Egnyte combines file collaboration, security, and governance for enterprises. Plans run $22-$48/user/month annually, with a custom Ultimate tier.
Egnyte is an enterprise content collaboration and governance platform founded in 2007 by Vineet Jain, Rajesh Ram, Kris Lahiri, and Amrit Jassal, and headquartered in Mountain View, California. It began as a cloud file-sharing alternative aimed at businesses that needed more security and IT control than early consumer-facing sync services offered, and has since expanded into a broader platform for content security, compliance, and governance.
Rather than only offering cloud storage, Egnyte differentiates itself with hybrid deployment support, letting organizations keep files on local servers or existing storage systems while still applying Egnyte's security, search, and collaboration layer across everything. This makes it a common choice in industries like life sciences, financial services, and construction that have both legacy on-premises infrastructure and cloud collaboration needs.
Egnyte's collaboration layer includes desktop, web, and mobile apps, external sharing with email-validated links, co-editing integrations with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and version history. On top of that sits a security and governance layer with permissions management, suspicious login detection, artifact-based ransomware detection, and content lifecycle policies that automatically retain, archive, or delete files based on rules.
Higher tiers add AI-powered features, including an AI assistant, AI-powered search across file content, AI-driven workflow automation, dynamic watermarking, e-signature, and PDF markup. The top Ultimate tier adds document and sensitive-data classification, 90-day snapshot and recovery, behavioral-based ransomware detection, data loss prevention integrations, and customer-managed encryption keys for organizations with strict compliance requirements.
Egnyte is sold exclusively on annual billing across four published tiers plus a custom top tier. The Business plan starts at $22 per user per month and includes 100GB of storage, mobile and desktop apps, standard workflows, and basic AI-assisted document Q&A, capped at 100 users and a single domain.
Enterprise Lite runs $39 per user per month with unlimited users, ransomware detection, suspicious login alerts, content lifecycle management, and advanced AI features. Elite costs $48 per user per month and adds a full AI assistant, AI search, AI workflow automation, e-signature, and dynamic watermarking. The Ultimate tier, aimed at the largest and most regulated organizations, is custom-quoted and adds sensitive-data classification, extended snapshot recovery, and customer-managed encryption keys.
Published plans run from about $22/user/month (Business) to $48/user/month (Elite) on annual billing, with a custom-quoted Ultimate tier for the largest organizations.
No, all of Egnyte's published plans require annual prepayment; there isn't a month-to-month option on its standard pricing.
No, Egnyte doesn't have a permanent free plan, though it offers a free trial so teams can evaluate the platform before committing.
Egnyte's strongest differentiator is hybrid support for both on-premises and cloud storage under one governance layer, along with deeper compliance and content lifecycle tooling aimed at regulated industries.
Life sciences, financial services, legal, and construction/AEC firms are common users, largely because of Egnyte's governance, compliance, and hybrid infrastructure support.