Teams look beyond Egnyte when the per-user price climbs with each governance or AI feature they add, or when they want their own encryption keys without a quote. Most move to an encrypted vault, a self-hosted platform, a bundled office suite or a client-facing sharing tool, depending on which part of the Egnyte stack they actually use.
Short answer: Tresorit, Nextcloud and Sync.com head the list of Egnyte alternatives drawn from our cloud storage ranking. Our rule for order: vendors outside the big brands go first, and the largest names are not placed in the top three. Tresorit is the one to try if you want the vendor unable to read your files, and key custody matters more than workflow automation. Every one of the 12 products below comes from Best Cloud Storage for Business in 2026, with a note on how it departs from Egnyte.
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Pricing: Per user per month, published from $10 on the Team plan; top Ultimate tier quoted
Established in: United States
Built for: A regulated firm that must govern and locate every file
Not for: A company that wants straightforward file sync and nothing more
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Why buyers look past Egnyte
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Feature gates move the price in steps
Egnyte's pricing page shows Business at $22, Enterprise Lite at $39 and Elite at $48 per user per month, billed annually, with Ultimate on quote. The AI Assistant, AI Search, PDF markup, e-signature and dynamic watermarking only begin at Elite, so a team that wants one of them pays the Elite rate for every seat. The $10 Team plan stops at 10 users.
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Your own keys sit on the top tier
The feature table states that Egnyte-managed encryption keys come with every plan, while customer-managed keys are available on Ultimate only. Ransomware detection with snapshot recovery is likewise listed under Ultimate. A regulated company that treats key custody as a requirement therefore negotiates a quote, not a list price.
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Much of the platform targets large file estates
Egnyte describes itself as a secure file server in the cloud, with edge caching, a classification engine, lifecycle policies and options for architecture, finance and life-science firms. A ten-person agency that wants shared folders and external links buys a platform whose weight is aimed elsewhere, which is why smaller buyers compare simpler tools.
Workspace Standard $12.99, Premium $19.99 per user per month yearly; 14-day trial
Encrypted drive bundled with mail, calendar, meetings and VPN
you want encrypted storage as one part of a private mail and meeting bundle for a small company
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What each one does differently
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Tresorit
Switzerland · Business from 3 users, Business Pro from 5; Enterprise on request; free trial
Tresorit is a zero-knowledge, end-to-end encrypted workspace owned by Swiss Post, with offices in Switzerland, Germany and Hungary. Business starts at three users with 2 TB each and a 15 GB file limit; Business Pro needs five users and raises the limit to 20 GB. Admins can assign users to data centres. Prices are drawn client-side, so none are quoted here.
Switch from Egnyte if you want the vendor unable to read your files, and key custody matters more than workflow automation.
Germany · Free self-hosted server; Enterprise from €71.29 per user per year, 100-user minimum
Nextcloud runs on your own servers or at a hosting partner and is released under the AGPL. Enterprise subscriptions start at 100 users: Standard €71.29, Premium €104.99 and Ultimate €204.75 per user per year. Its local Assistant and Flow automation come only with Ultimate. You operate the platform, or pay a partner to, and nothing is hosted by the vendor by default.
Switch from Egnyte if you have admins or a partner to run servers and want the data on hardware you control.
Canada · Teams 1 TB at $6, 2 TB at $9, 10 TB at $15 per user per month annually; 3-user minimum
Sync lists Teams plans at 1 TB, 2 TB and 10 TB per user, at $6, $9 and $15 per user per month billed annually (a 25% first-year discount is shown), with at least three users. Zero-knowledge encryption and Canadian, US and EU/UK compliance with data residency are stated. Enterprise needs 100 users. It has no AI search, e-signature or classification layer.
Switch from Egnyte if a small team wants simple encrypted storage at a flat per-user price without governance modules.
India · Free 5 GB plan; Starter, Team and Business per user, 3-user minimum
Zoho WorkDrive sells Starter, Team and Business plans from three users, with team storage pooled: Starter gives 1 TB for up to 10 users plus 100 GB per extra user, capped at 20 TB, and a 10 GB upload limit. A free 5 GB plan exists for one person. Prices are shown in local currency and load client-side, so none are quoted. It sits next to Zoho's office apps.
Switch from Egnyte if your staff already use Zoho apps and want shared team folders inside that suite.
United States · Advanced $16.50, Premium $26, Enterprise $35 per user per month annually; 3-user minimum
ShareFile belongs to Progress and is built around client exchange. Advanced costs $16.50 per user per month billed annually, Premium $26 and Enterprise $35, each with at least three users; a virtual data room is $69.30 with five users minimum. Premium adds e-signature, forms, requests and a client portal. It does not offer co-editing breadth comparable to a full office suite.
Switch from Egnyte if the main job is receiving and sending documents with clients, with signatures and portals.
