Cloud Storage Pricing

Users compare pricing of cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, and others, debating costs per GB/month for various storage tiers and highlighting cheaper alternatives.

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cmer Apr 24, 2012 View on HN

Very aggressive pricing! Dropbox is 4 times more expensive for 100 GB. $5/mo vs $20. Will be interesting to see how Dropbox reacts to that.

flatiron Feb 20, 2023 View on HN

$20 a month gives you "unlimited" storage at google. they gladly take my encrypted files for years now and I'm up to 80TB. i think its more than reasonable to pay them for that type of service and be slightly above board (the account type i have says i need a minimum of 5 people but its just me).

TrainedMonkey Mar 13, 2014 View on HN

15 GB free, 100GB for $2 per month. Your move dropbox.

sp332 Mar 11, 2015 View on HN

Isn't the price a little high? $10/TB/mo is the same as Dropbox, and this has a lot fewer features than Dropbox.

benhurmarcel Jan 13, 2021 View on HN

Well for my needs the Dropbox plan costs 10 times more than the Google or iCloud plan. Because I need 50GB, not 2000.

throwaway290 Jul 30, 2023 View on HN

If you need free space to store something this is so not for you buddy... Just go register 10 google accounts to spread your stuff around and you never need to pay for storage;) some people like to be a customer not a product

mattl Apr 24, 2024 View on HN

Seems quite expensive for 500GB of storage. Dropbox offers 3TB for around the same price. An extra 1TB is 59 Euro a year.

pathikrit Feb 10, 2015 View on HN

Just pay $10/month and dump them in your 1TB DropBox account?

kylec Apr 16, 2012 View on HN

I'm hoping this will compel Dropbox to reevaluate their pricing structure. Storage from Google is an order of magnitude cheaper than Dropbox - paid storage starts at $5/year, and for the same $100/year as the cheapest Dropbox account (50GB) you get 8x the capacity.

ubermonkey Jan 14, 2021 View on HN

Yikes! That's a lot more expensive for my data usage than Dropbox!