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Dropbox Plus costs $9.99 a month billed yearly — $119.88 a year — for 2TB and one person. Pay month to month and it’s $11.99, or $143.88 a year. Both figures were read from Dropbox’s own plans page on 27 October 2026.
That’s the same 2TB that Google sells for $99.99 a year and that Microsoft bundles with Word and Excel for six people at $129.99. So the question is not whether Dropbox is good. It’s whether the specific thing Dropbox does better is something you actually use — because if it isn’t, you’re paying the most for the least.
What Dropbox charges now
The personal line-up has shrunk. Dropbox’s US plans page now shows one paid personal plan, Plus, alongside the free Basic plan and two team plans.
| Plan | Billed yearly | Billed monthly | Annual cost | Storage | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | Free | $0 | 2GB, up to 3 devices | 1 |
| Plus | $9.99/mo | $11.99/mo | $119.88 (yearly) / $143.88 (monthly) | 2TB | 1 |
| Standard | $15/user/mo | $18/user/mo | $180 per user (yearly) | 3TB for the team | 1 or more |
| Advanced | $24/user/mo | $30/user/mo | $288 per user (yearly) | 15TB for the team | 3 or more |
Plus also includes 30 days to restore deleted files and transfers of up to 50GB; Standard stretches those to 180 days and 100GB.
Dropbox Family is the gap. Its own Family page and help centre still describe it — 2TB shared between up to six members — but neither prints a price, and it doesn’t appear on the US plans page at all. We couldn’t find a current US Family price anywhere on Dropbox’s own site, so we won’t quote one. If a household plan is the reason you’re reading, that’s worth knowing before you start: the one price Dropbox will show you is for a single person.
The calculation: what each terabyte costs you
Storage is priced per tier, but you pay for what you use. Find the number in your Dropbox account settings, then:
Annual price ÷ gigabytes you actually store = what you pay per gigabyte, per year.
On Plus billed yearly, at $119.88:
- Storing 300GB: $119.88 ÷ 300 = $0.40 per GB per year
- Storing 1TB: $119.88 ÷ 1,000 = $0.12 per GB per year
- Storing 1.8TB: $119.88 ÷ 1,800 = under 7 cents per GB per year
Most people sit at the top of that list, not the bottom. If your number is in the low hundreds of gigabytes, you’re paying for headroom, and a cheaper tier elsewhere fits — iCloud+ 200GB is $2.99 a month, $35.88 a year; Google One’s 100GB Basic plan is $19.99 a year.
And the billing cycle matters more than it looks. Monthly Plus costs $24 a year more for identical storage. Over five years that’s $719.40 monthly versus $599.40 yearly — $120 for the privilege of being able to leave sooner. That’s the standard trade, and our framework for when it’s worth taking applies here unchanged: if you’ve had Dropbox for more than a year, you’re not leaving, so pay yearly.
Against the three alternatives
All prices below were read from each company’s own page on 27 October 2026.
| Annual price | Storage | Share with | Per person, if six share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dropbox Plus | $119.88 | 2TB | 1 person only | — |
| Google AI Plus | $99.99 | 2TB | up to 5 others | $16.67 |
| iCloud+ 2TB | $119.88 ($9.99/mo) | 2TB | up to 5 others | $19.98 |
| Microsoft 365 Family | $129.99 | 2TB shared | 1 to 6 people | $21.67 |
Three things fall out of that table.
Dropbox is never the cheapest 2TB. Google is $19.89 a year less. Apple charges exactly the same $119.88 — but Apple’s price covers your whole family, and Dropbox’s covers you.
Microsoft 365 Family is the awkward comparison. For $10.11 a year more than Dropbox Plus, Microsoft gives you the same 2TB, shared across up to six people, plus the desktop Office apps. If you’d otherwise pay for Office separately, Dropbox Plus is hard to justify on price at all. We ran the full Microsoft 365 numbers separately; if it fits, you can buy Microsoft 365 Family on Amazon. (Microsoft 365 Personal, with 1TB for one person, is $99.99 a year.)
Google bundles AI whether you want it or not. Google’s 2TB tier is now sold as Google AI Plus, with Gemini attached. It’s still the cheapest 2TB on the list; just know you’re buying an AI product that happens to include your storage. We cover the three-way storage comparison in more depth in Google One vs iCloud+ vs Dropbox.
What Dropbox still does that the others don’t
None of this means Dropbox is overpriced for everyone. It means it’s priced as a tool for moving files between people, and it’s only good value if that’s how you use it. Going by what Dropbox’s own pages describe:
- It doesn’t care what device anyone uses. Desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux, plus iOS and Android. iCloud is built for Apple hardware; Google and Microsoft are friendlier to their own. If your work crosses all three, Dropbox is the neutral ground.
- File requests. You can collect files from people who don’t have Dropbox at all — a client’s documents, every guest’s wedding photos — into a folder you own.
- Large transfers. Plus sends files up to 50GB, which matters if you hand off video or design work.
- 30-day restore for deleted files, so an accidental delete isn’t permanent.
If two or more of those describe your week, Plus earns its price, and the $19.89 premium over Google is a reasonable cost of not being locked into one company’s ecosystem.
If none of them do, you’re using Dropbox as a bucket. And as a bucket, it’s the most expensive one in the table.
If it’s mostly photos, check Prime first
Amazon Prime members get unlimited full-resolution photo storage plus 5GB for video in Amazon Photos — confirmed on Amazon’s own Amazon Photos page on 27 October 2026 (availability only; we don’t quote Amazon’s prices, for reasons we explain). Prime costs about $140 a year, approximate because Amazon’s prices can’t be confirmed at source.
You wouldn’t buy Prime for photo storage alone; it’s about $20 more than Dropbox Plus. But if you already pay for Amazon Prime for delivery, and your 2TB is mostly a camera roll, you may be paying twice for the same photos. Video is the catch: 5GB fills fast. We’ve weighed whether Prime is worth it on its own terms.
Verdict
Keep Dropbox Plus — billed yearly, at $119.88 — if you share and receive files with people outside your household, work across Windows, Mac, Linux and phones, or regularly send files too big for email. That’s what the price is for, and on those terms it still makes sense.
Stay on Basic if you store under 2GB and use three or fewer devices. It’s free and does the job; the 3-device limit is the catch.
Don’t buy Dropbox Plus if:
- It’s your household’s storage. Plus is one person. iCloud+ covers six people for the same $119.88, Google covers six for $99.99, and Microsoft 365 Family covers six with Office for $129.99.
- You mostly store photos and phone backups. That’s a storage problem, not a sharing one, and Google charges $19.89 a year less for the same 2TB — or Prime may already cover the photos.
- You also pay for Microsoft Office. Microsoft 365 Family replaces both for $10.11 a year more than Dropbox alone.
- You’re paying monthly out of habit. Switching to yearly saves $24 a year from the next renewal.
The pattern with cloud storage is that nobody cancels it — it holds the things you can’t lose — so whatever you pick now you’ll likely still be paying in five years. At $599.40 over that time, it’s worth spending ten minutes now checking you picked the right one.
Dropbox, Google One, iCloud+ and Microsoft 365 prices verified on each company’s own pages on 27 October 2026. We could not find a current US price for Dropbox Family on Dropbox’s own site, so none is given. Amazon Prime’s price is approximate and could not be confirmed at source; Amazon Photos’ storage terms were confirmed on Amazon’s own page the same day. We analyse published pricing and terms — we don’t test these services hands-on.