As of 1 Nov 2026, the panel rates luckycloud Business 2.5/5 and STRATO HiDrive Business 2.5/5 in Cloud Storage & File Sharing. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick luckycloud Business and 0 pick STRATO HiDrive Business. luckycloud Business scores higher on 6 of 7 criteria (Administration, audit & governance, Pricing transparency, Encryption, key custody & recovery, plus 3 more). STRATO HiDrive Business scores higher on 1 of 7 criteria (Export, API & self-hosting). Provenance — luckycloud Business: EU-Made; STRATO HiDrive Business: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
Six judges scored both products under one rubric, and the leans split by criterion rather than settling on one product. luckycloud Business is ahead on administration and governance (6.0 vs 3.0, 6 judges leaning luckycloud), encryption and security (5.7 vs 4.5, 5 leans), pricing transparency (6.5 vs 5.2, 5 leans), sharing and collaboration (4.7 vs 4.0, 4 leans) and sync and access (4.3 vs 4.2, 1 lean with 5 ties). STRATO HiDrive Business is ahead on portability and integrations (5.5 vs 4.0, 5 judges leaning STRATO), where the verdict credits the audriga-run migration and the OAuth-secured REST API. Sovereignty is close at 6.7 vs 6.5 — 2 leans luckycloud, 1 STRATO, 3 ties. Weighted totals run higher for luckycloud for each of the six judges, 5.0 to 5.8 against 4.4 to 5.0, yet the criterion-level lean splits stand, and STRATO's flagged splits came back showing none significant.
Choose luckycloud Business if
You need department-level administration with an audit trail — administration and governance leans luckycloud 6 judges to 0 (means 6.0 vs 3.0), with a Business admin panel offering predefined roles, delegable department administration and detailed access logs.
You need zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption on sensitive folders — encryption and security leans luckycloud 5 to 0 (5.7 vs 4.5); the encryption is optional per folder and zero-knowledge, while the STRATO score split 4-5 over who holds the optional end-to-end keys.
You need to budget a whole team before signing — pricing transparency leans luckycloud 5 to 0 (6.5 vs 5.2); Business is priced from 4,50 € per person per month with a 30% saving at twelve months, and the STRATO verdict states a team's annual cost is not computable from its published prices.
Your team's daily work runs on internal sharing — sharing and collaboration leans luckycloud 4 to 0 with 2 ties (4.7 vs 4.0).
You weigh sovereignty documentation alongside the mean — sovereignty runs 6.7 vs 6.5 with 2 judges leaning luckycloud, 1 STRATO and 3 ties, and the verdict records a published transparency report and a documented route to a GDPR data processing agreement.
Choose STRATO HiDrive Business if
You are moving files off another provider — portability and integrations leans STRATO 5 judges to 0 (means 5.5 vs 4.0), and the verdict credits the included audriga-run migration, while for luckycloud we found no public information on migration tools from named providers.
Your in-house tooling must reach the storage over an API — the same criterion credits STRATO's OAuth-secured REST API, with the lean at 5 to 0 in STRATO's favor.
You need German hosting with a published data processing agreement — sovereignty is STRATO's highest criterion at 6-7; the verdict states STRATO GmbH of Berlin is the contracting entity, that captured pages state servers sit exclusively in German data centres, that an Article 28 data processing agreement is published, and that ISO 27001 confirmed by TÜV Nord and the Trusted Cloud seal are stated.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Agency Producer
Producer at a 30-person video and design agency in Cologne that sends cuts, layouts and raw footage to customers every day and collects their feedback. Wants review links that play in the browser, comments on the file, transfers of 100 GB that do not stall, freelancers added for one project and removed after it, connections to Slack and the project tool, and a storage bill that does not jump when one shoot fills a terabyte.
luckycloud Business
This judge's pick
STRATO HiDrive Business
Criterion by criterion
Sync, clients & file access
luckycloud Business
Windows, Mac and Linux clients synchronise changes automatically, the cloud can be mounted as a network drive, and apps exist for iOS and Android — a decent base for our edit suites. But with traffic included at 120% of booked storage and excess billed at 0,0396 € per GB, a month of heavy footage sends gets metered, and we found no public information on files on demand, delta sync, offline mobile folders, browser previews or file size limits.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Sync software with bidirectional sync, folder exclusion and mounting HiDrive as a drive or folder is documented, plus free mobile apps for iOS and Android with document scanning and text recognition; WebDAV and rsync exist but only as a bookable add-on, and S3 compatibility belongs to the separate object storage. We found no public information on which desktop platforms the sync client covers, offline access, camera upload, previews, search or large-file performance — for a shop pushing 100 GB of raw footage that silence matters.
Sharing & external collaboration
luckycloud Business
Download, upload and combined links let us deliver cuts and collect files back — the vendor explicitly names freelancers and customers as the use case — and guest roles with read/write permissions plus an admin view of every public link with its call count are documented. We found no public information on link expiry, download limits, comments or file locking, and the documentation states external sharing is possible unencrypted only, which bites when NDA material goes to a client.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Team folders are included from two accounts with flexible access rights, HiDrive Share creates download links valid for seven days with password protection available, and Collabora-based office editing runs in the browser. The transfer service itself states a 2 GB file cap and, per its own note, sends selected files but not whole folders; we found no public information on upload links for customers, comments on files, watermarking or guest accounts — the daily review workflow with clients is not what these pages describe.
