Google today significantly dropped the prices for its Google Drive online storage service. The first 15GB of storage remain free, but 100GB now costs just $1.99 per month instead of $4.99.
Even more impressively, though, you can now get a terabyte of online storage for $9.99 a month, down from $49.99.
If you really need a lot of online storage space, you can also get 10 terabytes for $99.99 a month and then add more storage from there in 10 terabyte steps (so 30 terabytes will set you back $299.99 per month).
For most people, even a terabyte of storage should be more than enough for a long time to come, even if you store lots of high-res images on Drive. Just like before, the additional storage works across Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos.
You can now sign up for these new plans here and if you’ve already subscribed, you’ll automatically be subscribed “to a better plan at no additional cost,” Google says in the announcement today.
Google’s new prices significantly undercut those of many of its competitors in this space. Dropbox, for example, charges $9.99 a month for 100GB. Paid plans for Microsoft’s OneDrive, which offers 7GB of free storage, start at $25 per year for 50GB of storage and 100GB costs $50. Google, as far as I’m aware, does not offer any discounts for pre-paying for an annual plan.
References:
1. Google Drive Gets A Big Price Drop, 100GB Now Costs $1.99 A Month
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/13/google-drive-gets-a-big-price-drop-100gb-now-costs-1-99-a-month/
2. Storage plan pricing
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en
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