Dropbox Business vs. OneDrive

Dropbox Business

859 Reviews and Ratings

OneDrive

1,027 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
OneDrive	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	OneDrive from Microsoft is a cloud storage and file syncing service.	$5 per month

Pricing

Dropbox Business

OneDrive

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

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
Dropbox Business	OneDrive
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Dropbox Business	OneDrive
Considered Both Products	Dropbox Verified User Chose Dropbox Business I haven't used OneDrive but it is a default on some of my devices. I prefer dropbox because it is integrated with a number of other platforms. When uploading documents, it will provide a link for easy sharing with colleagues and that is helpful. It also gives an option to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox Business holds up against the other big boys like Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. If you already use those platforms, it would probably make sense to use them. But many users already used Dropbox and were familiar with it. And if you don't already have a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox Business is far superior for user experience, file requests, and general stability, but it's a hard sell to use extensively when OneDrive is included with Microsoft 365. Incentivized Helpful? rizwan nazir UC Product Manager in Information Technology at BBC (Broadcast Media, 10,001+ employees) Chose Dropbox Business Sometimes using products outside the Microsoft ecosystem forces competition and helps to get improvements fast tracked which benefits everyone. Dropbox Business is designed from the ground up as opposed to yet another add on to a wider set of software applications. User … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business The services like OneDrive and Google Drive are pretty identical but, OneDrive for business is more cost-effective as it already is included in all of our user's Microsoft Office 365 subscriptions. They all similar functionality but at the end of the day if we can use a … Incentivized Helpful? Kara Rhodes Research Director in Marketing at Tallman Insights, Inc. (Management Consulting, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox Business We also use Microsoft OneDrive, but I prefer Dropbox Business. It’s more intuitive, and frankly, more people have it. We work with a lot of contractors, and almost all of them have Dropbox accounts. It makes it easier to use what everyone else is using. Also, I love the notes … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox Business offers very similar file sharing via the cloud features compared to Ms OneDrive & Box. One major advantage with Dropbox Business is the desktop app. With the app users can monitor both a business Dropbox account as well as their own personal Dropbox account. … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Sauquet Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Choice Hotels International (Hospitality, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Dropbox Business I have used Google Drive as well as OneDrive. Both of [these] are cloud storage but does not keep advanced kind of features like Dropbox Business. I am using it just because of its reliable services. Incentivized Helpful? Veronika Baranovska Inbound Marketing Manager in Marketing at Sendible (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Business I like that Dropbox is an entirely separate cloud storage solution. While Google Drive and OneDrive are free as well as offer the convenience of storing all of your documents and spreadsheets in one place, I find them quite clunky when it comes to managing visual assets. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business DropBox Business is excellent if you have people using different platforms (Windows, Mac, mobile) because it is used across all of them. If you are tied to a specific platform and use their software, such as Microsoft Office, then it may not make sense because you probably have … Incentivized Helpful? Chad Carman Digital Media Director in Marketing at Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox Business is one of the most well-known and commonly-used cloud storage software. I originally started with Box and found that to be extremely generous with data storage size for a free plan. But it seems that Dropbox Business has taken the reins as far as mainstream … Incentivized Helpful? Jess Johnson Director, Business Development in Sales at Blast Analytics & Marketing (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Dropbox Business I didn't select Dropbox. I use it because my company provides it. They also provide Google Drive. Personally, I find Dropbox better to use for most things, and only use Gdrive when I know I'm sharing Google files. I feel Dropbox is a better professional solution compared to … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Roodman Product Marketing Manager in Marketing at nLyten Media LLC (Management Consulting, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox Business is the more expensive option when compared to Google Drive and OneDrive. The Standard Business plan for Dropbox is the same price as the Office 365 Business Premium plan from OneDrive - which includes Office 365 tools in the cost. You must purchase a separate … Incentivized Helpful? Ann M. Frank Digital Asset Management and Art Buyer in Product Management at BVK (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees) Chose Dropbox Business If all our vendors and clients used OneDrive, GoogleDrive or WebDAM we would not have the need for Dropbox, but because they don't we know that we can use Dropbox anytime and anywhere. Incentivized Helpful? Aononna Tazin Software Specialist in Information Technology at Therap (BD) Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox Business is dependable, adaptable, and cost-effective for our businesses. On the inside, it’s comparable to other file-sharing and storage. Also, file access and navigation are much faster. We use it to share documents and store data and files for our business purposes. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business About the same, I use them both with my business. Incentivized Helpful? Amy Welsh Teacher at Davidson Academy (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox is more easily accessible by users outside of our school domain. Incentivized Helpful? Jesse Bickel, MS - PMP Sr. IT Project Manager in Information Technology at CaptureRx (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees) Chose Dropbox Business We mainly selected Dropbox business for the limited deployments are due to the customers we have already using them. They are not our centralized system of choice. Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Myers Managing Partner in Marketing at Clear Thinking (Management Consulting, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Business The easiest to use and understand. No other platform is as easy to understand and use. Something like Apple iCloud manages files for you and I find that very irritating. Google edits you uses and file names and send notices if you use a word that could mean you copy files Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox saves file that can be modified. With Procore and PlanGrid you have to download the document to modify and then send via email unless you have the permissions to add Incentivized Helpful? 