Box vs. OneDrive

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Box	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Box is an online cloud content management solution that caters to individual users as well as businesses.	$5 Per Month (Paid Annually) per user (minimum of 3 users)
OneDrive	Score 7.5 out of 10	N/A	OneDrive from Microsoft is a cloud storage and file syncing service.	$5 per month

Pricing

Box

OneDrive

Editions & Modules

Business Starter: $5
Per Month (Paid Annually) per user (minimum of 3 users)
Business: $15
Per Month (Paid Annually) per user (minimum of 3 users)
Business Plus: $25
Per Month (Paid Annually) per user (minimum of 3 users)
Enterprise: $35
Per Month (Paid Annually) per user (minimum of 3 users)
Enterprise Plus: Custom
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OneDrive for Business Plan 1: $5.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
Microsoft 365 Business Basic: $5.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
OneDrive for Business Plan 2: $10.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
Microsoft 365 Business Standard: $12.50
Per Month (Annual Commitment)

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Box	OneDrive
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

Box is available as an annual subscription. Many customers opt for either the Digital Workplace or Digital Business suite, which includes the baseline software plat (Box Enterprise) plus multiple additional features including Box Shield for data loss prevention and threat detection, Box Governance for retention management and legal holds, Box Relay for no-code workflow, and Premier Services. Customers are eligible for discounting beyond volume list prices, depending on a number of conditions.

OneDrive can be purchased as a standalone tool, or as part of a Microsoft 365's business suite.

