Best Cloud Storage for Contractors
Egnyte Business is the one general file service here with construction add-ons: at $22 a user a month, cloud files behave like a mapped drive, caching is tuned for huge drawing files, and Project Hub ties job folders into Procore and Autodesk. For a small crew that mostly needs somewhere shared for estimates, contracts, permits and photos, Dropbox Standard at $15 a seat with 3 TB is the easier default, and you can buy a single seat.
The eleven fall into two camps. Eight are general business storage that trades also use, while CompanyCam, Fieldwire and Bluebeam are construction tools where photos and drawings end up, not homes for a whole company's files. Among the general drives the other divide is headcount: Box, ShareFile, Sync.com and Zoho WorkDrive all require at least three seats, which a one- or two-person shop pays for anyway.
Our picks
- Large drawing sets and Procore jobs: Egnyte Business. Files that act like a mapped drive, caching tuned for big drawings, and Project Hub wired into Procore and Autodesk, at $22 a seat.
- Owner-operator buying one seat: Dropbox Standard. Sold one seat at a time at $15 a month on yearly billing, with 3 TB and team folders for estimates, contracts and permits.
- Jobsite photos with no signal: CompanyCam Core. Photos are timestamped, filed to the right job and uploaded once the crew reconnects, with unlimited storage from $63 a month.
- Sending files to owners and inspectors: ShareFile Advanced. Unlimited client users come with the plan, so each job's owner gets a branded portal without a paid seat.
- Lowest standing price per seat: Zoho WorkDrive Team. US$4.50 a user a month billed annually, with 3 TB pooled across the team and a three-user minimum.
At a glance
| Option | Price per user | What it costs | Storage included | Type of product | In the vendor's words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $22source | $22 per user per month, paid annuallysource | Cloud storage and file sharingsource | Your secure file server in the cloudsource | ||
| $63source | $63 a month with one user included, extra users $29 each, billed annuallysource | Unlimitedsource | Jobsite photo appsource | For Solo & Small Teamssource | |
| $39source | $39 per user per month, billed annuallysource | Construction field appsource | For growing teams looking to scale with Fieldwire.source | ||
| $260 per user, billed annuallysource | Unlimitedsource | Drawing markup softwaresource | Construction software built for collaborationsource | ||
| $15source | $15 per user per month on yearly billingsource | 3 TBsource | Cloud storage and file sharingsource | For teams and professionalssource | |
| $14source | $14.00 per user per month, before taxsource | 2 TBsource | Cloud storage and file sharingsource | ||
| $7source | $7.00 per user per month, paid yearlysource | 1 TBsource | Cloud storage and file sharingsource | Lightweight web and mobile apps to kickstart your businesssource | |
| $15source | $15 per user per month on annual billing, minimum of 3 userssource | Unlimitedsource | Cloud storage and file sharingsource | Essentials for team collaboration, with Box AIsource | |
| $16.5source | $16.50 per user per month on annual billing, minimum of 3 userssource | 3 TBsource | Cloud storage and file sharingsource | Secure File Sharing for Teamssource | |
| $6source | $6 per user per month billed annually, currently discounted to $3source | 1 TBsource | Cloud storage and file sharingsource | For your small business or teamsource | |
| $4.5source | US$4.50 per user per month billed annually, minimum 3 userssource | 3 TBsource | Cloud storage and file sharingsource | An intelligent content management platform for your businesssource |
A file drive or a jobsite app
CompanyCam, Fieldwire and Bluebeam earn a place because that is where a contractor's photos and drawings live, but none of them is meant to replace a general drive. CompanyCam is a camera roll that files itself by job. Fieldwire hangs tasks, photos and files off the plan sheets, and its free Basic plan covers five users, three projects and 100 sheets, enough to run one job before paying the $39 Pro rate. Bluebeam Basics gives unlimited Studio storage for drawings at $260 per user per year, but on Basics you can join a Studio session, not host one.
The general drives have the opposite gap. Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace know nothing about submittals or sheet sets, and Dropbox's desktop client works harder on very large drawing files than a tool built for them. Egnyte is the one general service with construction add-ons.
Seat minimums and what a small crew pays
Among the general drives, per-seat prices run from $4.50 at Zoho WorkDrive to $22 at Egnyte, but the minimums change the math for a small shop. Box ($15), ShareFile ($16.50), Sync.com ($6) and Zoho all sell at least three seats. Dropbox Standard, by contrast, can be bought one seat at a time. CompanyCam charges by the account instead: $63 a month covers one user and each extra is $29.
Nearly every seat price here assumes a one-year commitment, and two sit beside a live promotion: Sync.com is discounted to $3 and Google shows an introductory rate, while the table uses the standing prices. A crew of ten or fewer that can do without Egnyte's construction extras can start on its Team plan at $10 a user.
Storage space and sharing with subs
Box, CompanyCam and Bluebeam include unlimited storage. Dropbox, ShareFile and Zoho give 3 TB, Google 2 TB pooled across the organization, and Microsoft 365 ($7, with business email and Teams) and Sync.com 1 TB. Egnyte and Fieldwire publish no storage figure for these plans at all.
Outside sharing is where the general drives differ most. ShareFile includes unlimited client users. Box is the most permissions-minded, but on Business it charges for outside collaborators one by one and caps single uploads below a large BIM model or a long drone video. Zoho sells external client accounts as an add-on. Google's share links work for subs who will never sign up for anything, and Sync.com is zero-knowledge by default with data held in Canada, useful when a contract carries privacy clauses.
The options in detail
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.
How we researched this
We read contractors as construction and trade businesses, whose files are jobsite photos, plan sheets and documents shared with subs and owners, and chose the plan tier that fits that work. Egnyte Business stands in rather than Team because the construction add-ons start there, and Microsoft 365 Business Basic because it is the cheapest way to OneDrive on every seat. Autodesk Docs, Procore, Buildertrend and Trimble Connect are missing because none publishes a price. Backblaze and IDrive are backup rather than sharing tools, and pCloud Business prices only in euros.
Offline access in the field would have been the most useful column, but vendors mostly state it in help centers, several of which would not load for us, so it is left to the write-ups. Four cells are empty: Egnyte's and Fieldwire's storage (never stated for a plan), Bluebeam's monthly seat price (it sells by the year, shown in What it costs), and Google's one-line description (its pricing page has none). Seat prices and minimums are as of September 2026, so confirm the billing term and seat minimum before you commit.