With the new generation, things are more online. From food to experience everything is online now a day. We store most of your documents and images online due to their ease.
But due to an increase in the demand for online cloud services. These cloud providers also bump their prices significantly. Today’s video will talk about a few Google Drive that you can use.
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What is google drive?
Google Drive is a cloud-based file storage solution. They come with all the google accounts you have. By default, they give lots of features like:
- 15GB of free storage
- Accessibility on any device
- Seamless integration with the other google product.
- Offers tools for sharing and collaboration
Why consider a google drive alternative?
Many people have a concern about choosing a google drive alternative. Here are a few common ones:
1.) Price
By default, google offers 15 Gb of free storage but that is not enough for most people. For that google also offers there paid plans and they are as follows:
100 GB for $1.99/month or $19.99/year
200 GB for $2.99/month or $29.99/year.
2 TB for $9.99/month or $99.99/year
2.) Compatibility
Google Drive offers great compatibility with google products. But with the other product, the compatibility is not that good.
3.) Security
As Google is a big giant and has there monopoly in this space. Due to this amount of centralization, there is a security risk is also associated with this.
Top 5 Google Drive Alternatives
There are lots of Google Drive Alternatives that are available in the market but here I want to mention the top 5 that you can go for:
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft also comes with its package. There are lots of similar features that you will get with OneDrive. OneDrive is very similar to google drive. Microsoft also offers lots of tools that are similar to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
All the features that google drive have most of that feature are there also. But in OneDrive there is a feature called vault using which you can secure your files with password authentication.
Pricing
Home
Free: 5 GB
OneDrive Standalone: 100 GB for $1.99/month
Microsoft 365 Personal: 1 TB for $69.99/year
Microsoft 365 Family: 6 TB total (1000 GB per person) for $99.99/year
Business
OneDrive for Business (Plan 1): 1 TB for $5/month/user
OneDrive for Business (Plan 2): Unlimited (if you have 5+ users) for $10/month/user
Microsoft 365 Business Basic: 1 TB for $5/month/user
Microsoft 365 Business Standard: 1 TB for $12.50/month/user
Dropbox
Dropbox is also a well-known brand. It is been in the market since around 2007 same as google drive. It’s better to sync all around with your device. It feels more smooth and fast compared to google drive.
But you will only get around 2GB to free data but that can easily be extended to 19GB by referring to your friend.
Pricing
Individual
Free: 2 GB
Plus: 2 TB for $9.99/month
Family: 2 TB (2,000 GB per user) for $16.99/month
Professional
Professional: 3 TB for $16.58/month
Professional + design: 3 TB for $24.99/month
Standard Teams: 5 TB for $12.50/user/month
Advanced Teams: Unlimited for $20/user/month
pCloud
It is one of the encrypted solutions. They are also claimed as the most secure cloud storage. All the content is encrypted by the encryption and the encryption key will not be stored on their server. You can easily sync all your files with pCloud.
By default, they will give you around 10GB of data. But by referring to your friends you will easily get around 20GB. If you want to stick to pCloud for a long then with the yearly plan you will save a lot.
Pricing
Premium: 1 TB for $49.99/year or $175 for life
Premium Plus: 2 TB for $99.99/year or $350 for life
Business: 1 TB for $7.99/user/month
Family: 2 TB for $500 for life
Mega.nz
Mega is a cloud provider that initially gives you 20GB of free data. That you can easily extend to 50GB by referring to your friends. It’s great for collaboration they also have their chat integrated with that. They also encrypt your data.
Unlike google drive they don’t have all the google Docs, google Slides features. But you can stream your video with that.
Pricing
Pro Lite: 400 GB for $58.59/year
Pro I: 2 Tb for $117.19/year
Pro II: 8 TB for $234.39/year
Pro III: 6 TB for $351.59/year
Business: Plans start at $5.86/user/month
iCloud
It is the apple offering of cloud storage. This comes with all apple devices. They also have a similar feature to google drive.
Apple restricts to backup of their application only to iCloud. That creates a kind of monopoly. They provided 5GB of free data.
Pricing
Free: 5 GB
50 GB for $0.99/month
200 GB for $2.99/month
2 TB for $9.99/month
Amazon Drive
After seeing their competitor, Amazon also launches there a version of cloud storage. They provided unlimited photo space but only 5GB of video space.
You can easily sync all the files with other members. They also have all the important features that google drive.
Pricing
Free: 5 GB
100 GB for $1.99/month
1 TB for $6.99/month
2 TB for $11.99/month
Conclusion
If you want to switch from google drive there are lots of good alternatives in the market. You can educate yourself and make a better choice.
