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Trina Drive vs Google Drive for AI teams
Google Drive is a general-purpose drive with Google’s editors built in. Trina Drive is a team drive built for the AI apps your team already uses: each person’s AI reads only what that person may, and every read is logged.
At a glance
| Trina Drive | Google Drive | |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Team files that each person’s AI should read | File storage and real-time editing in Docs, Sheets and Slides |
| Where it runs | Trina Cloud (US), or your own server | Google’s cloud |
| Open source | Yes, Apache-2.0. Self-hosting is free | No |
| AI apps | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client today; Claude and ChatGPT connectors rolling out | Gemini built in on eligible Google Workspace plans; ChatGPT and Claude offer their own Google Drive connectors |
| What a connected AI can see | Only folders its person may open and that allow that person’s AI. New folders start hidden from every AI | What the connected Google account can open |
| Price | Free; Team $99 / month (up to 10 people); Business $349 / month (up to 40 people); self-hosting $0 | Per user, by Google Workspace plan |
Based on public documentation as of October 2026. Something out of date? Write to us and we will fix it.
What Trina Drive adds for AI
“No AI” folders
Keep a folder from every AI, even for people who can open it.
Hidden means it doesn’t exist
A folder you can’t open never shows up for your AI. Not even its name.
Drafts, not edits
Through Trina Drive, AI writes drafts. A person decides where they go.
Every read on the record
Each file an AI opens is logged: which person, which app, which file.
When Google Drive fits better
- Your team writes together in Docs, Sheets and Slides in real time. Trina Drive stores files; it is not a document editor.
- You don’t plan to let AI apps read your team’s files.
Or use both
Import files from Google Drive (beta): Docs, Sheets and Slides arrive as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
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