Encryption, key custody & recovery
luckycloud Business
Optional per-folder end-to-end encryption runs on a zero-knowledge principle — the password is never stored on luckycloud's servers and even administrators cannot read it — alongside encrypted storage media, TLS 1.2 and activatable two-factor authentication. We found no public information on version history length, a recycle bin, restore after ransomware, single sign-on, or any named audit or certification; the pages cite only "recognized security standards" and ISO-certified data centres without naming them.
STRATO HiDrive Business
AES-256 over SSL and optional end-to-end encryption are stated, two-factor authentication is included, and ISO 27001 certification, TÜV Nord and the Trusted Cloud seal appear on the trust pages. We found no public information on key custody, version history length, a recycle bin or ransomware recovery for HiDrive itself, so the level is solid middle ground.
Administration, audit & governance
luckycloud Business
Business plans unlock an admin panel with four predefined roles plus guests, nested departments with their own storage quotas, delegated department administrators, XLSX user import, password resets, directory ownership transfer when someone leaves, and access logs covering logins, file accesses, file changes, permission changes and shared-link calls — exportable as an Excel rights overview and retrievable through the API. We found no public information on provisioning via a directory or SCIM, retention policies, legal hold, remote wipe or a SIEM connection.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Multiple users with flexible access rights and team folders included from two accesses give a basic team setup where I can hand folder rights to selected people. We found no public information on an admin console with roles and quotas, an audit log, retention policies or device management — nothing here for adding freelancers per project or seeing who downloaded what.
Export, API & self-hosting
luckycloud Business
A documented REST API handles files, password-protected share links, version history, users and access logs — enough for us to build our own bridges to Slack and our project tool. Beyond that we found no public information on named integrations, migration tools from Dropbox, Drive or OneDrive, open protocols like WebDAV, SFTP or S3, or a self-hosted edition; Enterprise is described as a dedicated hosting service on the customer's own domain run by luckycloud, and an unpaid account is fully deleted after 14 days.
STRATO HiDrive Business
A RESTful API with OAuth 2.0, WebDAV and rsync as add-ons, S3-compatible object storage, and a managed migration from Dropbox, Google Drive, MagentaCLOUD and IONOS HiDrive that STRATO runs via audriga and includes in the packages — that migration service genuinely helps a move. We found no public information on SDKs, webhooks, an app marketplace or a self-hosted edition, and the named connections around the storage are NAS devices, FreeFileSync and IFTTT rather than Slack or project tools.
European sovereignty
luckycloud Business
luckycloud GmbH is registered in Berlin at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg with a German VAT ID, hosts exclusively on its own servers in ISO-certified data centres in Germany, documents a GDPR data processing agreement, and publishes a transparency report on government data requests — a genuinely European chain on the storage side. We found no public information naming the data centres, listing subprocessors, or naming the audited security standards.
STRATO HiDrive Business
The provider is STRATO GmbH of Berlin, the captured pages state storage exclusively in German data centres, a data-processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is published, and ISO 27001 plus the Trusted Cloud seal are stated. The privacy notice, however, names marketing audiences shared after SHA-256 hashing with Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit and Google, and states that transfers outside the EU and EEA can occur — the file chain reads as German, while parts of the account chain reach further.
Pricing transparency
luckycloud Business
Per-user prices are public — Teams from 2,50 € per user, Business from 4,50 € per person with unlimited storage and 30% off a twelve-month term — along with contract lengths from one to 24 months, prorated upgrades, traffic overage at 0,0396 € per GB and support tickets at 22,50 € per 15 minutes. But we found no public price for Enterprise and Enterprise Plus, no statement on VAT treatment, and the captured pages give different figures for extra storage, so a full annual bill is not computable from public pages alone.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Every plan is public with its storage and monthly price — 500 GB for 3,50 € per month, 1 TB at 0,50 € per month for 12 months then 5 €, 2 TB at 10 € — with setup at 0 €, prices including VAT, monthly billing and one-month notice. Pricing is per plan rather than per user, and we found no public information on what additional users cost or on prices for the end-to-end encryption and WebDAV add-ons, so the annual bill for a 30-person shop is not computable from these pages.
Sovereignty, side by side
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Legal entity
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
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Data processing agreement
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Transfer impact assessment
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
Questions about luckycloud Business and STRATO HiDrive Business
Which is better, luckycloud Business or STRATO HiDrive Business?
As of 1 Nov 2026, the panel rates both 2.5/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick luckycloud Business and 0 pick STRATO HiDrive Business. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is luckycloud Business or STRATO HiDrive Business European?
luckycloud Business is European (EU-Made). STRATO HiDrive Business is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do luckycloud Business and STRATO HiDrive Business store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — luckycloud Business: Default not stated; pages mention Germany. STRATO HiDrive Business: its pages as captured do not say.
Do luckycloud Business and STRATO HiDrive Business have a free plan?
As of 1 Nov 2026, STRATO HiDrive Business’s own pages state a free plan; luckycloud Business’s pages as captured do not. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.