Germany · Free plan; paid plans by storage size; no team tier found on pages read
Filen is run from Germany by Filen Cloud Dienste UG (haftungsbeschränkt), a small company, and owns its servers in ISO 27001 certified colocation centres in Germany. Encryption is zero-knowledge AES-256-GCM and every app is published under AGPL v3. We found no business tier or admin console on the pages read, and its prices load client-side.
Switch from Egnyte if you want verifiable open-source encryption and German hosting for a handful of users.
Spain · Business plans per user; Drive, VPN and Send bundled; prices load client-side
Internxt, a Spanish company, offers Business plans with user and team management, flexible storage allocation and a shared workspace, stored on EU servers with open-source clients. Business plans bundle Drive, VPN and Send, and it lists Mail and Meet as coming. Plan prices render client-side, so none are given here. It lacks governance and workflow tools of Egnyte's kind.
Switch from Egnyte if you want EU-hosted encrypted storage with a bundled VPN and no compliance suite.
Norway · Business Small NOK 129, Medium NOK 179, Large NOK 459 per month, excluding VAT
Jottacloud stores business files in Norway on servers it owns and operates, and lists three business plans excluding VAT: Small at NOK 129 a month for 2 users, Medium at NOK 179 for 10 users and Large at NOK 459 for unlimited users. Each includes 1 TB, with more addable at checkout. It integrates Office Online but has no classification or workflow engine.
Switch from Egnyte if you want a flat price by team size, Norwegian storage and no per-seat arithmetic.
Switzerland · 30-day free trial; business plans per user; prices load client-side
pCloud Business offers a 30-day free trial and describes ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certification, an EU data centre, and a choice between storing files in Europe or the USA. The page lists teams, shared folders, activity logs, 180 days of file history, storage quotas per user and branded links. Prices render client-side and are not quoted here.
Switch from Egnyte if you want a trial-first team drive with activity logs and a choice of European or US storage.
Slovenia · Free 10 GB; from €0.50 a month for 10 GB; €10 for 1 TB; no per-user plan
Koofr, headquartered in Slovenia with data in EU data centres, prices by storage size rather than by user: 10 GB free, then €0.50 a month for 10 GB up to €35 for 5 TB. The pricing page shows no team or admin plan, so it suits a single account that shares links, and it connects to Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive.
Switch from Egnyte if you are a freelancer or very small team who needs shared links and one bill by storage size.
United States · Starter €6.80, Standard €13.60, Plus €21.10 per user per month, monthly billing
Google Drive comes with Workspace: Business Starter lists €6.80, Standard €13.60 and Plus €21.10 per user per month on monthly billing, with 16% off for an annual commitment. Storage is pooled at 30 GB, 2 TB and 5 TB per user, with a 14-day trial. DLP, context-aware access and enterprise data regions begin at Enterprise, quoted on request.
Switch from Egnyte if your staff live in Gmail and Docs and you accept Google's key model in exchange for co-editing.
Switzerland · Workspace Standard $12.99, Premium $19.99 per user per month yearly; 14-day trial
Proton Drive for business is sold inside Workspace: Standard is $12.99 per user per month billed yearly ($14.99 monthly) with 1 TB each, and Premium $19.99 with 3 TB. Mail, Meet, VPN and a password manager come with it, and Drive has a document and spreadsheet editor and a CLI. It has no classification or lifecycle controls.
Switch from Egnyte if you want encrypted storage as one part of a private mail and meeting bundle for a small company.
Egnyte remains the better choice for organisations replacing an on-site file server, where edge caching, desktop access to cloud files and lifecycle policies are in daily use. Its feature table lists compliant storage for HIPAA, FINRA, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001, data residency on Azure, AWS or GCP storage, and sector options for architecture, financial services and life sciences. Teams that already use the Elite tier for AI search, e-signature and watermarking would have to assemble those from several vendors elsewhere. The company lists offices in Mountain View, Raleigh, Draper, Poznan, Reading and Mumbai.
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What moving off Egnyte involves
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Map what each tier currently gives you
Open the feature table and tick the items your teams use: workflows, watermarking, classification, lifecycle policies, snapshots. Anything on Elite or Ultimate that nobody opened this year is scope you can drop. Anything actually in use needs a named replacement before the contract ends.
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Move permissions and external links in a pilot
Folder permissions, email-validated shares and external accounts do not carry over by export alone. Move one project folder, reissue its links and check that outside parties can still reach what they need. Keep Egnyte read-only for a quarter in case an old version turns up.
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Decide on keys and data location first
If you rely on a data region or on customer-managed keys, confirm the new vendor offers both before copying any data. Tresorit and Sync.com state residency options, and Nextcloud lets you choose the server itself.
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Questions about replacing Egnyte
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What is the best alternative to Egnyte as cloud storage software?
Tresorit comes first in our list for teams that want end-to-end encryption, from three users on Business.