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Community Pulse
	Box	OneDrive
Considered Both Products	Box Verified User Employee Chose Box Box has great apps, a great mobile-friendly website, extensions that integrate it into other programs/services, and WebDAV support so it can be easily/transparently mapped as a network drive in Windows. In these ways, it is on-par with OneDrive and a bit ahead of Dropbox (which … Incentivized Helpful? Ross R. Mason Chief Executive Officer Chose Box At the time when we selected Box, Dropbox had yet to introduce collaboration on files, though they have since done so. Also at the time, we were concerned about security on Dropbox, with its primary emphasis on consumers and had already seen instances where client folders were … Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin Hale Digital Marketing Analyst Chose Box Box lacks the integrations to Windows that OneDrive has, but has the right combination of price, features, and reliability. There are other services that are cheaper, but we find the Box provides good value when combining the things we were looking for. The inclusion of Box … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Box In the end we selected Google Drive for our primary storage and Box as the backup. OneDrive and Dropbox did not fit our I.T. systems model. Box is reliable, so we do count on them to provide needed security for critical data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Box Back when the selection for Box was being decided, Office 365 and the online suite of products were not well developed yet. However, that is no longer the case. Office 365 and the Microsoft stack make way more sense and there's no need to go with Box. OneDrive has covered all … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Box Box.com has the shortest domain name! It has feature parity with their competition. Any of these competitors sharing/syncing services are interchangeable for me. I default to whichever one my current client is using or wants to be using. If they are a Microsoft user, I go with O… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Box Box is more user-friendly since most of its features are simpler and easier than OneDrive, which has many add-on features. Files in the Box sync folder will sync automatically and can be available for phones and tablets. GitHub users commonly share, and document code sources … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Box OneDrive is also being used in tandem since our licensure is through Microsoft. While one is not trying to replace the other, we just utilize both for redundancy and integration purposes. They can have files moved between the two manually by the end users to ensure they're … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Box Box performs well with respect to privileges and access that can be modified for a file. It is very important from a security point of view. But products like Google Drive and OneDrive have better user experiences. They allow editing documents easily. But Box does not do that. … Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Box Dropbox trails built in platform players like Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive from built in integration with services. However, the online interface and collaboration tools are better designed than the other platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Boutros Senior Financial Systems Administrator Chose Box Box was selected prior to me starting with the company. We eventually switched to Sharepoint because of the cost savings, but otherwise, we would have preferred to stay on Box. OneDrive did not stack up to Box because it was determined that it was best suited for storing work … Incentivized Helpful? Rebekah Ryan, PMP Senior Technical Project Manager Chose Box Box and its competitors are all quite similar in their filesharing and storing capabilities. I think the closest, most similar product would be OneDrive, which I use quite often. Google Drive provides a bit more of real-time updating and version control of documentation that I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Box The best user experience of any of the major cloud data providers. As it's not a product of any of the other major technology companies, it remains agnostic to the many platforms / features that everyday users want to have. Incentivized Helpful? Bhawnish Kumar Implementation Engineer Chose Box Box has cheap storage pricing and so is preferred by small organizations, and easy to use app and sync make it a good product to use. Cross platform file sharing and editing over the cloud is one of the best features it has. Incentivized Helpful? Elena Heyl Global Head of Data Science Chose Box For us switching to Box [was] a big move. It saves us from big problems and troubles which we were already facing while using the other software. Those use a lot of effort and have zero results in terms of results. Box has been a great find for us. Incentivized Helpful? Grace Wachina Software Architect Chose Box We have definitely come a long way to finally reach Box. It is undoubtedly a powerful and secure tool that is embedded with many modern features. Moreover, we wanted a platform that has more features and involves less cost. Altogether, it successfully stored many problems … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Box Box was the most versatile and cheaper of these options, also had more granular admin capabilities and platform agnostic (whether your are using MS Office or Google Docs). Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Box As this gets integrated with Outlook, Office, Android devices, tablets, Mac devices, email, Webdocs, XML viewer and also sync well with Windows and Macintosh. This also has a feature for Microsoft Office suite integration for export and import and is also Microsoft Office … Helpful? Dustin Clark Takeoff Engineer Chose Box For our company, Box is just easier. Everyone is aware of how to use it and it is more widely used by our partners in the industry. During our initial orientation, we get new staff familiar with Box (if they are not already familiar) and that is honestly one of the easiest … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Box My organization selected Box because it's a product that many organizations use, so it was easy to get users up to speed and collaborating together. The interface is very user friendly and intuitive. This has saved us time and effort in allowing users to become proficient in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Box Box was a good platform, to begin with as the team was growing, and also since we did not have much data. Box was user-friendly and had sync options that we needed. It also did not have a lot of the other options in G Suite that was not required for use at the time. Incentivized Helpful? Dave Becker Content Manager Chose Box Box was superior to all of the cloud file storage systems I've used. It is easier to use, has more space available, and we rarely had any problems. Unfortunately, budget was the deciding factor that pushed us to a different product, but I have found myself wishing that weren't … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Box Box is as simple to use as the others, however, the Single Sign-on feature is what makes it a viable tool for our company. Incentivized Helpful? James McQuillin Owner Chose Box I feel Box's desktop sync app works the best but I admittedly love Google's native Docs and Sheets much more. I feel collaborating on Google Drive is much easier and more convenient. I believe you shouldn't keep all your files in one cloud, so to speak, so I keep accounts with … Incentivized Helpful? Mohammed Alshehri Product Specialist Chose Box I selected Box as it was the first solution I signed up with. It gave me the highest storage space and the reliability of the service is awesome. Incentivized Helpful?	OneDrive Verified User Employee Chose OneDrive OneDrive is integrated very well into Windows 10/Windows 10 Mobile and has a great UI on the web. The granular privacy/access controls are also quite nice. For sharing photographs, its viewer is unparalleled. Incentivized Helpful? Vin Campbell IT Director Chose OneDrive I mentioned in another area that OneDrive is bundled into our Office 365 accounts - so let me start there. Dropbox will cost you $10 and more per month. Our entire Office 365 account costs $12.50/month for each user - and we get full Office with that. Enough said there. As far … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose OneDrive It's roughly the same as Googe Drive but underperforms when compared to Box and Dropbox. Incentivized Helpful? Dave Becker Content Manager Chose OneDrive OneDrive is included in our Microsoft suite of products so there was no additional cost for us to use it. We use OneDrive for that reason mainly. For the most part, it does what you expect a cloud storage system to do, and it does it fairly well. For a larger group (10 or more … Incentivized Helpful? Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland System Administrator Chose OneDrive The only things that OneDrive does better then everyone else is the integration into Sharepoint/Office documents and the 1TB storage at this price range. Our corporate solution is Google Drive mainly because of the robust client, better cooperation inside documents, better … Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Fazalul Rahman Research Assistant Chose OneDrive All these require logging in to the browser and manually drag and drop the items into the interface. Even though some of the software provide desktop client, I found it hard to use and had integration issues with Windows. But OneDrive was already integrated with Windows which … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Easy to use Pro File sharing Pro User friendly	Pro Easy to use Pro File sharing Pro Integration with office
Top Cons	Minus Mobile app Minus File size Minus Internet connection	Minus Google drive Minus Web interface Minus File size

TrustRadius Insights
	Box	OneDrive
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published February 1, 2024 Based on customer feedback, both Box and OneDrive are extensively utilized for file sharing and collaborative work. Users of Box have highlighted how the product’s robust permission settings and real-time collaboration features have facilitated efficient group projects. Similarly, OneDrive users have praised the offering’s seamless integration with Microsoft Office Suite which enables multiple people to work on the same file simultaneously, enhancing team productivity. Based on the reviews, Box seems to have been particularly embraced by enterprise-level users, while OneDrive enjoys a broader demographic base. Box users often speak of its high-security features and unlimited storage capacity, aspects that are crucial for big corporations handling large amounts of sensitive data. On the flip side, OneDrive is popular among individual end-users, small business owners, and students, who appreciate its user-friendly interface and the convenience of having their files synced across different Microsoft devices. Lastly, a key dissimilarity lies in the overall user experience. While users recognize that both Box and OneDrive offer necessary cloud storage features, ease of use tends to vary. Many Box users have acknowledged some complexity in navigating the interface, suggesting a steeper learning curve. Comparatively, OneDrive users often express how its intuitive design and function make it easier to adopt, especially for non-tech-savvy individuals. These divergent experiences underscore the necessity of considering a user’s tech proficiency and the needs of the organization when deciding between these two services.

