As we are looking at personal pricing rather than business, both OneDrive and Google Drive offer much more choice. This is more than enough to help you back up your essential files. The 1TB package tends to be the most popular. There is an option for extended version history for $39 that allows users to access previous versions of files, and deleted items, for up to one year without impacting your storage. Dropbox Plus will cost you $9.99 monthly, or you can pay annually for $99.00, which works out to $8.25 per month. Additional features include remote device wipe, encrypted and expiring link access and view-only access. Should you choose to upgrade to Dropbox Plus (formerly Dropbox Pro), your storage is then increased to 1TB (1,024GB).

For each person who signs up for Dropbox, you both receive an additional 500MB of storage, but it is capped at 16GB. They do not represent the views of, nor constitute an endorsement by Capterra or its affiliates.For Dropbox, the free offering starts off at 2GB with the ability to gain more through referrals. Note: Listed pros and cons are derived from features listed on the product website and product user reviews on Gartner Digital Markets domains (Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice). In addition to these qualifications, we checked for products that received over 100 reviews over the last two years. For this guide, we included options that offer a mobile app for at least one of the two platforms. Mobile apps: Dropbox offers both Android and iOS mobile apps. For this guide, we considered options that have similar protocols to maintain security and privacy of user data. Dropbox also has measures in place to protect user privacy, as well as detect any suspicious account activity, phishing, and malware.

Both of those are widely used security protocols. Security and privacy protocols: Dropbox uses 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to protect stored data, and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) to protect data during transfer. For this list, we included products that offer at least 5GB of free storage. Storage: While Dropbox Basic offers only 2GB of free storage, in our research we discovered that a lot of Dropbox competitors offer anywhere from 5GB to 15GB storage in their free plans.

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