Helvedrive and Proton Drive · Dated comparison

Proton Drive or a Swiss document vault with managed security?

Proton Drive already offers end-to-end encryption. The comparison concerns your requirements for location, governance and service, not a supposed exclusivity of encryption.

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	Proton Drive
Positioning	Document confidentiality with deployment, governance and security follow-up per organisation.	Encrypted storage and collaboration within the Proton ecosystem.
Content encryption	Design objective Vault architecture: encryption and decryption on authorised devices, before the encrypted files are stored.	End-to-end encryption announced for files.
Document location	Design objective Infomaniak selected for future document storage and backups in Switzerland. Public website kept separate.	The Drive privacy policy states servers in Switzerland, Germany or Norway.
Key custody	Design objective Keys controlled by the organisation; authorised devices and key recovery separate from account recovery.	Proton states that it cannot decrypt the E2EE content of files.
Access governance	Passkeys, revocable sessions, permissions by organisation and client file. SSO and access lifecycle in Enterprise.	Permissions by role or group; revocable links with password and expiry.
Collaboration and sharing	Drive and portals for authorised exchanges; Vault kept separate from AI processing and server-side analysis.	Collaborative files, documents and spreadsheets.
Continuity and recovery	Separate backup account at Infomaniak; recovery procedure and quarterly exercise in Enterprise.	Version history to revert to an earlier copy.
Deployment and support	Scoping, permission configuration, bounded migration, training and reporting. Dedicated contact in Enterprise.	Web, desktop and mobile apps; business support online, by email or via a scheduled call.
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.	Drive plans for business and the Proton for Business suite.

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.

A company based in Switzerland does not mean that all its servers are exclusively Swiss. Encryption does not remove the need to secure devices and define recovery.

Which approach suits which situation?

When Proton Drive is a good fit

Choose Proton Drive if you want end-to-end encrypted storage that is already available, and the Proton ecosystem.

When to consider Helvedrive

Consider our offering for a document environment planned at Infomaniak in Switzerland, with key procedures, assisted deployment and restore exercises specific to your organisation.

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 Proton Drive should be checked against the chosen plan.

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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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