Adobe vs Box

Adobe — Application · Public · $115.9B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Box — Application · Public · $4.8B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

Aligned comparison

FieldAdobeBox
Market cap$115.9B$4.8B Box has 24× smaller
Employees31,3602,912 Box has 11× fewer
Founded19822005 23 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, API service, Application, PlatformAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersSan Jose, USARedwood City, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 6

Agent orchestrationDocument extractionKnowledge retrievalSummarizationText generationWorkflow automation

Not verified for Box · 15

3D generationAI search visibilityAudio editingCustomer supportData analysisImage editingImage generationMarketing contentModel inferenceModel trainingPresentation generationSpeech to textVideo editingVideo generationSearch answers

Recorded for Adobe. Box’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Box has no capability Adobe lacks, among the 6 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Adobe

Application

Acrobat AI AssistantApplication

An AI assistant inside Adobe Acrobat that answers questions about PDFs and generates summaries, insights, and content with citations from the user's documents.

Acrobat Student SpacesApplication

AI-powered study platform that turns uploaded notes, PDFs or links into flashcards, quizzes, study guides and podcasts, with a cited AI assistant for course questions.

Adobe Acrobat StudioApplication

Commercial suite combining document AI, PDF work and content creation.

Adobe Brand ConciergeApplication

An AI conversational agent that brands deploy on their digital properties to answer customer questions from approved brand content and feed interaction data back into Adobe Experience Platform profiles.

Adobe Brand IntelligenceApplication

Applies learned brand standards to AI-generated content and compliance reviews.

Adobe Engagement IntelligenceApplication

In-development Adobe offering (name and job not yet fully public); official heading explicitly states IN DEVELOPMENT.

Adobe Experience Platform Agent OrchestratorApplication

Coordinates Adobe Experience Platform agents and their reasoning across marketing workflows.

Adobe ExpressApplication

A web and mobile design, photo, and video application whose creation workflow is built around Firefly generative AI for images, text effects, logos, templates, and short-form video.

Adobe FireflyApplication

Generative AI platform for creating and editing images, video, vectors and audio, integrated across Adobe's Creative Cloud apps.

Adobe Firefly GraphApplication

Builds reusable visual workflows for generative creative production within Creative Cloud.

Adobe GenStudio for Performance MarketingApplication

A generative AI application for marketers that produces on-brand ad and email copy, image, and video variants, checks them against brand guidelines, and activates them to channels such as Meta, LinkedIn and Google Campaign Manager 360.

Adobe PodcastApplication

A web application for recording, transcribing, and editing spoken audio, built around AI filters including Enhance Speech, which restores recordings to studio quality.

AI agent

Adobe CX Enterprise CoworkerAI agent

Executes coordinated audience, journey and marketing workflows as an enterprise 'coworker' agent within Adobe Experience Platform.

Platform

Adobe Brand VisibilityPlatform

A generative engine optimization system, formerly Adobe LLM Optimizer, that monitors how AI assistants represent a brand and deploys site optimizations to improve that representation.

Adobe Firefly Custom ModelsPlatform

Fine-tuned Firefly generative models trained on a company's own brand assets so that generated imagery stays on-brand — distinct from Firefly Foundry, in which Adobe trains proprietary models for a customer.

Adobe Firefly FoundryPlatform

An enterprise offering in which Adobe trains proprietary, IP-protected Firefly generative models on a company's own brand or franchise assets to produce image, video, audio, vector, and 3D content.

Firefly Creative ProductionPlatform

Governed, agentic workflow builder for enterprise creative production -- coordinates Firefly and third-party generative models, creative actions, reviews and delivery steps across a production pipeline, distinct from the raw Firefly Services API.

Box

Application

Box AutomateApplication

No-code agentic workflow-automation platform that orchestrates intelligent content workflows -- contract approvals, claims processing, document routing -- combining AI agents, data extraction and document processing end to end.

Box ExtractApplication

Agentic data extraction service that pulls structured fields from documents, spreadsheets, images and video in Box using OCR and reasoning models, and writes the results back as Box metadata or returns them via API.

AI agent

Box AI AgentsAI agent

Agents built on the Box platform that combine frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google with an organization's own content, automating multi-step tasks such as threat analysis and contract review while respecting Box's enterprise permissions.

Platform

Box AIPlatform

Generative AI layer across Box's content platform that answers questions over stored documents, summarizes files and folders, and extracts structured data from contracts and forms; agentic, multi-step work is Box AI Agents, recorded separately.

No counterpart

Adobe sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Box yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Adobe Firefly ServicesAPI service

A set of Adobe APIs for automated content generation and production at scale, spanning Firefly generative APIs, Photoshop APIs, Lightroom APIs, and Content Tagging APIs.

Box sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Adobe yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Agent platform

Box AI StudioAgent platform

No-code environment where Box administrators create, configure, test and deploy custom AI agents scoped to selected documents and models, and control which users can access each agent.

Developer tool

Box MCP serverDeveloper tool

Model Context Protocol server that lets external AI agents search, read and extract metadata from content in Box while enforcing the calling user's existing Box permissions, available as a Box-hosted remote server and as a self-hosted Python project.