OneDrive

OneDrive

1,027 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
OneDrive	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	OneDrive from Microsoft is a cloud storage and file syncing service.	$5 per month

Pricing

OneDrive

OneDrive for Business Plan 1: $5.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
Microsoft 365 Business Basic: $5.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
OneDrive for Business Plan 2: $10.00
Per Month (Annual Commitment)
Microsoft 365 Business Standard: $12.50
Per Month (Annual Commitment)

Pricing Offerings
OneDrive
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

OneDrive can be purchased as a standalone tool, or as part of a Microsoft 365's business suite.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	OneDrive
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Tom Hamilton Sr. Engineer in Information Technology at Estes Express Lines (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneDrive I think ShareFile is a more complete product that lets me set up folders where people can send me files along with me being able to send secure links to my files. The sharing of files is fairly similar but I feel ShareFile does it better. Incentivized Helpful? Chantel Wakefield Sr. Editor in Corporate at The Home Depot (Retail, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive was selected for me by leadership Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive I think OneDrive just edges out the other two because of the connection it has to the microsoft suite. All the excel and word documents just work. You dont have to worry what formatting might do to the document. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive OneDrive offers more storage than Google Drive, but Dropbox gives unlimited storage for my institution. OneDrive is best for large file sharing. Incentivized Helpful? Harvey Wyche Director of Product Management in Product Management at Royal Caribean Cruise Lines (Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive feels native is you are a Microsoft 365 user. The integration aspect of being a Microsoft customer and using all platform tools together helps with driving adoption, ease of learning, and overall efficiency. While Google Drive is widely used as well, there is a ramp … Incentivized Helpful? Juliana Rincón Student at Universidad de los Andes (Design, 1001-5000 employees) Chose OneDrive The most similar in functions would be Google Drive, however I chose One Drive because first, it allows to use all of office 365 software, which is universally used and preferred because of its trajectory. One Drive syncs directly with windows, which allows to use the desktop … Incentivized Helpful? Simon Heggie Artist in Information Technology at IGT (Animation, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneDrive "Describe how OneDrive stacks up against (alternatives) and why you selected OneDrive." It doesn't, except it's more secure than Gdrive. Definitely wouldn't select OneDrive for anything important. Incentivized Helpful? Sahid Kabir Senior Product Manager in Product Management at Orion AI Tech (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees) Chose OneDrive Dropbox does not have convenient business solutions such as cloud reporting. But One Drive ,It's a platform that virtually everyone already uses to some extent: it's more user-friendly and provides a better browser-based experience. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive Though Dropbox has been in existence and popular, I found OneDrive to be much more effective in terms of pricing. And app support is better with OneDrive. Also as mentioned the new feature of not downloading all files but showing the names gets my vote for OneDrive. One more … Incentivized Helpful? Caitlin Stote M.Ed. Reference Librarian Assistant at Darien Library-ERI-Basilica of Saint John the Evangelist (Architecture & Planning, 1-10 employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive's autosave feature with Microsoft is key, which puts it ahead of Google Drive. I do like Google Drive's ubiquitousness and it seems to be the preferred method of collaboration. Incentivized Helpful? Rebekah Ryan, PMP Senior Technical Project Manager at Optum (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneDrive Box is another file-sharing application that is very similar to OneDrive. Box falls short of OneDrive in its syncing capabilities. OneDrive is very quick with syncing so you never have to be concerned that you are not using the most up-to-date materials. Box was always a bit … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive OneDrive is my go to solution because included in the price of OneDrive is full access to the Microsoft Office suite of programs. It also includes all the same features as Google Drive and Dropbox, but includes those programs and even an email account if you want, so its the … Incentivized Helpful? Blake Calson Technical Leader in Product Management at Mount Carmel Health System (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive is ideal for document management and security of remote access to data and other important company data. I consider it secure and reliable as compared to Google Drive even though Google Drive offers more storage space for free. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive OneDrive has a specific file syncing technology which is otherwise known as the block level copying and [t]here the files would be broken [into] smaller packages whereas Google Drive would mine the user data from that of the files being uploaded to Google Drive. OneDrive gives a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive Compared to Dropbox, I like it a lot more. The user interface looks cleaner, your files are secure, and collaboration is encouraged with the tools that they offer. Incentivized Helpful? Paulo Moreno Software Engineer in Engineering at AFRY (Civil Engineering, 10,001+ employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive gives powerful security and gives sufficient protection to our valuable data over Google Drive. It saves much of our precious time by synchronizing various files automatically. This auspicious tool lets us make privacy changes in each and every folder where there is a … Incentivized Helpful? David Edell President in Manufacturing at Bay Armour, LLC (Ranching, 1-10 employees) Chose OneDrive I really find them equals in performance. I have used Dropbox for over a decade and it has always been reliable. However, Dropbox is not integrated with Microsoft Teams and it is much more expensive. Incentivized Helpful? Jordan Peck Program Coordinator in Engineering at The MOORE Group, LLC (Construction, 1-10 employees) Chose OneDrive I would not recommend OneDrive to anyone. Buggy and unreliable. Frequently corrupts files. Incentivized Helpful? Dave Becker Content Manager in Marketing at The Next Street (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose OneDrive OneDrive is included in our Microsoft suite of products so there was no additional cost for us to use it. We use OneDrive for that reason mainly. For the most part, it does what you expect a cloud storage system to do, and it does it fairly well. For a larger group (10 or more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive OneDrive is the clear winner. Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Mullin Regional Sale Director in Sales at Adecco (Staffing and Recruiting, 1001-5000 employees) Chose OneDrive In past organizations, I have utilized Dropbox as a tool for file sharing and document collaboration. In my opinion, OneDrive is a much more comprehensive solution, because OneDrive takes Dropbox one step further by integrating and automatically saving files in the device in a … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Smith Estimator and Project Manager in Corporate at Century Exteriors Inc. (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose OneDrive All of these products require a document storage system or are a document storage system. All of them get you to replicate what you are currently doing and paying for with Office 365 and OneDrive as a packaged feature. It’s just as robust and is native to your operating system … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Deshpande Lead Product Manager in Product Management at BMC Software (Information Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose OneDrive Tight integration with Office 365 is the main reason. Besides, Microsoft has a good reputation for supporting enterprise customers. Smartsheet does not have that reputation. We also have a long, stable relationship with Microsoft. Microsoft provides 1 TB of storage for each … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive After our analysis, we found OneDrive superior to Dropbox and Backblaze, considering our specific scenario of use. We also found OneDrive very similar to Google Drive when comparing features, ease-of-use, etc.(both are in the same level). Google offered more storage space, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose OneDrive We are a Microsoft ecosystem, so IDrive isn't appropriate. Dropbox was more expensive and less integrated to Windows. OneDrive is part of our Office 365 subscription, so the decision-making process was easy. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	88% Would buy again 46 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	90% Delivers good value for the price 43 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	88% Happy with the feature set 46 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	92% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 33 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
90% Implementation went as expected 35 Answers

