Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Google Drive: Google's 20% price hike

With the debut of Google Drive, Google has increased their storage plan costs:


My old plan cost me $20 a year for 80GB (without Google Drive). It's no longer offered, but I can continue with it if I wish.

The equivalent new plan would cost me $60 a year for 200GB (extra storage largely for Google Drive).

My per GB costs would therefore increase from 0.25$ to 0.30$; a 20% price hike. [1]

Curious. For now I'll stay with my old plan and the "free" 5GB of Google Drive storage.

[1] The numbers are better if you consider what I would actually use if I committed to Google Drive. I am using 20GB and thus paying $1/GB for storage I truly use. It may be that Google's prior prices were only profitable when most of the storage was not in use, which was likely given limited use options (primarily Picasa).

2 comments:

Martin said...

Google offers me the following options for Google Drive storage:

20 GB ($4.00/license/month) - based on assigned licenses
50 GB ($7.50/license/month) - based on assigned licenses
200 GB ($17.50/license/month) - based on assigned licenses
400 GB ($35.00/license/month) - based on assigned licenses
1 TB ($89.00/license/month) - based on assigned licenses
2 TB ($179.00/license/month) - based on assigned licenses
4 TB ($358.00/license/month) - based on assigned licenses
8 TB ($716.00/license/month) - based on assigned licenses
16 TB ($1,430.00/license/month)

A 100 GB option is not available.

JGF said...

Sounds like what I'm hearing about Google Apps.

On the one hand I don't love my 20% price hike, but on the other I'm happy Google wants cash. I'd much rather pay for Google services than get them for "free".