You’ll need to pay monthly or yearly subscription fees for limited storage space but thanks to partnership between companies, we consumers can easily get extra space for free. Unfortunately, storing your data in the cloud can be pretty expensive.

“Storing your data in the cloud can be pretty expensive.” Some of your new smartphones might come with free cloud storage, security software also provides cloud storage space, and on top of backing up your information such as files and pictures, certain cloud even allows you to share files and collaborate documents between several people – to work on a wedding invitation list for example, or even for coworkers to work on a document together (we at Lowyat.NET do that pretty often). So how do these cloud storage services stack up against each other? Check out our comparison right after the break.Ĭloud storage is without a doubt becoming increasingly popular for consumers and has somehow become a necessity. You can even get 50GB of free cloud storage with Mega. However, there are a lot of other cloud storage services out there, such as the ever-popular Dropbox, One Drive, iCloud as well as Box.

Google Drive is also one of the largest upgrade options out there, allowing you to upgrade beyond 10TB of cloud storage space. It offers up to a 80% price cut compared to previous pricing, making it the cheapest cloud storage service currently offered in the market from only USD$1.99/month for 100GB of storage. Google’s recent move to reduce the price of its Google Drive storage was indeed a very bold move.

Google drive cost comparison