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 Data Protection Officer
External data protection officer for a hospital group, two care providers and a payroll bureau, where the files are patient letters and salary statements. Reads who holds the keys before the feature page, asks whether end-to-end encryption survives a share link and the office editor, and wants the subprocessor list, the storage location and the contracting entity in writing before a single folder moves.
luckycloud Business
This judge's pick
STRATO HiDrive Business
Criterion by criterion
Sync, clients & file access
luckycloud Business
Desktop sync clients for Windows, macOS and Linux are documented with automatic propagation of changes to all devices, selective skipping of the default directory, a headless command-line client for servers, and the option to mount folders as a network drive, with mobile apps for iOS and Android named. We found no public information on files on demand, block-level sync, offline mobile folders, camera upload, previews, file-size limits or search, so we cannot place file access above the middle of the scale.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Bidirectional sync with the ability to exclude individual folders from synchronisation, mounting HiDrive as a drive or folder, a free mobile app that scans documents to PDF with text recognition, and S3-compatible object storage access are all documented. WebDAV and rsync exist but only as a chargeable add-on, and we found no public information on named desktop clients per platform, files on demand, previews, search, or offline folder behaviour.
Sharing & external collaboration
luckycloud Business
Shares for users and groups, download links, upload links and a combined share-and-upload option for external people are documented, with read and write rights assignable, optional password protection on shareable links mentioned in the API documentation, isolation of external recipients to the shared data only, and an administrator view of every public link with owner, creation date and call counts. Link expiry, download limits, watermarking and guest accounts with their own rights are not described, and the captured pages state that for external users it is only possible to share data unencrypted — encrypted sharing requires provisioning the recipient as a user — which is decisive when the folder holds patient letters and salary statements.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Team folders are automatically included from two accounts upwards, access rights can be distributed to selected people, password protection is offered, and HiDrive Office by Collabora provides browser editing of documents in every plan. We found no public information on upload links, view-only or no-download modes, guest accounts, access logs, file locking or comments for HiDrive itself; the free transfer service generates links valid seven days and deletes files automatically after seven days.
Encryption, key custody & recovery
luckycloud Business
End-to-end encryption on a zero-knowledge basis is documented for individual folders, with the encryption password not stored on the vendor's servers so that not even its administrators can read encrypted folders, alongside TLS 1.2 upload, encrypted storage media, optional two-factor authentication and version history reachable through the API. We found no public information on key recovery, a published cryptography description, single sign-on, ransomware detection or recovery, or a named independent audit, the certifications appear only as unnamed references to ISO-certified data centres, and the pages state that directories deleted by an administrator cannot be restored.
STRATO HiDrive Business
AES-256 over SSL and optional end-to-end encryption are stated, two-factor authentication exists, and ISO 27001 certification through TÜV Nord plus the Trusted Cloud seal are published. We found no public information on who holds the end-to-end keys, what happens on key loss, whether encryption survives share links or the Collabora editor, version history length, a recycle bin, or restore to a point in time; the anti-malware wording with ransomware protection belongs to a separate Acronis-based product rather than the storage itself.
Administration, audit & governance
luckycloud Business
For Business and Enterprise an admin panel is documented with user creation, password resets and deletion, bulk import via spreadsheet, departments and sub-areas with their own storage allocation, four predefined roles with eleven listed permissions, custom roles on Enterprise, delegable area administration, transfer of directory ownership, and access logs covering logins, file accesses, changes and link calls with an Excel export of the rights overview. We found no public information on directory or SCIM provisioning, retention policies and legal hold, remote wipe, IP or device restrictions, data classification or SIEM streaming, which keeps governance below what a regulated organisation signs off.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Several users with flexible access rights, team folders included from two accounts, and the ability to define folder structures and hand out access rights to selected people are documented. We found no public information on an admin console with roles, provisioning through a directory or SCIM, quotas, an audit log of logins, shares and file actions, retention policies or legal hold, or remote wipe and unlinking of devices.
Export, API & self-hosting
luckycloud Business
A documented REST API offers upload, download and editing of files and folders, user and group management with roles, monitoring and shareable links, with separate endpoints per plan and the Enterprise plan on the customer's own domain, and the vendor states it uses exclusively open-source software so the code can be inspected. We found no public information on bulk export of all data with the folder structure, open protocols such as WebDAV or S3, SDKs or webhooks, migration tools from named providers, or a self-hosted edition, while deletion on request or when data is no longer needed for contract purposes is stated in the privacy policy and unpaid trial accounts are deleted after fourteen days.
STRATO HiDrive Business
A REST API with OAuth 2.0, S3 compatibility, and a managed migration into HiDrive from Dropbox, Google Drive, Telekom MagentaCloud, IONOS HiDrive and OneDrive — run by STRATO with audriga and included in the packages — are documented. We found no public information on bulk export of all files with folder structure and versions, SDKs, webhooks, an app marketplace, a self-hosted edition, or deletion of data on termination.
European sovereignty
luckycloud Business
The contracting entity is luckycloud GmbH of Berlin with registry court, register number and VAT identification published, the services are hosted exclusively on the vendor's own servers in Germany in ISO-certified data centres, German law and Berlin venue apply, documentation on obtaining a data processing agreement under EU-DSGPR and BDSG exists, and a transparency report on government data requests with the disclosure conditions under German law is published. We found no public information naming the data centres, listing subprocessors with their locations, or stating the security certifications with a named standard and scope, which keeps this just below the fully evidenced level.
STRATO HiDrive Business
The contracting entity is STRATO GmbH in Berlin with commercial register, jurisdiction and data protection officer contact in writing, the vendor's captured pages state that servers sit exclusively in German data centres, an Article 28 data processing agreement is published at a public link, and ISO 27001 through TÜV Nord and the Trusted Cloud seal are stated. We found no public information on a subprocessor list with locations for the storage, support, payment or office-editing chain; the privacy notice itself names Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit and Google as recipients of hashed marketing data, permits transfers outside the EU and EEA under general safeguards, and lists artificial-intelligence training as a processing purpose.
Pricing transparency
luckycloud Business
Business is published from 4,50 € per person per month for teams of two to 1000+ with unlimited storage, Teams from 2,50 € per user with storage at 0,33 € per GB, terms from one to twenty-four months with a default of twelve and automatic renewal, a 30% saving at twelve months, traffic of 120% of booked storage included with overage at 0,0396 € per GB, a fourteen-day free trial, paid accounts only, and support tickets priced at 22,50 € per fifteen minutes. We found no public price for the dedicated Enterprise hosting tier and no statement of VAT treatment for the published prices, so a Business deployment is computable from public pages but the top tier is not.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Plan prices are public with storage included — 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. — with prices including VAT, zero setup fee, monthly billing, a one-month free trial cancellable at any time and a one-month notice period after the initial term. We found no public information on how cost scales with users for a team, extra storage prices for HiDrive, or the cost of the optional end-to-end encryption and the WebDAV/rsync add-ons, so an annual cost for a given team size is not computable from the captured pages.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
luckycloud Business
STRATO HiDrive Business
Legal entity
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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.