About Box

Simplify your tech stack and save on cost with the Content Cloud: a secure, easy-to-use platform built for the entire content lifecycle, from file creation and sharing, to co-editing, e-signature, classification, and retention. And with 1,500+ best-of-breed integrations, teams work from anywhere across all their favourite apps. Trusted by 100K+ of the world’s leading organisations — including AstraZeneca, JLL, and Nationwide — Box has been named a Leader by all major industry analyst firms. To read the analyst reports and find out how Box customers achieve a 332% ROI, visit box.com/resources. Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia Pacific.  ✓ Protect your content  Keep your files safe with cloud-native security and compliance capabilities like granular access controls, watermarking, and classification. Stay proactive with Box Shield’s machine learning and the ability to set policies that detect threats.  ✓ Empower your people With everything from file annotations to automated tasks, teams collaborate anytime, anywhere, on any device, with people inside and outside your business. ✓ Connect your business  Securely connect your content to the rest of your tech stack with 1,500+ pre-built integrations. Extend Box to meet your organization’s unique needs using developer tools and APIs
Box Software - In the Content Cloud, you get a single, secure, easy-to-use platform built for the entire content lifecycle, from file creation and sharing, to editing, signature, and retention.
Box Software - Keep your files safe with cloud-native security and compliance capabilities like granular access controls, watermarking, and classification. Stay proactive with Box Shield’s machine learning and the ability to set policies that detect threats.
Box Software - Power secure collaboration from anywhere with a central workspace to edit, review, and assign tasks.
Box Software - Integrate your tech stack across 1,500+ best-of-breed apps.
Box Software - Get e-signatures right where your content lives in Box. Power a simple, seamless signing experience for critical business documents like sales contracts and offer letters.
Box Software - Create workflows in minutes, so you spend more time on what matters most.
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Box Software - In the Content Cloud, you get a single, secure, easy-to-use platform built for the entire content lifecycle, from file creation and sharing, to editing, signature, and retention. - thumbnail
Box Software - Keep your files safe with cloud-native security and compliance capabilities like granular access controls, watermarking, and classification. Stay proactive with Box Shield’s machine learning and the ability to set policies that detect threats. - thumbnail
Box Software - Power secure collaboration from anywhere with a central workspace to edit, review, and assign tasks. - thumbnail
Box Software - Integrate your tech stack across 1,500+ best-of-breed apps. - thumbnail
Box Software - Get e-signatures right where your content lives in Box. Power a simple, seamless signing experience for critical business documents like sales contracts and offer letters. - thumbnail

Box pricing

Box has a free version and offers a free trial. Box paid version starts at US$20.00/month.

Starting Price:
US$20.00/month
Free Version:
Yes
Free trial:
Yes

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Box Reviews

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.3
Functionality
4.4
Ease of Use
4.5
Customer Support
4.2
5 reviews of 5,513 View all reviews
Melanie
Melanie
  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
3

5
Reviewed on 10/09/2024

Better than the rest

Came for the file storage. Staying for the wide array of features to edit, collaborate, protect, and organize my work.

Pros

Besides being a file sharing and storage software, it excels where other software does not even come close. I like the features to edit docs and files. The integration with google workspace, adobe, and microsoft office make this so essential. The security features are also not something I realized I valued until I started using box. I just feel like my files and my data are taken care of when I use this service.

Cons

There is no beating around the bush here: box is expensive. But also... lots of storage services are these days. The free version does not get you very far. I think it's the same space Google Drive gives you, but again, the features within box cannot be found elsewhere.

Julia
  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 21/10/2024

Easy to Naviagate, Easy to Share

I am very happy with the functionality, and how easy it out to create custom access and share links. The search feature also works well when you are looking for specific documents.

Pros

I like how easy it is to customize and share files with specific parties. I like how customizable the layouts and folders are.

Cons

I wish there was real time editing inside the tab you are viewing, same as Teams, Dropbox or Google Drive. I have oft had to teach people that they need to open the view only file in the "online" version and edit there.

Alternatives Considered

Dropbox Business and Microsoft Teams

Reasons for Switching to Box

Workflow with related products for seamless transition
Rebekah
  • Industry: Pharmaceuticals
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
2
Features
2
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
3

3
Reviewed on 23/09/2024

Box Review

Box is overall not user friendly and does not allow multiple users to edit the document, if it was opened by another user. It does though allow for a reliable storage of documents and easy sharing.

Pros

It was organization specific and allowed for easy sharing of documents. It was also a good place to store documents.

Cons

Because it used Word to upload, when documents were shared among users the document could be only be viewed and not edited. It then required a new document to be saved because users could not edit the document at once. It also was not user friendly and took a while to understand how it worked.

Nathan
Nathan
  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 01/09/2024

The older the berry, the sweeter the features!

Using Zapier workflow automation, we were able to mimic a google workspace type experience for our project management needs which we chose box because of a 20+ year relationship and its robust list of available integration options thanks to its multi-decade cultivating of relationships unmatched by any of their competitors.

Pros

Their Cloud infrastructure is one of the original online storage spaces, which i have used since 2001 to keep my songwriting files secure. My favorite unique advantage that box has is its file versioning. As a songwriter it can be challenging saving updated lyrics though still utilizing autosave to avoid unintended deletion. File versioning combines the two and organizes all versions, with an easy selectbox convenient for final drafting.

Cons

Their workspace is pretty generic, which can be more seamless as a one-stop project management superapp, which is made possible by zapier

Reasons for Choosing Box

Price and long time relationship with company.

Switched From

Zoho One and Google Workspace

Reasons for Switching to Box

Familiarity played the biggest role as i led this project and needed to reflect confidence in my decisions which is hard to do when using new software.
Mary
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 29/10/2024

Box is where it’s at!!!

Overall, I thought box was easy to use easy to show others how to use an easy to add documentation to.

Pros

The product has become more robust through the years of using it at 2 different companies.

Cons

Sometimes an account needs to be created before someone can view items that are shared.

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