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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Dropbox

12Judge labels

0First choices

11Negative labels

8 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Dropbox was named 4 times in Board and 1 other category, where OnBoard led with 25%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business93 of 97

under the label threshold

Mid-market97 of 97

under the label threshold

Enterprise108 of 111

under the label threshold

In board · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Dropbox for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Board and investor reporting	Planning and analysis	0%	97 of 97	100%	3	under 10 labels · led by OnBoard at 25%
Entity management	Equity and corporate	0%	81 of 87	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Athennian at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Dropbox yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Dropbox across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative12 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Generic File Storage Systems (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) - Why avoid: Simply uploading board documents to shared drives creates major governance gaps” Kimi K2 · Board · negative prompt · hard negative

“Using consumer-grade tools: Email, personal file-sharing (Dropbox, Google Drive), and general collaboration tools are not suitable for board materials” MiniMax M2.5 · Board · negative prompt · hard negative

“General-Purpose Consumer File Sharing & Messaging (Google Drive, Dropbox, standard Email, Slack)... This is highly discouraged.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Board · negative prompt · hard negative

“Excel + Dropbox — still common, but described as fragile for entity management” Perplexity Sonar · Entity management · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Dropbox, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Dropbox was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Drive9 of 120Not in the top three

Microsoft Excel6 of 120Not in the top three

Boardable4 of 121Not in the top three

Nasdaq Boardvantage4 of 121Not in the top three

Microsoft Power BI4 of 120Not in the top three

Tableau4 of 120Not in the top three

Diligent3 of 121Not in the top three

Diligent Boards3 of 121Not in the top three

OnBoard3 of 121Not in the top three

Looker3 of 120Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Dropbox. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 8 of the 12 answers that named Dropbox and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

worldmetrics.org7

diligent.com6

board-room.org5

appdeck.com4

boardintelligence.com4

g2.com4

blog.digitalheroesco.com3

clearpointstrategy.com3

coverpin.com3

aprioboardportal.com2

Forty-one of the forty-one domain citations in answers naming Dropbox came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

board-room.org/blog/board-reporting-software5

appdeck.com/blog/board-portal-software-comparison-20263

blog.digitalheroesco.com/problems/entity-management-software3

clearpointstrategy.com/blog/board-reporting-software3

worldmetrics.org/best/entity-management-software3

appdeck.com/blog/board-portal-software-comparison-20252

boardintelligence.com/blog/which-board-management-software-is-best-for-improving-board-rep2

boardintelligence.com/blog/which-board-management-software-is-the-most-secure-for-document2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Dropbox

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Dropbox; a claim can dispute any of them.

Excel + Dropbox 1

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Dropbox's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Dropbox, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at dropbox.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.