demand. Benchmarking screens the candidate set down to accepted comparables and computes the arm's-length range and its statistics, logging every company kept or dropped together with the reason. Benchmark report writes the whole study up in the client's own template, covering the search strategy, the rationale for each rejection, working capital adjustments and the attached financials, delivered in Word and PDF. The methodological argument is explicit and unusually precise. The comparables search is iterative: the engine widens and refines until the accepted set meets comparability criteria fixed up front and left unchanged, and every iteration is logged so that a third party can re-run the search. Dynius grounds this in the OECD Guidelines, citing paragraph 3.81 for the fact that an exhaustive search is not required and paragraph 3.35 for the primacy of the process and the criteria adopted. Two consumption modes are offered: clients can build the benchmark themselves, or hand the screening and documentation to the Dynius team and receive it ready to file. On security the vendor states that it never trains models on client data, that each transaction runs in a fully isolated environment, and that the client picks the hosting jurisdiction among Switzerland, the EU and the United States, with multi-tenant, single-tenant, private-cloud and on-premise deployment available. The company describes itself as an ETH Zurich spin-off founded by AI researchers and transfer pricing experts. It has been on the commercial register since December 2021, though under a broader data science purpose: the transfer pricing product is a later repositioning.
What it does
- Find comparable companies from public financial registries and filed statements, without an Orbis licence
- Extract and standardise each comparable's financials from official filings, with every figure traceable to its source
- Screen candidates qualitatively and quantitatively, then compute and document the arm's-length range
- Draft the full benchmark report in the client's own Word or PDF template
- Read uploaded contracts, invoices and spreadsheets to build the intercompany transaction inventory automatically
- Run the functions, assets and risks analysis and support entity characterisation and method selection
- Import existing transfer pricing policies, agreements and precedents to stay consistent with prior documentation
When to use Dynius / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Dynius is the right fit.
When to use Dynius
- Transfer pricing practitioners in advisory firms who produce benchmarks repeatedly and want to keep the search strategy in their own hands
- In-house tax teams of multinational groups that must document intercompany transactions for a Local File
- Tax and accounting boutiques that cannot justify a comparables database licence, which the vendor puts at 30,000-50,000 EUR per year
- Independent tax consultants who currently outsource benchmarks at 5,000-7,000 EUR each and want to bring the work back in-house
- Practitioners who need an auditable trail, where every accepted or rejected company carries its reason and a third party can re-run the search
When not to use Dynius
- Anyone needing a mobile app: no iOS or Android application exists, and store lookups against working witnesses returned nothing
- Teams wanting to embed the engine in their own systems: no public API is marketed and no third-party integration is named
- Buyers who need a signed data processing agreement or a security certification up front, as neither a DPA nor ISO 27001 or SOC 2 is published
- Occasional users with a single benchmark to run each year, for whom 1,000 EUR per benchmark is a steep unit price once the free one is used
- Anyone looking for general tax, accounting or compliance software: the product covers transfer pricing benchmarking only
How to use Dynius
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Book the introductory 30-minute call through the scheduling link on the site: there is no self-service sign-up
- Run the first benchmark on one of your own real cases, at no cost and with no commitment
- Upload contracts, invoices, financial statements or Excel files exactly as they are, with no clean-up required
- Let the AI read the documents and build the intercompany transaction inventory
- Review the functions, assets and risks analysis and confirm entity characterisation and method selection
- Set the comparability criteria that will govern the search, and refine or re-run them as needed
- Let the search engine surface candidate comparables from the public registries
- Check the screening decisions, each logged with the reason a company was kept or rejected
- Review the computed arm's-length range and its statistics through the full audit trail
- Download the finished benchmark report in your own Word or PDF template
