Point source number counts as a function of fluxes, corrected for Galactic absorption, for the 0.5–2 keV (upper panel) and 2–10 keV (lower panel) bands. The lσ uncertainties are estimated as the square root of the sources number. In both panels, the eFEDS curves are compared to those of Georgakakis et al. (2008) (compiled from a number of Chandra survey fields) and Masini et al. (2020) (from CDWFS). In the soft band, we also plot the results from the XMM-COSMOS survey (Cappelluti et al. 2009) and from the XMM-RM survey (Liu et al. 2020). In both panels, the dashed and dotted vertical lines indicate the flux limits corresponding to 10 and 50% sensitivity, respectively. In the upper panel, the dotted red line displays the number counts derived by applying corrections according to the simulation results to the distribution of the 0.5–2 keV fluxes measured by forced PSF-fltting.