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Microsoft OneDrive pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Microsoft OneDrive (onedrive.com) is a cloud storage service. Storage is bundled into Microsoft 365 subscriptions for individuals, families and businesses, priced per month or per year.. Free plan: 5 GB free with a Microsoft account; no free plan includes 1 TB..

What Microsoft OneDrive costs

  • 1 user, 1 TB: $9.99/mo (Microsoft 365 Personal at $9.99/mo on monthly billing (annual $99.99 not used): 1 TB for one person. Microsoft 365 Basic has only 100 GB, and no OneDrive-only plan is listed.)
  • 10 users, 1 TB: $70/mo (Microsoft 365 Business Basic at $7.00 per user per month x 10 = $70.00, with 1 TB per user and no seat minimum found. The $7 is the stated monthly rate after the 2026-07-01 rise (was $6, per Office Watch); Microsoft sells it on annual commitments, so annual/12 applies, and any month-to-month premium is unverified. OneDrive for Business Plan 1 ($5/user) is excluded because third-party reports say it was retired for new sales in mid-2026.)
  • 20 GB transfers: $9.99/mo (Storage-product rule (at least 200 GB, with anyone-with-link sharing): Microsoft 365 Personal at $9.99/mo qualifies, and Basic (100 GB) does not. OneDrive has no separate transfer product, and no share-link download cap was found.)

Plan compared: Microsoft 365 Personal (1 TB, 1 person), monthly 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 Microsoft OneDrive does

Core: Cloud drive & sync, Online docs, sheets & slides.

Important: Files on demand, Automatic computer backup (partly), Mobile apps & photo backup, Version history & recovery, Secure link sharing, Team folders & admin, Family plan sharing, AI search & assistant (partly).

Also has: Disk image & server backup (partly), Large file transfer (partly), End-to-end encryption (partly), Visual asset library (partly), Proofing & approvals (partly), Integrations & API, Compliance & governance, Data residency choice (partly).

Microsoft OneDrive price hikes

Alternatives to Microsoft OneDrive

Microsoft OneDrive is the cheapest cloud storage service we track at 1 TB for one person. The others:

Microsoft OneDrive alternatives: 4 cloud storage services compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of Microsoft OneDrive

  • Microsoft 365 (Business email & office suites): covers 100% of Microsoft OneDrive
  • Google Workspace (Business email & office suites): covers 80% of Microsoft OneDrive; missing or partial: Mobile apps & photo backup (partly), Version history & recovery (partly), Secure link sharing (partly), Family plan sharing, Disk image & server backup

Every change we logged

  • Jul 1, 2026 · Price increase: Microsoft 365 Business Basic, which includes 1 TB of OneDrive per user, rose from $6 to $7 per user per month (up 16.7%) for purchases and renewals from July 1, 2026. This sets the team10 point.
  • Jan 16, 2025 · Price increase: Microsoft 365 Personal, which includes 1 TB of OneDrive, rose from $6.99 to $9.99 a month and from $69.99 to $99.99 a year. Copilot AI features were folded into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote at the new price.

Sources

Pricing page: microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/onedrive/compare-onedrive-plans. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Solo and transfer use Microsoft's consumer comparison page (fetched 2026-10-17, $9.99/mo monthly). Team10 relies on Office Watch's stated Business Basic rate after the July 2026 rise, and the OneDrive for Business Plan 1 exclusion rests on third-party reports.