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? Charles Combs Head of Marketing in Marketing at molly mutt (Consumer Goods, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox Business We've been using Dropbox Business since its early days. While we've considered other options, none of them provide functionality that would make us think about switching away from Dropbox Business. Incentivized Helpful? Jonah Dempcy Web & Mobile Developer in Engineering at Bluefire Productions (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Business We use many different file storage, versioning, sharing and document collaboration services. We are not exclusively using Dropbox. Rather, we use Dropbox Business when it is appropriate, like delivering to clients who use it. We also use it internally some, and as mentioned, we … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Galati Senior Project Manager in Engineering at Pond & Company (Construction, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox Business is pretty must the same as all the other "online storage" platforms. Nothing really stands out that is greatly different than the other platforms mentioned. I suggest using all three and deciding which one works best for one's particular situation. Keep in … 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?	Microsoft Verified User Chose OneDrive OneDrive offers more storage than Google Drive, but Dropbox gives unlimited storage for my institution. OneDrive is best for large file sharing. 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? Matthew Smith Estimator and Project Manager in Corporate at Century Exteriors Inc. (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose OneDrive All of these products require a document storage system or are a document storage system. All of them get you to replicate what you are currently doing and paying for with Office 365 and OneDrive as a packaged feature. It’s just as robust and is native to your operating system … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Deshpande Lead Product Manager in Product Management at BMC Software (Information Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose OneDrive Tight integration with Office 365 is the main reason. Besides, Microsoft has a good reputation for supporting enterprise customers. Smartsheet does not have that reputation. We also have a long, stable relationship with Microsoft. Microsoft provides 1 TB of storage for each … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive After our analysis, we found OneDrive superior to Dropbox and Backblaze, considering our specific scenario of use. We also found OneDrive very similar to Google Drive when comparing features, ease-of-use, etc.(both are in the same level). Google offered more storage space, but … Incentivized Helpful? Cesare Arienti IT Manager in Professional Services at MORGAN TECNICA (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive was firstly integrated into our Office 365 license and integrates very well with our Microsoft Windows and Office environment. It provides good integration with Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Having the ability to allow multiple users to edit the same Word, Excel files … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive For me, it is easiest to use One Drive if you are working primarily with Windows, Google Drive if you are working with Android devices or Chrome OS, but Dropbox works well on all platforms and has more business features and control over file access, etc. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive I personally like Dropbox more but OneDrive has better support and it is integrated directly into the Microsoft Office environment. You can attach files directly from OneNote or Outlook and the file sharing is really easy. The versioning in OneDrive seems better although not … Incentivized Helpful? Lukas Sundahl, MBA Co-Founder & CFO in Finance and Accounting at Sunderful Life (Entertainment, 1-10 employees) Chose OneDrive One Drive stacks up well against Dropbox and ShareFile because of its ease of use. With so many people using Microsoft Office Products it is easy to pick up how to use and leverage OneDrive. OneDrive allows quick use of applications like Excel within OneDrive without having to … Incentivized Helpful? David McCann Director of Technology, Open Source Incubator Initiative in Engineering at Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) at the United Nations Foundation (International Affairs, 11-50 employees) Chose OneDrive As previously mentioned, Google Drive is better for real-time collaboration, but not as intuitive when it comes to staying organized within a folder structure. Permissions model is easy to use but fairly unsophisticated. Dropbox doesn't offer real-time collaboration at all (to … Incentivized Helpful? Ariel Dunay Associate, Project Operations in Professional Services at Palladium: Make It Possible (Management Consulting, 1001-5000 employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive has its pluses and minuses. To be honest, we all switched as a company so I don't see any large benefits compared to other products, but no big misses either. 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? 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? Jason Ramsland Attorney in Legal at Ball Eggleston PC (Law Practice, 11-50 employees) Chose OneDrive In every situation I find Google Drive to be superior. Superior UI, searching, sync tool, overall feel. It operates on an even playing field with Dropbox and Dropbox for Business and Box.com. It is similar enough that I don't feel a desire or compulsion to go out and get Dropbox… Incentivized Helpful? Jackie Ramos Associate Director of Telecom & PC Support in Information Technology at 92nd Street Y (Non-Profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees) Chose OneDrive Dropbox was great. But overall it didn't fix our needs and we wanted to stick with one platform. Cost was another factor. We were able to do more with onedrive and installation was also easy to do. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Galati Hawaii / Guam Regional Manager in Engineering at Corrpro Companies, Inc. (Construction, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose OneDrive We selected OneDrive because the software integrates well into the other Microsoft Office Suite products. OneDrive, gives you that 1TB of storage for less money than Google Drive does. Despite being a Microsoft product, OneDrive has clients for non-Microsoft operating … Incentivized Helpful? Brian Taylor Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive does not integrate cleanly with Google products, for that Google Drive would be a better fit. If your organization uses Office 365, then OneDrive is the hands down best option as security scans and controls can be run in the same administrative interface as email … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive The OneDrive cloud interface has more integrations (Active Directory, Single Sign On etc.) but the sync engine and versioning for Dropbox is superior. Incentivized Helpful? Steve Oechsle IT Services Manager in Information Technology at Emerge (Staffing and Recruiting, 201-500 employees) Chose OneDrive Overall - Dropbox is strongest for syncing. Permissions aren't as granular as OneDrive - OneDrive is better in that regard. OneDrive compared to Google Drive is a draw - if you are a Google user - drive is the way to go. If Office 365 is your ecosystem - then OneDrive is your … 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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Features

