European-only alternative to Box.

Box is file storage for companies, with a great deal of workflow built around it, from Box, Inc. in Redwood City, California. Binadit Drive is the file part, done from the Netherlands: folders on your computer, team folders, sharing links and versions, with documents that open in the browser and a safe way to receive files from outside.

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Provider
Box
Headquarters
Redwood City, CA
Jurisdiction
United States
Legal regime
CLOUD Act, FISA 702

"EU region" is not sovereignty. Four questions decide it.

Data residency tells you where the bits sit. Sovereignty tells you which legal system can compel access. The answer must hold on all four - or the stack is not sovereign.

Residency

Where is the data physically stored?

Not "in the cloud" - which datacenter, in which country, under which jurisdiction.

Subprocessors

Who else is in your data path?

Every vendor that touches the data: the CDN, the email relay, the error tracker, the analytics pipe.

Jurisdiction

Whose laws can compel disclosure?

A US-headquartered provider falls under FISA 702 and the CLOUD Act - even when the bits sit in Frankfurt.

Key custody

Who actually holds the encryption keys?

If the cloud provider holds both the data and the keys, the data is readable by them - regardless of any DPA.

Fails AWS · Azure · GCP · EU region

Fails on jurisdiction and key custody.

EU bits, US-headquartered parent, US subprocessors in the default path, provider-managed keys.

Passes Binadit managed stack

Passes on all four.

EU-hosted on EU-headquartered infrastructure. Zero US subprocessors in the default path. Customer-held or EU-KMS keys. Listed by name in your Article 28 DPA.

Why teams are exiting Box

Box holds exactly the files a regulator would ask about: contracts, personnel files, customer data. Box is a service of Box, Inc., a US company, so using it is a transfer of personal data to the United States. That is lawful today on the strength of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or of standard contractual clauses, and both lean on the same question: whether US law protects the data of Europeans well enough. The Court of Justice of the EU has answered no twice, and an appeal against the current framework is pending there. Separately, the US CLOUD Act obliges a US provider to produce data under its control wherever it is stored, so a European data region does not settle it. With Binadit Workspace there is no transfer to a third country, so there is nothing to monitor.

Box, and what replaces it in Binadit Workspace

Binadit Drive is the files part of Binadit Workspace, built by Binadit itself. Your folders appear on your computer as if they were local, and the files live on a server in the Netherlands.

Folders on your computer

What we run instead
Binadit Drive for macOS and Windows, with files on demand so your disk does not fill up.
Engineering note
A file is fetched the moment you open it.

Team folders

What we run instead
Team folders with permissions per colleague and their own quota.
Engineering note
Who may see what is set up with you. A move is also the moment to clean that up.

Shared links

What we run instead
A link to a file or a folder that expires when you choose, 30 days at most.
Engineering note
For colleagues and for people outside your company.

File requests

What we run instead
Binadit Receive: a page on your own address where outsiders hand you files without an account, encrypted in their browser.
Engineering note
Included with Drive.

Version history

What we run instead
Every change is a version you can restore, and deleted files wait in the trash.
Engineering note
A mistake can be undone.

Editing documents in the browser

What we run instead
Binadit Office: documents, spreadsheets and presentations in the browser, edited together, on files that stay on Drive.
Engineering note
Word, Excel and PowerPoint files open and save in their own formats.

Search

What we run instead
Search that looks inside PDF, Word and Excel files.
Engineering note
It runs on the server, so it is just as fast from a small laptop.

Box Sign, Box AI and workflow automation

What we run instead
Not replaced.
Engineering note
Binadit Drive is file storage, sharing and editing. If you depend on signing or on automated workflows, tell us before you decide.

How we migrate off Box

We move your files out of Box and keep both sides running until you are ready to switch.

  1. Before the move

    We map what you have

    How much there is, how it is organised, which folders are shared and with whom. You get a fixed migration price and a date.

  2. Side by side

    Files are copied while everybody keeps working

    We copy the files to Binadit Drive with their folder structure. Box stays in use, so nobody is blocked and nothing is lost if we need another pass.

  3. Switch day

    People start working from Binadit Drive

    A final sync picks up what changed, the Drive app is installed, and the old accounts can be closed once you have checked that everything is there.

Binadit Workspace is quoted per company, because the number of mailboxes, the storage and a possible server of your own differ each time. Ask for a demo and you get a quote with it.

Frequently asked questions

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Is Box GDPR-compliant?
It can be used lawfully today. Box is run by a US company, so using it is a transfer of personal data to the United States, which rests on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or on standard contractual clauses. That is as durable as those instruments: the Court of Justice of the EU struck down both earlier frameworks, and an appeal against the current one is pending there. Where the data is stored does not change which law the provider answers to.
Can people outside our company still open what we share?
Yes. You share a file or a folder with a link, the same way you do now.
Is Binadit Workspace only this one product?
No. One login covers mail, calendar and contacts, Drive for your files, Receive for getting files from outsiders safely, Office for documents in the browser, Meet for video meetings and Book for appointments. Everything runs on servers in the Netherlands that Binadit operates itself.
What does Binadit Workspace cost?
Binadit Workspace is quoted per company, because the number of mailboxes, the storage and a possible server of your own differ each time. Ask for a demo and you get a quote with it.
Is Binadit ISO 27001 or NEN 7510 certified?
The data centre we host in is ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 certified. Binadit itself, as a company, does not hold these certifications. If your own certification requires a certified supplier rather than a certified data centre, tell us before you decide, so you can check that with your auditor first.

Binadit Workspace is more than this one piece

Mail, calendar, files, documents, meetings and scheduling work together and share one login. These are the other pieces.

Plan your exit from Box.

30-minute scoping call. We map your stack against EU-only alternatives, estimate the migration effort, and tell you whether it is the right call.

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