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# Nextcloud Review

From €40-€195/year Free version Free trial 4 plans

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-   Overview
    
-   User Interface
    
-   Popular Alternatives
    
-   Pricing and Plans
    
-   Features
    
-   Integrations
    
-   User Reviews
    
-   Popular Comparisons
    

## Overview

Nextcloud

4.6

[(443)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/nextcloud-profile/reviews/)

Pricing

Starting at €40.00 per user per year

### About Nextcloud

Nextcloud is a file sharing software that helps businesses in the healthcare, education, finance, government, legal, construction and other sectors collaborate with colleagues on various documents via text messages and audio or video conferences. The platform enables administrators to password-protect specific files, manage checklists and edit notes on a unified interface.

Managers can configure access permissions for staff members and secure data in accordance with GDPR and HIPAA compliance protocols. Nextcloud allows teams to receive push notifications for new messages and share screens during video calls using mobile applications on Android and iOS devices. Additionally, operators can send and receive emails, add travel itineraries to the calendar and manage contacts on a centralized dashboard.

Nextcloud offers an application programming interface (API), which lets businesses integrate the system with several third-party applications including Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird. Pricing is based on annual subscription and support is extended via FAQs, knowledge base, forum and email.

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## Nextcloud User Interface

## Popular Nextcloud Alternatives

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Nextcloud

4.6

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Ratings Breakdown

-   4.49Ease of use
-   4.80Value for money
-   4.20Customer support
-   4.52Functionality

Pricing

Starting at €40.00 per year

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-   4.67Ease of use
-   4.71Value for money
-   4.34Customer support
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## Nextcloud Pricing and Plans

Nextcloud has four plans. Nextcloud Files-Standard is €67.89/user/yr billed annually. Nextcloud Files-Premium is €99.99/user/yr billed annually. Nextcloud Files-Ultimate is €195.00/user/yr billed annually. Nextcloud Talk-Standard is €40.00/user/yr billed annually.

Free versionFree trial

Nextcloud Files-Standard

€67.89

per user, per year

Nextcloud Files-Standard plan includes:

-   Nextcloud Files
-   Mobile and desktop clients
-   Enterprise capabilities
-   Fully Open Source
-   Nextcloud Guard
-   Early security and stability patches

Nextcloud Files-Premium

€99.99

per user, per year

Nextcloud Files-Premium plan includes:

-   5+ years Maintenance life cycle
-   Custom consulting and integrations
-   Upgrade stand-by support
-   Support for clustered instances
-   SLA on fixes

Nextcloud Files-Ultimate

€195.00

per user, per year

Nextcloud Files-Ultimate plan includes:

-   Nextcloud Assistant
-   Nextcloud Flow
-   Nextcloud Whiteboard
-   SIP bridge for phone dial-in and dial-out

Nextcloud Talk-Standard

€40.00

per user, per year

Nextcloud Talk-Standard plan includes:

-   Nextcloud Talk
-   Branding

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### How does Nextcloud pricing compare to alternatives?

Nextcloud's starting price is €40.00/user/year. Explore how its pricing and plan options compare with top alternatives below.

| Product | Starting price | Free trial | Free version | Value for Money |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nextcloud4.6[(443)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/nextcloud-profile/reviews/) | €40.00 /user/yr | Available | Available | 4.8 |
| [Google Workspace](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/google-workspace-profile/)4.7[(87,167)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/google-workspace-profile/reviews/) | $7.00 /user/mo | Available | Not available | 4.7 |
| [LimeWire](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/525185-LimeWire/)4.8[(449)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/525185-LimeWire/reviews/) | $9.99 /user/mo | Available | Available | 4.5 |
| [Dropbox](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/dropbox-profile/)4.5[(21,718)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/dropbox-profile/reviews/) | $11.99 /mo | Available | Available | 4.3 |
| [Slack](https://www.softwareadvice.com/remote-support/slack-profile/)4.7[(24,244)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/remote-support/slack-profile/reviews/) | $8.75 /user/mo | Available | Available | 4.5 |

Nextcloud4.6[(443)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/nextcloud-profile/reviews/)

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Starting price

€40.00 /user/yr

Free trial

Available

Free version

Available

Value For Money

4.8

-   [Google Workspace](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/google-workspace-profile/)4.7[(87,167)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/google-workspace-profile/reviews/)
    
    * * *
    
    Starting price
    
    $7.00 /user/mo
    
    Free trial
    
    Available
    
    Free version
    
    Not available
    
    Value For Money
    
    4.7
    
-   [LimeWire](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/525185-LimeWire/)4.8[(449)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/525185-LimeWire/reviews/)
    
