Dropbox vs. Dropbox Business

Dropbox

4,201 Reviews and Ratings

Dropbox Business

859 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Dropbox	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	Dropbox is a cloud storage solution, equipped with features that help users to save time, improve productivity, and collaborate with others. Users can edit PDFs, share videos, sign documents, and collaborate with stakeholders without leaving Dropbox.	$9.99 per month
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

Dropbox

Dropbox Business

Plus: $9.99
per month
Essentials: $18
per month
Business: $20
per month per user
Business Plus: $26
per month per user
Basic: Free

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

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Dropbox	Dropbox Business
Considered Both Products	Dropbox Megan Coxe Communications Director at La Poderosa Media Project (Philanthropy, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox We chose Dropbox because of its ease of use and organization capabilities. The user interface is such that it takes little to no time to train employees on how to use it. We considered Google Drives, and still use it when the project involves simultaneous collaboration, but the … Incentivized Helpful?	Dropbox Sean Randle CEO in Manufacturing at Independent Consulting/Expert Scrum Master/Six Sigma Black Belt/Lean/Agile/DevOps/SAFe4.5 (Program Development, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox is easy to use when there's a need to move data for backing up (drag and drop); others you need to click and upload and [it's a] slower process. Incentivized Helpful? Andy Lutz Technical Recruiter in Human Resources at Segment.com (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox seemed to stack up better against Box and seems to have less bugs and crashes. I would definitely recommend Dropbox Business over Box and other competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Rebecca Powell Marketing Coordinator in Marketing at Total Beverage Solution (Food & Beverages, 51-200 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Compared to Libris, Dropbox Business is preferred. With Dropbox Business it is easier to share certain folders with certain people with the alternative of tagging each file like Libris. Dropbox Business is also a lot easier to navigate and see what type of file you are … Incentivized Helpful? Oran Bar-Tal COO (Chief Operating Officer) in Product Management at Ginger Gene (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Google Drive UI is VERY messy. It is not convenient to use, and its integration to the desktop is arbitrary... OneDrive sync functions tend to break and lots of time we found ourselves wondering why a work we just saved disappeared, only to find out that it was overridden by the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox is one of the better file/folder sync programs out there. The feature set is more robust than OneDrive and easier to administer as well. Dropbox isn't one of the cheaper products out there, but is does well as a stand alone product (meaning no server is needed). The … Incentivized Helpful? Christoph Geppert Founder and Creative Director at Grain Creative (Design, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Also very helpful and with a much better version control, accordingly no file conflicts. Unhelpful in respect to large file being easily accessible as they are not offline. Although this apparently has changed now. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business The 1Tb storage on the paying version made us select this one over the others. Incentivized Helpful? Valerie Cabral Director of Product and Client Services in Information Technology at Package Concierge, Inc. (Real Estate, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Google Drive is just better. The only thing Dropbox has over it is the desktop app, and I'd argue that it doesn't outweigh the benefits you get from being able to collaborate on Drive. Incentivized Helpful? Kelsie Hamilton Program Associate in Product Management at First Fruit, Inc. (Non-Profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox Business I think the desktop element of Dropbox was really appealing. I haven't explored enough about Google Drive to know if they have some similar functionalities, but have used it only for some personal storage. For our team, Dropbox was a leader in the industry, so we felt most … 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? Shannon Brooks Director of Information Services in Information Technology at Brooksworks (Computer Networking, 51-200 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox for Business is the most feature complete and just works. It's competitors are still playing catch-up. Incentivized Helpful? Emily Sidley Marketing Manager in Marketing at Three Girls Media, Inc. (Non-Profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Not everyone had a Google account and with Dropbox it didn't matter. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business Box dropped shortly after Dropbox with the intent on beating out Dropbox in file sharing by offering more space for free and adjusting their pricing. What was crazy was Box was less secure than Dropbox and had less functionality upfront. Although they had a nice navigation, it … Incentivized Helpful? Karl Fulljames VP of Operations in Information Technology at Nucleus Networks Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Business The user experience can't be overlooked as to how good it is. Users don't need any training and they can work right away. OneDrive isn't reliable and none of the other products stack up for the user experience. Incentivized Helpful? Russell Davies, Digital Marketing Expert Owner in Social Media at Lobster Digital Marketing Limited (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Google Drive is also very good for storing backups of files however, sharing files between clients and suppliers isn't as easy or intuitive as 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? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business On a purely cost per TB of storage comparison for large amounts of data, Dropbox for Business is cheaper. Its user interface is also friendlier for non-technical users. I found that Google Drive was on the expensive side and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) required a higher … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business The biggest differentiator between Google Drive and Dropbox for our organization has been the ability to have simultaneous personal and business accounts. Most of our users have personal Google Drive accounts, and don't want to remove them in order to use a work one. Incentivized Helpful? Shannon McNamara Marketing Coordinator in Marketing at CareSync (Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees) Chose Dropbox Business These are similar in the sense that with Google Drive you can share large files and collaborate, and that with Slack, you can send large files. Our company actually used all 3, and each had a great purpose (DropBox helped send files to reps outside of our company's network, Goog… Incentivized Helpful? Tiffany M. Piracha Social Premier Partnerships Consultant in Professional Services at Oracle (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Dropbox Business While they had similar features, Google Drive was not as secure as Dropbox and not as intuitive. The user and privacy settings were cumbersome and sharing links to some customers was difficult if they had browser settings that prevented them from reaching Google. Incentivized Helpful? Darian Rawson Senior Designer in Information Technology at Eview 360 (Design, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Business DropBox is the king of all cloud sync services. It's not the right solution for everyone, but it's probably the best solution for most users due to the ease of use, quality and dependability of the platform, costs, and also that they have a long track record of support without … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business Dropbox is much better than Google Drive or Evernote. The accessibility and security features are much more robust than in Google Drive. Functionality is way more advanced than Evernote, in fact it's hard to even compare the two even though I have used them in similar … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Business I'm actually a OneDrive fan and use it personally. I think DropBox and OneDrive for Business stack up fairly reasonably. Both can integrate directly with most Microsoft products now. One thing I've found is the DropBox sync seems to be solid, whereas OneDrive sync can often … Incentivized Helpful? eldhose k shibu UI Developer in Engineering at QBurst (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Dropbox Business Google Drive is also a promising platform, but lacks many features that may be needed in a agile world. The overall performance that is offered by Google Drive is not as satisfactory for me as compared to the one that Dropbox offers. 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