Features

Box

OneDrive

Enterprise Content Management

Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	Box 6.4 25 Ratings 22% below category average	OneDrive - Ratings
Content capture & imaging	8.119 Ratings	00 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving	9.424 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document management	7.723 Ratings	00 Ratings
Records management	6.719 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content search & retrieval	7.023 Ratings	00 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration	7.921 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content publishing & creation	5.215 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance	7.125 Ratings	00 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management	5.111 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automated workflows	5.213 Ratings	00 Ratings
Artificial intelligence	2.311 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile support	4.222 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integration	8.022 Ratings	00 Ratings

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Box - Ratings	OneDrive 8.1 115 Ratings 4% below category average
Versioning	00 Ratings	8.391 Ratings
Video files	00 Ratings	7.9102 Ratings
Audio files	00 Ratings	7.696 Ratings
Document collaboration	00 Ratings	8.6109 Ratings
Access control	00 Ratings	8.6110 Ratings
File search	00 Ratings	8.0115 Ratings
Device sync	00 Ratings	7.9113 Ratings

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
	Box - Ratings	OneDrive 7.6 110 Ratings 13% below category average
User and role management	00 Ratings	7.698 Ratings
File organization	00 Ratings	7.9110 Ratings
Device management	00 Ratings	7.293 Ratings

Cloud Storage Platform

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
	Box - Ratings	OneDrive 7.3 114 Ratings 16% below category average
Performance	00 Ratings	7.6113 Ratings
Reliability	00 Ratings	7.0114 Ratings
Storage Reports	00 Ratings	7.388 Ratings

