Dropbox pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Dropbox (dropbox.com) is a cloud storage service. Plus is a flat per-person subscription, Standard and Advanced are per-user team plans, and Enterprise is quoted.. Free plan: Basic: free, 2 GB to store and share files.
What Dropbox costs
- 1 user, 1 TB: $11.99/mo (Plus $11.99/mo month-to-month for 2 TB; annual billing is $9.99/mo. Basic's 2 GB is too small.)
- 10 users, 1 TB: $180/mo (Standard $18/user/mo month-to-month x 10 users = $180/mo; 3 TB pooled, admin console, team folders. Dropbox's page lists Standard for 1+ users (some trackers say 3); no effect at 10 seats.)
- 20 GB transfers: $11.99/mo (Plus $11.99/mo. Dropbox Transfer on Plus: 50 GB per transfer, links expire after 7 days (meets the 7-day minimum), no recipient account, no monthly transfer or download cap stated. Basic's 2 GB per-transfer limit fails.)
Plan compared: Plus (2 TB, 1 person), month-to-month billing. Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for the cheapest plan that fits each scenario: one person storing 1 TB (or backing up a computer with 1 TB), a 10-person team sharing 1 TB with admin controls, and one person sending twenty 20 GB files a month by link. A free plan counts as $0 only when it fully covers the scenario; lifetime deals and first-year discounts are ignored.
What Dropbox does
Core: Electronic signatures (partly), Native app integrations, Contract repository & lifecycle (partly), Cloud drive & sync, Team folders & admin.
Important: Files on demand, Automatic computer backup (partly), Mobile apps & photo backup, Version history & recovery, Secure link sharing, AI search & assistant, Integrations & API.
Also has: Multi-party signing workflows (partly), Reusable templates (partly), Bulk send (partly), Signer identity verification (partly), Regulated-industry compliance (partly), Custom branding & white-label (partly), AI agreement assistant (partly), Mobile apps & in-person signing (partly), Large file transfer (partly), Family plan sharing, Online docs, sheets & slides (partly), Visual asset library (partly), Proofing & approvals, Compliance & governance (partly), Data residency choice (partly), Client portals & data rooms (partly).
Dropbox price hikes
No price hikes on record for Dropbox.
Cheaper alternatives to Dropbox
At 1 TB for one person, Dropbox costs $11.99/mo. 3 cloud storage services cost less:
- Google Drive (Google One): $9.99/mo (Google AI Plus (2 TB) at US$9.99/mo on monthly billing, the cheapest plan with at least 1 TB.), covers 71% of Dropbox; missing or partial: Team folders & admin (partly), Version history & recovery (partly), Secure link sharing (partly), AI search & assistant (partly), Proofing & approvals (partly)
- iCloud+: $9.99/mo (iCloud+ 2 TB plan at $9.99/mo (US list price)), covers 63% of Dropbox; missing or partial: Team folders & admin (partly), Files on demand (partly), Mobile apps & photo backup (partly), Version history & recovery (partly), Secure link sharing (partly)
- Microsoft OneDrive: $9.99/mo (Microsoft 365 Personal (1 TB, 1 person), monthly billing), covers 91% of Dropbox; missing or partial: AI search & assistant (partly), Proofing & approvals (partly), Client portals & data rooms
Dropbox alternatives: 3 cheaper cloud storage services compared, at every size.
Other kinds of products that cover part of Dropbox
- Microsoft 365 (Business email & office suites): covers 98% of Dropbox; missing or partial: Proofing & approvals (partly)
- Google Workspace (Business email & office suites): covers 80% of Dropbox; missing or partial: Mobile apps & photo backup (partly), Version history & recovery (partly), Secure link sharing (partly), Family plan sharing, Proofing & approvals (partly)
Sources
Pricing page: dropbox.com/plans. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Monthly prices come from RecurDash and search-result trackers because Dropbox's plans page defaults to annual billing, and its annual figures match those trackers; no monthly figure appears in Dropbox's own page. No sourced hike since 2020: Plus's rise to $11.99 was in 2019, and PricingSaaS's Jan 2026 Standard and Advanced 'increase' was an ended promo, so changes is empty.