What cloud storage costs per terabyte per year
Every mainstream cloud storage plan, normalised to the one number none of them print — dollars per terabyte per year. Prices read from the vendors on 23 August 2026.
Google One 2 TB
Google One plans and pricing page (one.google.com/about/plans), US, signed out — read on 23 August 2026.
$9.99 a month · list price
Not published renewal price
- Billed
- $9.99/mo — $119.88 a year
- Renews at
- Not published
- Free tier
- Yes — Google states up to 15 GB free across Drive, Gmail and Photos.
- Price read from
- Google One plans and pricing page (one.google.com/about/plans), US, signed out
- Checked
- Vendor
- one.google.com
“Not published” means we did not find a renewal price stated by the vendor on the date we checked. It is not a claim that the price changes on renewal, and it is not a claim that it doesn’t.
Google One at 2 TB is $9.99 a month, or $119.88 over twelve months. The plans page carries a “Save up to 16%” badge for paying annually but does not print the annual figure anywhere on the page, so this desk cannot record one.
Naming is a problem here. On 23 August 2026 the plans page listed the 2 TB tier as “Google AI Plus” at $9.99 a month and a 5 TB tier as “Google AI Pro” at $19.99 a month. Google’s separate Google AI plans page, read the same day, showed a “Google AI Plus” at $4.99 a month with 400 GB. Same name, two different bundles, two different prices, two Google pages. We price the 2 TB tier at what the plans page showed.
The tiers do at least taper: 100 GB at $1.99 a month is $238.80 per terabyte per year, 2 TB is $59.94 and 5 TB is $47.98.
Where we have written about this
This is a price record, not a review. We do not rate the product, we track what it charges. The method is on how we check prices; mistakes end up in the corrections log.