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Dropbox vs Egnyte vs Google Drive Enterprise comparison

 

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Dropbox is 7.9%, down from 12.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Egnyte is 6.1%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Drive Enterprise is 3.0%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Edgar  Paez - PeerSpot reviewer
Work from anywhere and backup easily while being practical
I recommend Dropbox, yet not for all of the features it has. I am a basic user. In a personal mode, we have about 100 employees, and maybe 20 of them use Dropbox as a personal backup system. ShareFile is more secure than Dropbox. Five years ago, ShareFile was qualified as having better security control, access privilege management, and version control recovery, among many features that we were using for private documentation. Overall, I would rate Dropbox an eight out of ten.
Jonathan Songoni - PeerSpot reviewer
A great solution for uploading files with good protection and security features
We use this solution to upload our files according to our activities for the project. All the files we create are uploaded or saved on Egnyte Connect to protect and securitize them Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files. All files are secure and available. If we are connected, we can…
Kepa-Ayerbe - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers valuable features like synchronization and backup
Some time ago, I faced issues with Google Drive Enterprise, but it is not related to the tool and was more of a problem associated with Android. At the end of the day, I had to contact Google's support team to deal with the issue associated with the capacity offered by the solution. Google's support team held me for free, and they helped me change the location from the US because the mobile app factory showed that the activation work was done in the US. Google's team helped me move the location to Spain. Google's support was fast, knowledgeable, and customer-friendly. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Dropbox is easy to set up as it doesn't require any installation, just a download."
"Dropbox offers 24-hour support, both through chat and limited hour calls."
"I had a good experiment with the technical support from Dropbox."
"File syncing is the most valuable feature. I use it every day to sync files across to the cloud."
"Setting up DropBox is straightforward, and one person can do it in less than five minutes."
"Irrespective of the geographical location that you are present in, and even if you don't have any storage devices, you can access your data and files with the help of Dropbox."
"Availability of dedicated Apps on any kind of OS."
"The various methods for accessing files, such as through mobile apps, online synchronization, and on a PC, are highly valuable."
"It is a good storage solution."
"It is scalable and stable."
"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed."
"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."
"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."
"You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization."
"Google has a lot of tools. They are really useful and they are really simple to use."
"I like that you can easily create folders and sort things by sliding them in and out. I like the sliding option. It's quite nice."
"The most valuable feature of Google Drive is its seamless integration across mobile devices and computers."
"The solution is easy to use, has good performance, and is secure."
"It is very convenient and easy to access."
"The tool is user-friendly."
"For me, the most valuable feature is basically saving and sharing documents with other people outside, having something to be co-shared. When documents are large in size, it is easier to send them via email."
"The solution's most valuable features are collaboration and the automatic sharing of information among different company stakeholders."
 

Cons

"There is a potential improvement regarding storage capacity and offering more than its current four gigabytes."
"I would like to see more storage included and more lessons on how to optimize it."
"Dropbox could probably be improved around the integrated security, but those options are probably available. I don't have much of a view on improvements, based on the relatively few occasions that I use it."
"2 Gb of free space and then a not so cheap subscription (also if the competitors have similar proposals for customers)."
"It is difficult to set up. I'd rate the solution maybe a six or seven out of ten."
"Currently, it permits up to five users, but for larger families, it would be beneficial to have a more flexible offering."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The storage is not large enough."
"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."
"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. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work."
"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."
"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."
"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."
"The vendor must increase awareness about the tool among the common people."
"Lacks scalability and security."
"Google Drive could offer more free storage."
"The solution could improve User Access Management by showing more detailed information of which users have access to folders or files. For example, you can see which users have access one by one, but there is not a dashboard that can show what user has access to a library document."
"The search function in Google Drive Enterprise could be improved as it currently requires looking through many documents to find the right one."
"I have sometimes observed that when the data is very huge or there are so many rules, Google Sheets documents get stuck while uploading. It keeps on loading the document and gives an error. There should be an improvement in this aspect. It should be quick. Currently, we have to wait for a long time."
"The product must be more secure."
"The tool's AI has certain shortcomings, where improvements are required."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company makes monthly payments towards the licensing charges associated with the product. I think it's a reasonably priced product."
"You pay as you go, which is a good thing. There is a monthly fee, and you can also pay annually. This flexibility makes the subscription easier and affordable for some of us. I prefer yearly pricing, which is also slightly cheaper than monthly pricing."
"I use the free version of the solution."
"I find their pricing to be fairly standard and competitive when compared to the rest of the market."
"A bigger discount for existing users would be appreciated."
"The solution is paid for annually."
"The solution is expensive."
"I need to pay towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. The solution is expensive."
"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."
"The tool is a bit expensive."
"The price of Google Drive Enterprise is affordable and is one of its best features. I am on a monthly subscription."
"The price could be better."
"I use the free version."
"I have evaluated Amazon AWS and IBM solutions. Amazon AWS has competitive prices for cloud storage and backups."
"The product is free."
"That would be ideal if it were as cheap as possible."
"You don't need to pay if it is within your storage limits. If you need more, you can have a corporate license. I don't know the pricing, but there is a corporate license. The extra costs would only be if you exceed these free limits."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
56%
Computer Software Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
4%
Construction Company
4%
Educational Organization
30%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
8%
Real Estate/Law Firm
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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 needs improvement with Dropbox?
One area of improvement would be to allow multiple users to edit a file simultaneously and see edits in real time, si...
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What do you like most about Google Drive Enterprise?
With Google Drive Enterprise, multiple people can edit a document, and you can open it as Google Docs.
What needs improvement with Google Drive Enterprise?
The search function in Google Drive Enterprise could be improved as it currently requires looking through many docume...
 

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