Nextcloud follows for self-hosting, with Enterprise from €71.29 per user per year at 100 users, then Sync.com, whose Teams 1 TB plan lists $6 per user per month billed annually, and Zoho WorkDrive.
What does Egnyte cost compared with its rivals?
Egnyte lists $10 for Team (1 to 10 users), $22 Business, $39 Enterprise Lite and $48 Elite per user per month billed annually.
ShareFile starts at $16.50, Google Workspace Standard at €13.60 on monthly billing, and Jottacloud Business Small at NOK 129 a month for two users. Sync.com Teams starts at $6 for 1 TB.
Which Egnyte alternative lets us hold our own encryption keys?
Egnyte reserves customer-managed keys for Ultimate. Tresorit describes a zero-knowledge system in which the vendor cannot read files or keys, Sync and Filen both state zero-knowledge encryption, and Nextcloud on your own server leaves key handling with you.
Check each vendor's key documentation before relying on this.
Is there an Egnyte alternative for a very small team?
Egnyte's Team plan is $10 per user and covers 1 to 10 users.
Sync.com starts at three users, Zoho WorkDrive at three, Jottacloud Business Small covers two users for NOK 129 a month, and Proton Workspace Standard bills $12.99 per user with 1 TB each, including mail and meetings.
Which alternative suits client-facing document exchange?
ShareFile Premium adds a client portal, e-signature, forms and requests at $26 per user per month annually, with a three-user minimum. Tresorit also sells Engage data rooms, and Egnyte itself lists document portal options for financial services.
Can we self-host instead of using Egnyte?
Nextcloud is the option here: the server is free under AGPL and you run it, or pay for an Enterprise subscription from 100 users. Egnyte's pages describe a cloud service with a virtual caching appliance for edge access, not a self-hosted server.
Which alternative works for a company already on Google or Microsoft apps?
Google Drive through Workspace pools 2 TB per user on Standard at €13.60 monthly. Egnyte itself lists Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 co-editing on Business, so the shift is only worth it if the governance layer is not used.
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Checked 5 November 2026
Egnyte pricing: Business $22, Enterprise Lite $39, Elite $48 per user per month annually, Ultimate on quote, feature gates by tier, customer-managed keys on Ultimate only, data residency options.
Egnyte Team plan: Team plan for 1 to 10 users at $10 per user per month billed annually.
Egnyte news and offices: Offices in Mountain View, Raleigh, Draper, Poznan, Reading and Mumbai.
Egnyte home page: Secure file server in the cloud, AI included in every plan, Context Studio announcement.
Tresorit business pricing: Business from 3 users with 2 TB each and 15 GB files, Business Pro from 5 users with 20 GB, zero-knowledge, ISO 27001.
Tresorit about: Part of Swiss Post, offices in Switzerland, Germany and Hungary.
Nextcloud Enterprise pricing: Standard 71.29, Premium 104.99, Ultimate 204.75 euro per user per year from 100 users, AGPL, Assistant and Flow on Ultimate.
Sync.com pricing: Teams 1, 2, 10 TB at $6, $9, $15 per user per month annually with 25% first-year discount, 3-user minimum, Enterprise 100 users.
Sync.com security: End-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge, US, EU/UK and Canadian compliance with data residency, SOC 2 data centres.
Zoho WorkDrive pricing: Starter, Team, Business from 3 users, 1 TB for 10 users on Starter, 100 GB per extra user, 20 TB cap, free 5 GB plan.
ShareFile pricing: Advanced, Premium, Enterprise and virtual data room prices, 3-user minimum, client portal and e-signature on Premium.
ShareFile about: ShareFile is part of the Progress product portfolio.
Filen about: German headquarters and servers, owned hardware in ISO 27001 colocation, zero-knowledge AES-256-GCM, AGPL v3 apps, Filen Cloud Dienste UG.
Internxt pricing: Business plans with user and team management, EU servers, Drive, VPN and Send bundled, Mail and Meet coming.
Jottacloud business: Business Small NOK 129, Medium NOK 179, Large NOK 459 per month excluding VAT, 1 TB, Norway storage, Office Online.
pCloud Business: 30-day trial, EU data centre, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001, 180-day file history, teams, activity logs, branded links.
pCloud home: Choice between Europe and USA data location, Swiss privacy positioning.
Koofr pricing: Plans by storage size from 0.50 euro for 10 GB to 35 euro for 5 TB, free 10 GB, no per-user plan, external cloud connections.
Koofr about: Headquartered in Slovenia, data in EU data centres.
Google Workspace pricing: Starter 6.80, Standard 13.60, Plus 21.10 euro per user per month, pooled storage, 14-day trial, annual saves 16%, Enterprise data regions.
Proton Workspace plans: Standard $12.99 yearly and $14.99 monthly, Premium $19.99, 1 TB and 3 TB per user, 14-day trial, Drive editor and CLI.
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