Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Dropbox

The 20 closest cloud storage alternatives to Dropbox, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Dropbox? The closest matches are Box, 4shared and iCloud. 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 getdropbox.com

Dropbox: Secure cloud storage, file sharing, and more

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

Top 10K · #5,980 English 6 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Dropbox

Summary by Claude

Dropbox provides cloud file storage, syncing and sharing, plus tools for e-signatures, file review and content search, with integrations into AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot.

Who it’s for
Individuals, teams and businesses
Business model
Freemium 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

NextcloudZendeskChatGPTDockerCloudinaryGofileMediaFireiCloud4sharedBox

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
    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.

  2. 02
    4shared 4shared.com Top 10K English

    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.

  3. 03
    iCloud icloud.com Top 100 English

    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.

  4. 04
    MediaFire mediafire.com Top 1K English

    File sharing and storage made simple

    MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

  5. 05
    Gofile gofile.io Top 10K

    cloud storage and file hosting service

  6. 06
    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.

  7. 07
    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.

  8. 08
    ChatGPT chatgpt.com Top 1K English

    ChatGPT: Chat, Work, Create & Code with AI

    Use ChatGPT to answer questions, write, create images, complete work, and code—all in one place. Get started for free or download the app.

  9. 09
    Zendesk zendesk.com Top 1K German

    KI-gestützte Serviceplattform | Zendesk

    Mehr als Ticketvermeidung: KI-Agenten lösen Anfragen durchgängig. Verbessern Sie Servicequalität, Geschwindigkeit und Skalierung. Jetzt kostenlos testen.

  10. 10
    Nextcloud nextcloud.com Top 10K English

    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

  11. 11
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

  12. 12
    Syncthing syncthing.net Top 10K English

    Syncthing

    open source continuous file synchronization software

  13. 13
    MEGA mega.co.nz Top 1K

    MEGA

    MEGA provides free cloud storage with convenient and powerful always-on privacy. Claim your free 50GB now!

  14. 14
    acrobat.com Top 10K

    PDF service from Adobe

  15. 15
    monday.com Top 10K English

    The AI Workspace for People & Agents | monday.com

    Get more work done with AI agents that work side by side with your people. Execute, manage, and operate together on one AI Workspace to drive business results.

  16. 16
    Egnyte egnyte.com Top 10K English

    Egnyte: AI Context Layer & Content Cloud for Enterprises

    23,000+ businesses use Egnyte to give AI the business context it needs, collaborate on massive files, and govern sensitive content on one secure platform.

  17. 17
    pixeldrain pixeldrain.com Top 10K English

    Cloud storage and data transfer services ~ pixeldrain

    Pixeldrain is a file transfer service, you can upload any file and you will be given a shareable link right away. pixeldrain also supports previews for images, videos, audio, PDFs and much more.

  18. 18
    cloud.microsoft Top 100 English

    Microsoft 365 - Sign into Copilot

    Microsoft 365 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive, with Microsoft Copilot built in to help you create, communicate, and summarize information. Formerly Office 365.

  19. 19
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  20. 20
    Claude claude.com Top 10K English

    Claude by Anthropic | The AI for problem solvers

    Claude is an AI assistant built by Anthropic and designed to be helpful, honest, and harmless, so you can do your best work.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to getdropbox.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.

Built with

Marketing automation
  • Marketo TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.47.216.0/22 ip4:108.160.160.0/20 ip4:205.189.0.0/25 in…
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.47.216.0/22 ip4:108.160.160.0/20 ip4:205.189.0.0/25 in…
Web servers
  • Envoy header server: envoy
Email hosting
  • Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 ip4:199.47.216.0/22 ip4:108.160.160.0/20 ip4:205.189.0.0/25 in…
  • Proofpoint MX mxb-001ed902.gslb.pphosted.com
DNS hosting

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