Box vs. Google Drive

Box

717 Reviews and Ratings

Google Drive

6,625 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)
Google Drive	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Google Drive is a cloud file storage, synchronization, and collaboration platform and service, that features Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for document editing and presentation.	$6 per month

Pricing

Box

Google Drive

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)

Basic: $6.00
per month
Business: $12.00
per month
Enterprise: Contact Vendor for Quote
per month

Pricing Offerings
Box	Google Drive
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

A discount is available for annual pricing.

Discounts are available for students, educators, and non profit organizations.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Box	Google Drive
Considered Both Products	Box Cameron Markell Nolan Content Manager in Marketing at Morehouse College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Box I believe that anyone with exposure to software like Dropbox or Google Drive will have an easier transition when attempting to use Box. Where Box could improve is having a refresh of the UI/UX design. With an improvement to the design, Box can be more responsive and widely … Incentivized Helpful? Leon Prather II, CTS Manager of Digital Services at The Mariners' Museum and Park (Museums & Institutions, 51-200 employees) Chose Box Box is nowhere as deep as Google Drive due to the breadth of Google's ecosystem, but it is a self-contained mini-DAM that most will find works really well. The added bonus of built in Gmail sharing is a nice addition. 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? Verified User Chose Box Box works just as well as, if not better than Google Drive and Google Keep. Box Notes is much easier to use than OneNote. OneNote is great if you just need to make your own notes - but sharing notes in OneNote is a pain. Box Notes is SO easy to use - we use it to take notes in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Our university previously used a private VPN, and we've used Google Drive as well before. At a previous university, I had experience with Dropbox. While I was unhappy about the switch to Box at first (change is always hard), Box seems superior in ease of use and collaboration … Incentivized Helpful? Brett Schenker Founder at Graphic Policy (Broadcast Media, 1-10 employees) Chose Box Both of these services are fine but they both seem to either be missing features or are much slower to do what needs to be done. Price might be the biggest difference since Google Drive is free but paying for Box is still worth it. 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 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? Ragul Kumar Research Executive II in Information Technology at Draup (Management Consulting, 51-200 employees) Chose Box Box is more professional when comparing other alternatives Incentivized Helpful? Ehud Lehavi Quality Assurance Associate in Quality Assurance at Precision NanoSystems Inc. (Biotechnology, 51-200 employees) Chose Box Exactly the same. Works just as fine and smooth! Incentivized Helpful? Natalie Nickens Chief Administrative Officer in Professional Services at Capital Impact Partners (Civic & Social Organization, 51-200 employees) Chose Box The first reason that makes Box worth considering is the ability to ensure each authorized network participant can access the stored files. Another key advantage of using Box is that essentially all organization files and backups can be stored on the Box server and with the … Incentivized Helpful? Lochan Kalicharan Desktop Support Specialist in Information Technology at Mount Sinai Health System (Medical Practice, 10,001+ employees) Chose Box Among many other solutions box has been vetted by our security professionals and deemed to be the best solution for our particular organization. This lends to many of box's security features that still allow for collaboration and secure file sharing. Incentivized Helpful? Alan Bloxham Project Manager in Marketing at FSC (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Box We selected Box when our clients were specifically requesting us to use that app. 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? James Dean Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Analog Devices (Semiconductors, 10,001+ employees) Chose Box It gives different bands to give access to others to see documents which [helps] us to maintain confidential information easily and do what need. The best alternative to other cloud storage because of uploading and sharing the document. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Simply put, having unlimited file storage is a clear differentiator. Furthermore, the number of integrations offered by Box is simply unmatched. If you are looking for pure document and file sharing, I don't think there is a better product on the market. The benefits from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Box is more secure than Dropbox and has a better user interface on desktop clients. We also like Box's UI for editing documents in the cloud and Box's offerings for sharing documents outside our organization over competitors like Dropbox. However, Dropbox is better known for … Incentivized Helpful? Emily Hammell Marketing and Communications Manager in Marketing at Hendricks Power Cooperative (Utilities, 51-200 employees) Chose Box Despite its more expensive plan, Box offers a more robust variety of features. Whether it's file sharing, authorizations, file sizes, security, or customization options, Box just has more offerings. If you are a large company and need to share files with your employees and … Incentivized Helpful? Saransh Dikshit Graduate Research Assistant in Engineering at Iowa State University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Box The only reason I selected Box was that I got unlimited storage and the interface was relatively easier to use. 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? Verified User Chose Box Mainly how Box provides a far safer and a secure solution that is clearly complying with current data security regulations like HIPAA. Incentivized Helpful? 🐿 Matthew Karsten Purple Squirrel Media in Corporate at Purple Squirrel Media (Broadcast Media, 1-10 employees) Chose Box Box is a professional tool that has a rich suite of features that go head to head with Google and has many more use cases [than] iCloud. For the price, Box is a great alternative to other cloud storage and data asset management software offers. Box is a great addition to any … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Mentioned already - I give Google the slight edge here. One thing I find interesting is the "search feature" for Box is actually really good - and arguably better than Google's. But I just like Google slightly more for the UI and "smart" features. Dropbox falls below both of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Box Box is not greater than any alternatives that I have seen. Although, it is not worse than any other programs. It is very comparable and could be advanced to compete more with alternatives. Incentivized Helpful?	Google Daniel Navas Soporte Técnico in Engineering at Inversiones Compuparts (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Google Drive Free storage space is limited, if we need more space you have to pay a fee. In the Dropbox case they give you 2.5 Gb of free storage. Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Eduardo de Souza Co-founder & Manager in Information Technology at Coopers Digital Production (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Google Drive Google Drive takes advantage because it integrates so well between other Google apps, so we can search for files easily. Also, we can connect Google Drive to other applications (developed by our company) which enables us to save form submissions, and other kinds of data, … Incentivized Helpful? Roberto Farfan Tecnico Superior Universitario en Administracion de Empresas in Customer Service (Banking, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Google Drive The main aspect that led us to stay with Google Drive compared to the other software is its storage capacity that is undoubtedly superior. In the same way, to be able to work from the Gmail account is another point in favor because we consider this mail service as the most … 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

Box

Google Drive

Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Box and Google Drive
Feature	Box 6.1 25 Ratings	Google Drive - 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	6.025 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 Google Drive
Feature	Box - Ratings	Google Drive 7.7 209 Ratings
Versioning	00 Ratings	8.3184 Ratings
Video files	00 Ratings	7.5178 Ratings
Audio files	00 Ratings	7.9172 Ratings
Document collaboration	00 Ratings	8.5206 Ratings
Access control	00 Ratings	8.2204 Ratings
File search	00 Ratings	6.0208 Ratings
Device sync	00 Ratings	7.8194 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Box and Google Drive
Feature	Box - Ratings	Google Drive 8.1 203 Ratings
User and role management	00 Ratings	8.2191 Ratings
File organization	00 Ratings	7.4202 Ratings
Device management	00 Ratings	8.799 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Box and Google Drive
Feature	Box - Ratings	Google Drive 8.3 202 Ratings
Performance	00 Ratings	8.1200 Ratings
Reliability	00 Ratings	8.3202 Ratings
Storage Reports	00 Ratings	8.587 Ratings

User Ratings
	Box	Google Drive
Likelihood to Recommend	6.7 (153 ratings)	8.3 (210 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (12 ratings)	9.9 (5 ratings)
Usability	6.7 (20 ratings)	8.0 (40 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (5 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (12 ratings)	9.0 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (29 ratings)	8.0 (48 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (6 ratings)	8.0 (3 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)	6.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	10.0 (1 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)