Dropbox Business

OneDrive

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Dropbox Business and OneDrive
Feature	Dropbox Business 8.9 130 Ratings	OneDrive 7.7 114 Ratings
Versioning	8.9102 Ratings	7.290 Ratings
Video files	9.2113 Ratings	7.2101 Ratings
Audio files	9.1106 Ratings	6.395 Ratings
Document collaboration	8.2120 Ratings	8.1108 Ratings
Access control	8.5126 Ratings	8.1109 Ratings
File search	9.1126 Ratings	8.9114 Ratings
Device sync	8.9123 Ratings	8.1112 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Dropbox Business and OneDrive
Feature	Dropbox Business 9.0 129 Ratings	OneDrive 7.2 109 Ratings
User and role management	9.2114 Ratings	7.297 Ratings
File organization	9.1126 Ratings	8.1109 Ratings
Device management	8.8108 Ratings	6.392 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Dropbox Business and OneDrive
Feature	Dropbox Business 8.9 126 Ratings	OneDrive 7.1 113 Ratings
Performance	9.0126 Ratings	6.3112 Ratings
Reliability	9.0126 Ratings	7.9113 Ratings
Storage Reports	8.692 Ratings	7.187 Ratings

User Ratings
	Dropbox Business	OneDrive
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (131 ratings)	8.0 (114 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	5.0 (4 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (19 ratings)	9.0 (13 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (15 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (27 ratings)	8.0 (36 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)