2026 EPREL heat-pump brand shares in Austria vs Czechia: who leads, and by how much?

Who leads in Austria vs Czechia: the top brands and their shares

The short answer is that the available corpus does not expose a country-filtered EPREL brand-share table for Austria and Czechia. That matters, because the headline question — who leads in Austria versus Czechia, and by how much — cannot be answered directly from the registry outputs supplied here. The registry snapshot does record a Europe-wide listing universe of 60,989 heat-pump models from 777 manufacturers (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API), and a ranked top-10 brand table across that full universe, but not the Austria-only or Czechia-only brand splits.

So, any Austria-versus-Czechia comparison has to be framed carefully: the corpus supports a comparison of country context and of the overall EPREL brand hierarchy, not a verified country-specific leaderboard. Readers wanting the live listing universe can start with the EPREL catalog, the broader manufacturer index, and the current market snapshot.

Across all EPREL heat-pump listings in the latest 2026 snapshot, Daikin Europe N.V. is the largest brand by model count with 14,668 listings and a 24.05% share (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation). It is followed by Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. with 5,575 listings and 9.14% (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation), and JOHNSON CONTROLS HITACHI AIR CONDITIONING EUROPE SAS, SUCURSAL EN ESPAÑA with 5,207 listings and 8.54% (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation).

The next two large brands are Bosch Thermotechnik GmbH at 3,602 models and 5.91% (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation) and Ariston SpA at 2,618 models and 4.29% (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation).

That ranking is useful as a baseline for both Austria and Czechia, because unless a separate country filter is applied outside this corpus, there is no defensible way to claim that one of those brands leads in Austria specifically or that another leads in Czechia specifically. The registry does not record that in the supplied outputs.

How concentrated each market is: top-3 and top-5 shares compared

Again, the corpus does not include country-filtered concentration metrics for Austria or Czechia, so it cannot support a numeric Austria-versus-Czechia top-3 or top-5 comparison.

What it can show is how concentrated the overall EPREL listing base is. The top three brands — Daikin, Mitsubishi Electric and Johnson Controls Hitachi — together account for 41.73% of listed models, calculated from 24.05% + 9.14% + 8.54% (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation). Expanding to the top five by adding Bosch and Ariston takes the combined share to 51.93%, from 24.05% + 9.14% + 8.54% + 5.91% + 4.29% (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation).

That is a fairly concentrated catalogue at the top end, but it also sits inside a long tail of 777 manufacturers overall (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). For buyers and installers, that means the market is dominated by a handful of high-volume names while still offering substantial search depth in the live leaderboards hub and the filtered full heat-pump catalog.

A compact ranking table helps:

What the listings say about product mix: refrigerants and heat-pump types

The same limitation applies here: the corpus does not expose Austria-only or Czechia-only refrigerant mix or type mix. So the registry cannot support numeric claims such as “Austria is X% R290” or “Czechia has a larger air-water mix” from the data provided.

At the Europe-wide EPREL level, however, the product mix is clear. Air-water heat pumps account for 30,452 listings out of 60,989, or roughly half the catalogue by count (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). Air-air heat pumps account for 21,065 listings (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API), while heat-pump water heaters represent 9,228 listings (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). Ground-water units are much rarer at 213 listings, and water-water units rarer still at 31 (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API).

On refrigerants, R32 listings dominate with 13,935 declared entries (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). R290 listings are far fewer at 537 declared entries (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). R410A appears in several declared-code variants: 1,896 as “R410A”, 49 as “R410a”, and 10 as “R410” (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). The market index also estimates a 3.27% natural-refrigerant share across the full listing universe (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API).

That refrigerant picture matters in 2026 because the reference table in the corpus links R32, R290 and legacy HFCs to current regulatory context. R32 carries a stated GWP of 771 and an F-gas phase-out date of 2027-01-01 in the reference table, while R410A is listed at 1,924 GWP with a phase-out date of 2025-01-01; R290 is marked natural with 0 GWP (refrigerant_universe / IPCC AR6 GWP table; EU Reg. 2024/573 phase-out schedule; EPREL declared codes). For policy background, the underlying framework is EU Regulation 2024/573, while raw product registration sits in EPREL.

Efficiency and buyer choice: SCOP by brand and by type

The corpus does not provide Austria-only or Czechia-only average SCOP by brand, nor country-filtered SCOP by type. It does provide market-wide brand averages and type averages, which are still useful for screening.

Across the full market, average SCOP is 4.55 (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). Against that baseline, the largest brands split into above-market and below-market groups.

Daikin’s average SCOP is 4.44, which is 0.11 below the market average of 4.55 (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation; market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). Mitsubishi Electric averages 4.51, or 0.04 below market (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation; market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). Johnson Controls Hitachi averages 4.18, which is 0.37 below market (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation; market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API).

