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Dropbox vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Dropbox
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Storage (5th)
Microsoft Office SharePoint...
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
10th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Dropbox is 7.7%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is 7.9%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Content Collaboration Platforms
 

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.
Mehdi Hasankhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use but offers poor integrations with Oracle and has inflexible security configuration
I can't configure the current security I want. There are a lot of bots in it. Sharepoint doesn't integrate well with Oracle, and we use a lot of Oracle products at our company. Therefore, it makes more sense for us to go to Oracle instead of continuing to use Sharepoint.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The initial setup was very easy."
"File syncing is the most valuable feature. I use it every day to sync files across to the cloud."
"It is definitely stable. The main advantage of Dropbox is that you can see the files, and you can easily share them with all the team members. They can be accessed by whoever you give access to, and it is all secure. Dropbox is a seamless product. It provides you the privacy that you're looking for. Privacy is a major factor for my company, and Dropbox provides you that."
"Dropbox offers 24-hour support, both through chat and limited hour calls."
"The solution is very clear and easy to use."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"I like how user-friendly the solution is."
"I had a good experiment with the technical support from Dropbox."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it doesn't require coding. You just need to configure it. You don't need to code before getting something running. It makes it very fast."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very usable. I can navigate it, I can have a media call, I can have a call with my project team, so we can chat with every team kind of like WhatsApp. Any time there are projects or other things, we can chat in a secure way. It's automation-specific secure."
"This solution has provided us with a collaborative workspace to allow everyone to work together and be on the same page."
"The software is friendly to use for mixing data and analyzing it."
"The solution is pretty easy to use for the most part."
"The implementation and configuring of the resolution are very easy in the online version."
"The solution's most valuable aspects are its collaboration capabilities, its communications site and the innovation within the product itself."
"The level of stability is good."
 

Cons

"I'd like to see security improved a bit."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Dropbox could make the installation and the log of what has changed in a file easier. Showing logs could be more accessible."
"The solution could be a bit less expensive."
"They can maybe provide a bit more free space. By default, they give you 2 Gigabytes. The storage space could be a bit more."
"The storage is not large enough."
"While I feel the price being charged to be reasonable, it should either be more cost-effective or account for an increased amount of storage space."
"Security could be enhanced."
"The GUI is outdated."
"I think these tools do a pretty good job. There is only one area of improvement. Maybe Microsoft can invest a little bit more into the ease at which integration can be done with other third party applications."
"The product is behind in development and lacks some features."
"I would like to see more Agile techniques and seamless integration with other applications."
"The permission management features need improvement."
"The user interface needs improvement because there is a lot of stuff in there. I use five to eight navigation buttons. It should be more user-friendly. Frequently used menu items should be arranged in a proper way. That would be helpful."
"This solution is not very stable. It is useful to arrange data but it's not the best for big data. Sometimes we have issues with our reports as a result."
"Technical support could be improved. They are not fast enough, especially when we'll go deeper in the product itself. More complex issues make it very tough to find someone that can help you."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I find their pricing to be fairly standard and competitive when compared to the rest of the market."
"The product is free up to a certain limit."
"We must pay when we upsize to a larger space."
"I am on a monthly subscription for the solution and I am somewhat satisfied with the pricing. However, the price could a bit better."
"We are using the free version of Dropbox which has approximately two gigabytes of data capacity."
"I don't pay any licensing costs."
"Dropbox could be less expensive, and I pay monthly."
"Dropbox is one of the cheapest tools in the market."
"Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."
"It can be expensive for on-premises deployments, especially when you have to support SQL Server as your backend database. That's where the cost comes into play. SQL Server has its own licensing, which Microsoft keeps on changing. Therefore, it can become costly. In the earlier versions of SharePoint, version 2007 or 2010, they had an express version where the SQL Server licensing was free. It wasn't like a full-blown SharePoint. It was only a slimmed-down version. It used to be whatever your hardware costs. You would install the free software and work with it, but you were very limited in what you could do in SharePoint. If you wanted the SharePoint Enterprise Server with all the bells and whistles, then you had to pay more to get the SQL Server license based on the number of users or servers. The subscription model is different for cloud deployments. Licensing is per user and per month. The cost also depends on the storage required. If you have a lot of sites or documents, then you need to expand it based on your needs."
"One of the reasons why we don't recommend the cloud version of SharePoint is the cost. With the on premise version, you pay for the license once. For the cloud version, there is a recurring fee. It is very expensive. They expect everyone to pay $20 or $30 per user per month."
"There are some aggressive discounts offered by Microsoft for organizations that are not for profit, which we are, and it makes it quite attractive to consider."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
67%
Computer Software Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
3%
University
3%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

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?
I would like to have a document flow. Sharing documents with other people in the same division or department and being able to work without downloading the file would be ideal. Working online would...
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Also Known As

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Office SharePoint Server, MS Office SharePoint Server
 

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Sample Customers

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