Dropbox vs. OneDrive

Dropbox

4,201 Reviews and Ratings

OneDrive

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

Pricing

Dropbox

OneDrive

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

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

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Dropbox	OneDrive
Considered Both Products	Dropbox Verified User Chose Dropbox I like to use OneDrive for photos/log-term storage. It gives me more storage space but seems to take longer to sync than Dropbox. That's why I use Dropbox for file sharing, current work, and photos that I'm using at this moment. I had Dropbox first because I had the free … Incentivized Helpful? Gianpaolo Macario Software Architect in Research & Development at SOLARMA (Renewables & Environment, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox Simpler and more intuitive user interface Much faster synchronization - especially wrt OneDrive Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox I started on Dropbox before any of these. I hate OneDrive as it constantly crashes. Google Drive enables collaboration simultaneously, as does Teams, but the limited formatting options in Google's version of Word drives me nuts. With Teams - because I didn't create the files … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox A bit less integrated than iCloud or OneDrive, but the company has focused on this aspect since day one. I have always used it and trust it. Incentivized Helpful? Marc Munger Marketing Director in Marketing at Haggard & Stocking (Wholesale, 51-200 employees) Chose Dropbox Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive are strong alternatives to Dropbox, each excelling in ecosystem integration. Google Drive offers 15GB of free storage and seamless collaboration through Google Workspace, making it ideal for teams already using Gmail or Docs. OneDrive … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Dropbox seems much more secure and organized than Google Drive or OneDrive. Incentivized Helpful? Jaccob Fisher Instructor at University of Waterloo (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Dropbox Dropbox offers fast, reliable syncing across devices, whereas Google Drive is reliable but not as fast with large files. Dropbox offers 2GB free storage whereas Google Drive offers 15GB free storage. Dropbox allows the sharing of all types of documents whereas OneDrive only … Incentivized Helpful? Emily Slade Rev. at Bethlehem United Church of Christ (Religious Institutions, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox I never bothered to really orient myself to OneDrive, because Dropbox is something I've used for so long. I can use OneDrive for free, but it's worth paying for Dropbox because I understand it and have such a history with it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox OneDrive was much harder to install on devices (laptops and mobile phones/ tablets); synchronization was also an issue as it ended up duplicating a lot of files. Incentivized Helpful? Tahera Rene Christy Business Owner in Corporate at Amour Propre (Retail, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox I use full services but I prefer Dropbox because it is independent and allows me to connect with many other programs. I have paid for Dropbox for over 10 years now and OneDrive just doesn't seem to organize nearly as well as Dropbox does. Incentivized Helpful? Francis Perdue Director of Public Relations in Marketing at Scooter P Entertainment (Entertainment, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox I’ve used Google Drive, OneDrive, and Box. Google Drive offers seamless integration with Google Workspace, while OneDrive is great for Microsoft users. Box has strong enterprise security. Dropbox stands out for its simple interface, fast syncing, and reliable performance, which … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Dropbox is easier to use and more reliable. However, OneDrive is available for free in my office as a part of Office360, I guess. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Reliability, precise and seamless synchronisation are the top features that make Dropbox my preferred choice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox You can create an account easily and begin storing files but an account is not required in order to access them the way it is on some of these other programs. Also, any type of file can be easily stored and downloaded to a device with Dropbox, but some of these attempt to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox It is [...] easy to navigate. You don't have a learning curve with Drive. I selected Dropbox because I did not select Dropbox. It is my organization's native cloud storage so I had to deal with it. I am not mad, also not disappointed, but also not happy. Incentivized Helpful? Han Trinh Senior Graphic Designer in Marketing at Icelandic Glacial (Food & Beverages, 11-50 employees) Chose Dropbox Dropbox is quite universally used so I selected it based on the recommendations of others. It is also important to me that in integrates with my computer browser. Incentivized Helpful? Otty Justason Quality and Procurement Manager in Manufacturing at CB Supplies (Plastics, 201-500 employees) Chose Dropbox Dropbox has a less intrusive reputation and stays out of the news for matters unrelated to its services, which is becoming more and more rare. If I ever see Dropbox or its representatives start making noise in arena outside the bounds of the services they provide I can see my … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox very similar. Dropbox offers tiers of file storage the are better for our current needs. Other than storage options, the are all very similar Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox One of the main features Dropbox had very early that it syncs to the folder on the desktop itself on the desktop computer. That’s a very big thing. It makes it feel like you’re part of the file system on a computer. It’s not online. We use it most of the time on the computer … Incentivized Helpful? Grzegorz Wronkowski Owner at HDRMAPS (Photography, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox Is much cheaper and does everything that I need. Works without hassle. Incentivized Helpful? Jim Peterson Driector of Operations and Membership in Corporate at Christian Schools International (Education Management, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox Dropbox is far and away the best file sharing platform. All other have crippling storage limits or significant downtime and sync issues. Incentivized Helpful? clifton warren Principal in Marketing at Clifton Warren Consulting (Management Consulting, 1-10 employees) Chose Dropbox I selected Dropbox because it’s not platform specific and can be used across all devices and is accessible on any platform. The pricing is competitive and product innovation is fast and continual. Because Dropbox has been around for so long it’s widely used and understood by … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox I like Dropbox more because of the way it interacts with the computer, like another folder. Super easy to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox One Drive has conflicts, creates folders you can not delete, and is terrible for team collaboration. Google Drive is more of a personal storage option than an option for a team or for sharing files with your client. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dropbox Dropbox has more capacity and the price is awesome. 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? Sahid Kabir Senior Product Manager in Product Management at Orion AI Tech (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees) Chose OneDrive Dropbox does not have convenient business solutions such as cloud reporting. But One Drive ,It's a platform that virtually everyone already uses to some extent: it's more user-friendly and provides a better browser-based experience. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive Though Dropbox has been in existence and popular, I found OneDrive to be much more effective in terms of pricing. And app support is better with OneDrive. Also as mentioned the new feature of not downloading all files but showing the names gets my vote for OneDrive. One more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive OneDrive is my go to solution because included in the price of OneDrive is full access to the Microsoft Office suite of programs. It also includes all the same features as Google Drive and Dropbox, but includes those programs and even an email account if you want, so its the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive Compared to Dropbox, I like it a lot more. The user interface looks cleaner, your files are secure, and collaboration is encouraged with the tools that they offer. Incentivized Helpful? David Edell President in Manufacturing at Bay Armour, LLC (Ranching, 1-10 employees) Chose OneDrive I really find them equals in performance. I have used Dropbox for over a decade and it has always been reliable. However, Dropbox is not integrated with Microsoft Teams and it is much more expensive. Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Mullin Regional Sale Director in Sales at Adecco (Staffing and Recruiting, 1001-5000 employees) Chose OneDrive In past organizations, I have utilized Dropbox as a tool for file sharing and document collaboration. In my opinion, OneDrive is a much more comprehensive solution, because OneDrive takes Dropbox one step further by integrating and automatically saving files in the device in a … 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? Verified User Chose OneDrive We are a Microsoft ecosystem, so IDrive isn't appropriate. Dropbox was more expensive and less integrated to Windows. OneDrive is part of our Office 365 subscription, so the decision-making process was easy. 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 OneDrive is overall a strong contender whereas only the cost is more compared to Google Drive. Another additional strength compared to Dropbox or Google Drive is the capability of OneDrive to connect with other Microsoft applications smoothly and seamlessly, thus, allowing … Incentivized Helpful? Paul Weber Manager, Digital Media Services in Information Technology at Xavier University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive is integrated with O365 and Outlook, as well as Windows is really the game-changer. Dropbox and Google pioneered the way, but Microsoft has a tightly integrated, dead simple solution here that I struggle to find complaint with. Google gives some better options for … 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? Tom Hamilton Sr. Engineer in Information Technology at Estes Express Lines (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneDrive I think ShareFile is a more complete product that lets me set up folders where people can send me files along with me being able to send secure links to my files. The sharing of files is fairly similar but I feel ShareFile does it better. Incentivized Helpful? Chantel Wakefield Sr. Editor in Corporate at The Home Depot (Retail, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive was selected for me by leadership Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive I think OneDrive just edges out the other two because of the connection it has to the microsoft suite. All the excel and word documents just work. You dont have to worry what formatting might do to the document. Incentivized Helpful? Harvey Wyche Director of Product Management in Product Management at Royal Caribean Cruise Lines (Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive feels native is you are a Microsoft 365 user. The integration aspect of being a Microsoft customer and using all platform tools together helps with driving adoption, ease of learning, and overall efficiency. While Google Drive is widely used as well, there is a ramp … Incentivized Helpful? Simon Heggie Artist in Information Technology at IGT (Animation, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneDrive "Describe how OneDrive stacks up against (alternatives) and why you selected OneDrive." It doesn't, except it's more secure than Gdrive. Definitely wouldn't select OneDrive for anything important. Incentivized Helpful? Jordan Peck Program Coordinator in Engineering at The MOORE Group, LLC (Construction, 1-10 employees) Chose OneDrive I would not recommend OneDrive to anyone. Buggy and unreliable. Frequently corrupts files. 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? Verified User Chose OneDrive OneDrive is the clear winner. 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? 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?
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Features

