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.
iCloud+ 2 TB
Apple Support, "iCloud+ plans and pricing", United States table — 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 — 5 GB with any Apple Account, no expiry.
- Price read from
- Apple Support, "iCloud+ plans and pricing", United States table
- Checked
- Vendor
- apple.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.
iCloud+ with 2 TB is $9.99 a month in the United States, which is $119.88 across twelve months. There is no annual plan to prepay into: Apple’s own support page says plainly that after you upgrade you are billed monthly, and every figure it publishes is a monthly one.
The interesting part is what Apple charges at the tiers above. On the same page, read 23 August 2026, 6 TB is $29.99 a month and 12 TB is $59.99 a month. Convert those to a rate and the line is almost perfectly flat — $59.94, $59.98 and $59.99 per terabyte per year. Buying six times as much storage from Apple gets you no discount whatsoever.
Below 2 TB it gets worse rather than better: 200 GB at $2.99 a month is $179.40 per terabyte per year, and 50 GB at $0.99 is $237.60.
Apple publishes no separate renewal price, which for a month-to-month subscription is unsurprising.
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