Google is rebranding Google Drive storage plans under the name Google One. Along with the rebranding, Google is also improving its pricing in ways that give customers more options and more storage at lower prices. It marks the service's first price cut in four years.
Google One plans start at the same place as Google Drive plans - $1.99 per month for 100GB of additional storage - but the situation improves after that. Google is introducing a new $2.99-per-month tier, which includes 200GB of storage, and it's upgrading the $9.99-per-month tier to include 2TB of storage instead of 1TB.
The process for signing up is simple, you just head into Google Drive and click on Storage, then Upgrade Storage, to bring up all the possible upgrades.
Pricing for plans larger than 2TB remains the same.
The storage isn't just limited to Drive but is also used for Gmail and Photos.
Google says it's already moved Drive subscribers on personal accounts over to Google One plans. As of today, anyone in the US can sign up with the new pricing. Obviously, your choice of cloud storage provider is going to be dependent on what services you typically use - if you're stuck in iCloud, this won't mean much to you - but on an even playing field, Google's pricing is extremely competitive. Microsoft offers half as much storage as Google at $1.99 per month; Dropbox doesn't offer anything between free and $9.99; and while iCloud has an appealing $0.99-per-month plan with 50GB of storage, you have to jump straight to a $2.99 / 200GB plan if you want anything more than that.
