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 Architecture Practice Partner
Partner in a 25-person architecture practice in Hamburg whose CAD and BIM models run to several gigabytes each, worked on from the office, from home and on the building site. Needs files on demand so laptops do not fill up, sync that sends only what changed, a drive letter the CAD software accepts, phones that open plans offline in a basement, and structural engineers who can pick up a folder without an account.
luckycloud Business
This judge's pick
STRATO HiDrive Business
Criterion by criterion
Sync, clients & file access
luckycloud Business
Desktop sync clients for Windows, Mac and Linux are documented, down to a headless install for servers, folders can be mounted as a network drive, and iOS and Android apps exist; selective sync is described only as skipping the default directory during setup. For our multi-gigabyte BIM models I found no public information on files on demand, delta or block-level sync, file size limits, offline folders or camera upload on the phones, previews or search.
STRATO HiDrive Business
The captured pages document sync software with bidirectional synchronisation, exclusion of individual folders from syncing, and mounting HiDrive as a drive or folder — the drive letter my CAD software needs — plus WebDAV and rsync as a bookable add-on and an S3-compatible object storage with fast transfer rates. We found no public information on files on demand, block-level sync for multi-gigabyte files, offline access on mobile devices, the platforms the desktop client covers, or stated file size limits for storage, so for a 25-person practice the picture stays incomplete.
Sharing & external collaboration
luckycloud Business
Team folders with read and write rights, download links and upload links for external people without an account, guest roles, and an admin view of every public link with its owner and call count are all documented, and the API additionally offers links with optional password protection. Collaborative editing is claimed but no editor or browser office suite is named, and I found no public information on link expiry, download limits, view-only links, notifications, comments or file locking; sharing to external users is documented as unencrypted only.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Team folders are included automatically from two accounts, access rights can be distributed to selected people, share links are generated automatically with password protection available, and Collabora-based HiDrive Office is included in all plans for browser editing. Link controls end at a fixed seven-day validity on the free send service with a 2 GB per-file limit and no whole-folder sending there, and we found no public information on download limits, view-only or no-download links, guest accounts, access logs, file locking or comments.
Encryption, key custody & recovery
luckycloud Business
Uploads run over TLS 1.2, the storage media are stated to be highly encrypted, and optional end-to-end encryption for individual folders is documented with the password not stored on the servers so that not even administrators can read the content; two-factor authentication and exclusive use of open-source software are also stated. For recovery I found no public information on version-history length, a recycle bin or a restore path — directories deleted by the administrator are explicitly unrestorable — and beyond 'recognized security standards' no independent audit or named certification with its scope appears.
STRATO HiDrive Business
AES-256 over SSL for HiDrive Business, optional end-to-end encryption, two-factor authentication, redundant storage, and an ISO 27001 information management system certified by TÜV Nord plus the Trusted Cloud seal are all documented. Who holds the keys and what happens when a user loses one is not described, and we found no public information on version history length, a recycle bin, restore of a folder or account to a point in time, single sign-on, or the scope of the certifications.
Administration, audit & governance
luckycloud Business
From the Business plan upward an admin panel is documented with user creation, password resets and bulk XLSX import, departments and sub-departments with per-area storage allocation, four predefined roles plus delegable area administration and multiple system administrators, and access logs covering logins, file accesses, file changes, permission changes and shared-link calls, with a rights overview exportable to Excel. I found no public information on provisioning through Entra ID, Google or LDAP with SCIM, retention policies and legal hold, remote wipe of devices, or forwarding the logs to a SIEM.
STRATO HiDrive Business
The evidence shows multiple users per account, team folders automatically included from two accounts, folder structures with access rights assigned to selected people, and a customer control panel where data processing can be viewed and changed. We found no public information on an admin console with roles and groups, provisioning via a directory or SCIM, quotas, an exportable audit log of logins and file actions, retention policies, legal hold or device management with remote wipe.
Export, API & self-hosting
luckycloud Business
A REST API is documented for uploading, downloading and editing files and folders, for user and group management, share links and access logs, and the vendor states it uses exclusively open-source software so anyone can view the code. I found no public information on a bulk export with folder structure and versions, migration tools from named providers, open protocols such as WebDAV, S3 or SFTP for migration, an app marketplace or a self-hosted edition; deletion is documented for unpaid accounts, which are fully deleted after 14 days, and on request when data is no longer needed for the contract.
STRATO HiDrive Business
A RESTful web API with OAuth 2.0, WebDAV and rsync add-ons and S3-compatible access give tool-independent ways in and out, and STRATO runs a managed migration in collaboration with audriga from named providers including Dropbox, Google Drive and MagentaCLOUD, included in the HiDrive packages with status tracking and completion notification. We found no public information on SDKs, webhooks, an app marketplace, a self-hosted or on-premise edition, or what happens to the data after cancellation.
European sovereignty
luckycloud Business
The legal notice shows luckycloud GmbH registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg in Berlin with a German VAT ID, the privacy policy states the services run exclusively on the company's own servers in Germany, the business page names ISO-certified data centres in Germany, and how to obtain a data processing agreement under EU-GDPR is documented alongside a transparency report on government requests. I found no public information naming the data centres or listing subprocessors such as email or payment providers with their locations, and no certification is published with its scope.
STRATO HiDrive Business
STRATO GmbH in Berlin is the contracting entity, controller and place of jurisdiction with a published Art. 28 data processing agreement, the servers sit exclusively in German data centres, and ISO 27001 certification plus the Trusted Cloud seal are stated, with the group rooted in IONOS SE and United Internet in Germany. The subprocessor picture is partial — marketing audiences are named with SHA-256 hashing before transmission, but the operational chain such as support, email and payment is not listed — and the privacy policy allows transfers outside the EU and EEA with safeguards.
Pricing transparency
luckycloud Business
Public pages give 'ab 4,50 €' per person and month for Business with unlimited storage and 'ab 2,50 € pro Nutzer' for Teams, the configurator prices storage at '0,33 € pro GB', and a 12-month term saves 30%; contract lengths of 1 to 24 months, a minimum of two users, the 14-day trial, excess traffic at '0,0396€ pro GB' and support tickets at '22,50 Euro' per 15 minutes are all stated. I found no public information on Enterprise and Enterprise Plus prices, on VAT treatment of the shown prices, or on which features beyond the plan boundaries cost extra.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Every HiDrive tier is published with storage and monthly price including VAT — Starter 500 GB at 3,50 €/Mon., Basic 1 TB at 0,50 €/Mon. für 12 Monate danach 5 €/Mon., Plus 2 TB at 10 €/Mon., Family 2 TB at 15 €/Mon. — each with 0 € setup, monthly billing, one month's notice after the initial term, and a cancellable free trial month. What a team of 25 would pay per user, and the price of the WebDAV/rsync and end-to-end encryption add-ons, are not stated on the captured pages, so the real annual cost is not computable from what is public.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
luckycloud Business
STRATO HiDrive Business
Legal entity
Not determined
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
Not determined
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Data processing agreement
Not determined
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Transfer impact assessment
Not determined
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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.