Dropbox

Dropbox Business

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Dropbox and Dropbox Business
Feature	Dropbox 7.8 887 Ratings	Dropbox Business 8.9 130 Ratings
Versioning	7.5714 Ratings	8.9102 Ratings
Video files	7.8697 Ratings	9.2113 Ratings
Audio files	8.0623 Ratings	9.1106 Ratings
Document collaboration	7.7780 Ratings	8.2120 Ratings
Access control	7.8828 Ratings	8.5126 Ratings
File search	7.6855 Ratings	9.1126 Ratings
Device sync	8.1814 Ratings	8.9123 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Dropbox and Dropbox Business
Feature	Dropbox 8.0 848 Ratings	Dropbox Business 9.0 129 Ratings
User and role management	7.9778 Ratings	9.2114 Ratings
File organization	8.1837 Ratings	9.1126 Ratings
Device management	7.9730 Ratings	8.8108 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Dropbox and Dropbox Business
Feature	Dropbox 8.0 836 Ratings	Dropbox Business 8.9 126 Ratings
Performance	7.4829 Ratings	9.0126 Ratings
Reliability	8.3834 Ratings	9.0126 Ratings
Storage Reports	8.2636 Ratings	8.692 Ratings

User Ratings
	Dropbox	Dropbox Business
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (911 ratings)	8.5 (131 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	6.7 (31 ratings)	5.0 (4 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (65 ratings)	9.0 (19 ratings)
Availability	6.7 (3 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	6.0 (8 ratings)	8.0 (15 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (34 ratings)	8.4 (27 ratings)
Online Training	8.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.5 (4 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Configurability	6.4 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	6.6 (4 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)