Box vs Pantry

Box is an enterprise content-management platform offering secure file storage, sharing, and collaboration, with a REST API and SDKs for building custom document workflows. A live GET against the real gateway, api.box.com/2.0/users/me, returned a 401 without a token, reconfirming OAuth 2.0 bearer auth over HTTPS, and a follow-up OPTIONS preflight returned Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving cors from unknown to yes. Personal accounts get 10GB free, while paid Business and Enterprise plans (plus metered Box Platform usage) unlock larger storage and API-driven workflows.

Pantry is a free JSON storage service for small projects and prototypes: each Pantry is a namespaced bucket identified by an ID in the URL path, holding arbitrary JSON "baskets" read and written over a plain REST API. A live GET and OPTIONS preflight with an Origin header against the real host, getpantry.cloud/apiv1/pantry/, both returned Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming cors as yes; no API key is required (the Pantry ID itself is the access credential), and HTTPS was reconfirmed. The service is entirely free with no paid tier.