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Competitive comparison · 1 of 5

# Against cloud file sharing.

Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box and the rest: powerful collaboration, with a copy on their servers.

| Product | No copy | E2E enc. | LAN mode | Internet | Air-gap | Per-user ACL | Groups | Audit log | Device auth | Desktop | Pricing |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Privatta★ This product · tick = every edition | Yes | Yes | Yes | Pro | Yes | Pro | Pro | Enterprise | Pro | Yes | Free · Pro €19/mo · Enterprise: ask us |
| Cloud File Sharing |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Dropbox Business | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | $15/user/mo |
| Google Drive / Workspace | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | $6–18/user/mo |
| Microsoft OneDrive / SharePoint | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | $6–22/user/mo |
| Box Enterprise | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | $15–35/user/mo |
| WeTransfer Business | No | No | No | Yes | No | Partial | No | Partial | No | No | $25/mo |
| Tresorit | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | $14/user/mo |
| Citrix ShareFile | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | $17.60/user/mo |
| Egnyte | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | $20/user/mo |

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Contents

1. 01Cloud File Sharing — Powerful collaboration, zero data sovereignty

01

## Cloud File Sharing — Powerful collaboration, zero data sovereignty

Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, ShareFile, and Egnyte collectively hold the vast majority of the enterprise file-sharing market. They are well-engineered, well-integrated, and genuinely capable: they have per-user permissions, group access control, audit trails, desktop sync clients, and mobile apps. For teams with no sensitivity constraints, they are the obvious default.

The structural issue is one that can't be configured away. Every file you share through any of these services is first uploaded to the vendor's cloud infrastructure, stored there, and then downloaded by the recipient. During that time — which may be hours, days, or indefinitely if the share link is never revoked — a copy of your file lives on a server you don't own, managed by a company that may be subject to legal process, breach, or policy change. For law firms, healthcare providers, journalists, financial institutions, and government bodies, this isn't a hypothetical concern.

Tresorit is the most privacy-conscious cloud competitor. It uses genuine end-to-end encryption, meaning the vendor cannot read the files. But it is still cloud-hosted: the encrypted file lives on Tresorit's servers, metadata (who shared with whom, when) is visible to the platform, and the internet is always required. Tresorit solves the 'vendor can read it' problem without solving the 'vendor infrastructure is in the data path' problem.

- All cloud services store a copy of every shared file on their infrastructure — unavoidable by design
- Vendor infrastructure means vendor risk: breach, legal process, policy change, or service shutdown
- E2EE options (Tresorit) encrypt content but metadata and cloud dependency remain
- None offer LAN-only or air-gap mode — internet is always required
- Machine-level access control is limited or absent outside enterprise tiers

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