4 categories · RankedBox
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual data rooms | Equity and corporate | 0% | 20 of 48 | 25% | 12 | criticized challenger | |
| Board and investor reporting | Planning and analysis | 0% | 65 of 99 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by OnBoard at 26% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Board portals | Equity and corporate | 0% | 44 of 50 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by OnBoard at 49% | |
| Transfer pricing | Tax and compliance | 0% | 65 of 101 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by TPGenie at 30% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Box across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If your IT team already uses Box, upgrading to their secure "Rooms" feature might bypass the need for a separate VDR vendor.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Virtual data rooms · scale prompt · alternative
“consider Papermark or Box, but always request a demo and reference checks before signing” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Virtual data rooms · negative prompt · alternative
“switching to Box Shield involves zero new software learning curve” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Virtual data rooms · comparative prompt · alternative
“Box (VDR): Strong IT integration if you're already using Box” Kimi K2 · Virtual data rooms · scale prompt · alternative
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.
“especially careful with portals that are basically just email, Dropbox/Box/Google Drive, or PDF links for board materials, because those setups are specifically called out as weaker substitutes” Perplexity Sonar · Board portals · negative prompt · hard negative
“Generic Cloud (e.g., Box, Dropbox misconfigs): ... not true VDRs—avoid entirely for high-stakes.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Virtual data rooms · negative prompt · hard negative
“General content management platform that works as a VDR for simpler needs (not a dedicated VDR)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Virtual data rooms · comparative prompt · soft negative
“Weakness: Not purpose-built as a VDR” MiniMax M2.5 · Virtual data rooms · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Box, over the 55 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Box was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 46 of the 55 answers that named Box and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
175 of the 175 domain citations in answers naming Box came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
box.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Box takes 0% of first choices and iDeals takes 25%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 550,000 a month (“box”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,673,929 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,006,774 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 36,300 · 3,405 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 171,663
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 55 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 46 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 2,056 | 1 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Report or ebook | 507 | 0 | 2020-01-31 | ||
| News or press | 137 | 0 | 2026-04-02 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 84 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 79 | 0 | 2021-03-25 | ||
| Conference or event | 63 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 24 | 0 | 2026-04-17 | ||
| Case study | 18 | 0 | 2025-05-06 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 14 | 0 | 2025-05-22 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Developer blog
- 2026-04-17Claude opus 47 delivers powerful performance higher efficiency vs opus 46 comparison
- 2026-04-0220260403 press release news or press
- 2025-06-17Structured vs unstructured data comparison
- 2025-05-22Upcoming free webinar building mobile first experiences on box platform sept 12th 11 am pt 5430 webinar or virtual event
- 2025-05-21Free developer account vs upgraded account rate limit 4242 comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page box.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Box
Follow Box
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Box is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI-Powered Content Management, Workflow & Collaboration
- For
- organizations
- Free plan or trial
- Sign up for free box.com
- Integrations claimed
- 1500 box.com
- Certifications
- GDPRHIPAAFINRA
- Hosting
- 10 regions
- Customers named
- Morgan Stanley Wealth ManagementBroadcom
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price
What Box's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: box.com, box.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
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 Box'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 Box, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Box by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Box is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Box, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.