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Dropbox

Who runs Dropbox, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest cloud file storage alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Dropbox

Dropbox dropbox.com

Discover Dropbox – secure, easy cloud storage for file sharing and collaboration. With Dash, save time and organize all your company content in one place.

Wikidata: cloud storage and file synchronization service

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Dropbox tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

13 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.

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Cookie banner
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US company
2 tools
  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Dropbox

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Dropbox, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than DropboxNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to Dropbox match.

  1. 01
    iCloud icloud.com Top 100 English No trackers

    iCloud

    Log in to iCloud to access your photos, mail, notes, documents and more. Sign in with your Apple Account or create a new account to start using Apple services.

    Compare iCloud with Dropbox →
  2. 02
    pCloud pcloud.com English No trackers

    pCloud - Secure Cloud Storage for Files, Photos & Documents

    Store, sync, and share your files securely with pCloud. Get up to 10 GB of free secure cloud storage and access your files from any device, anywhere.

    Compare pCloud with Dropbox →
  3. 03
    TeraBox terabox.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    TeraBox - Free Cloud Storage Up To 1 TB, Send Large Files Online

    TeraBox offers 1 tb free cloud storage & online file transfer. Login or Download TeraBox app to get 1 tb storage and use it on your PC, Mac, iPhone & Android.

    Compare TeraBox with Dropbox →
  4. 04
    ShareFile sharefile.com English 1 tracker

    Secure Document Workflow & File Sharing Software | ShareFile

    Confidently share and collaborate without having to sacrifice security.

    Compare ShareFile with Dropbox →
  5. 05
    Seafile seafile.com English No trackers

    Seafile - Open Source File Sync and Share Software

    Seafile is an open source, self-hosted file sync and share solution with high performance and reliability. Sync, access, and collaborate on files on your own server or private cloud.

    Compare Seafile with Dropbox →
  6. 06
    4shared 4shared.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    4shared - free file sharing and storage

    Online file sharing and storage - 15 GB free web space. Easy registration. File upload progressor. Multiple file transfer. Fast download.

    Compare 4shared with Dropbox →
  7. 07
    Syncthing syncthing.net Top 10K English No trackers

    Syncthing

    open source continuous file synchronization software

    Compare Syncthing with Dropbox →
  8. 08
    Nextcloud nextcloud.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform

    The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe

    Compare Nextcloud with Dropbox →
  9. 09
    IDrive® idrive.com English No trackers

    Cloud Backup and Storage solutions for home and business - IDrive®

    IDrive provides Online cloud Backup for PCs, Macs, iPhones, Android and other Mobile Devices all into ONE account for one low fee

    Compare IDrive® with Dropbox →
  10. 10
    Rapidgator rapidgator.net English 1 tracker

    Rapidgator

    Download file from Rapidgator. Cloud hosting solutions, safe and secure file hosting

    Compare Rapidgator with Dropbox →
  11. 11
    Wasabi wasabi.com English 1 tracker

    Store More and Do More with Your Data | Wasabi

    With Wasabi, you pay only for what you store. Enjoy the freedom to access your data whenever you want, without fees for egress or API requests.

    Compare Wasabi with Dropbox →
  12. 12
    rsync.net English No trackers

    Cloud Storage for Offsite Backup

    rsync.net offers secure cloud storage on an open standards ZFS and SSH platform for offsite backup and disaster recovery

    Compare rsync.net with Dropbox →
  13. 13
    Slack slack.com Top 1K English EU-registeredFree plan 1 tracker

    Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools

    Boost productivity and save time with Slack‌ — ‌the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.

    Compare Slack with Dropbox →
  14. 14
    HubSpot hubspot.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    HubSpot | Software & Tools for your Business - Homepage

    HubSpot's customer platform includes all the marketing, sales, customer service, and CRM software you need to grow your business.

    Compare HubSpot with Dropbox →
  15. 15
    Storj storj.io English 1 tracker

    Storj — the distributed cloud

    No syncing. No downloading. Just better cloud storage with local performance at 80% lower cost.

    Compare Storj with Dropbox →
  16. 16
    Proton proton.me Top 10K English No trackers

    Proton: Privacy by default

    Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.

    Compare Proton with Dropbox →
  17. 17
    Grafana grafana.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Full-stack observability for the agentic era | Grafana Labs

    Avoid lock-in and ensure reliability with Grafana Cloud, the AI-powered platform built on open standards unifies metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and business data.

    Compare Grafana with Dropbox →
  18. 18
    Appwrite appwrite.io English No trackers

    Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents

    Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.

    Compare Appwrite with Dropbox →
  19. 19
    PBworks pbworks.com English 1 tracker

    Capture knowledge, share files, and manage projects within a secure, reliable environment | PBworks - Online Team Collaboration Software

    PBworks lets your team capture knowledge, share files, and manage projects. It tracks every change, and automatically notifies you and your team to keep everyone in the loop. PBworks is secure, reliable, and accessible from any computer or mobile device, so your team can use it anywhere they go. You can even use it with clients or partners. And because it's hosted, you don't need to download any software or manage any servers.

    Compare PBworks with Dropbox →
  20. 20
    Simperium simperium.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Simperium: A cross-platform data sync service.

    Simperium is a cross-platform data sync service.

    Compare Simperium with Dropbox →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Dropbox’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Dropbox uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Dropbox adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 19 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
38 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Dropbox’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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, 4,860 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.