Dropbox Business API
Dropbox ships a first-class public REST API (v2) with OAuth 2.0, granular scopes, webhooks, and official SDKs in six languages. Signup is self-serve from the App Console. Business and Team scopes require app review; until approved an app is capped at about 50 users.
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Dropbox Business scores A on Supergood's API Report Card. Dropbox ships a first-class public REST API (v2) with OAuth 2.0, granular scopes, webhooks, and official SDKs in six languages. Signup is self-serve from the App Console. Business and Team scopes require app review; until approved an app is capped at about 50 users.
Dropbox Business has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Dropbox Business is the team/enterprise tier of Dropbox, Inc. (NASDAQ: DBX), a publicly traded SaaS company headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi.
Vertical: misc / horizontal, Dropbox Business is a cross-industry cloud file storage, collaboration, and (via Dropbox Sign/DocSend) lightweight Document Management / eSignature platform. Shared team folders for active project files (CAD/BIM in construction, RAW/PSD/INDD in creative, contracts/working papers in legal/accounting, lecture material in education).
Very high. Dropbox is one of the most ubiquitous SaaS brands globally: 700M+ registered users, 18M+ paying users, 300K+ third-party app integrations on the Dropbox Platform, and ~50B API calls per month flowing through the Developer Platform per dropbox.com/developers.
Data that flows through Dropbox Business on behalf of customers (and that would matter for any integration Supergood might build): File binaries and metadata, every file uploaded by a team: name, path, size, content hash, mtime, MIME, version history, deletion state, rev id, sharing state.
Founded 2007; IPO March 2018 (NYSE→NASDAQ: DBX). Architecturally modern: Dropbox runs its own custom storage stack ("Magic Pocket") on hundreds of petabytes of self-managed infrastructure, with multi-region replication and erasure coding.
All endpoint-specific errors return HTTP 409 with a tagged-union error in the body, which breaks naive HTTP-status-based error handling. Rate limits are not published as a single hard number; developers must discover thresholds by hitting 429s, with `Retry-After` jitter required. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Microsoft OneDrive / SharePoint, Google Drive (Google Workspace), Box, Citrix ShareFile, Egnyte, Sync.com. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Dropbox Business has partial MCP support. Dropbox publishes an official MCP server on its GitHub organization, but it covers only Dash company search and file metadata in read-only form. Broader Dropbox file management is not covered by a publicly documented MCP server.
Partially. MCP support for Dropbox Business exists but is incomplete, so what MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex can reach depends on what the available server covers.