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).
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2 comments:

  1. Martin25/4/12 7:55 AM

    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.

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  2. JGF25/4/12 10:55 PM

    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".

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