Google Drive vs. Microsoft SharePoint

Google Drive

6,625 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft SharePoint

2,522 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Google Drive	Score8.8 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
SharePoint	Score7.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's SharePoint is an Intranet solution that enables users to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and collaborate across the organization.	$5 Per User Per Month

Pricing

Google Drive

SharePoint

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

Plan 1: $5.00
Per User Per Month
Plan 2: $10.00
Per User Per Month
Office 365 E3: $20.00
Per User Per Month

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Google Drive	SharePoint
Considered Both Products	Google Nic Keating Director in Professional Services at Kyt Consulting (Management Consulting, 1-10 employees) Chose Google Drive Compared to Microsoft SharePoint, the interface and learning curve for Google Drive are better mainly because the solution is much simpler and focuses on doing the basics well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Drive I feel like Google is a lot more affordable and though it would be nice to buy these products to use, drive provides what I need to meet my KPIs. Incentivized Helpful? Shivangi Khandelwal Lead Engineer in Engineering at Sprinklr (Information Technology Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Google Drive They are not as easy to use as google drive is. Google drive is more user friendly Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Drive They can all do the basics equally well, storing and sharing documents. Google Drive is the best from an ease of use perspective. SharePoint is a little better in terms of user management. Dropbox has the best name recognition, but not all the features you will need. If you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Drive Google Drive and Box are extremely similar in functionality, the primary differences being aesthetic (Google is more user friendly, Box's UI design is a little less intuitive) and with regards to security (Box offers an enhanced level of protection commensurate with it's … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Drive Google Drive is better because it has its own suite of product features so it's simple and easy to use. It also allows multiple people to edit at once, whereas for other products (i.e. SharePoint) you have to "check" the document out for a single person's use. Incentivized Helpful? Harsha Vadlamani Business Analyst in Information Technology at TeleTech (Outsourcing/Offshoring, 10,001+ employees) Chose Google Drive i have been using google drive from 2012 and found the ease of use of it better than others. Even though I use Dropbox and OneDrive for work on some aspects mostly I prefer google drive for my work and personal. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose SharePoint I like Microsoft SharePoint over Google Drive for its organization. I believe that Microsoft SharePoint keeps things much more organized than Google Drive. Also, typically when you purchase Microsoft SharePoint, you get the rest of the Microsoft Suite. However, Google Drive has … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint MS SharePoint lags behind its competitors in most areas. While it does offer more functionality, such as custom sites, MS SharePoint's bogged-down sharing system really hurts it. While sharing documents with coworkers, outside contractors, and guests is hassle-free with Google … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint We still have Confluence and Google Drive, but we wanted a product that could provide document security and a single point of access that easily integrated into our active directory. Since we use this for our intranet site, we found the features easier to stand up and the UI … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint I have only used Google Drive for personal reasons, not at work. SharePoint has a larger corporation safer feel to it as it uses the comfort of MS Office products for users. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint Google Drive is much easier to use although there is some lack of features. Incentivized Helpful? Ho'omana Nathan Horton Graduate Teaching Assistant at Oklahoma State University (Research, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SharePoint For my time\money, Google Drive is an infinitely better investment than SharePoint, including in a business setting. Although it may not integrate with existing infrastructure (e.g. Active Directory) as well as SharePoint, Google Drive is much more efficient and effective for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint MS SharePoint's seamless integration with OneDrive makes it the hands-down winner over Google Drive. Although Google Drive is a fantastic tool, not being fully integrated with the MS Office Suite makes it less appealing for a large corporate storage solution. Incentivized Helpful? Kaleb-John Loo Senior Firmware Engineer in Engineering at Spirent Communications (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SharePoint SharePoint has more features than Google Drive, but is not free. It has the ability to present full web pages, which Google Drive does not have. It also has integration into Microsoft 365, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Outlook which are strong product lines for business. Googl… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint MS SharePoint offers far more beyond just document sharing like Google Drive or Dropbox. It allows our company to collaboate and complete tasks in a timely manner. It is a more robust solution and offers better security, customization, and scalability than other solutions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint Prior to adopting MS SharePoint, our team used Google Drive. I think MS SharePoint has made big gains in recent years and now offers essentially the same functionality and services as Google Drive does with added functionality. While Google Drive allows individuals and … Incentivized Helpful? MEGAN BOATWRIGHT Senior Customer Care Representative in Customer Service at Helix (Biotechnology, 51-200 employees) Chose SharePoint We use Google Drive as well BUT the functions that are available in SharePoint are not translated in Google Docs. Formatting and uploading are not the same and some of the Excel functions do not transfer over. SharePoint makes it seamless! Either system is good but the … Incentivized Helpful? Angel Swalve Information System Developer in Information Technology at Killeen ISD (Education Management, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SharePoint Google Drive is useable and reliable but doesn't flow well with Microsoft 365 and district policy doesn't allow us to access Google Drive due to security. