Overview
Egnyte is a content collaboration and governance platform with a long-standing hybrid heritage — its early product allowed organisations to keep large files on local storage while exposing them through a cloud control plane. Today the platform is primarily SaaS, with continuing hybrid support via Egnyte Storage Sync for offices and field sites that need local performance. The company is profitable, privately held, and growing in vertical depth rather than general-purpose collaboration.
Egnyte differentiates from Box and SharePoint in three places: large-file performance for AEC (BIM models, CAD, point clouds) and life sciences (clinical and lab data); built-in content governance and DLP across the customer's full content estate, including SharePoint and Google Drive; and a strong vertical strategy with packaged solutions for construction, life sciences, and financial services. Egnyte's Copilot generative AI is grounded in customer content with permissions enforcement.
Key Features
- Cloud-native content collaboration with hybrid Storage Sync for AEC and field sites
- Egnyte Copilot generative AI for Q&A, summarisation, and content search
- Built-in DLP, classification, and ransomware detection (Egnyte Secure & Govern)
- Discovery across third-party repositories (SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, S3)
- Content lifecycle, retention, and legal hold
- Industry packages for AEC (Egnyte for Construction), Life Sciences, Financial Services
- Microsoft 365 integration with co-authoring and Outlook
- BIM 360 / ACC, Procore, Bluebeam, and Newforma integration for construction workflows
- Veeva Vault and Benchling integration for life sciences workflows
- Mobile applications for iOS and Android with offline access
- SAML SSO with Okta, Entra ID, Ping, OneLogin
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP Moderate (Egnyte for Government)
Pricing
| Plan | Model | Typical Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Business | Per user/month, annual (10–100 users, 1 TB pooled) | $22/user/month |
| Enterprise Lite | Per user/month, annual | $38/user/month |
| Enterprise | Per user/month, annual | $55/user/month |
| Enterprise Plus / Ultimate | Quote-based, annual | $60–$66/user/month (negotiable) |
Pricing verified from egnyte.com May 2026. Enterprise Lite and above require sales engagement. Storage beyond included allocations adds material cost — typically 20–40% of contract value for content-heavy workloads.
Strengths
- Genuine hybrid heritage — large-file performance on local storage with cloud governance
- AEC vertical depth: BIM 360 / ACC, Procore, Bluebeam integrations are first-class
- Built-in DLP and classification across the wider content estate, not just Egnyte storage
- Egnyte Copilot AI is grounded in customer content with permissions enforcement
- Profitable, privately held vendor with stable pricing and roadmap
Limitations
- Outside AEC and life sciences, the product is less differentiated against Box and SharePoint
- Storage overages can be costly; capacity planning matters more than with pure-SaaS competitors
- Records management is solid but less mature than OpenText, Hyland, or iManage for the most demanding scenarios
- External user collaboration UX trails Box for client-facing scenarios
- Smaller global partner ecosystem compared with Microsoft, Box, or OpenText