Features

OneDrive

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of OneDrive
Feature	OneDrive 7.7 114 Ratings 9% below category average
Versioning	7.290 Ratings
Video files	7.2101 Ratings
Audio files	6.395 Ratings
Document collaboration	8.1108 Ratings
Access control	8.1109 Ratings
File search	8.9114 Ratings
Device sync	8.1112 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of OneDrive
Feature	OneDrive 7.2 109 Ratings 19% below category average
User and role management	7.297 Ratings
File organization	8.1109 Ratings
Device management	6.392 Ratings

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of OneDrive
Feature	OneDrive 7.1 113 Ratings 18% below category average
Performance	6.3112 Ratings
Reliability	7.9113 Ratings
Storage Reports	7.187 Ratings

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User Ratings
	OneDrive
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (114 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (13 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (36 ratings)

User Testimonials
	OneDrive
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft I'll start with what I would not use OneDrive for! I would not use it as a primary source for code repository, there are other more robust tools out there that can help you with storing and making available code repos. Where I would use OneDrive is in a platform for managing files, and with that I mean any file that can be saved offline and access a OneDrive access point, share, or mount. This could be personal, business, or data from a system that is saved in a standard file format. The OneDrive platform is great for documents collaboration as well, with the ability to allow for share and links to be provided to for easy access and collaboration. I would also recommend if you are someone who likes to use cloud services and rely less and less on offline storage. OneDrive excels in this area! Harvey Wyche Director of Product Management Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Sync functions allow to access work virtually anywhere Collaboration options make working with others easier, increasing productivity It works seamlessly in different devices The one drive online functions allows to use office programs like work and excel without having them installed in a device Incentivized Juliana Rincón Student Read full review
Cons	Microsoft I wish OneDrive would allow you to sync multiple personal/individual accounts to your computer. At this time, you can only sync one account at a time. That means that my personal OneDrive and individual corporate OneDrive can't be synced to my computer at the same time. OneDrive has a file size limitation of 15 GB. I know that that is a very large amount, but I have several files that are larger than 15 GB that I wish I could get to sync. I'm hoping that file size limitation changes in the future. Incentivized Joel Brache El Presidente Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Microsoft I like Box better. If you sign into Microsoft using a personal account, be EXTREMELY careful. All of your downloads could suddenly be available to your entire company, and that is incredibly embarrassing. Did that happen to me? Not going to say, but just always check which MS account you sign into. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Usability	Microsoft Using OneDrive is very intuitive and has been improved over the years. It's just like using native file management on either your Mac or PC. It's drag and drop functionality is easy and it clearly shows when files are uploaded to the cloud or if there are errors Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Performance	Microsoft It has a good performance, the pages load normally, access to the files, management, reports, everything is working well. With regard to integration with other systems, we have not done so yet. Gledson Rodrigues Analista de Redes e Comunicação de Dados N1 Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft It's a Microsoft product so there is a wealth of information online both from Microsoft directly and from millions of users but as a corporate user we also have access to direct Microsoft support through a variety of avenues (phone, email, etc.). This makes finding answers to issues more accessible, however, it does also mean that any new feature requests will get buried. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Box is another file-sharing application that is very similar to OneDrive. Box falls short of OneDrive in its syncing capabilities. OneDrive is very quick with syncing so you never have to be concerned that you are not using the most up-to-date materials. Box was always a bit delayed and did not always accurately sync across systems. OneDrive benefits from being backed by Microsoft, so you expect the connection across applications that it allows. OneDrive also provides consistency for use and intuitive understanding because of that Microsoft consistency. I'd prefer OneDrive over Box. Incentivized Rebekah Ryan, PMP Senior Technical Project Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft OneDrive allows us to save much time on creating and archiving backup copies of our data. Microsoft gives a guarantee on the possibility of recovery of files or folders even from 30 days ago. It provides a great comfort of work. Incentivized Maciej Wysocki Senior Project Manager Read full review
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