Best cloud storage for contractors

Egnyte Business

Egnyte sells a general content platform but pushes hard into architecture, engineering and construction, and it is the one general-purpose file service here with construction-specific add-ons: a Project Hub that sets up and closes out project folders, and a handler for very large BIM datasets, both wired into Procore and Autodesk. The draw for contractors is the desktop experience, where cloud files behave like a mapped drive and caching is tuned for the huge drawing files that make ordinary sync tools crawl. Smaller crews can start on the Team plan at $10 a user a month, capped at ten users, which drops the AEC extras. The catch is that Egnyte publishes no storage figure for any plan, so the pricing page never tells you how much space you are buying.

CompanyCam Core

CompanyCam is not a file store so much as a camera roll built for contracting: every photo is timestamped, tagged to the right job and filed automatically, so proof of work is organised before anyone gets back to the truck. Crews shoot without signal and the app uploads when they reconnect, which is the failure that sinks a generic cloud drive on a jobsite. It is priced per account rather than per seat, so a one-person shop pays the same base rate as a small crew and adds people from there. It carries documents and generates reports too, but it will not replace a general drive for contracts, estimates and CAD files.

Fieldwire by Hilti Pro

Fieldwire is jobsite management first: plan sheets, task lists, photos and files organised by project, with the sheet set as the thing everything else hangs off. Its free Basic plan is unusually generous for a small contractor, covering five users, three projects and a hundred sheets, which is enough to run a single job end to end before paying anything. Pro lifts the project and sheet caps and adds reports, exports and sheet comparison. Treat its storage as part of a field app rather than a home for the whole business: Fieldwire publishes no storage allowance, and contracts and accounting are not what it is for.

Bluebeam Basics

Bluebeam is the PDF markup standard on most commercial jobs, and the reason it turns up on a storage list is Studio, the cloud side that hosts drawing sets and lets a team mark them up together in real time. Storage is unlimited on every plan, so a seat doubles as a home for drawings even though nobody buys it for that. Basics is the cheapest tier and deliberately limited: you can join a Studio session someone else hosts but not run one, and the advanced measurement tools start on Core. It is sold per user per year rather than per month, so its price does not line up with the rest of this table.

Dropbox Standard

Dropbox is the default answer for small trades because everyone already knows how it works and the sync is still the steadiest in the category. Standard is its smallest team plan and, unlike most business tiers here, you can buy a single seat, which matters for an owner-operator. Team folders and a long window for recovering deleted files cover the ordinary office side of a contracting business: estimates, contracts, permits, job photos. Nothing about it is construction-specific, and very large drawing files will make the desktop client work harder than a tool built for them. The $15 figure is the yearly-billing rate; paying monthly costs more.

Google Workspace Business Standard

Google Workspace is the cheap, familiar route: business email on your own domain, Drive, and shared drives for job folders, all run from one admin console. Storage is pooled across the whole organisation rather than locked to each person, so one estimator with a heavy photo habit does not blow a personal cap. Drive's mobile app keeps chosen folders available offline, and share links work for subs and owners who will never sign up for anything. The trade-off is that it is a general office suite: nothing in it knows what a submittal or a sheet set is, and the listed rate assumes a one-year commitment.

Microsoft 365 Business Basic

This is the cheapest way to put OneDrive behind every person in the company, and business email and Teams come with it. Basic gives web and mobile Office only, so an estimator who needs desktop Excel pushes you to the next tier up. For a contractor already on Windows machines and Outlook it is the least disruptive option here, and SharePoint gives you job-folder structure without buying anything extra. Like Google Workspace it knows nothing about construction: it is the office layer, not the field one.

Box Business

Box is the most permissions-minded of the general options, which is what earns it a look when drawings and contracts go out to a long list of subs, owners and inspectors. Storage is unlimited on every business plan, so photo and scan volume is never the constraint. Two things to check before committing: the plan carries a three-seat minimum, so a solo contractor buys three, and the single-file upload ceiling on this tier is small enough that a large BIM model or a long drone video will not fit without moving up. Outside collaborators are charged one by one on Business and only become unlimited a tier above.

ShareFile Advanced

ShareFile is built around sending files to people outside the company, which is most of a contractor's day: owners, architects, inspectors, subs. Client users are unlimited and included on this plan, so every job's owner can get a branded portal without you buying them a seat. Storage is pooled at the account level rather than handed out per person, which suits a business where one project folder dwarfs everyone's personal files. It costs more per seat than the general drives, carries a three-user minimum, and its heavier workflow and e-signature features sit on the tier above.

Sync.com Teams 1TB

Sync is the cheapest per-seat option in this table and the only one that is zero-knowledge by default, meaning the company itself cannot read your files. For a contractor that matters more for bids and contracts than for jobsite photos, but the price is the real draw: it undercuts Dropbox and Box by a wide margin for the same basic job of syncing folders and sharing links. Data is held in Canada, which helps if your contracts carry privacy clauses. The trade-offs are a three-user minimum, a thinner integration story than the big names, and a starting storage tier that a photo-heavy crew will outgrow.

Zoho WorkDrive Team

Zoho WorkDrive is the value pick: team folders, granular permissions and a full office suite for a few dollars a seat, which makes it easy to justify for a company that mainly wants somewhere shared to put files. It takes larger single uploads than its price suggests, and it fits naturally if you already run Zoho for CRM or books. The catches are a three-user minimum and storage that is pooled per team with only a modest top-up for each person past ten. External client accounts are a paid add-on rather than something included, which is worth pricing before you commit.