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Box
Cloud content management and secure file sharing for teams, with granular permissions, e-signature and admin controls.
✓ Curated profile3 sources cited
FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
Box is a strong pick for teams that prioritise security, permissions and compliance, but it is priced in USD (from $5/user/mo on Business Starter, 3-user minimum), so Indian buyers add forex conversion and 18% GST, and cheaper tiers cap storage. Its own pricing page renders per-tier prices dynamically, so verify current pricing at checkout before committing.
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Should you use Box?
Use it if teams that need granular access controls and audit trails. Avoid it if solo users on a tight budget who want INR-billed local storage.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹496/mo$5/user/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Curated 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 3 public sources
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Box is a developer & data / productivity & knowledge for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹496/mo for a GST-registered business ($5/user/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). That is per user with a 3-user minimum, so the smallest bill is about ₹1,488 a month. It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for teams that need granular access controls and audit trails, and a poor fit if solo users on a tight budget who want INR-billed local storage.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Free 10 GB Individual tier and a free trial on Business plans
- Strong security, permissions and compliance controls
- 1,500+ integrations plus native e-signature and Box AI
- Unlimited storage from the Business tier upward
The catch
- Priced in USD, so Indian buyers absorb forex conversion and 18% GST
- Business plans require a minimum of 3 users
- Per-tier prices are not shown as clean static figures on the pricing page
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹496
Box advertises $5/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹496 a month (₹5,954/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹585 a month.
- Sticker price
- $5/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹496
- Registered per year
- ₹5,954
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹585
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Box fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
How Box compares
Against the 2 other file storage toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 2 others, and for Box.
- Mobile app
- Admin console
- AI content generation
- Cloud storage
- Two factor authentication
- Version history
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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Audit my stackOverview
What is Box?
Box is a content-management and secure file-sharing platform aimed at business teams, with a free 10 GB Individual tier and paid Business plans (Business Starter, Business, Business Plus) starting from $5/user/mo. Business tiers add unlimited storage, native Box Sign e-signatures, granular sharing controls, 1,500+ integrations and Box AI. It competes directly with Zoho WorkDrive as a team file store with strong access controls and external collaboration.
Best for
- Teams that need granular access controls and audit trails
- Businesses collaborating heavily with external partners
- Companies wanting file storage plus native e-signature (Box Sign)
- Regulated workflows needing compliance and security features
Who should avoid it
- Solo users on a tight budget who want INR-billed local storage
- Very small teams below the 3-user minimum on Business plans
- Buyers wanting a full office/productivity suite in the same product
What Box does
What we verified about Box
Read from Box’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed46
- Two factor authentication
- 2FA is core, becoming an organisation-wide setting from Enterprise
- Password policy enforcement
- Password policy enforcement appears in the security comparison rows
- Mobile app
- Box Mobile App collaboration is included in all plans
- Mcp server
- A Box MCP server connects third-party AI agents to Box content
- File version history
- Versions run from 1 on free to unlimited on Enterprise Plus
- External collaborators
- Business Plus and above give unlimited external collaborators
- E signature
- Box Sign is native, with unlimited web e-sign requests on business plans
- Document generation
- Doc Gen generates on-brand documents natively and via API
- Customer managed encryption keys
- Box KeySafe is an optional add-on for key control on every business tier
- Custom branding
- Custom branding and custom terms of service are business-plan features
- Custom AI agents
- Enterprise Advanced lets you create custom agents with enterprise knowledge
- Cloud file storage
- Core product is cloud content storage, 10 GB free rising to unlimited on Business
- AI metadata extraction
- Extract Agents pull key-value metadata from documents via API or web app
- AI content generation
- Box AI generates content, enhanced on the top two tiers
- Admin console
- Business plans include Admin Console access for user management
- Admin role delegation
- Advanced admin controls include delegating admin roles on higher tiers
- Agentic workflows
- Enterprise Advanced adds agentic workflows and custom AI agents
- AI document qa
- Box AI answers questions on single files, multi-file from Enterprise Plus
- AI powered search
- AI-powered search is listed under AI solutions in the plan comparison
- Classification based access policies
- Access policies driven by classification are an Enterprise-tier control
- Collaborative notes
- Box Notes provides real-time collaborative note taking
- Content APIs
- Box Platform exposes content APIs with SDKs, CLI and UI Elements
- Content portals
- Box Hubs creates content portals from the Enterprise tier
- Custom metadata templates
- Metadata and custom templates are available on business plans
- Data loss protection
- Data loss protection is included from the Business tier
- Desktop sync
- Integrated desktop experience is a core feature on every plan
- Device trust controls
- Device trust and mobile security controls are listed under security
- Document watermarking
- Document watermarking appears in the file and version control section
- Esign audit trail
- Even the free tier's Box Sign includes a real-time audit trail
- External link sharing without account
- FAQ confirms external links work for people with no Box account
