Egnyte vs Google Workspace comparison

Egnyte and Google are both solutions in the Content Collaboration Platforms category. Egnyte is ranked #15, while Google is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.3. Egnyte holds a 6.1% mindshare in CCP, compared to Google’s 8.3% 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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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

Google Workspace and Egnyte offer solutions in the fields of collaboration and security. Google Workspace has the upper hand in real-time teamwork tools and integration, whereas Egnyte is superior in file-sharing security.

Features: Google Workspace offers Gmail, Google Drive, and Meet with seamless collaboration and extensive cloud storage. Egnyte provides secure file-sharing, content governance, and hybrid cloud solutions.

Room for Improvement: Google Workspace can enhance its offline features and improve third-party app integration. Egnyte could benefit from a more intuitive user interface and faster sync times. Google Workspace might improve privacy options further, while Egnyte could offer more customization in its plans.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Google Workspace ensures fast cloud-based deployment with support through various channels. Egnyte provides both cloud and on-premises deployment, with support tailored to emphasize security and compliance.

Pricing and ROI: Google Workspace offers a predictable subscription model, excellent for productivity ROI, whereas Egnyte requires a higher investment for security features but provides significant returns for firms prioritizing content management.

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Categories and Ranking

Egnyte

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

15th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Google Workspace

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

Email Applications (1st), Wireless Email (2nd), Cloud Storage (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Egnyte is 6.1%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Workspace is 8.3%, up from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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

"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 is a good storage solution."

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

"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 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."

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

"It is scalable and stable."

"Only a few competitors can do precisely what Google Workspace does in terms of email management and calendar management through its Gmail and Google Calendar apps. It's a very seamless platform."

"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."

"Valuable features of the solution are that it's simple and effective."

"I like everything that Google does. They have good products."

"G Suite is a powerful suite of tools for messaging and collaboration that has met the fundamental needs of my company, both increasing productivity and reducing costs."

"Users can work anywhere with an internet connection."

"G Suite Enterprise is scalable."

"The most valuable part of G Suite is the integration among all of the components. It's also highly reliable because it's always available. And G Suite's ability to collaborate on all the standard office tools has no rival. It's amazing because you can work seamlessly with any of your colleagues on the same document."

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Cons

"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."

"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"And I think Google Translate could add more features. For example, it could be integrated when typing in a document or a web browser like Grammarly."

"In some cases, we are using the Google Meet functions but only when we have external clients. Internally, we are using Slack. Google Meet virtual meeting function is not as advanced as the one in Slack and should improve."

"Integration with Microsoft Outlook could be improved."

"Improvements to G Suite would be the ability to collaborate more easily and better quality video compression in Google Meet."

"In Google Meet, there is no feature for recording a meeting. It should have a feature for recording."

"There is some redundancy in the functionality between certain modules."

"G-Suite is excellent for what we're trying to do, but it could use some extra features. For example, it would be helpful if we had a seamless way to convert Excel macros to Google Sheets."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The price per client within the business is too high."

"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."

"There are several areas where a G Suite implementation can reduce costs: lower license fees than some competing products, reduced hardware, and IT support costs."

"The solution is expensive."

"The price of Google Workspace is reasonable. I pay less than 100 a month."

"Licensing costs are on a yearly basis."

"The pricing is reasonable."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

32%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

15%

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

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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 do not have any major suggestions for improvement. However, while the security functionalities are similar to those in competitors like Active Directory, they could be optimized for stronger secu...

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G-Suite Enterprise, G-Suite, Google Apps for Business, G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G-Suite Basic, G-Suite Business, Google Vault

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.

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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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