Can we have different plans / price points / data combinations / plan sizes?

[Michel L.]

Hi, I find limited in the choices of subscription plans. Basic/free and Pro/110$

I'd gladly pay something like 25$ a year for 50GB and a 2 users family plan.

Considering iCloud have a 12$ plan for 20 GB and 48$ for 200GB, that seems reasonable..

[Jim M.]

I'll never pay $10 per month for Dropbox Pro. Ever.

But I would happily pay $5 per month ($50 per year paid in advance) for 10 GB of storage. Until Dropbox gets smart and improves their pricing model, I'll use the free service and then look for another cloud storage solution when I need more space. Preferably one that wants my money.

[Chris R.]

I'd pay $5 a month, no problem, but I'd want more than 10GB for it - basically I'd want to store my iPhoto Library, so up to 100GB. (That's still only a tenth of what Business users paying double, get.)

[Rich]

But I would happily pay $5 per month ($50 per year paid in advance) for 10 GB of storage.

You can earn much more than 10GB for free. I'm on a Free account and I have 30GB of storage.

Dropbox has trialed lower tier plans in the past and they didn't work out. More people downgraded to the lower plans than they had people signing up for new plans, and they lost money as a result. Since then, they've only offered the pricing structure that is in place now.

[Chris R.]

I think Kim makes some excellent points. A lot of people downgraded? Well, that just tells me that there is a large gap Dropbox leaves unfilled, i.e. the "middle ground" where people would like something like 100GB or 250GB, and would pay for it if it was priced reasonably.

I use Dropbox to keep my most important documents (not photos, not music, not movies, not apps) sync'd online where they are safely backed up. The free service is fine for that. But it would also be good to upload those larger media files too, and I would pay for that. I don't need 1TB. I won't pay £10. But a smaller space for less money ... yes, I'd pay.

So, Dropbox, the ball's in your court. I'm here, and I will pay, if you offer me the right option.

[Krisztián B.]

+1

[Brandi M.]

Does anyone else feel that there should be options for something less than 1000 GB? or is it just me? I would never use that much and don't have the money to pay $99 a year for something that I won't ever even come close to using! The most I would ever need would probably be 100 GB. I was all ready to upgrade and figured I'd be paying about $50 at the most (I wouldn't mind having to pay for something like 200-500 GB even though I don't really need quite that much). An easy fix to keep it free would be to separate my stuff between SkyDrive, Google, and Dropbox (I could probably even just use like 2 of them), but I'd really rather just pay something (but not $99) and keep it in one spot.

Please Dropbox! Please consider smaller options!

[Rich]

Hi Brandi,

They've tried smaller options before and found that they lost more money from people downgrading than they made up for with new subscriptions. It wasn't financially feasible so those smaller plans are no longer offered. It's unlikely they will return.

[Brandi M.]

I can understand that to a point, but there is a huge jump from 2 GB to 1000 GB. Surely they could afford to do just ONE middle option. Not sure their rationale makes sense - If you don't use anything near 1TB, then you don't, and you know that you don't, -so many people would just not sign up for it (so there would be no downgrade). If they had just one middle option, those of us who have way less than that would just sign up for the middle one -and keep it.

Just today, I was willing to pay money to keep my Drop box (because I thought at one time I had seen a reasonable price) -now I'm not because it's ridiculous to pay for 1000 GB when I only have 12 GB of files! -so they won't be getting my money. My mother will not be keeping hers either because she's on a limited income (she would be willing to do up to $50 -but not $100 -she only has a few GB of files). I'm quite positive there are hundreds of others as well so you know that they have to be losing money that way too. I will do like the others do and split my stuff between my free cloud spaces (I don't have so much that it would be hard).

off to put that Sky Drive folder back on my computer that I had deleted because I had Drop Box!

[Mark]

It does make perfect sense if you think about it - especially considering recently the plan WAS a 100gb one for $99.

Most people, me included, would downgrade as I need nowhere near 1TB of space hence they lose money. Lots of money.

You also need to remember SkyDrive have other sources of income that Dropbox doesnt - namely office!

[David P.8]

I would like to see Dropbox offer a smaller, cheaper package than the 'Pro'. 1Tb is huge and £7.99 per month too expensive. It would be great if there was a 'basic plus' package that offered say 50Gb for around £1.99 per month. Much more affordable and practical for non-heavy users.