Box vs. Dropbox Business

Box

717 Reviews and Ratings

Dropbox Business

859 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Box	Score7.1 out of 10	N/A	Box is an online Intelligent Content Management solution that caters to individual users as well as businesses.	$21 per month 3 users (minimum)
Dropbox Business	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Dropbox Business expands on the company's cloud storage service by providing additional features, such as lost file recovery for an extended period, integration with popular office suites (e.g. Office 365), the Dropbox Paper collaboration extension, two-factor authentication (2FA) and single sign-on (SSO), tiered administrator controls and granular permission sharing, remote device wipe, API, and other features of use to larger groups and businesses.	$15 per month

Pricing

Box

Dropbox Business

Business Starter: $7
per month per user (3 minimum)
Business: $20
per month per user (3 minimum)
Business Plus: $33
per month per user (3 minimum)
Enterprise: $47
per month per user (3 minimum)
Enterprise Plus: $50
per month (billed annually) per user (3 minimum)
Enterprise Advanced: Contact us
per month per user (35 minimum)

Standard: $15
per user/per month
Advanced: $25
per user/per month
Enterprise: Contact sales team

Pricing Offerings
Box	Dropbox Business
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

A discount is available for annual pricing.

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Box	Dropbox Business
Considered Both Products	Box Rusty Carlson Field Underwriter in Professional Services at Symmetry Financial Group (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Box The first benefit of using Box that comes to my mind is the cost advantage. Box is generally more affordable and easy-to-use than Dropbox Business because it eliminates the cost of hardware and maintenance which translates into significant cost savings. Box team maintains, … Incentivized Helpful? Marcus Jones Finance Assistant in Finance and Accounting at Sage (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Box I prefer Box over all of these alternatives because I find Box to be a lot more user-friendly and intuitive. Box has a lot more integrations as compared to the previous alternatives I used in my company. Moreover, this tool has led to an improvement in risk mitigation because … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Box was the most versatile and cheaper of these options, also had more granular admin capabilities and platform agnostic (whether your are using MS Office or Google Docs). Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Dropbox trails built in platform players like Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive from built in integration with services. However, the online interface and collaboration tools are better designed than the other platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Box was a good platform, to begin with as the team was growing, and also since we did not have much data. Box was user-friendly and had sync options that we needed. It also did not have a lot of the other options in G Suite that was not required for use at the time. Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Wittmaak Media Associate in Marketing at PSIvet (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Box Although not as well known as Dropbox, Box definitely holds its own and is much more effective if you're looking for one solution for working with outside agencies. Incentivized Helpful? Maddie Sedgwick IT Support Specialist in Information Technology at Whitecap Canada (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Box We went with Box because it has the right set of tools according to our needs. It is reliable, economical and provides the best and interrupted service. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box In the end we selected Google Drive for our primary storage and Box as the backup. OneDrive and Dropbox did not fit our I.T. systems model. Box is reliable, so we do count on them to provide needed security for critical data. Incentivized Helpful? Jonah Dempcy Web & Mobile Developer in Engineering at Bluefire Productions (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Box We use Dropbox and Drive as well. However, Box has become our go-to and the canonical standard that we use almost exclusively at this point. We simply use Dropbox and Drive because some customers prefer it, and we like to have the flexibility to meet client needs and use their … Incentivized Helpful? Vin Campbell Owner in Information Technology at Sahadi Fine Foods (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Box I was (and am) a very early cloud adopter. I've had accounts with all of the major players since their inception - some even on direct invite! That said - I've used most all of the cloud services, and I've found that most offer the same and/or similar services with the main … Incentivized Helpful? Ross R. Mason Chief Executive Officer in Professional Services at Motion Media Solutions (Media Production, 1-10 employees) Chose Box At the time when we selected Box, Dropbox had yet to introduce collaboration on files, though they have since done so. Also at the time, we were concerned about security on Dropbox, with its primary emphasis on consumers and had already seen instances where client folders were … Incentivized Helpful? Raymond Cobb III President at JB Media \| custom content+ content marketing + inbound marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Box Used Dropbox. Great product too, especially if you are on the personal usage side. I use the Box app on various devices - android, desktop, apple and they all work fine. We were able to cancel our Basecamp account as a result of the collaboration feature from Box. Incentivized Helpful?	Dropbox Verified User Chose Dropbox Business They are very alike-- in the end we need to work locally more often than others, so for that reason we went with Dropbox business as our main internal group collab for files. Box's security is better, but Dropbox's sync and sync control is better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business Box has been pretty competitive for Dropbox, but the pricing and capacity options are more competitive with Dropbox. Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Agarwal Digital & SEO Consultant in Marketing at The Nunatak Group (Management Consulting, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Business The best thing about Dropbox is the fact that it can be integrated with over 100,000 third party apps which makes it easier to integrate the softwares which we internally work with. Dropbox integrated with DocuSign, Vimeo, Adobe, Salesforce and project management tools such as … Incentivized Helpful? Vin Campbell IT Director in Information Technology at Sahadi Fine Foods (Retail, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Business I've stated a few times already - DropBox set the Industry standard. Even when people are using a different solution - they tend to refer to cloud filesharing as using their "DropBox". So - including those I've referenced above - they all do virtually the same thing. DropBox … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Box

Dropbox Business

Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Box and Dropbox Business
Feature	Box 6.1 25 Ratings	Dropbox Business - Ratings
Content capture & imaging	8.119 Ratings	00 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving	9.224 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document management	6.223 Ratings	00 Ratings
Records management	5.719 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content search & retrieval	7.523 Ratings	00 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration	8.021 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content publishing & creation	5.015 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance	5.925 Ratings	00 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management	5.011 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automated workflows	5.013 Ratings	00 Ratings
Artificial intelligence	2.011 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile support	3.022 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integration	8.022 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Box and Dropbox Business
Feature	Box - Ratings	Dropbox Business 8.9 130 Ratings
Versioning	00 Ratings	8.9102 Ratings
Video files	00 Ratings	9.2113 Ratings
Audio files	00 Ratings	9.1106 Ratings
Document collaboration	00 Ratings	8.2120 Ratings
Access control	00 Ratings	8.5126 Ratings
File search	00 Ratings	9.1126 Ratings
Device sync	00 Ratings	8.9123 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Box and Dropbox Business
Feature	Box - Ratings	Dropbox Business 9.0 129 Ratings
User and role management	00 Ratings	9.2114 Ratings
File organization	00 Ratings	9.1126 Ratings
Device management	00 Ratings	8.8108 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Box and Dropbox Business
Feature	Box - Ratings	Dropbox Business 8.9 126 Ratings
Performance	00 Ratings	9.0126 Ratings
Reliability	00 Ratings	9.0126 Ratings
Storage Reports	00 Ratings	8.692 Ratings

User Ratings
	Box	Dropbox Business
Likelihood to Recommend	6.7 (153 ratings)	8.5 (131 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (12 ratings)	5.0 (4 ratings)
Usability	6.7 (20 ratings)	9.0 (19 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (5 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (12 ratings)	8.0 (15 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (29 ratings)	8.4 (27 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (6 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)