What does a cloud storage service cost?

Paid plans start at $15 for Dropbox (USD per user per month for team plans, billed annually). Prices are as shown on each pricing page when it was last read.

Cloud storage pricing

File storage is sold by capacity to individuals and per user to teams. Team plan prices have crept up as storage per user went from one terabyte to as much as you need.

Cloud storage compared

Current list prices as last read from each pricing page.

Product	Starts at	Top listed plan	Priced by	Free plan	History
Dropbox	$15Standard, USD per user per month for team plans, billed annually	$24Advanced	Per seat	No	since 2016
Box	not extracted	contact sales	unknown	No	none yet

What changed

Every price move we have on record for this category, newest products first.

Dropbox Standard has been listed since Jul 2016, starting at $12.50. It went up to $15 by Jan 2023 (+20%).
Dropbox Advanced appeared by Jul 2017 at $20. It went up to $24 by Jul 2023 (+20%).

Dropbox price history

Full Dropbox analysis

Dropbox is the file sync and sharing service that made cloud storage mainstream. It sells individual plans by storage size and team plans per user, with the team plans priced per seat since 2014.

StandardAdvancedUSD per user per month for team plans, billed annually

Show the data as a table

Observed	Standard	Advanced
Jul 8, 2016	$12.50
Jul 1, 2017		$20
Apr 21, 2021	$12.50	$20
Jan 1, 2023	$15
Jul 3, 2023		$24
Jul 1, 2024		$24
Jan 9, 2025	$15

Standard has been listed since Jul 2016, starting at $12.50. It went up to $15 by Jan 2023 (+20%).

Advanced appeared by Jul 2017 at $20. It went up to $24 by Jul 2023 (+20%).

Team plans only. Dropbox for Business started at $15 per user billed monthly in 2014 and became Standard in 2017 when Advanced was added. The individual Plus plan went from $9.99 to $11.99 a month in 2019.