Box
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Offers secure content management with workflow automation, AI-driven insights, 10GB free cloud storage, e-signature support, integration with 1,500+ apps, file-level security, offline access, document commenting, real-time search, and previews for 200+ file types.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
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Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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Box launches 'Hubs' for enhanced information discovery and usage, integrated with Box AIBox has launched Hubs, a service designed to enhance information discovery and usage among employee...
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Box has officially launched Box AI, integrating advanced AI models into the Content Cloud platformBox, the cloud content management and file sharing service, has announced a new suite of capabiliti...
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Subscription ranging between $15 and $50 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
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- Updated May 21, 2025
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Comments and Reviews
If you are thinking about using this service personally or for your enterprise, I would highly recommend that you reconsider. Its expensive, and the features that make the product so expensive do not even function properly, though box would claim that they do. For example, in the below github issue post, a box employee describes a bug in the api which moves one user's box content to another user account, stating that it can timeout, which makes automation or application development all but impossible if that particular api endpoint is used: https://github.com/box/box-windows-sdk-v2/issues/481 With this information, I submitted a ticket to the support portal, which I found closed the next day with the rediculous comment below:
Apparently, box doesn't actually refer to the problems with its software as "bugs", or acknowledge that there is any problem at all. No, apparently the fact that certain features only work every once in a while is "behaving by design." Rediculous. The customer support for other, general use issues isn't any better either, so I would highly recommend a different solution for your cloud storage needs, as not only is the customer support horrible, but they don't even take accountability for the issues within their own development platform. Really sad for such a large company.
Box, Inc.'s headquarters is located in Redwood City, California, U.S Aaron Winsor Levie is CEO. The Desktop App Box Drive puts a nice non-confusing icon in the drive tree area. You copy/paste or drag/drop your files in and there they are. A nice lilttle cloud symbol lets you know it transferred. From Brave AI : "Box complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) for the transfer of personal data it processes on behalf of organizations in business accounts, and it will also certify to a similar Data Privacy Framework adopted by the UK and Switzerland."
I lost all my folders and files because of rejection of the two-factor verification code
I use it to send large attachments as an alternative to dropbox, thus keeping within free storage limit. It integrates with Thunderbird mail, so is OK for that.
it works great. plays better with other parties than dropbox. also their free tier is amazing; i still haven't hit the limit
No Linux app, which makes it less useful for those working across platform. Web service still works, obviously, but is far from ideal.
Not a day goes by we don't have problems with box. It's document search capabilities are just as bad as Dropbox in 2010. It seems to give up after 1000 words and doesn't support pages or google docs. Drive at least supports the latter and seems to never give up indexing a doc. Google Drive File Stream is better in every way. The only thing it Box does "better" is it allows real time iCloud stuff through an iFrame, but the feature has no off button, makes document loading slower, and has terrible android/windows/chromeos support... if you need collab, use Google Docs like we have been doing for the past decade. The instances where real time collab is necessary are very rare.
Speaking of which, Box has the worst Google docs support out of any of their competitors. Yes, it does allow you to save gdocs on your box, but no one using their app will see it... unlike how you would see them in every other service, as shortcuts that open up in a browser. At this point, Google File Stream is easily the best Cloud Document Storage service out there, with Box being a distant second.
[Edited by Oldarney, December 03]
[Edited by Oldarney, December 03]