Drive is the glue that binds Google’s family of productivity apps together: It’s the home for Docs, Slides and Sheets (Google’s answer to Microsoft’s Office suite of apps), it contains all of your photos from Google+ and it’s the foundation for storage options within Gmail, Google’s popular email service. Google Drive may not be the company’s sexiest offering, but it is one of its most important. Turning Cloud Storage Into A CommodityĪ cheaper Google Drive means more money goes directly to the company, but more importantly, it benefits Google’s entire ecosystem.
To reiterate, Google only asks for $10 a month for 1 TB. Similarly, the cheapest plans on Microsoft’s Azure platform cost about $68 per month for 1 TB. If you thought Google Drive offered savings for consumers, it’s even better for developers.Īmazon’s popular S3 cloud service, which is a favorite among developers (Dropbox included), costs roughly $85/month for a terabyte of space. Microsoft offers 7 GB of storage for free to new users as a taste to get them onto a subscription plan. Google Drive offers roughly the same price per year, but offers twice as much storage as Microsoft does each month. Microsoft’s OneDrive, which only features annual plans, starts at 50GB for $25 per year. SugarSync offers one terabyte of data for $55 per month for up to three users in Google Drive, that same storage costs $10 a month.Īpple asks for $100 per year (or $8.33 a month) for 50 GB of iCloud storage you can get twice the storage each month and pay a quarter of the price with Google Drive. Google Drive’s new pricing structure is great for users, who benefit from more attractive prices from one of the foremost companies in data storage-especially when you compare them against paid plans from Google’s cloud competitors.ĭropbox charges $9.99/month for 100GB, but Google Drive charges just $2/month for the same amount of space. For $100 a month, Google offers as much space you could ever need: 10 terabytes or more.
Now Google is making a terabyte of cloud storage available for just $10.Ĭheck out Google Drive’s new pricing structure announced last week, which now offers the first 15 GB per month for free. Less than a decade ago, a terabyte of personal online storage would have been nearly unthinkable.
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