Apple won’t offer you any more than 64 GB of storage on iPhones and iPod touches, whereas Google Drive’s paid options start at 100GB. This is both more expensive than iCloud and Google Drive and generally less appealing. This translates to 6.25 dollars per gigabyte. Even so, I think anyone would find it hard to justify that this convenience is worth approximately eight times the price.Īs an additional metric, for most iOS devices it costs $100 dollars to add an additional 16 GB of local storage. Unlike many Google services, iCloud is ad-free. It could be argued that Apple’s solution is more integrated to the iOS and Mac platforms, for instance, or that Apple’s motivations for hosting your data are much more ‘honest’. Google Drive is almost like a hard drive in the sky, you can store whatever you want there. Obviously, there are differences in the quality of services this storage can provide. This means Apple’s current rates are 7.5x more expensive than Google’s. Meanwhile, Apple charges you 1.8 dollars.
Doing some basic arithmetic, for one gigabyte of cloud storage over a year, Google charges you 24 cents. Whatever way you cut it, Apple’s prices are exorbitant in comparison to Google’s. Rather amusingly, Apple’s options do not even allow users to perform a 1:1 backup of their 64 GB and 128 GB devices - the top iCloud tier totals 55 GB of storage. Even so, these new price points make Apple’s iCloud storage offerings look awful in terms of value for money.įor iCloud storage, Apple currently charges $20 yearly for 15 GB, $50 yearly for 25 GB and $100 yearly for 55 GB (lumping in the free 5 gigabytes Apple gives to every user). It should be noted that Google bills customers monthly. This storage is shared across Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos. Google has just announced some new price plans for its Google Drive service. The new plans start at $1.99 for 100 GB (down from $4.99), $10 for 1 TB (down from $50) and 10 TB for $99.99.
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