Dropbox increases storage Pro plan tenfold

Dropbox has increased the storage with its Pro plan tenfold. Instead of 100GB, users get 1TB of storage for a tenner per month. The other Pro subscriptions will expire. Also, the web storage service adds some features.

Until now, the subscription of ten euros per month or 99 euros per year included 100GB of storage, while 200GB cost 20 euros per month and users had to pay 50 euros for 500GB. All current subscribers now get 1TB for a tenner a month, according to the message that Dropbox has put online.

Dropbox’s price cut follows price cuts from competitors, which made Microsoft’s OneDrive and Google Drive a lot cheaper per gigabyte. That difference has been eliminated; Dropbox is now as expensive as its cheapest major competitor Google Drive. Microsoft still has an option, where a user buys Office 365 for 7 euros per month and gets an upgrade from OneDrive to 1TB, as tweaker Ge Brander points out; in that case, OneDrive costs 0.68 cents per gigabyte per month. The cheapest is Mega at 0.56 cents per gigabyte per month.

In addition to more storage, the web storage service has also added some features, such as the ability to password protect shared links. As a result, a link alone is no longer sufficient to view a file. The free version of Dropbox is stuck at 2GB, although many competitors offer more storage by default.