Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Dropbox

The 20 closest cloud storage API alternatives to Dropbox, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 2 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Dropbox? The closest matches are docs.rs, Postman and Cloudinary. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Dropbox

Dropbox dropboxapi.com

DBX Platform for Developers - Dropbox

With the DBX Platform, you can go from idea to implementation quickly and easily. Discover how you can develop apps for millions of Dropbox users.

Top 10K · #2,642 English 2 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Dropbox

Summary by Claude

Dropbox's API domain, which serves the DBX Platform developer APIs and SDKs for integrating Dropbox file storage, sharing, previews, search and team administration into third-party apps.

Who it’s for
Software developers and businesses
Business model
Supports Dropbox subscriptions

02 · Embedding space

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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

MongoDBGitBookScribdBoxdatadoghq.comWix.comdoxygen.orgDockerCloudinarydocs.rs

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Dropbox

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    docs.rs Top 10K English

    Docs.rs

    official documentation website for Rust libraries

  2. 02
    Cloudinary cloudinary.com Top 1K English

    Image and Video Platform for Visual Experiences | Cloudinary

    Streamline media management and improve user experience by automatically delivering images and videos, enhanced and optimized for every user.

  3. 03
    Docker docker.com Top 1K English

    Docker | Secure Sandboxes for AI Agents

    Run AI agents and containers safely, anywhere. Docker gives builders trusted sandboxes, governance, and a secure supply chain for modern software.

  4. 04
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  5. 05
    Wix.com wix.com Top 1K English

    Wix.com - The platform trusted by millions of businesses

    Build the business you have in mind on a platform trusted by millions. Hosting, business tools, domains and marketing built in. Try it for free.

  6. 06
    datadoghq.com Top 1K English

    Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog

    See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.

  7. 07
    Box box.com Top 1K English

    Box | AI-Powered Content Management, Workflow & Collaboration

    Intelligent Content Management makes it easy to automate workflows, collaborate internally and externally, and protect your sensitive data, all on one platform.

  8. 08
    Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English

    Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.

    Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.

  9. 09
    GitBook gitbook.io Top 10K English

    The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook

    GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.

  10. 10
    MongoDB mongodb.com Top 10K English

    MongoDB | The Intelligent Data Platform for the AI Era | MongoDB

    MongoDB is the intelligent data platform for the AI era. Get your ideas to market faster with flexible, real-time data that scales across any cloud.

  11. 11
    DEV Community dev.to Top 10K English

    DEV Community

    A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

  12. 12
    Replit replit.com Top 10K English

    AI App and Website Builder | Replit

    Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or website in minutes. No coding required.

  13. 13
    DeepL deepl.com Top 1K English

    DeepL AI Platform: Translation, Voice & API

    Explore our AI suite and get more done: Translate speech, text, and media, or integrate the DeepL API.

  14. 14
    Beget beget.com Top 10K English

    Beget — Hosting and Cloud Services | IT Infrastructure Rental

    Beget is a Russian cloud provider ☁️Cloud services rental for businesses and IT projects: dedicated servers, VPS/VDS, S3 storage, DBaaS, hosting, and domain registration.⚡️ High speed ⚡️ Guaranteed 99.98% Uptime ⚡️ 24/7 Support

  15. 15
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  16. 16
    SpaceXAI x.ai Top 10K English

    American artificial intelligence and social media division of SpaceX

  17. 17
    Read the Docs readthedocs.org Top 10K English

    Full featured documentation deployment platform - Read the Docs

    Read the Docs is a documentation building and hosting platform aimed at helping developers creating documentation from code with versioned documentation, integrated search, pull request previews and more.

  18. 18
    SlideShare slideshare.net Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos

  19. 19
    Snap snapkit.com Top 10K English

    Snap for Developers

    Documentation for various Snap Inc. products to help empower developers.

  20. 20
    Docusign docusign.com Top 10K English

    Docusign | #1 in Electronic Signature and Intelligent Agreement Management

    Create, commit to, and manage your agreements all in one platform with Docusign IAM. Electronically sign for free.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to dropboxapi.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Dropbox uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Dropbox is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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