Egnyte vs Google Workspace comparison

Egnyte and Google are both solutions in the Content Collaboration Platforms category. Egnyte is ranked #13, while Google is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.2. Egnyte holds a 5.3% mindshare in CCP, compared to Google’s 9.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Egnyte users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Google users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 13, 2025

Google Workspace and Egnyte are competing in productivity and file management. While Google Workspace excels in integration and collaboration tools, Egnyte stands out for its data security features, appealing to industries with stringent compliance needs.

Features: Google Workspace provides integrated tools for communication and collaboration, featuring apps such as Docs, Sheets, and Gmail. Egnyte offers secure file sharing and centralized storage, emphasizing strong data governance and hybrid cloud storage capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Google Workspace could enhance its data security features to appeal more to industries with strict compliance requirements and improve customization options for user experience. Egnyte might benefit from further improvement in ease of integration with other collaboration tools and streamlining initial security configuration. Additionally, enhancing direct support for collaboration applications could expand its appeal.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Google Workspace is known for its swift cloud-native deployment requiring minimal technical assistance. It provides substantial support and resources. Egnyte's deployment involves more initial configuration due to its hybrid model, but it offers personalized customer service to meet complex setup needs.

Pricing and ROI: Google Workspace features competitive, scalable pricing with plans enhancing collaboration efficiency, making ROI appealing for various business sizes. Egnyte's pricing, while higher, is justified by advanced security and compliance options, supporting an ROI driven by superior data security capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Egnyte

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Google Workspace

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

104

Ranking in other categories

Email Applications (1st), Wireless Email (1st), Cloud Storage (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Egnyte is 5.3%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Workspace is 9.1%, up from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Content Collaboration Platforms Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Google Workspace	9.1%
Egnyte	5.3%
Other	85.6%

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Jonathan Songoni

Manager of Operations at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

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…

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Sunil-Nair

IT Manager at Universal Carpets & Rugs

Email collaboration and accessibility have improved team productivity

The valuable features include the email service, email updates, and Google Drive. People are given email access to Google Drive. The team can share manual files and work accordingly. They can access different teams from anywhere, collectively putting files, sharing them, and managing them. Additionally, the manufacturing product does not require any downgrades. It works fine and continuously for the last three or four years. Users can access their emails from anywhere in their browser without a laptop or can directly access from Gmail. This is helpful for salespeople.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."

"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."

"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."

"It is scalable and stable."

"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."

"It is a good storage solution."

"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."

"The valuable feature of Google Workspace is its integrated environment where everything is pre-integrated, like chat and document sharing in Gmail."

"Google Mail lets you link a task to a specific email and add a reminder. That's helpful for reviewing your schedule. It's based on Slack, so you don't have these folders like in Microsoft mail. Using Slack instead of folders is a bit more intuitive. It's easier to find again a specific email than using Microsoft Suite. If you misplace things, it's much easier to find them because of Google's search capability."

"The real-time editing feature is valuable."

"We use Google Sheets extensively for things like sharing plans, data, test reports, and more."

"Google Chat is the most valuable feature of the solution."

"We value the collaboration levels that are offered. Having everything integrated in a single platform is a dream come true for us."

"G Suite Enterprise is user-friendly, and the technical toolkits and other information are on the website. Additionally, the technical documents are comprehensive."

"Google seems to be a more stable environment than our current on-premise Microsoft solution that we're replacing."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."

"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."

"It would be a lot nicer if the default Gmail came with features that we currently need add-ons for, such as tables, automatic BCC, resizing of the panel on the left-hand side, email highlighting, and configuring the display of time and date against each email."

"The feature set of Google Sheets is limited."

"G Suite is not as powerful as Microsoft Office Suite, so sometimes we have to change to Excel and PowerPoint."

"The user interface, especially on Google Drive, could be better."

