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Box vs Dropbox Business - Enterprise vs Egnyte comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Box is 7.2%, down from 8.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dropbox Business - Enterprise is 8.4%, up from 8.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Egnyte is 5.2%, down from 5.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dropbox Business - Enterprise8.4%
Box7.2%
Egnyte5.2%
Other79.2%
Content Collaboration Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Ahmed Rashad - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Projects Manager at Tech-hub
Team collaboration has improved through shared access and real-time synchronization
I find the synchronization feature most valuable in Box. When I use multiple devices, it syncs them together and gives excellent results. I can assess the benefits of Box's file sharing. Box's integration with third-party apps is valuable, especially with Outlook. Box has helped my team's productivity by being very helpful with team collaboration when we are sharing certain shared documents between us. I mostly value Box's automation capabilities. They have helped optimize my business processes by saving time for sharing or sending files between the team. This gives us a shared workspace to work together on the same document or the same ideas. Box's security features have helped my organization meet compliance needs.
NancyHartman - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Process Manager/ Educational Technologist at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Family sharing and personal backups have improved how I manage and access my files anywhere
I am not fond of their syncing. Their file syncing is very clunky, so I am not a real fan of the file syncing. I think Box does a much better job of the syncing of data onto desktops and laptops. When you try to sync the files in Dropbox, it actually puts a copy of the file on your laptop, so it sucks up all of your memory. Whereas with Box, I can sync files into my file explorer and it is still cloud-based. They have not saved the file physically onto my laptop. They save it in the cloud and it just does a temporary download and then it uploads again, but that file is not saved on my laptop. Whereas with Dropbox, anytime you want to sync on your laptop, it actually does save it. There is a way to set it up, but it takes a lot more work and effort and I have never been able to get it to work the way I want it to work. So I just do not sync my files with Dropbox on my laptop. That limits my ability to use Dropbox from my work laptop because my work laptop just does not have any memory at all on it. They give the bare minimum of memory and say that it should all be in the cloud anyway, so you do not need to have that much storage space. So I cannot even access Dropbox from my work laptop and have to use the browser version of Dropbox if I need to access my Dropbox from my work laptop. Within the company, it is a personal choice. Our company has not dictated what cloud service to use. As long as it has all the security measures that meet the standards of our IT department, anyone can use whatever cloud service they want. For example, our company is not allowed to use Google because Google is not a secure cloud service in the estimation of our IT department. So there are cloud services that we are not allowed to use, but from the five to seven different services that they give us to choose from, we all can find what meets our needs.
GG
Chief Operating Officer at Quarem
Fantastic for small businesses; the customer feedback has been great
From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic. For us, security was front and center. Usability was also important and took second place. Next, we asked "Is it simple and easy for anyone to quickly learn how to use it?" Egnyte Connect checked that box. Third place for us was price. We liked the fact that they charge on a monthly basis so there is not an annualized upfront fee that we pay.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We've never had a penetration. We've never had a security issue that their support didn't solve. We love their audit trail. We can know exactly when a collaborator opens. We love how you can define a collaborator."
"The interface is very good."
"File sharing, authorization on the back, its ease of use and reliable uptime performance are valuable features of this solution."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"The features I have found to be most helpful over other cloud storage platforms are: Collaboration - just not that it exists, but it is easy and user friendly, allowing data that is necessary to be worked on to be brought to the surface; Security - focus on compliance, encryption, enterprise grade management; 3rd Party Integrations - allowing for Box to truly be a platform to be used with other software."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"For basic file storage and a little collaboration, the product is fine."
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"Dropbox is valuable having the hard drive space available, and the access to be able to upload and access the content."
"It is straightforward and works seamlessly."
"Dropbox is reliable, and I've never reached the storage limits."
"Many people can use the Dropbox service and edit the data, it is simple to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is user-friendly."
"A valuable feature is that it stores my files and photos, and I'm satisfied with this product."
"Availability of dedicated Apps on any kind of OS."
