Helvedrive and Infomaniak kDrive · Dated comparison

An alternative to Infomaniak kDrive for sensitive documents

kDrive combines Swiss storage and collaboration at an affordable price. Our premium offering pairs a vault architecture with client-held keys, access configuration and security support defined for your organisation.

Encryption, access, continuity and service in detail.

The stars rate suitability against three confidentiality requirements. Helvedrive: design objectives. Other solutions: documented scope. Editorial assessment, without customer reviews or performance measurement.

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Architecture and services of the Helvedrive offering, compared with the competitors’ features as documented on 3 October 2026. Plans and options determine the scope of each solution.
Criterion	Helvedrive Premium offering on quote	Infomaniak kDrive
Positioning	Document confidentiality with deployment, governance and security follow-up per organisation.	Storage and collaboration in Swiss data centres.
Content encryption	Design objective Vault architecture: encryption and decryption on authorised devices, before the encrypted files are stored.	At rest and in transit; E2EE still announced as in preparation in the official comparison consulted.
Document location	Design objective Infomaniak selected for future document storage and backups in Switzerland. Public website kept separate.	Document storage and processing stated to be exclusively in Switzerland.
Key custody	Design objective Keys controlled by the organisation; authorised devices and key recovery separate from account recovery.	Encryption at rest is not enough to establish exclusive key custody by the client.
Access governance	Passkeys, revocable sessions, permissions by organisation and client file. SSO and access lifecycle in Enterprise.	Two-factor authentication and action history.
Collaboration and sharing	Drive and portals for authorised exchanges; Vault kept separate from AI processing and server-side analysis.	Sharing, collaborative editing and drop boxes.
Continuity and recovery	Separate backup account at Infomaniak; recovery procedure and quarterly exercise in Enterprise.	Copies in at least three locations, across several Swiss data centres.
Deployment and support	Scoping, permission configuration, bounded migration, training and reporting. Dedicated contact in Enterprise.	Infomaniak apps and assistance; Premium support offered.
Billing	Confidential from 490 CHF/month excl. VAT; Enterprise from 1,490 CHF/month excl. VAT; Dedicated from 4,900 CHF/month excl. VAT. Price per organisation, deployment billed separately.	Solo, Team or Pro subscriptions, depending on the team and storage.

How are the stars awarded?

Editorial assessment published by Helvedrive, as at 3 October 2026. The stars describe the scope of the criterion and do not constitute a certification, an audit or an overall quality rating. Our objectives will have to be validated before opening to real data. The sources are linked further down this page.

Content encryption. 5 stars: end-to-end encryption of the scope compared; 2 stars: encryption at rest and in transit. For Dropbox, the rating covers only E2EE folders on compatible plans; for our offering, it describes the Vault objective.

Document location. 5 stars: document storage exclusively in Switzerland; 4: Swiss region selectable; 3: Switzerland among several storage countries; 2: documented regions outside Switzerland. The rating concerns where files reside, not any legal immunity. Our rating describes the Infomaniak target.

Key custody. 5 stars: E2EE content decrypted client-side, keys unknown to the server within this scope; 2: provider-managed encryption with no established exclusive custody by the client. Recovery procedures and metadata remain to be examined separately.

The service, collaboration and price criteria are described without a rating: their contractual scope does not lend itself to a uniform numerical comparison.

Drop boxes, versioning, customisation and certain AI features already exist. They are not exclusive to the project.

Which approach suits which situation?

When Infomaniak kDrive is a good fit

Choose kDrive if your priority is collaboration, synchronisation and storage in Switzerland with a service that is already on the market.

When to consider Helvedrive

Consider our offering if you need a documented project for key management, access control and recovery, with a contact person responsible for the agreed scope.

Scoping, configuration, key custody, reporting and recovery form a single deployment project.

Compare the full cost, not just storage.

The Confidential plan starts at 490 CHF/month excl. VAT per organisation, with deployment priced separately. This price reflects the scope prepared for configuration, support and operation. Prices and services for Infomaniak kDrive should be checked against the chosen plan.

See the plans and exclusions

Reference consulted: kDrive Team is listed at 11.11 CHF/month excl. VAT on monthly billing, or 10 CHF/month excl. VAT with an annual commitment, for 3 TB and up to 6 users. This collaboration licence does not cover the same scope as the managed security project.

Official sources and verification date.

Consulted: 3 October 2026. The absence of information in the documentation is not proof that a feature is absent.

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The plans describe the premium offering currently in development. The quote sets out integrations, timelines and commitments; real data is accepted after the security and restore validations.

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