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	Box	OneDrive
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User Ratings
	Box	OneDrive
Likelihood to Recommend	7.6 (153 ratings)	7.6 (115 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (12 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (20 ratings)	8.0 (14 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (12 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (29 ratings)	8.0 (36 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (6 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Box	OneDrive
Likelihood to Recommend	Box I think Box is great for research teams or anyone that has a large number of files that need to be securely stored. Particularly in the case of social science research, where it is important to protect identifying data, Box is a great option. In cases where teams need a more reliable means for real-time collaboration, I would probably consider a different alternative Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft I'll start with what I would not use OneDrive for! I would not use it as a primary source for code repository, there are other more robust tools out there that can help you with storing and making available code repos. Where I would use OneDrive is in a platform for managing files, and with that I mean any file that can be saved offline and access a OneDrive access point, share, or mount. This could be personal, business, or data from a system that is saved in a standard file format. The OneDrive platform is great for documents collaboration as well, with the ability to allow for share and links to be provided to for easy access and collaboration. I would also recommend if you are someone who likes to use cloud services and rely less and less on offline storage. OneDrive excels in this area! Harvey Wyche Director of Product Management Read full review
Pros	Box The main feature that I like the most in Box is that it makes collaboration seamless, workers can easily check the documents any time and make changes according to the needs. Box manages and backs up all of your files on its cloud servers, and provides a very nice interface for creating, viewing, editing, and collaborating on the most commonly used file types (PDF, XLS, DOC, etc.). Over the past few years, Box has built on top of its basic cloud storage management with a host of other tools, such as workflows, AI, monitoring, and analytics. It is helping us to make good connections with clients and our workers themselves as to its syncing and viewing feature to all is very much helpful and easy to go. Incentivized james dean Senior Software Engineer Read full review	Microsoft Sync functions allow to access work virtually anywhere Collaboration options make working with others easier, increasing productivity It works seamlessly in different devices The one drive online functions allows to use office programs like work and excel without having them installed in a device Incentivized JR Juliana Rincón Student Read full review
Cons	Box The graphic design of the dashboard should be simpler and more tangible that can be changed to the liking of the Admin. Sometimes there are some syncing issues in the background. The product has very limited functionality in some areas which could be a bit frustrating at times. Incentivized KW Katherine Weiss Executive Assistant Read full review	Microsoft I wish OneDrive would allow you to sync multiple personal/individual accounts to your computer. At this time, you can only sync one account at a time. That means that my personal OneDrive and individual corporate OneDrive can't be synced to my computer at the same time. OneDrive has a file size limitation of 15 GB. I know that that is a very large amount, but I have several files that are larger than 15 GB that I wish I could get to sync. I'm hoping that file size limitation changes in the future. Incentivized Joel Brache El Presidente Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Box I like the security features and I like the website. It's easy to use and create and move things around as needed. The main reason for a lower rating is because the Box Sync app is just not a good program. It's a memory hog, it's slow, transfer speeds are slow, and it's not the most efficient route. If you have a large Box account and you need to get a computer up to speed on a large amount of data within Box, you are in for the long haul. Last time I had to do this, it took 3 days to sync all of the files and we are talking around 100 GB worth of data Sam Montoya, CSM Project Manager Read full review	Microsoft Due to its tight integration into the Microsoft ecosystem and its bundling into the Office 365 service, continued use of the product is all but guaranteed. Unless there's a shift away from Microsoft, I can see no competing product offering the same ease of use and integrations taking the place of OneDrive Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Box Everything with Box is seamless. It can be integrated into virtually any other software or application. You can even get the app for your phone or tablet to work on the go. File syncing is so quick. The only reason I gave it a 9 is the issue I discussed earlier about the local file application rebooting and not continuing to sync files. Other than that, it's great! Incentivized Tyler Grudowski Product Development Engineer Read full review	Microsoft Using OneDrive is very intuitive and has been improved over the years. It's just like using native file management on either your Mac or PC. It's drag and drop functionality is easy and it clearly shows when files are uploaded to the cloud or if there are errors Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Box Yeah, it's always worked, I've never had any kind of connection issues, the only issues I've had it I've been on our end when the Internet hasn't worked. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Performance	Box The general operation and management of Box is very efficient, both when accessing the account, and when adding files, downloading or modifying any document directly. The web platform, mobile and desktop versions work really well and quickly, making all the work and process flow smoothly and without setbacks. So far I have not been able to observe any inconvenience Incentivized burt smith Graphic Design Specialist Read full review	Microsoft It has a good performance, the pages load normally, access to the files, management, reports, everything is working well. With regard to integration with other systems, we have not done so yet. Gledson Rodrigues Analista de Redes e Comunicação de Dados N1 Read full review
Support Rating	Box I found their support community lacking in clarity when I experienced a login issue. The error messaging was poor on my Box Sync application. I did not reach out to support staff for help, instead, I reasoned that I should try downloading the Box Sync application again and reinstall it. That fixed my issue, thankfully. I think a less computer-savvy user would've been much more frustrated. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft It's a Microsoft product so there is a wealth of information online both from Microsoft directly and from millions of users but as a corporate user we also have access to direct Microsoft support through a variety of avenues (phone, email, etc.). This makes finding answers to issues more accessible, however, it does also mean that any new feature requests will get buried. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
In-Person Training	Box The in person training was done in house and I helped with the training, people seem to respond well. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Online Training	Box The documentation is good. Since Box is a popular service, there were also a number of YouTube videos and other sources that were helpful as we were considering the product and planning for deployment. Also, the ability to try the free version helped to prepare us. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Box Be careful with settings. It is easy to get overwhelmed with updates. For example, you don’t want to be updated when doing historical data uploads. I recommend taking off notifications initially and then turn on post you have done your historical data upload. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Box They are kind of the same. And both of them do their job as promised. But for company and project wise I think that Box slightly wins for some points. Which [makes him] win over Google Drive (don't forget that Google Drive is very easy to use and has a lot [of] nice features too). Pjeter Gjergjaj Senior Network Engineer Read full review	Microsoft Box is another file-sharing application that is very similar to OneDrive. Box falls short of OneDrive in its syncing capabilities. OneDrive is very quick with syncing so you never have to be concerned that you are not using the most up-to-date materials. Box was always a bit delayed and did not always accurately sync across systems. OneDrive benefits from being backed by Microsoft, so you expect the connection across applications that it allows. OneDrive also provides consistency for use and intuitive understanding because of that Microsoft consistency. I'd prefer OneDrive over Box. Incentivized Rebekah Ryan, PMP Senior Technical Project Manager Read full review
Scalability	Box It's great, as we put more files on there it's done very well. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Box Box has been an only positive experience. It provides a seamless way for me and my team to collaborate on documents in such a way where we're not sending the document back/forth via email. It's a huge timesaver. Box reduces the risk of sharing a sensitive document to the wrong person via email. Box has provided a platform where my team can share notes in meetings - this has helped streamline and organize our meetings. Our meetings are more productive and actionable. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft OneDrive allows us to save much time on creating and archiving backup copies of our data. Microsoft gives a guarantee on the possibility of recovery of files or folders even from 30 days ago. It provides a great comfort of work. Incentivized MW Maciej Wysocki Senior Project Manager Read full review
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