"I had a good experiment with the technical support from Dropbox."
"It is a good storage solution."
"It centralizes the documentation in one area."
"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"Now that the Egnyte vendor upgraded the version and they introduced the Egnyte Connect, there are a lot of features that they added, including co-authoring."
"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software."
"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic."
"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."
"If you're looking for a solid cloud DFS solution, I would highly recommend Egnyte."
 

Cons

"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"The waterfall methodology for folders does not allow for privatization of folders at the root level, which sometimes may be necessary."
"I haven't really come across a case where we're not able to use it for what it is, so I don't really have anything holding us up or any customers holding us up at this point that I know of. There are always some limitations, but as a technologist, I just live with them, and there is always room for improvement, but I don't have anything quantifiable."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"Box is extremely user friendly, however our clients have been having a hard time adjusting and understanding Box."
"If you want to delete something in Box, you have to do it manually, one by one. That was my recent experience. They might have a bulk delete, but I could not find that option. If you want to delete something, you have to go to each and every file and delete it."
"Collaborative editing was challenging if multiple people were in a document at once."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"Considering the solution's shortcomings, I want the product to be more user-friendly and offer more storage capacity."
"If someone manages a large amount of data, they will need more storage, which they must purchase."
"The product must provide users with the ability to edit and modify documents."
"File version control can be improved. It generates a lot of conflicts when people are working on the same file. Its integration with other solutions can be improved in terms of user experience. Integration is there, and it has connectors for Excel, Word, and other solutions, but it is not very friendly. There should be a better user experience."
"The Security and privacy of this solution need improvement."
"While generally user-friendly, there is room for improvement in the user interface, especially with the introduction of new integrations and features."
"Starts you out at 2GB, which is paltry compared to most other offerings."
"The product could always offer more storage."
"With Egnyte Connect, you cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error, which needs improvement."
"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."
"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."
"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit."
"I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect."
"The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want."
"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Better sign a full year's contract to get a discount."
"I have to pay for Box. It could be a little cheaper. On a scale from one to ten, I would give the pricing a five."
"There's a free version that allows you to use it with almost full-feature access. Even in the free version, it gives you all you need."
"My organization pays for the license."
"I'm in Higher Ed, so we purchase through Internet2-Net+. I absolutely recommend going that route for Higher Ed customers."
"It is expensive per head, as you need the enterprise license to get full security and tools. So negotiate a discount!"
"The more you dig, the deeper the level of tools, and the more expensive it becomes."
"The pricing may seem steep at first, but delve into the features and you'll soon realize it is incredible value for what you get."
"The pricing varies depending on the version, and the one we currently utilize is the business version."
"We must pay when we upsize to a larger space."
"I am using the free version of the solution."
"I was using the free version of the product."
"The pricing for non-corporations is expensive. They have raised their prices and have low storage capacity."
"I don't pay any licensing costs."
"One area that has been a big issue for me is when I tried to close my accounts, it is difficult. We had small personal accounts, and we then wanted to consolidate everything to the business account, but then to cancel and close those smaller accounts, it's a big issue. I still haven't done it and it's quite a long process."
"Users need to pay to increase the solution's capacity."
"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."
"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Construction Company
6%
Construction Company
15%
Performing Arts
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Construction Company
13%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise27
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business40
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise37
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Box?
I found the pricing reasonable because when I was working for an IBM partner, Box was free for us. We did not go to p...
What needs improvement with Box?
I believe Box has a lot of features that put it in a good rank among the file-sharing apps. I would like to see featu...
What is your primary use case for Box?
I use Box, Delphi, and IBM FileNet. I worked for a software company as a project manager, and this experience include...
What do you like most about Dropbox?
For me, the biggest thing is version history. I can easily go back and view older versions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dropbox?
I find the pricing very competitive and affordable, and I have no issue with it. The support is very proactive, and I...
What needs improvement with Dropbox?
I am not fond of their syncing. Their file syncing is very clunky, so I am not a real fan of the file syncing. I thin...
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