    * * *
    
    Starting price
    
    $9.99 /user/mo
    
    Free trial
    
    Available
    
    Free version
    
    Available
    
    Value For Money
    
    4.5
    
-   [Dropbox](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/dropbox-profile/)4.5[(21,718)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/dropbox-profile/reviews/)
    
    * * *
    
    Starting price
    
    $11.99 /mo
    
    Free trial
    
    Available
    
    Free version
    
    Available
    
    Value For Money
    
    4.3
    
-   [Slack](https://www.softwareadvice.com/remote-support/slack-profile/)4.7[(24,244)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/remote-support/slack-profile/reviews/)
    
    * * *
    
    Starting price
    
    $8.75 /user/mo
    
    Free trial
    
    Available
    
    Free version
    
    Available
    
    Value For Money
    
    4.5
    

## Nextcloud Features

-   Popular features found in Content Collaboration
    
    Collaboration Tools
    
    Content Library
    
    File Sharing
    
    Mobile Access
    
    Version Control
    
-   More features of Nextcloud
    
    Access Controls/Permissions
    
    Activity Dashboard
    
    Alerts/Notifications
    
    API
    
    Audit Trail
    
    Authentication
    
    Calendar Management
    
    Chat/Messaging
    
    Data Synchronization
    
    Document Management
    
    Drag & Drop
    
    Encryption
    
    File Management
    
    File Transfer
    
    Full Text Search
    
    Messaging
    
    Real-Time Notifications
    
    Real Time Synchronization
    
    Search/Filter
    
    Secure Data Storage
    
    Task Management
    
    Third-Party Integrations
    
    Workflow Management
    

## Nextcloud Integrations

GitHub

Integration rated undefined from -1 review

ONLYOFFICE Workspace

Integration rated undefined from -1 review

Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Integration rated undefined from -1 review

draw.io

Integration rated undefined from -1 review

BigBlueButton

Integration rated undefined from -1 review

Microsoft SharePoint

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## Nextcloud User Reviews

## Nextcloud customer ratings

- Overall rating: 4.6/5
- Total reviews: 443

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 298 reviews (67%)
- 4 stars: 129 reviews (29%)
- 3 stars: 15 reviews (3%)
- 2 stars: 1 reviews (0%)
- 1 star: 0 reviews (0%)

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.5/5
- Value for money: 4.8/5
- Customer support: 4.2/5
- Functionality: 4.5/5

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### Excellent produit pour un prix nul

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: 3-5 years · daily
- Reviewed: August 2026
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

J’ai planifié une tâche de redémarrage tous les 2 jours la nuit, et tout fonctionne correctement depuis. Avec un peu d’huile de coude, j’ai un service pro et gratuit ! Le service payant aurait résolu le problème.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

L’aspect le plus appréciable est le prix ! Monté sur Ubuntu en open, le coût est nul. De nombreux plugins existent et améliorent le produit.

#### Cons

Collabora Online Development Édition, le plugin permettant de modifier les documents stockés, gratuit lui aussi, est quelque fois défaillant et ne charge plus. Un redémarrage résout le probleme.

---

### Why not

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: 3-5 years · daily
- Reviewed: August 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I love it

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I've been using Nextcloud since v11-12, but before that had been using ownCloud since v5. It's a brilliant way of sharing files across multiple devices and sharing files with others. I was looking for my own version of Dropbox and Nextcloud fits the bill, and some. Some of the more recent Apps really could make this a complete solution, with the Collarora/Onlyoffice integration, Decks, Circles, Passwords, Email, Talk, etc. And it's open source. Like I said at the start, why not?

#### Cons

I'm not a fan of the new forum/support platform but am struggling to find something I least like about the software

---

### Great self hosted cloud solution

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: 1-3 years · daily
- Reviewed: May 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

It's a great piece of open source software with a ton of functionality. It is a great alternative to platforms like Google Drive or OneDrive.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

NextCloud is very easy to set up and allows a great amount of customization. There are a ton of apps available to add to your configuration so you can set it up just the way that works for you. You can integrate Nextcloud login with your own website using OAuth. The customization is almost endless so you can set it up just how you like it.

#### Cons

The pricing can become complicated and quite expensive when using Nextcloud with some paid apps. Other than that I can't really complain about the functionality of the software, it has everything it should have.

