Microsoft OneDrive vs Office 365 comparison

Microsoft OneDrive and Office 365 are both solutions in the Content Collaboration Platforms category. Microsoft OneDrive is ranked #11, while Office 365 is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5. Microsoft OneDrive holds a 9.6% mindshare in CCP, compared to Office 365’s 6.9% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Microsoft OneDrive users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Office 365 users who would recommend it.

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91% willing to recommend

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

Microsoft OneDrive and Office 365 compete in the cloud and productivity solutions market. Office 365 has the upper hand in offering a comprehensive suite of productivity tools, making it preferable for organizations seeking full solutions.

Features: OneDrive provides secure file storage and sharing, seamless file synchronization, and options for selective folder synchronization. Office 365 offers a vast array of productivity tools, including Word, Excel, and Teams, alongside real-time collaboration and extensive integration with other Microsoft applications.

Room for Improvement: OneDrive could enhance integration capabilities with non-Microsoft applications, expand offline access features, and offer more advanced sharing settings. Office 365 could improve pricing transparency, streamline its suite navigation to reduce user overwhelm, and offer more granular administrative controls to ease management complexity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Office 365 provides an easier deployment model with centralized management, extensive online resources, and scalable integration for business needs. OneDrive focuses on simplicity in deployment for file handling, offering a straightforward approach to storage. Both have reliable customer support, but Office 365 offers more comprehensive service due to its breadth of tools.

Pricing and ROI: OneDrive offers a low initial setup cost, attractive for budget-conscious individuals seeking focused storage solutions. Office 365, requiring a higher investment, promises better ROI via its wide feature set that enhances productivity, providing superior value for businesses needing comprehensive tools. Specific pricing details vary by plan and number of users.

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft OneDrive

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

4.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Office 365

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

143

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Microsoft OneDrive is 9.6%, down from 12.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Office 365 is 6.9%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Victor Bayouwa

Owner at VBTECH-IT

I love the backup capabilities and the offline sync

We use OneDrive to share documents throughout the organization and collaborate. It is also used for backups. The backup capability is one feature I love about OneDrive. I also like how it syncs when you're working offline. Everything is updated once you connect again. It takes too long for…

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Gary Cook

Executive at Empowered Analytics

Access to advanced features boosts productivity despite pricing concerns in developing regions

I need to do maintenance for Office 365 very seldom, once a year. In the maintenance process for Office 365, we have about 12 people involved. For the maintenance side of Office 365, only one person is involved. Looking at Office 365's pricing, I would give it a 4 on a scale from 1 to 10. My overall rating for Office 365 is an 8 out of 10, but for the product itself, I would give it a 10. I would definitely recommend Office 365 to other businesses, probably a 9 out of 10 for recommendation. This is only because of its price and the fact that they do not take into account developing countries such as South Africa, where they should give us more favorable prices or local prices. We do not have a partnership with Microsoft, which is a sore point for us. We have reached out to Microsoft South Africa, and they are very hard to contact and largely uncooperative. We are a B-Level 2 and a B-Level 1, which are local affirmative action ratings that companies get. Level 1 is the highest, and Level 8 is the lowest. We hold amongst the highest BEE ratings, but we have not found Microsoft South Africa to be forthcoming or very open. We should have a partnership with them, and we run Power BI as we are a Power BI shop now. I strongly would want to see a box within Office 365 for our team to have ChatGPT through OpenAI as well. We use Excel as a data source for many tasks and find that it integrates really well with Python. We write a lot of Python code and use Excel as a data sheet many times, and we operate through SQL and other zero elements as well. From an Office 365 viewpoint, we find that with Copilot and Python and Excel's provision for Python, it is very useful.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Image management is great since the search is simple, and accessing images with labels is easy."

"The stability of Microsoft OneDrive is very good, it is reliable. There were multiple instances where I had lost my valuable data on hard drives in several other places. However, with Microsoft OneDrive, I've never lost a single file."

"The backup capability is one feature I love about OneDrive. I also like how it syncs when you're working offline. Everything is updated once you connect again."

"Ability to share documents."

"It's pretty easy to learn. Once someone taught me, I was able to navigate it quite easily."

"It was extremely easy to setup."

"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that Microsoft OneDrive works with any Enterprise Cloud Solutions Office app. You can edit a document on the cloud, share documents with your colleagues, and monitor changes. You can access your work almost anywhere. You can also sync Microsoft OneDrive with your workstation so that whatever you are working on gets automatically backed up to the cloud at regular intervals. So even if your system crashes, you still have a copy of your documents in the cloud, which I found very useful."