- File sharing links
- Shared folders and links are a core feature on every plan
- Granular sharing permissions
- Sharing permissions and access controls are listed on all business tiers
- Long term archive
- Box Archive gives compliant long-term data preservation on Enterprise Advanced
- No code app builder
- No-code apps with custom dashboards are listed on the top tier
- Prebuilt UI components
- Box UI Elements provide prebuilt rich UI components for developers
- Regional data residency
- Box Zones is an add-on for multi-regional data residency requirements
- Retention and legal hold
- Box Governance sets retention policies, disposals and legal holds
- Salesforce document generation
- Enterprise Advanced generates documents directly inside Salesforce
- Security classifications
- Native security classifications come with Enterprise or the Shield add-on
- Signer verification
- Personal Pro adds advanced e-sign with signer verification and password protection
- Sso active directory
- Active Directory and SSO integration is listed across business plans
- Threat detection alerts
- Threat detection rules and alerts ship on Enterprise or via Box Shield
- User activity tracking
- Full user activity tracking and content visibility on business plans
- Web and mobile forms
- Box Forms provides connected web and mobile forms for business processes
- Whiteboard
- Box Canvas gives unlimited infinite canvases on every plan
- Workflow automation
- Advanced workflows are included from the Enterprise plan upward
What people use it for5
- Pass a security audit
- Box Governance is sold for retention, disposal and legal hold obligations
- Store and share team files
- Business plans are pitched as the fastest way to get a team collaborating securely
- Prevent data leaks
- Box Shield is pitched at preventing breaches with classification controls
- Get contracts signed
- Box Sign handles document preparation and signature requests inside Box
- Ask questions of your documents
- Box AI Q&A is designed to extract insight from stored content
Works with10
- Workday
- Workday is named among Box's business app integrations
- Splunk
- Splunk is listed as an integration for security and log analysis
- Slack
- Built-in Slack integration is listed alongside Microsoft and Google
- Salesforce
- Salesforce is a named integration and Doc Gen target
- Okta
- Okta appears among the identity integrations on the integrations page
- Netsuite
- NetSuite is listed on the Box integrations page
- Microsoft 365
- Built-in Microsoft 365 integration is a core feature on every plan
- Google workspace
- Google Workspace integration is included from the free tier
- Adobe
- Adobe appears among the named partner integrations
- Nvidia
- NVIDIA is named on the integrations page as an AI partner
Terms, compliance and how you buy31
- Self serve signup
- Buy now links go straight to checkout for all published tiers
- Annual discount
- Pricing toggle offers monthly or annually with a stated saving
- Add on heavy pricing
- Governance, Zones, KeySafe, Shield and Shield Pro are all paid add-ons
- 24 hour support on top tiers
- Enhanced 24 hour support coverage is an Enterprise Plus feature
- AI forward positioning
- Pricing headline reads AI-powered content management for your business
- Annual billing required for top tier
- Page says switch to annual billing to view Enterprise Plus pricing
- Bandwidth fair use caps
- FAQ documents 2 TB shared-link download and 1 TB ingress caps per user monthly
- Business hours support on entry tier
- Business Starter gets technical support during local business hours only
- Dynamic price rendering
- Per-tier prices render dynamically rather than as static figures
- Enterprise heavy
- Five business tiers ending in FedRAMP and GxP compliance signal enterprise focus
- Fedramp authorised
- FedRAMP Moderate is included with FedRAMP High at additional cost
- File upload size tiering
- Single file upload limits climb from 250 MB free to 500 GB on Advanced
- Free individual tier
- Individual plan is free with 10 GB storage and 5 Box Sign requests
- Free trial on business plans
- Try for free is offered on Business through Enterprise Plus
- Gxp 21 cfr part 11
- GxP compliance with 21 CFR Part 11 is offered at additional cost
- Hipaa eligible
- HIPAA and HITECH eligibility is listed in the security comparison
- Integration count gating
- Enterprise app integrations are 1 on Business and 10 on Business Plus
- Large enterprise install base
- Logos include Morgan Stanley, Uber, Intuit and the US Air Force
- Metered AI units
- AI Units are consumption-metered, 1K to 20K included by tier
- Metered API calls
- API calls cap at 50K to 200K per month with extra volume purchasable
- No INR billing
- Indian buyers add forex conversion and 18 percent GST on USD prices
- Not a full office suite
- Our notBestFor flags buyers wanting a full productivity suite in the same product
- Paid consulting services
- Box Consulting and Migration Services are sold as separate engagements
- Pci dss support
- PCI DSS appears in the security and compliance comparison rows
- Premier support paid addon
- Premier Support is an optional paid add-on on lower business tiers
- Reseller partner network
- Ecosystem page covers service, reseller and AI partners
- Sales led top tier
- Enterprise Advanced pairs Buy now with a Contact us quote path
- Security and compliance led
- Product positioning leads on permissions, classification and compliance
- Soc 1 2 3 compliant
- SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 compliance support is listed on business plans
- Three user minimum
- Every business plan states a minimum of 3 users
- Usd billed
- Prices are USD only with no India-specific currency published
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Pricing caveat and source trail
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Check the official pricing page before buying.
Box pricing page (title states 'From $5 Per User/Month'; Business Starter 3-user minimum)https://www.box.com/pricingBox Business plan overview (unlimited storage, 5GB upload, Box AI, integrations)https://www.box.com/pricing/bizBox Business Starter plan overview (100GB, 2GB upload, Box Sign)https://www.box.com/pricing/starter
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Does Box give a GST invoice in India?
Box does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Box good for Indian small businesses?
Box can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Box have a free plan?
Box lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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