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 Tax Adviser
Runs a tax practice with eleven staff and 400 clients, bound by professional secrecy under §203 StGB. Receives receipts, payslips and annual accounts from clients who will not install anything, and sends back drafts that must not end up in a forwarded email. Needs upload links, shares with expiry and passwords, a record of who downloaded what, and a provider that cannot read the files it stores.
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, a headless command-line install for servers, the ability to skip or relocate directories during setup, iOS and Android apps, and mounting as a network drive. We found no public information on files on demand, block-level sync, previews, full-text search, camera upload, file size limits, or access via WebDAV, SFTP or S3.
STRATO HiDrive Business
A sync program with bidirectional synchronisation, the ability to exclude individual folders, and HiDrive mountable as a drive or folder are documented, plus a free mobile app whose document scan with text recognition would suit my receipt intake. Access over WebDAV and rsync exists only as a paid add-on. I found no public information on desktop clients named per platform, files on demand, offline files, previews or search.
Sharing & external collaboration
luckycloud Business
Upload links, download links, a combined share-and-upload option, read and write permissions, sharing with users and groups, collaborative editing, and an administrator view of every public link with owner, creation date and call count are all documented, and password-protected links appear in the API description. But we found no public information on link expiry, download limits or a view-only mode for outsiders, and the documentation states that sharing with external users is possible unencrypted only — a real caution for client tax data under professional secrecy.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Team folders come automatically from two accounts, rights can be distributed per folder, links sit behind password protection, and Collabora office editing is included in every plan; HiDrive Share generates download links valid seven days with no registration for the recipient, though whole folders cannot go that way and files are capped at 2 GB. What my practice actually needs is the reverse direction — clients sending me paidlips without installing anything — and I found no public information on upload links, configurable expiry, download limits, view-only mode, or a record of who downloaded what.
Encryption, key custody & recovery
luckycloud Business
Transit encryption via TLS 1.2, encrypted storage media, optional end-to-end encryption for individual folders under a zero-knowledge principle — the end-to-end password is stated not to be held on the servers, and administrators cannot read encrypted folders — plus two-factor authentication are documented. We found no public information on a recycle bin, restore of deleted files, key recovery when a password is lost, ransomware detection, or any named audit or certification with its scope beyond ISO-certified data centres; the help pages themselves note that administrator-deleted directories cannot be restored.
STRATO HiDrive Business
AES-256 over SSL, an optional end-to-end encryption, two-factor authentication, ISO 27001 confirmed by TÜV Nord and a vulnerability reporting channel are stated. The decisive point under §203 StGB: the end-to-end option is a single line with nothing on who holds the keys, what happens when a key is lost, or whether the protection survives sharing. I found no public information on version history length, a recycle bin, restore to a point in time after ransomware, or single sign-on for HiDrive itself.
Administration, audit & governance
luckycloud Business
For Business and Enterprise the admin panel is documented with user creation, password resets and deletion, areas and sub-areas with their own storage allocation, four predefined roles with a granular permission list, delegated administration per area, bulk import from an XLSX file, ownership transfer of directories, and access logs covering logins, file accesses, file changes, permission changes and shared-link calls, with the rights overview exportable to Excel and logs retrievable through the API. We found no public information on directory or SCIM provisioning, retention policies, legal hold, or remote wiping of lost devices.
STRATO HiDrive Business
Multiple users, flexible access rights and company team folders from two accounts are documented, and the privacy policy states log files are kept a few days up to 60-90 days — that is a server log, not an exportable audit trail. For an office with eleven staff I found no public information on an admin console with roles and quotas, retention policies, device management with remote wipe, or provisioning from a directory.
Export, API & self-hosting
luckycloud Business
A REST API is documented with upload, download and editing of files and folders, share links, version history, user and group management and log retrieval, with per-plan endpoints, and the sync client can bring whole directories to a local machine; deletion of unpaid accounts after 14 days and general deletion on request are stated. We found no public information on open protocols such as WebDAV, S3 or SFTP for migration, SDKs, webhooks, an app marketplace, or a self-hosted edition the customer runs itself — the Enterprise tier is described as a dedicated hosting service.
STRATO HiDrive Business
A REST API with OAuth 2.0 is documented, and the migration service run with audriga from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, MagentaCLOUD or IONOS HiDrive is included in the packages with a status page and completion notice — a genuinely usable way to bring four hundred client folders across. WebDAV and rsync are bookable add-ons and the object storage is S3-compatible, so the way in is broad. I found no public information on webhooks, SDKs, bulk export with folder structure and versions, or a self-hosted edition, so the way out rests on the same protocols.
European sovereignty
luckycloud Business
luckycloud GmbH is registered in Berlin at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg with a German VAT number, contracts under German law with exclusive venue in Berlin, and states that its services run exclusively on its own servers in Germany in ISO-certified data centres, with a data processing agreement per EU-GDPR, processing per GDPR and BDSG, and a published transparency report on law-enforcement requests together with the disclosure conditions it requires. The captured pages do not name the individual data centres and publish no subprocessor list with locations, which is what keeps this one step short of fully evidenced sovereignty.
STRATO HiDrive Business
STRATO GmbH is a German company in Berlin with a published data processing agreement, states on several pages that servers sit exclusively in German data centres, and carries ISO 27001 confirmed by TÜV Nord plus the Trusted Cloud seal — the core of what I need for client files. What holds me back: the privacy policy allows transfers to countries outside the EU and EEA and names Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit and Google as advertising partners receiving hashed account data, while the data centres carry no named locations and I found no public information on a full subprocessor list with locations for support, notifications or payment.
Pricing transparency
luckycloud Business
Business is published from 4,50 € per person per month with a stated 30% saving at 12 months and unlimited storage, Teams from 2,50 € per user with configurator storage at 0,33 € per GB, minimum two users, terms from one to 24 months, included traffic of 120% of booked storage, excess traffic at 0,0396 € per GB, a 14-day free trial, and paid support at 22,50 € per 15-minute ticket. We found no public price for the Enterprise tier and no public information on VAT treatment, and the captured pages give different figures for extra storage, so the full annual cost for a given team size and storage need is not computable from public pages alone.
STRATO HiDrive Business
The tiers are public and exact: 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 Einrichtung: 0 €, prices including VAT, monthly billing and a one-month notice period. What I cannot compute for my office is the cost of what I would actually need: the WebDAV and rsync add-on is described only as "preisgünstig" hinzubuchbar with no figure, and I found no public information on a price for the optional end-to-end encryption or on per-user scaling beyond the two-account team-folder threshold.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
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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.