By contrast, Bosch averages 4.69, or 0.14 above market (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation; market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API), and Ariston averages 4.66, or 0.11 above market (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation; market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API). Vaillant GmbH is close to the mean at 4.54 (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation), while ATLANTIC SOC FRANCAISE DEVELOP THERMIQUE sits at 4.38 (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation).

By type, water-water units show the highest average SCOP at 6.15, but only across 31 models (type_efficiency / EPREL Public API · type aggregation). Ground-water models average 4.77 across 213 models (type_efficiency / EPREL Public API · type aggregation), while air-water models average 4.54 across 30,452 models (type_efficiency / EPREL Public API · type aggregation). The type table does not record SCOP for air-air or hp-water-heater listings; those entries are null in the registry output (type_efficiency / EPREL Public API · type aggregation).

Readers comparing high-performing segments can move from this article into the top SCOP overall leaderboard, the top SCOP air-to-water table, or the ground-source leaderboard.

What the country context suggests for buyers and installers

The country context is only available for Austria in the supplied corpus. The registry does not include a Czechia country profile here, so no numeric Austria-versus-Czechia context comparison can be made on electricity prices, climate or subsidy support.

For Austria, the profile shows 3,309.19 annual heating degree days at 18°C, 240.71 annual cooling degree days at 18°C, and a mean January temperature of -1.64°C (country_profile / Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages). Electricity is priced at €0.3272/kWh, gas at €0.1221/kWh, and grid intensity is 89.0 gCO₂/kWh (country_profile / Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages).

Austria also stands out for subsidy depth in the supplied dataset. The “Raus aus Öl” programme lists a maximum grant of €23,000 and a cost cap of 75.0% for eligible low-income cases, with a base single-family grant of €16,000 (country_profile / Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages). Buyers can cross-check this through the Austria subsidy page, the broader subsidy index, and the subsidy calculator.

Without a Czechia profile in the corpus, the cleaner takeaway is practical rather than comparative: Austrian installers are operating in a heating-heavy climate with relatively high electricity prices and meaningful subsidy support. That combination tends to put more pressure on seasonal efficiency, hydraulic design and whole-project economics than on sticker price alone. The supplied probe set does not expose country-specific price bands or brand-detail price proxies, so the price-band question cannot be answered from this corpus.

Bottom line: which market offers more competition, and where the standout brands are strongest

The evidence here is narrower than the title question implies. The corpus does not show how many EPREL models are listed in Austria versus Czechia, how many manufacturers appear in each country, who leads in each market, what top-3 or top-5 concentration looks like by country, or whether Austrian listings skew higher or lower on price than Czech ones. The registry outputs provided simply do not record those country-filtered metrics.

What the data does show is that the overall EPREL heat-pump universe in 2026 is top-heavy, with Daikin at 24.05%, the top three brands at 41.73%, and the top five at 51.93% (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation). It also shows a catalogue dominated by air-water and air-air products, with R32 far ahead of R290 in declared refrigerant counts (market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API).

On efficiency, the standout large-brand performers versus the market average of 4.55 SCOP are Bosch at 4.69 and Ariston at 4.66, while Daikin’s scale lead does not translate into a top-tier average SCOP in this dataset at 4.44 (brand_share / EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation; market_index_snapshot / Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API).

So the safest editorial answer is this: if the goal is a verified Austria-versus-Czechia brand-share comparison, a country-filtered EPREL extraction layer is still needed. Until then, the best-supported reading is that both countries sit inside a European listing market where a few manufacturers dominate model count, air-water listings remain the centre of gravity, and refrigerant choice increasingly needs to be read against the refrigerants reference, the country comparison dashboard, and the payback calculator.

Sources

• EPREL Public API · brand-share aggregation — probe: brand_share, snapshot 2026-06-28
• Househeating Pulse · Market Index v1, computed from EPREL Public API — probe: market_index_snapshot, snapshot 2026-06-28
• IPCC AR6 GWP table; EU Reg. 2024/573 phase-out schedule; EPREL declared codes — probe: refrigerant_universe, snapshot 2026-06-28
• EPREL Public API · type aggregation — probe: type_efficiency, snapshot 2026-06-28
• Eurostat tariffs (band DC/D2 latest); NASA POWER 30y normal; EEA grid CO₂; subsidies captured manually from official programme pages — probe: country_profile for Austria, snapshot 2026-06-28
• (probe failed — data unavailable) — probe: brand_detail, no snapshot date supplied

Continue reading

• Heat-pump market methodology — How Househeating Pulse turns EPREL records into comparable market indicators.
• Choosing between air-water and ground-source heat pumps — A practical read on type trade-offs, installation complexity and likely efficiency.
• Understanding SCOP, noise and energy labels — The key specification fields that actually change buyer outcomes.
• Refrigerants after the latest EU F-gas changes — What R32, R290 and legacy blends mean for product choice in 2026.