Box vs. OneDrive

Box

717 Reviews and Ratings

OneDrive

1,027 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)
OneDrive	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	OneDrive from Microsoft is a cloud storage and file syncing service.	$5 per month

Pricing

Box

OneDrive

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)

OneDrive for Business Plan 1: $5.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
Microsoft 365 Business Basic: $5.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
OneDrive for Business Plan 2: $10.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
Microsoft 365 Business Standard: $12.50
Per Month (Annual Commitment)

Pricing Offerings
Box	OneDrive
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.

OneDrive can be purchased as a standalone tool, or as part of a Microsoft 365's business suite.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Box	OneDrive
Considered Both Products	Box 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 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 performs well with respect to privileges and access that can be modified for a file. It is very important from a security point of view. But products like Google Drive and OneDrive have better user experiences. They allow editing documents easily. But Box does not do that. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box OneDrive is also being used in tandem since our licensure is through Microsoft. While one is not trying to replace the other, we just utilize both for redundancy and integration purposes. They can have files moved between the two manually by the end users to ensure they're … 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 Box.com has the shortest domain name! It has feature parity with their competition. Any of these competitors sharing/syncing services are interchangeable for me. I default to whichever one my current client is using or wants to be using. If they are a Microsoft user, I go with O… 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 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? Benjamin Hale Digital Marketing Analyst in Marketing at Orbis Education (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Box Box lacks the integrations to Windows that OneDrive has, but has the right combination of price, features, and reliability. There are other services that are cheaper, but we find the Box provides good value when combining the things we were looking for. The inclusion of Box … 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? Verified User Chose Box Box has great apps, a great mobile-friendly website, extensions that integrate it into other programs/services, and WebDAV support so it can be easily/transparently mapped as a network drive in Windows. In these ways, it is on-par with OneDrive and a bit ahead of Dropbox (which … Incentivized Helpful? 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? Bhawnish Kumar Implementation Engineer in Information Technology at BT in India (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Box Box has cheap storage pricing and so is preferred by small organizations, and easy to use app and sync make it a good product to use. Cross platform file sharing and editing over the cloud is one of the best features it has. Incentivized Helpful? Elena Heyl Global Head of Data Science at Red Bull (Food & Beverages, 10,001+ employees) Chose Box For us switching to Box [was] a big move. It saves us from big problems and troubles which we were already facing while using the other software. Those use a lot of effort and have zero results in terms of results. Box has been a great find for us. Incentivized Helpful? Grace Wachina Software Architect in Information Technology at Worldline Global (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Box We have definitely come a long way to finally reach Box. It is undoubtedly a powerful and secure tool that is embedded with many modern features. Moreover, we wanted a platform that has more features and involves less cost. Altogether, it successfully stored many problems … 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 As this gets integrated with Outlook, Office, Android devices, tablets, Mac devices, email, Webdocs, XML viewer and also sync well with Windows and Macintosh. This also has a feature for Microsoft Office suite integration for export and import and is also Microsoft Office … Incentivized Helpful? Dustin Clark Takeoff Engineer in Engineering at Duran & Venables, Inc. (Construction, 201-500 employees) Chose Box For our company, Box is just easier. Everyone is aware of how to use it and it is more widely used by our partners in the industry. During our initial orientation, we get new staff familiar with Box (if they are not already familiar) and that is honestly one of the easiest … 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 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? Dave Becker Content Manager in Marketing at The Next Street (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Box Box was superior to all of the cloud file storage systems I've used. It is easier to use, has more space available, and we rarely had any problems. Unfortunately, budget was the deciding factor that pushed us to a different product, but I have found myself wishing that weren't … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Box is as simple to use as the others, however, the Single Sign-on feature is what makes it a viable tool for our company. Incentivized Helpful? James McQuillin Owner in Marketing at 1 on 1 Lessons (Consumer Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Box I feel Box's desktop sync app works the best but I admittedly love Google's native Docs and Sheets much more. I feel collaborating on Google Drive is much easier and more convenient. I believe you shouldn't keep all your files in one cloud, so to speak, so I keep accounts with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box I use a number of cloud computing file storage products in my day-to-day work, and I would say that Box does a really good job with the commenting in revision and functionality. It's great when working with other people and sharing files that can't be a live online, such as … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose OneDrive It's roughly the same as Googe Drive but underperforms when compared to Box and Dropbox. Incentivized Helpful? Vin Campbell IT Director in Information Technology at Sahadi Fine Foods (Food Production, 11-50 employees) Chose OneDrive I mentioned in another area that OneDrive is bundled into our Office 365 accounts - so let me start there. Dropbox will cost you $10 and more per month. Our entire Office 365 account costs $12.50/month for each user - and we get full Office with that. Enough said there. As far … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive OneDrive is integrated very well into Windows 10/Windows 10 Mobile and has a great UI on the web. The granular privacy/access controls are also quite nice. For sharing photographs, its viewer is unparalleled. Incentivized Helpful? Dave Becker Content Manager in Marketing at The Next Street (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive is included in our Microsoft suite of products so there was no additional cost for us to use it. We use OneDrive for that reason mainly. For the most part, it does what you expect a cloud storage system to do, and it does it fairly well. For a larger group (10 or more … Incentivized Helpful? Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland System Administrator in Information Technology at Coveo (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose OneDrive The only things that OneDrive does better then everyone else is the integration into Sharepoint/Office documents and the 1TB storage at this price range. Our corporate solution is Google Drive mainly because of the robust client, better cooperation inside documents, better … Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Fazalul Rahman Research Assistant in Research & Development at Rochester Institute of Technology (Research, 1-10 employees) Chose OneDrive All these require logging in to the browser and manually drag and drop the items into the interface. Even though some of the software provide desktop client, I found it hard to use and had integration issues with Windows. But OneDrive was already integrated with Windows which … 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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TrustRadius Insights
	Box	OneDrive
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published February 1, 2024 Based on customer feedback, both Box and OneDrive are extensively utilized for file sharing and collaborative work. Users of Box have highlighted how the product’s robust permission settings and real-time collaboration features have facilitated efficient group projects. Similarly, OneDrive users have praised the offering’s seamless integration with Microsoft Office Suite which enables multiple people to work on the same file simultaneously, enhancing team productivity. Based on the reviews, Box seems to have been particularly embraced by enterprise-level users, while OneDrive enjoys a broader demographic base. Box users often speak of its high-security features and unlimited storage capacity, aspects that are crucial for big corporations handling large amounts of sensitive data. On the flip side, OneDrive is popular among individual end-users, small business owners, and students, who appreciate its user-friendly interface and the convenience of having their files synced across different Microsoft devices. Lastly, a key dissimilarity lies in the overall user experience. While users recognize that both Box and OneDrive offer necessary cloud storage features, ease of use tends to vary. Many Box users have acknowledged some complexity in navigating the interface, suggesting a steeper learning curve. Comparatively, OneDrive users often express how its intuitive design and function make it easier to adopt, especially for non-tech-savvy individuals. These divergent experiences underscore the necessity of considering a user’s tech proficiency and the needs of the organization when deciding between these two services.

