Box vs OpenText

Box — Application · Public · $4.8B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  OpenText — Application · Public · 1 of 1 figure sourced

Relationship

Box's own Form 10-K, Competition section.

2 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeNamed in filingPull out just what a document's reader needs

2 of 6 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration and document extraction.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Named in filing — “Our primary competitors in the content management market include, but are not limited to, Microsoft (SharePoint) and OpenText (Documentum).”

sec.gov · checked 2026-09-22

Pull out just what a document's reader needs — Rivals on this job — Read a long document — a contract, policy, statement or thread — and surface only the parts that answer one question, plus the rules and exceptions buried inside.

Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edge

Aligned comparison

FieldBoxOpenText
Size$4.8B mkt capnot disclosed
Employees2,912—
Founded20051991 14 yrs earlier
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, PlatformApplication
HeadquartersRedwood City, USAWaterloo, Canada

Capability overlap

Shared · 2

Agent orchestrationDocument extraction

Not verified for OpenText · 4

Knowledge retrievalSummarizationText generationWorkflow automation

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

OpenText has no capability Box lacks, among the 2 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Hand-checked pairing

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.

OpenText

Application

OpenText AviatorApplication

A family of generative-AI assistants and agent-building tools embedded across OpenText's content management, DevOps, service-management and experience products.

No counterpart

Box sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for OpenText 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.

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.

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.