Google Drive vs Dropbox with every price read from the vendors' own pages and dated: free storage, 2 TB plans, team pricing, and the unlimited-storage change most comparisons still miss.
Key takeaways
- Google gives 15 GB free and sells 2 TB for $9.99 a month; Dropbox's free plan holds 2 GB and its 2 TB Plus plan also costs $9.99. All figures dated from the vendors' own pricing, June and July 2026.
- Dropbox no longer offers unlimited storage on any plan: its team tiers start at 3 TB and 15 TB in Dropbox's own words, a change many comparison pages, including earlier editions of this one, still miss.
- For teams, the real comparison is Dropbox's per-user plans against Google Workspace, where storage arrives bundled with Gmail, Meet, and the office suite your team may already be paying for.
Table of contents
For most people this comparison comes down to four numbers. Every Google account includes 15 GB of free storage, and Google's 2 TB plan costs $9.99 a month; Dropbox's 2 TB Plus plan costs the same $9.99, and its free plan holds 2 GB.
Every price on this page was read from the vendor's own published pricing on July 28, 2026, and is dated, because storage pricing moves and comparison pages rarely move with it. Where a figure changed or a plan was retired, this page says so instead of carrying the old version forward.
Google Drive vs Dropbox pricing in 2026
Google's consumer storage is sold through Google One: 15 GB free with every account, 100 GB at $1.99 a month, 2 TB at $9.99 on the tier Google now brands Google AI Plus, and $19.99 at the top. That rebrand is recent and worth noting, because any page still selling "Google One Premium" is describing a plan name that no longer exists.
Dropbox's US lineup runs Plus at $9.99 a month for 2 TB, Family at $16.99 a month for up to six people sharing 2 TB, and Standard at $15 per user for teams, starting at 3 TB shared. One wrinkle worth knowing: Dropbox's lineup differs by region, and its UK plans page leads with team tiers instead, including an Advanced plan at £18 per user starting at 15 TB that the US consumer page does not sell. Prices here are the US figures, read from Dropbox's own purchase page, dated June 2026.
At the 2 TB point where most buyers actually compare, Google and Dropbox both charge $9.99, so price alone should not decide it; the free tiers and the team question below are where the real differences live.
How much free storage do you get?
Google's answer is 15 GB with every account, in Google's own words, shared across Gmail, Google Photos, and Drive, which means a full inbox and photo library eat into it. Dropbox's free plan holds 2 GB, roughly a seventh of Google's allowance, tucked behind a "need 2GB?" link on its purchase page rather than listed as a plan, which tells you how much the company wants free users to upgrade.
If the question is purely where to park files for nothing, Google wins on volume before any other factor is considered.
Dropbox no longer offers unlimited storage
The single biggest change most comparison pages have not caught up with: Dropbox retired unlimited storage. Its Standard plan "starts at 3 TB for the team" and Advanced "starts at 15 TB for the team", in Dropbox's own published words, and no current plan is uncapped.
An earlier edition of this page told readers two of Dropbox's three plans offered unlimited storage, and versions of that claim still circulate widely. It stopped being true when Dropbox capped its tiers, and a comparison built on it points buyers at a product that no longer exists. Dropbox remains a substantial business either way: its Q1 2026 SEC filing reports 18.09 million paying users.
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Google Drive vs Dropbox for business
For a team, the honest comparison is not Drive versus Dropbox but Google Workspace versus Dropbox's team plans, because Workspace bundles its storage with Gmail, Meet, Docs, and the admin layer, while Dropbox's team tiers sell storage and file workflow alone: Standard at $15 per user starting at 3 TB for the team, and in the UK lineup an Advanced tier at £18 per user starting at 15 TB. Workspace's own storage runs 30 GB pooled per person on Business Starter, 2 TB on Standard, and 5 TB on Plus, from Google's own comparison table.
The deciding question is which tool sits at the center of the team's day. If your company runs on Gmail and the office suite, Workspace's bundled storage usually makes a separate Dropbox subscription an overlap rather than an addition; if your work is file-delivery-first, with heavy external sharing of large assets, Dropbox's team plans are built for exactly that shape and Workspace's storage is the afterthought.
Which should you choose?
Choose Google Drive if you want the most free storage, if your files live next to Gmail and Google Docs anyway, or if a team is already paying for Workspace, where the storage comes bundled. Choose Dropbox if file delivery is the work itself, if your team shares large assets with outside clients constantly, or if you want storage that is deliberately separate from your email and office suite.
Both are mature, reliable sync products, and in 2026 the differences that used to fill comparison pages, sync engines and search features, are marginal next to the three that actually decide it: price, free allowance, and which ecosystem your work already lives in.
How these figures are verified
Every price and plan name on this page comes from the vendor's own published pricing or filings, named and dated in the sentence that carries it, with no aggregator sources used. US figures are canonical, one UK-only tier is stated in its own currency, and figures were last verified on July 28, 2026, against vendor pages read in June and July 2026.
This page is re-verified when either vendor changes its plans, with corrections recorded rather than silently overwritten; the unlimited-storage claim retired above is the standing example of why.
If the business half of this comparison is your half, the storage decision usually travels with a bigger one: where the team's daily work lives. For companies on Google Workspace, that is Gmail, and Drag runs your shared inbox there, alongside the Drive and Gmail your files and conversations already sit in.
Google Drive vs Dropbox FAQs
Is Dropbox part of Google?
No. Dropbox is an independent, publicly traded company founded in 2007; it competes with Google Drive rather than belonging to Google. Its Q1 2026 SEC filing reports 18.09 million paying users.
Which is cheaper, Google Drive or Dropbox?
At 2 TB they are identical: $9.99 a month on both Google's 2 TB plan and Dropbox Plus, on each vendor's own US pricing. Below that, Google's $1.99 100 GB tier and 15 GB free allowance make it the cheaper way to store less.
Does Dropbox still offer unlimited storage?
No. Dropbox retired unlimited storage; its team plans start at 3 TB (Standard) and 15 TB (Advanced) in Dropbox's own words. Comparisons still promising unlimited Dropbox storage are out of date.
How much free storage do Google Drive and Dropbox give?
Google gives 15 GB with every account, shared across Gmail, Photos, and Drive. Dropbox's free plan holds 2 GB, offered through its Basic sign-up page rather than listed alongside the paid plans.
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