Features

Box

OneDrive

Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Box and OneDrive
Feature	Box 6.1 25 Ratings	OneDrive - 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 OneDrive
Feature	Box - Ratings	OneDrive 7.7 114 Ratings
Versioning	00 Ratings	7.290 Ratings
Video files	00 Ratings	7.2101 Ratings
Audio files	00 Ratings	6.395 Ratings
Document collaboration	00 Ratings	8.1108 Ratings
Access control	00 Ratings	8.1109 Ratings
File search	00 Ratings	8.9114 Ratings
Device sync	00 Ratings	8.1112 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Box and OneDrive
Feature	Box - Ratings	OneDrive 7.2 109 Ratings
User and role management	00 Ratings	7.297 Ratings
File organization	00 Ratings	8.1109 Ratings
Device management	00 Ratings	6.392 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Box and OneDrive
Feature	Box - Ratings	OneDrive 7.1 113 Ratings
Performance	00 Ratings	6.3112 Ratings
Reliability	00 Ratings	7.9113 Ratings
Storage Reports	00 Ratings	7.187 Ratings

User Ratings
	Box	OneDrive
Likelihood to Recommend	6.7 (153 ratings)	8.0 (114 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (12 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	6.7 (20 ratings)	9.0 (13 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (12 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (29 ratings)	8.0 (36 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (6 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 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)