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint I think that Google Drive is much faster and more efficient than working in SharePoint. I understand that the benefit of using SharePoint is the integration of other MS tools such as Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc. However, these tools all work more efficiently offline rather … Incentivized Helpful? Kayla Jane McLaughlin DIRECTOR at ANCHORA GROUP LLC (Wholesale, 11-50 employees) Chose SharePoint We don't have to pay for SharePoint, unlike Dropbox, and SharePoint integrates our existing email addresses, which is convenient for sharing. Incentivized Helpful? Thushitha A. Chandrasiri ERP Consultant in Professional Services at Platned Syngco (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose SharePoint Since Microsoft SharePoint comes with the MS business office package, it is fully integrated with other office products and really works together with other MS Office products like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Publisher, etc.. in real-time, so it's really easy to maintain … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint I think that MS SharePoint is a more robust and well integrated tool than other products. Because it lives in the Microsoft universe it likely integrates to the other software products you already have very easily. Most users will not have trouble adopting it as the UI is … Incentivized Helpful? Andrea Lemo Ingeniero de procesos in Customer Service at Evoluciona Chile (Telecommunications, 51-200 employees) Chose SharePoint OneDrive focuses mainly on being a repository in the cloud, but where the administrator of this information is usually the person who owns the site or the account where the information is stored. Unlike Sharepoint that allows generating groups of administrators, users and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint Being integrated into Office 365 and included with your subscription, there are no added costs associated with setting up SharePoint. Also being able to sync one drive and being able to open files SharePoint files via file explorer is a great added benefit. Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Wittmaak Creative Content and Design Specialist in Marketing at National Aviation Academy (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose SharePoint Dropbox and Drive both have more 3rd party integration, although they may not be as secure. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint MS SharePoint is a better option for our team as we use Office 365 across our organization. It allows us some integration, and was a more familiar interface for many of the users on our team. It met our security needs and standards for our parent company as well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint MS SharePoint had great Microsoft product integration compared to other services, and was a more complete enterprise package. We didn't evaluate many other services, as SharePoint's integration into other basic office programs was more valuable than saving a little bit or … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint There are a lot of other pieces of software out there that can do things that are similar to the things that SharePoint can do. Some are better and some are worse. We chose to start with what we already could access at no cost and work our way up from there. Incentivized Helpful? Canh Tran Sr Technology Architect in Research & Development at TELUS (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose SharePoint There are overlapping capabilities of SharePoint and the above list of products. The simplest form seems to be the Google Suite of products that provide cloud integration with document creation, such as Docs/Slides/Sheets/Forms where storage is in Drive. The cloud nature … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SharePoint Sharepoint stacks up very well against all of its competitor software. It gets upgrades at the right time. However, from an integration perspective, none of the other software are able to do so properly with SharePoint. It is a very basic use of project management and access to … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Google Drive

SharePoint

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Google Drive and Microsoft SharePoint
Feature	Google Drive 7.7 209 Ratings	Microsoft SharePoint - Ratings
Versioning	8.2184 Ratings	00 Ratings
Video files	7.5178 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio files	7.9172 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document collaboration	8.4206 Ratings	00 Ratings
Access control	8.2204 Ratings	00 Ratings
File search	5.9208 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device sync	7.7194 Ratings	00 Ratings

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

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

User Ratings
	Google Drive	SharePoint
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (210 ratings)	9.5 (194 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (5 ratings)	9.8 (21 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (40 ratings)	8.2 (17 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (7 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (48 ratings)	8.6 (11 ratings)
In-Person Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	4.5 (1 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (3 ratings)	6.0 (4 ratings)
Configurability	6.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Data Sources	- (0 ratings)	6.1 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)