Dropbox

OneDrive

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Dropbox and OneDrive
Feature	Dropbox 7.8 887 Ratings	OneDrive 7.7 114 Ratings
Versioning	7.5714 Ratings	7.290 Ratings
Video files	7.8697 Ratings	7.2101 Ratings
Audio files	8.0623 Ratings	6.395 Ratings
Document collaboration	7.7780 Ratings	8.1108 Ratings
Access control	7.8828 Ratings	8.1109 Ratings
File search	7.6855 Ratings	8.9114 Ratings
Device sync	8.1814 Ratings	8.1112 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Dropbox and OneDrive
Feature	Dropbox 8.0 848 Ratings	OneDrive 7.2 109 Ratings
User and role management	7.9778 Ratings	7.297 Ratings
File organization	8.1837 Ratings	8.1109 Ratings
Device management	7.9730 Ratings	6.392 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Dropbox and OneDrive
Feature	Dropbox 8.0 836 Ratings	OneDrive 7.1 113 Ratings
Performance	7.4829 Ratings	6.3112 Ratings
Reliability	8.3834 Ratings	7.9113 Ratings
Storage Reports	8.2636 Ratings	7.187 Ratings

User Ratings
	Dropbox	OneDrive
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (911 ratings)	8.0 (114 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	6.7 (31 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (65 ratings)	9.0 (13 ratings)
Availability	6.7 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	6.0 (8 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (34 ratings)	8.0 (36 ratings)
Online Training	8.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.5 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	6.4 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	6.6 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)