"It's quite easy to use and then of course it is quite well integrated to the rest of Office 365."

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"Most of the work that seems not to work offline works perfectly with Microsoft Office 2013, like converting a Word document to a PDF file."

"Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive."

"It's nice that it's an all-in-one solution and everything is all in one place."

"The functionality that is most valuable is the solution's ability to detect patient data in email attachments. Whenever a user sends out an email with patient data embedded in an attachment, it triggers an alert. The tool can detect a social security number and various other forms of patient identity. Emails are then automatically generated and sent."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration."

"The phone VoIP product provides genuine a unified communication solution."

"I like that it is cloud-based, wherefrom any computer I can access my documents and continue working."

"There are no more server and hardware operational costs and downtime, updates, etc. for all the workloads available. Newer features and updates are available immediately. Can be managed from a single web interface. Cloud-based, so same experience for all users, regardless of location."

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Cons

"Recent functionality changes have actually made the product more confusing to use."

"The initial setup is a bit clunky."

"It takes too long for OneDrive to synchronize various applications, especially when you are saving office data. It also requires too much bandwidth."

"The website could be improved. Sometimes I try to login and the website has issues, I can't retrieve my documents."

"Performance is an issue when sharing a large number of files in a single folder."

"The security is not as flexible as it is with Dropbox, which means that we can't share our OneDrive files."

"The file structure insight could be made more flexible like for creating more flexible folders."

"The initial setup is not easy."

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"Normally, they have a way to work with specific developments, and I think they shouldn't allow the partners to make some changes they have made. When I have a client with a lot of changes, we have a problem with that because there aren't rules to develop inside the ERP, so you can do anything."

"The one big problem with the solution is if you are presenting in Teams and someone puts their hand up, you don't get a notification. If you are running a meeting and just presenting you don't know that people have their hands up and want to ask a question."

"We have had some connectivity issues."

"A need that a company like ours has is that we want to be able to have data flow into one tool, for example, for all the management of tasks through the company and workflow of who is doing what and so on. There are no real solutions for this at the moment in Office 365. It would be nice if they could implement this in the next release, so we can have one solution from one company giving us the whole data and flow of data into the company."

"The security should be improved."

"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could use some customization, but this area for improvement is trivial."

"They should do more testing before product releases."

"It seems like every other week when we log into the administrative portals, it doesn't matter which one, it could be the active directory portal, it could be the exchange admin center or SharePoint admin center, it seems like Microsoft is consistently updating with new versions of the admin centers, which can be frustrating."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is free if you are using Office 365, and you get a terabyte of storage with your account."

"The licensing is expensive and on a yearly basis."

"We pay a lot for the Enterprise version, but it is a premium service."

"OneDrive comes with Microsoft 365 so it is just an added part of that package."

"This is a pricy solution, given that we are only using it at 50% capacity."

"Using this software, it has had an amazing impact moneywise on our business. It allows us to share documents without the need of extra hardware."

"Costwise, it is a great option. In most cases, it is a free space, which will be more than enough for most customers."

"The price of Microsoft OneDrive is reasonable and compatible with competitors."

"The pricing is high and has actually caused us to limit the number of licenses we purchase due to budgeting."

"I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly."

"I would rate the solution 3 out of 5 for the price. I think Microsoft presents a good solution concerning the price."

"We have a license to use this solution. We have an E3 license which covers many different solutions."

"The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."

"The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business."

"The price of Office 365 is very expensive."

"For the moment, we are paying on a monthly basis because we are still adapting the support and how we want to proceed. I think we will move to paying for the annual license."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Educational Organization

32%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

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Also Known As

MS OneDrive

Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1

Overview

Microsoft OneDrive for Business gives you online storage that works seamlessly with the tools you use every day to create, communicate, and collaborate from your PC/Mac or your iOS, Android, or Windows device.

Microsoft

Office 365 is more than just Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It provides powerful services like business-class email, online storage, and teamwork solutions that you can access from anywhere. Bring teams and resources together with solutions like Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business that make working together more productive and enjoyable regardless of where participants are located. Easily implement security and privacy controls to help protect business data and devices against malicious threats and help you meet your compliance obligations. Automatic updates ensure your employees will always have the latest features and security updates.

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