---

### Easy to use collaboration tool

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: less than 1 year · daily
- Reviewed: February 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We use this as an Intranet solution in our church. The most important functions are booking of locals and for filesharing between groups. We also use PicoCMS for the internal communication of news in the organisation. It works as expected but there has been some resistance to change. We plan to set up social login which should facilitate the use. Setting up and keeping your own server is of course an obstacle. You need some computer and server knowledge to keep this running. We use an external VPS-provider for the production server and another for backup. A local NAS-server for testing. This costs us about 7 EUR/month.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Easy to add new users Easy to upload and download files Possibility to read and edit documents also in the phone Possibility to add blogg-pages for intranet with the PicoCMS app Calendar app works very well Sync with laptop and desktop using the desktop client

#### Cons

The e-mail app is rudimentary The coupling between Contacts and E-mail app is incomplete Creating and editing documents and adding photos is possible in the phone but a bit slow The risk for conflicting versions if using desktop client, but this may be soved in version 18 as you can locck the file while editing You sometimes need to specifically check that the files are synced, but this also happens to me with other sync solutions (like Box Sync) The calendar app cannot be "swiped" or "scrolled" to the next week or month in the webb-browser. But this works with other optional calendar apps.

#### Vendor response

Thank you a lot for this detailed review!

Replied March 2020

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### Not only for file sharing

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Stefanos K.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: less than 1 year · daily
- Reviewed: December 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The core functionality, sharing files, is really easy to install and use. And there are tons of additional functionality to choose from (provided by Nextcloud itself and third party software developers). One thing worked out to be particularly useful: the integration with the Nextcloud provided meeting software Talk (although it works only for small meetings out of the box. For larger ones additional, but still free, software is needed).

#### Cons

There are really tons of third party apps to choose to install. And it is really tempting to add them. But this constitutes a weakness at the same time, because no one guarantees you that these apps will work with the next update of the software. And I've seen it in the past months that some apps I'd install stopped working with the next update. This is no problem of Nextcloud itself. They do not force you to install any of the third party apps. My advice would be to install only apps that have been along a long time and provide regular updates.

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### Best open source software I ever worked with

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: less than 1 year · daily
- Reviewed: August 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Nextcloud allowed us to replace many other services from different providers, now we have almost everything in one place.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

- simple to setup, configure, update and use - customizable - many apps and themes available - well documented - possible to connect with other services

#### Cons

- many features you expect to work by default are only available after installing 3rd party extensions - encryption can be difficult to setup - some features can be configured only from command line

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### Great stack!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Industry: Online Media
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: 1-3 years · daily
- Reviewed: February 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Great product that's useful to more than just business clients.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Clean and consistent interface with good integration due to lots of third party addons.

#### Cons

The installation process is disconnected between the CLI, and the "autoconfig.php", the supported features in the latter are far more capable despite the development focus on the former.

#### Vendor response

Thank you for your review! :)

Replied March 2020

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### Nextcloud

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Saha R.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly
- Reviewed: November 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

The next cloud technology is very efficient with the oracle free tier program and it does help me in managing many things with hassles. I will advise you to purchase one of its pricing plans if you run a team and you'll like to provide a simple and easy collaboration workflow.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Next cloud is a better self-managed cloud storage alternative for small or independent businesses. It's quite easy to use and manage.I run a self-managed account on the oracle free tier ( with over 200 GB of SSD) and I haven't faced any issues with it so far. It offers a better storage capacity as compared to other cloud servers.The next cloud storage technologies help me to store and manage my business files and I'm very content with its quality of service and server download and upload speeds are very good.

#### Cons

Even though for self-managed tiers there is no premium support, however, It's still very great (if you are comfortable with coding and all other techy stuff)...

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### Sweet As NAS of all time

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly
- Reviewed: January 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I realise that I can actually push small businesses (consultation) to use this NAS if they want the core functionality of a shared NAS. Most of the clients that I have spoken are happy with it. This means am also Happy!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

NC is Free and easy to use with my skillset. I just have lots of joy when it included a free mobile application that I can basically use personally and on the enterprise leve.

#### Cons

NC version upgrade is not too easy going as per my experience. However, spawning another version and mounting the previous files is easy.

#### Vendor response

Thank you a lot for this great review!

Replied February 2020

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### Win for open-source over paid alternatives.

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Tyler V.
- Industry: Program Development
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: less than 1 year · daily
- Reviewed: January 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Zero up-front investment cost. Greater documentation.

#### Cons

Not all extensions worked properly and even some featured ones had issues. Some ideas seem half-baked still and need time to mature and become mainstream if that is even the focus.

#### Vendor response

We appreciate your feedback a lot!

Replied February 2020

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