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 IT Lead
Runs IT with one colleague for a 180-person machine builder with three sites and a sales office in Poland. Is retiring the old file server and wants every account provisioned from Entra ID, team folders that stay with the company when someone leaves, an audit log they can hand to the auditor, a lost laptop wiped remotely, and a way back to the last clean state if ransomware ever encrypts a share.
luckycloud Business
This judge's pick
STRATO HiDrive Business
Criterion by criterion
Sync, clients & file access
luckycloud Business
The sync client is documented for Windows, macOS and Linux including a headless server install, with automatic change propagation, the option to skip the default folder, and mounting as a network drive, plus iOS and Android apps. We found no public information on files-on-demand virtual drives, block-level sync, full-text search, previews, camera upload or file size limits, so beyond solid client coverage the access detail stays thin.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Bidirectional sync with folder exclusion, mounting HiDrive as a drive or folder, WebDAV and rsync (bookable as an add-on), an S3-compatible object store, a free mobile app with document scanning, and a REST API are documented. We found no public information on which desktop platforms the sync client covers, files on demand, offline folders on mobile, block-level sync, search, or file size limits for the storage itself.
Sharing & external collaboration
luckycloud Business
Download, upload and combined links with optional password protection, per-folder read and write rights, group shares, guest roles and collaborative editing are all documented, and an admin can oversee every public link with its call count. Sharing with people outside the account works unencrypted only, and we found no public information on link expiry, download limits, watermarking, comments, file locking or an Outlook/Teams add-in.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Team folders from two accounts, per-folder access rights, password protection, browser editing via Collabora, and a transfer service with automatic download links (2 GB, seven-day validity) are on the pages. We found no public information on upload links for customers, guest accounts with their own rights, download limits, watermarking, per-share access reports, or an Outlook add-in that sends links instead of attachments.
Encryption, key custody & recovery
luckycloud Business
TLS 1.2 in transit, encrypted storage media, two-factor authentication and version history are documented, and the end-to-end option is real zero-knowledge: the folder password is never stored on their servers and not even their administrators can read encrypted folders. The encryption is optional per folder, and we found no public information on a recycle bin, restore of a folder to a point in time after ransomware, or a named independent audit — the certifications appear only as "recognized security standards" and ISO-certified data centres.
STRATO HiDrive Business
AES-256 over SSL, optional end-to-end encryption, two-factor authentication, and ISO 27001 with TÜV Nord named are documented. We found no public information on key custody, version history length, a recycle bin, or restoring a share to a point in time after ransomware — the ransomware protection evidence concerns the separate Acronis Cyber Protect product, and that gap decides it for me.
Administration, audit & governance
luckycloud Business
The Business admin panel covers users, areas with their own storage quotas, sub-areas, four predefined roles plus delegated area administration, bulk user import, and transfer of directory ownership when someone leaves — that answers my team-folders-stay-with-the-company requirement. The logging is genuinely usable for an auditor: logins, file accesses, file changes, permission changes and link call counts, with an Excel export of the rights overview. What stops me going higher is provisioning by spreadsheet import rather than Entra ID or SCIM, and we found no public information on remote wipe or device unlinking for a lost laptop.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Multi-user accounts, team folders included from two accounts, and freely assignable folder rights are documented — small-team level. We found no public information on Entra ID or SCIM provisioning, an exportable audit log, retention or legal hold, quotas, remote wipe of a lost laptop, or transferring an account when someone leaves, which is exactly what I need for 180 people.
Export, API & self-hosting
luckycloud Business
A documented REST API with published documentation covers file upload, download and editing, password-protected share links, users, groups and access logs, and the Enterprise plan runs on the customer's own domain. We found no public information on WebDAV, S3 or SFTP access, migration tools from OneDrive or an existing file server, named office-suite or Teams integrations, or a self-hosted edition — the software they run is open source, but a customer cannot run it themselves. Termination terms are stated for unpaid trial accounts, deleted fully after 14 days.
STRATO HiDrive Business
A REST API with OAuth 2.0, S3 compatibility, WebDAV and rsync, and a managed migration from Dropbox, Google Drive, MagentaCLOUD and other accounts — run with audriga and included in the packages — give us a clear way in. We found no public information on bulk export with versions, webhooks or SDKs, or deletion of data on termination.
European sovereignty
luckycloud Business
This is a German GmbH registered in Berlin, hosting exclusively on its own servers in Germany in ISO-certified data centres, processing under GDPR and BDSG with a documented route to a data processing agreement, and publishing a transparency report on government data requests together with the formal conditions it demands before disclosing anything. What keeps it from the top band: the data centres are not individually named, there is no subprocessor list, and the certifications are described only as "ISO-certified" and "recognized security standards" without scope.
STRATO HiDrive Business
STRATO GmbH in Berlin is the contracting entity and controller, servers sit exclusively in German data centres, a data processing agreement is published, and ISO 27001 plus the Trusted Cloud seal are stated. We found no public information naming the individual data centres, and the privacy policy shows hashed marketing data going to Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit and Google with transfers outside the EU/EEA under general safeguards — that caps it.
Pricing transparency
luckycloud Business
Prices are public and detailed: Business from 4,50 € per person, Teams from 2,50 € per user, storage billed per gigabyte ("3 GB (0,33 € pro GB)") or "unbegrenzt" on Business, terms of one to 24 months with a 30% saving at twelve, a minimum of two users, a free 14-day trial, excess traffic at 0,0396 € per GB and support tickets at 22,50 Euro per 15 minutes. For a complete annual cost the gaps matter: Enterprise and Enterprise Plus carry no public price, VAT treatment is not stated, and the captured pages give different figures for Business storage ("unbegrenzt" versus "0 GB (0,00 € pro GB) + 100 GB extra").
STRATO HiDrive Business
Every HiDrive plan is public with price, storage and a free first month — Starter 500 GB at 3,50 €/Mon., Basic 1 TB at 0,50 €/Mon. for 12 months then 5 €/Mon., Plus 2 TB at 10 €/Mon., Family 2 TB at 15 €/Mon. — prices include VAT, billing is monthly, and payment and cancellation terms are stated. But we found no public figure for the WebDAV/rsync add-on, and no public information on per-user business pricing for a company our size, extra storage, or what the optional end-to-end encryption costs, so I cannot compute our annual cost.
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.