Box vs Elastic

Box — Application · Public · $4.8B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Elastic — Infrastructure · Public · $10.2B 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

FieldBoxElastic
Market cap$4.8B$10.2B Elastic has 2.1× more
Employees2,9124,019 Elastic has 38% more
Founded20052012 7 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationInfrastructure
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, PlatformAgent platform, Application, Model API, Platform
HeadquartersRedwood City, USAAmsterdam, Netherlands

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agent orchestrationKnowledge retrievalWorkflow automation

Not verified for Elastic · 3

Document extractionSummarizationText generation

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

Not verified for Box · 6

Data analysisEvaluation and observabilityModel hostingModel inferenceThreat detection and responseVector search

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

Products, side by side

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

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.

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.

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.

Elastic

Application

Elastic AI SOC EngineApplication

An AI security-operations layer that correlates alerts from a customer's existing security tools, prioritizes threats and guides response workflows without replacing their SIEM.

Elastic AIOpsApplication

GenAI- and ML-driven capability inside Elastic Observability that automatically detects, diagnoses and helps resolve operational issues, providing recommended actions for SREs.

Elastic LLM ObservabilityApplication

Monitoring capability inside Elastic Observability for generative-AI and agentic applications: performance, cost control, guardrail tracking and reliability for GenAI workloads.

Elastic SecurityApplication

Agentic security-operations platform unifying SIEM, XDR and native automation, with autonomous agents handling detection-to-response workflows and purpose-built AI skills for threat hunting, alert analysis and detection engineering; supports multiple LLMs including on-premises models.

Agent platform

Elastic Agent BuilderAgent platform

A builder for custom AI agents that answer questions and take actions over data indexed in Elasticsearch, using configurable tools, skills and prompts.

Elastic WorkflowsAgent platform

An automation engine that runs both scripted steps and AI agents which reason through investigations and execute response actions against data in Elasticsearch.

Platform

Elastic AI AssistantPlatform

A conversational assistant embedded in Kibana that answers natural-language questions against a customer's own indexed data across Elastic's Observability, Security and Search solutions.

No counterpart

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

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.

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.

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

Model API

Elastic Inference ServiceModel API

Hosted inference endpoint that runs Elastic-managed LLMs, the ELSER sparse-embedding model and third-party embedding models for ingest, search and chat without provisioning ML nodes in a customer's own Elasticsearch deployment.