3 categories · RankedGoogle Drive
Google Drive is a cloud storage product from Google for storing files and sharing them with others · google.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“For simpler, ongoing collaboration: Box, Google Drive (with advanced controls), or SharePoint.”MiniMax M2.5 · Scale-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Organizations searching for the best board portal software are actively abandoning legacy solutions like Diligent and basic file-sharing tools like Google Drive.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Any cheap/generic "VDRs" (e.g., repurposed cloud storage like basic Google Drive/SharePoint setups or unknown providers) often lack deal-specific features”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Avoid: Standard Consumer Cloud Storage (Disguised as VDRs) Tools: Basic Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or Box (without enterprise VDR add-ons).”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Dropbox/Google Drive – while encrypted, documents often get saved to personal desktops/devices outside the secure environment”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Google Drive, over the 51 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 24 | 2 | View → | |
| 22 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 5 | View → | |
| 16 | 3 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 2 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Google Drive's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- people and teams of all sizes
- Price stated
- Storage costs vary.
- Starting price
- null
- Free plan or trial
- null
- Integrations
- 100
- Customers named
- Blue Ox Films, Roche, MMP Pakistan
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 46 of the 51 answers that named Google Drive and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
129 of the 140 domain citations in answers naming Google Drive came from a third party's page. Eleven were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study | 707 | undated | |||
| Blog | 372 | 0 | 2018-12-13 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 51 | 0 | 2018-12-13 | ||
| Comparison | 35 | undated | |||
| News or press | 34 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page google.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.