Box vs. Microsoft SharePoint

Box

717 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft SharePoint

2,522 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)
SharePoint	Score7.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's SharePoint is an Intranet solution that enables users to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and collaborate across the organization.	$5 Per User Per Month

Pricing

Box

SharePoint

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)

Plan 1: $5.00
Per User Per Month
Plan 2: $10.00
Per User Per Month
Office 365 E3: $20.00
Per User Per Month

Pricing Offerings
Box	SharePoint
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	SharePoint
Considered Both Products	Box Verified User Chose Box The best user experience of any of the major cloud data providers. As it's not a product of any of the other major technology companies, it remains agnostic to the many platforms / features that everyday users want to have. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box We use both Box and SharePoint for different purposes. Incentivized Helpful? Bianca Oviedo Associate Software Engineer in Engineering at Enterprise (Automotive, 10,001+ employees) Chose Box This platform was a recent selection but before switching to Box we used Hiver, MS SharePoint, Dropbox, and Asana. We moved to Box because of many reasons like cost factors, usability factors, support team rating, and much more. With my Incentivized Helpful? Rebekah Ryan, PMP Senior Technical Project Manager at Optum (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose Box Box and its competitors are all quite similar in their filesharing and storing capabilities. I think the closest, most similar product would be OneDrive, which I use quite often. Google Drive provides a bit more of real-time updating and version control of documentation that I … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Boutros Senior Financial Systems Administrator in Finance and Accounting at Cypress Creek Renewables (Utilities, 201-500 employees) Chose Box Box was selected prior to me starting with the company. We eventually switched to Sharepoint because of the cost savings, but otherwise, we would have preferred to stay on Box. OneDrive did not stack up to Box because it was determined that it was best suited for storing work … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Box is better for large file sets than Dropbox, and doesn't have the collaboration abilities of Sharepoint (But that's not a negative! Sometimes it's just not needed). Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Box is infinitely more reliable and easy to use, without the sometimes days-at-a-time delay when the site was down, nor the data loss we experienced when our content was housed in SharePoint. Our day to day workflow has been hugely positively impacted by the switch to Box. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box My organization selected Box because it's a product that many organizations use, so it was easy to get users up to speed and collaborating together. The interface is very user friendly and intuitive. This has saved us time and effort in allowing users to become proficient in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Box is more user-friendly since most of its features are simpler and easier than OneDrive, which has many add-on features. Files in the Box sync folder will sync automatically and can be available for phones and tablets. GitHub users commonly share, and document code sources … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Back when the selection for Box was being decided, Office 365 and the online suite of products were not well developed yet. However, that is no longer the case. Office 365 and the Microsoft stack make way more sense and there's no need to go with Box. OneDrive has covered all … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box SharePoint is unusable and nobody should have to use it who isn't being forced to use MS applications by their employer. Drive is great, and for use cases less important/critical, I'd go with them as the free alternative for my storage needs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box We used Box for 2 years and then switched to SharePoint thinking it would integrate more appropriately with our other MS platforms. We had it for about 3 months and switched back to Box because SharePoint was a horrible experience compared to the flexibility and speed of Box. I … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose SharePoint Have used Box and MS Team which is add on to MS Sharepoint. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint MS SharePoint has more practical functionalities because we use MS Office software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint Is not a document depository but does allow for sharing of documents and collaboration and is much cheaper. Incentivized Helpful?
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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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TrustRadius Insights
	Box	SharePoint
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published February 5, 2024 Users have commonly implemented Box for file sharing and collaboration purposes. They affirm its user-friendly interface and robust security features make it seamless to share large files with team members. An added advantage is its integration ability with various applications like Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, which facilitates team collaboration on documents. Microsoft SharePoint, on the other hand, has been predominantly employed by users for document management and storage. Reviewers often mention utilizing SharePoint to set up intranet portals for their organizations, allowing for secure access to team sites and documents. While it also supports document collaboration, robust content management features, and integration capabilities are its standout traits, as mentioned by users. Despite these differing primary uses, both Box and SharePoint provide robust collaboration tools and have been employed by companies of varying sizes. Organizations seeking a solution primarily for large file sharing and user-friendly collaboration may lean towards Box, as reported by users. In contrast, users who require a robust document management system with intranet capabilities reportedly favor SharePoint. Both services, according to customers, offer strong security features and integrate well with other commonly used applications.

Features

Box

SharePoint

Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Box and Microsoft SharePoint
Feature	Box 6.1 25 Ratings	Microsoft SharePoint - 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

User Ratings
	Box	SharePoint
Likelihood to Recommend	6.7 (153 ratings)	9.5 (194 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (12 ratings)	9.8 (21 ratings)
Usability	6.7 (20 ratings)	8.2 (17 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (12 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (29 ratings)	8.6 (11 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	4.5 (1 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (3 ratings)	6.4 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (6 ratings)	6.0 (4 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Data Sources	- (0 ratings)	6.1 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)