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Removes the entry cost of a comparables database licence, which the vendor puts at 30,000-50,000 EUR per year
- The first benchmark is genuinely free, run on one of the client's real cases with no commitment
- Unlimited done-with-you guarantee on the following ten benchmarks, with no time limit and no hour counter
- Strong traceability: every figure traces to its filing, every rejection carries a reason, and the search strategy can be re-run by a third party
- Same-day turnaround against the days or weeks the vendor attributes to in-house or outsourced work
- Billing on actual usage only, with no setup fee, no subscription and no minimum commitment
- Unconditional commitment not to train models on client data, with per-transaction isolation and a choice of hosting jurisdiction
Cons
- No terms and conditions and no legal notice are published anywhere: the contractual framework is not public
- The privacy policy covers the marketing website only and says nothing about the tax data processed inside the application
- No data processing agreement is offered and no product subprocessor list is published; only the website host is named
- No security certification such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2 is claimed, despite a strong confidentiality pitch to a sensitive audience
- No EU Article 27 representative is designated even though GDPR compliance is claimed by a Swiss company
- One shared mailbox handles sales, legal and data protection requests, and the postal address on the site disagrees with the commercial register
- No public API, no named third-party integration and no mobile application; entry requires booking a call rather than signing up
Pricing & Plans
There is no permanent free plan, but the first benchmark is free of charge, run on one of the client's own real cases with no commitment. Beyond that, the lowest paid entry point is 1,000 EUR per benchmark under the in-house plan, where the client builds the benchmark; the managed service, in which the Dynius team performs the screening and documentation and delivers the study ready to file, is 1,300 EUR per benchmark. The ten benchmarks following the free one remain at 1,000 EUR each and carry an unlimited done-with-you guarantee. An optional annual refresh, in which the financials are updated and the report reissued, costs 800 EUR. Billing is monthly and based on the benchmarks actually run, with no setup fee, no subscription and no minimum. Note that the unit of charge is the benchmark rather than a period or a seat.
- pan-European comparables search
- documented and reproducible screening
- benchmark report in your template
- entity characterisation and method selection
- everything in the in-house plan
- plus screening and documentation performed by the Dynius team
- delivered ready to file
- with a Dynius expert on the case end to end
- a real case of the client's
- run together with the vendor
- at no cost and with no commitment
- financials refreshed and the benchmark report reissued
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Dynius handles your data.
GDPR overview
Dynius GmbH is a Swiss company and states that it adheres to the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection and to the EU GDPR where applicable. The privacy policy, last updated in June 2026, names the legal bases it relies on: consent, pre-contractual and contractual necessity, legitimate interests and legal obligations. It lists seven data subject rights, all exercised through hello@dynius.ai. It declares no analytics and no tracking cookies. On international transfers it states that data is primarily processed in Switzerland and the EEA, that the website is served by GitHub Pages and may therefore route through United States servers, and that this is covered by EU Standard Contractual Clauses and GitHub's EU-US Data Privacy Framework participation. Two gaps are worth noting: no Article 27 EU representative is designated, and no data protection officer is named.
Who owns the data?
The site publishes no terms and conditions, so no contractual clause on data ownership can be quoted. The only legal document is a privacy policy last updated in June 2026, and it governs the marketing website and the commercial relationship rather than the tax data handed to the application. On the product side Dynius states that client data is never used to train models and that every transaction is processed in a fully isolated environment, with the hosting jurisdiction chosen by the client. Data subjects may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection and withdrawal of consent by writing to hello@dynius.ai. Ownership of uploaded contracts, financials and resulting benchmarks is nowhere addressed in writing.
