Box
The enterprise cloud drive: 10 GB free, 1,500+ integrations, and compliance-grade controls from $5/user/mo.
About
Box has been doing cloud content management since 2005 and now positions itself squarely at businesses: 10 GB free on the Individual plan, Personal Pro with 100 GB at $10/month (annual), then business tiers from Business Starter at $5/user/month through Business ($15/user), Enterprise ($35/user), and Enterprise Plus ($50/user). The differentiators are the compliance stack — Box KeySafe lets customers hold their own encryption keys, with HIPAA, FINRA, and GDPR-friendly controls — plus integrations with over 1,500 apps from Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace to Zoom and Salesforce, and Box Sign for document signing.
Honest limits: the jump from the $10 individual tier to business pricing is steep, and individuals needing terabytes get far less per dollar than Dropbox or Google One. It is a collaboration platform, not a backup tool — no lifetime plans and no blockbuster consumer features. No published performance benchmarks found.
What it can do
- 10 GB free Individual plan with 250 MB upload limit
- Box KeySafe customer-held encryption keys
- 1,500+ third-party integrations
- Box Sign e-signatures and Box Notes sync
- Granular file and folder permissions with admin audit logs
- SSO, device management, and retention policies (business tiers)
Setup
Sign up for the free Individual plan; business trials unlock the admin console and Box Sign.
Prerequisites
An email address for the free plan; business tiers need a team domain and billing details.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (VERIFIED tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: pricing tiers and 10 GB free plan consistent across tomsguide, saasworthy, and cloudwards; 1,500+ integrations and KeySafe noted across reviews. Strengths: strongest compliance and admin story among mainstream drives, huge integration library, fast stable web app. Docked for: (1) expensive per-seat business pricing and poor individual value versus Dropbox/Google; (2) closed-source SaaS with no E2E-by-default and enterprise-focused roadmap. License: proprietary SaaS.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 9.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 2.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · Free Individual 10 GB; Personal Pro 100 GB $10/mo (annual); Business from $5/user/mo.
- · Founded 2005; KeySafe customer-held keys; HIPAA/FINRA/GDPR-friendly controls (provider-claimed).
Sources
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