"The tool should improve its on-prem capabilities to include people who are working offline. The pricing is also a challenge for both the Indian and overseas markets. The tool has a cap of 300 licenses. The product's price has also increased by 10 percent. Businesses are struggling to justify the ROI. Users cannot block emails unless they have a strong firewall."

"We've had difficulty using PowerPoint files in G Suite. PowerPoint has some functions that are not available in G Suite, so when you convert from PPTX to the Slides format, they don't work."

"Google needs to improve its support."

"The stability should be addressed."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."

"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."

"I give the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being the most affordable."

"The main challenge regarding startups with identity services is you could be on a platform that works well but the services are expensive. For example, Microsoft Azure costs approximately $30 per user which is expensive. You end up choosing a different platform, such as G Suite Enterprise because it is priced reasonably and is less expensive than other solutions."

"We normally purchase the license on a yearly basis."

"We pay on yearly basis."

"You pay for Google Workspace based on your usage and the apps you use, but in my case, it's free, but if I used it a lot more, I'd probably need to pay. 15GB is enough for me, but I see myself upgrading and paying the additional charges for more storage regularly."

"We receive value for the price that we pay."

"Approximately $6 per user, per month."

"The pricing is comparable, it's pretty decent."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Construction Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

14%

Educational Organization

10%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	2

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	63
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	27

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What do you like most about Google Workspace?

Easy-to-build forms are allowing me to get feedback and information from my internal teams as well as from the customers very efficiently with the result data in structured manner.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Workspace?

The pricing for Google Workspace is moderate. I would rate it a five out of ten, indicating it is neither cheap nor expensive. The current cost is approximately seven to ten euros per user per mont...

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What needs improvement with Google Workspace?

I don't see many areas of Google Workspace that could be improved or enhanced because everything I have been using has been effective. Regarding the user interface, when calling a member in the org...

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Overview

Egnyte is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides online file sharing, file transfer, and cross-office syncing solutions to small, medium, and large businesses. The company specializes in providing businesses with customizable solutions using both cloud-only technology and local storage. Businesses using Egnyte's services benefit from increased efficiency, reliable security, and removal of communication barriers. Egnyte, like many of its competitors, features customizable services that help businesses stay organized and productive while maintaining a high level of security. In order to provide uninterrupted levels of security, Egnyte only allows access to files though certificate-based trusted devices via a two-step login verification process. Egnyte offers businesses control over its services with the ability to monitor use and access information through a single, user-friendly control panel, which is accessible in any web browser. The Egnyte platform is able to integrate with local storage, providing businesses with the option of using cloud-based storage or local devices, depending upon security preferences. Companies with satellite locations or remote employees benefit from Egnyte's flexible deployment models, scalable file sharing, and high speed collaboration capabilities regardless of changes in bandwidth limitations across locations. Additionally, Egnyte's platform makes use of hybrid storage synchronization, which reduces bandwidth saturation and increases performance. Egnyte appeals to growing businesses because it offers customizable services and flexible file sharing solutions. Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby's International Realty, with over 275 agents and employees spread throughout the Atlanta metro area, was struggling to increase the efficiency of staff communication. After working with Egnyte, Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby's International Realty was able to develop a hybrid file sharing infrastructure that allowed for the syncing and sharing of large files, protection of confidential information, and a reduction in bandwidth use.

Egnyte

Similar to G Suite, all Google Workspace plans provide a custom email for your business and include collaboration tools like Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, and more.

As we’ve evolved G Suite into a more integrated experience across our communication and collaboration tools, we’ve rebranded to Google Workspace to more accurately represent the product vision.

Google

Sample Customers

M&C Saatchi, FMC Technologies, Learfield Communications Inc., Aerohive Networks, Devcon, Semperian, Balfour Beatty Construction, Red Bull

There are over five million businesses that use Google Apps for Business worldwide. Some key customers include The Roche Group, National Geographic, American Red Cross, City of Los Angeles, Flight Centre, and Konica Minolta.

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