Reuse rights
No terms of service are published, so the reuse rights attached to the benchmark reports a client produces are not defined anywhere on the site. What the privacy policy does cover is the vendor's own use of personal data: name, email address, company name and job title, collected when a visitor requests a demo, subscribes to communications, enters a business relationship or corresponds by email. These are used to answer enquiries, deliver and improve the services, send marketing communications with consent, meet legal obligations and detect fraud, on the legal bases of consent, contractual necessity, legitimate interests and legal obligations. Dynius states it does not sell personal information and shares it only with service providers, on legal requirement, on a business transfer or with consent. GitHub Pages, which serves the website, is the single named provider. The site uses no analytics tools and sets no tracking cookies, keeping only strictly necessary local storage for the language preference. Deliverables are produced in Word and PDF in the client's own template, which implies unrestricted practical reuse, but no document states it.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Dynius states that client data stays in the jurisdiction the client chooses, naming Switzerland, the EU and the United States, or wherever an engagement requires. The privacy policy adds that, as a Swiss company, it processes data primarily in Switzerland and the European Economic Area. The marketing website is a separate matter: it is served by GitHub Pages, which may route requests through GitHub's global infrastructure including United States servers, a transfer the policy says is covered by EU Standard Contractual Clauses and GitHub's participation in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Technical checks confirm the public site is served from GitHub Pages anycast nodes, while the application and its backend run on Microsoft Azure. Four deployment models are offered: multi-tenant, single-tenant, the client's own cloud, or on-premise. Every transaction is said to be processed in a fully isolated environment from end to end. No hosting provider for the application itself is named in any published document.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Dynius.
- The site publishes no terms and conditions and no legal notice, so nothing contractual can be verified before uploading confidential intercompany data
- The privacy policy covers the marketing website only; the handling, retention and ownership of the tax data processed in the application is documented nowhere
- The postal address on the site names a different domiciliation agent than the Swiss commercial register does, and it is a c/o address rather than an operating office
- The comparison figures used to justify the price, such as 30,000-50,000 EUR for a database licence, are the vendor's own unsourced estimates of what a client or a competitor costs
- The ETH Zurich spin-off claim and the same-day turnaround promise are first-party statements with no independent evidence on the site
- Automating comparables selection can erode a practitioner's own judgement over time; the audit trail is only useful if the reasons logged are actually read and challenged
- The publisher is a very small entity with a single registered managing partner and 23,000 CHF of capital, which is worth weighing against a guarantee of defensibility before a tax authority
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Technically undemanding. There is nothing to install: the product is a web application reached through a browser login, and documents are uploaded exactly as they are, with no clean-up or formatting required. Contracts, invoices, financial statements and Excel files are accepted, and output arrives in the client's own Word or PDF template. The expertise required is professional rather than technical, and a Dynius expert works alongside the client for the first eleven benchmarks. Two caveats: access begins with a mandatory 30-minute call rather than self-service sign-up, and the single-tenant, private-cloud and on-premise options would involve an IT project.
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Frequently asked questions
How does the comparables search work?
Do I still need an Orbis licence?
What does it cost?
How quickly are results available?
Is my data used to train AI models?
Where is the data hosted?
Can existing transfer pricing studies be imported?
Is there a managed service?
Who is behind Dynius?
Is there an API or a mobile app?
Should you pick Dynius?
Dynius makes a narrow, clearly costed promise: it turns the transfer pricing benchmark, normally days of screening work resting on an expensive comparables database, into a same-day deliverable priced per unit. The economics are unusually legible for the category, with no setup fee, no subscription, no minimum, a genuinely free first benchmark and 1,000 EUR per benchmark thereafter, and the done-with-you guarantee on the following ten is a real commitment rather than a marketing line. What distinguishes it from a simple price argument is the emphasis on defensibility. The search is iterative and logged, every accepted or rejected company carries its reason, each figure traces back to the filing it came from, and the search strategy ships with the report so a third party can re-run it. For a deliverable whose whole purpose is to survive scrutiny by a tax authority, that reproducibility matters more than the speed. The reservations are documentary rather than functional. There are no terms and conditions and no legal notice anywhere on the site, so the contractual framework is simply not public. The privacy policy, updated in June 2026, describes the marketing website and not the handling of the tax data clients upload. No data processing agreement, no product subprocessor list, no EU Article 27 representative and no security certification are published, which is a notable gap for a vendor asking to be trusted with intercompany financial data. The postal address shown on the site also disagrees with the one on the Swiss commercial register. Dynius GmbH is a real, active Zug company, but a very small one, and its transfer pricing product is a recent repositioning of an earlier data science activity. The offer deserves a look, starting with the free benchmark; the paperwork deserves questions before any confidential data is uploaded.
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