Box vs Yandex

Box — Application · Public · $4.8B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

Box AI Studio and Yandex Cloud AI Studio both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; Yandex's scale not recorded.

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

4 of 6 capabilitiesShared product type

4 of 6 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, document extraction, knowledge retrieval and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application, developer tool and platform.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldBoxYandex
Size$4.8B mkt capnot disclosed
Employees2,91236,991 Yandex has 13× more
Founded20051997 8 yrs earlier
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, PlatformAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersRedwood City, USAKaliningrad, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Agent orchestrationDocument extractionKnowledge retrievalText generation

Not verified for Yandex · 2

SummarizationWorkflow automation

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

Not verified for Box · 14

Agentic codingCode generationCode reviewCustomer supportData analysisImage generationModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingSpeech to textText to speechTranslationVoice agentSearch answers

Recorded for Yandex. 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.

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.

Yandex

Application

Alice AIApplication

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Yandex SpeechSenseApplication

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

Developer tool

SourceCraft Code AssistantDeveloper tool

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.

Platform

Yandex Cloud AI StudioPlatform

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

Yandex DataSpherePlatform

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.

No counterpart

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

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

API service

Yandex SpeechKitAPI service

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Yandex TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Yandex Vision OCRAPI service

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.