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..

[whimsicalcyn]

It jumps from 2GB to 2TB and that's just too much.  I'm the kind of person who needs less than 100GB of space but way more than 2GB and I feel like $10+/month for something I'm going to use less than 10% of is too much.

Even a 500GB-1TB option for $5/month could be feasable.  I'd sign up for that in a heartbeat!

[billmikkelson]

Great idea. I agree. Will not need or acquire 2 TB, but would pay $5 for 500 GB or       1 TB

[guiemi]

A minha sugestão é simples: cobrar menos do que R$ 50 por um serviço de nuvem. É impossível converter clientes, e nós ficamos, assim, dependentes de alternativas não tão boas, como OneDrive e GDrive.

A menos que o negócio de vocês seja, B2B; aí paciência.

Eu fico refém do Google Drive basicamente porque o preço do Dropbox, cobrado em dólar e começando somente a partir de 1 TB, é impraticável no Brasil para uma parcela considerável de clientes -- como eu.

O Dropbox não tem plano pra estudante, não atende usuários que precisam de apenas 100 GB, 200 GB, 500 GB. Eu queria entender por quê. O Google Drive é legal, mas é o Dropbox que eu quero usar; porém é absurdo (pra não dizer risível) esse preço de quase 60 reais mensais pelo plano premium.

Eu nem sei quem vai ler esse post. É apenas um rant mesmo de um usuário que fica puto toda vez que precisa contar com o Google Drive e sente saudade do quão bem o Dropbox funciona, e não pode pagar 60 reais mensais, primeiro por ser caro demais e segundo por 1 TB de armazanento ser espaço demais

[guiemi]

Eu fico refém do Google Drive basicamente porque o preço do Dropbox, cobrado em dólar e começando somente a partir de 1 TB, é impraticável no Brasil para uma parcela considerável de clientes -- como eu.

O Dropbox não tem plano pra estudante, não atende usuários que precisam de apenas 100 GB, 200 GB, 500 GB. Eu queria entender por quê. O Google Drive é legal, mas é o Dropbox que eu quero usar; porém é absurdo (pra não dizer risível) esse preço de quase 60 reais mensais pelo plano premium.

Eu nem sei quem vai ler esse post. É apenas um rant mesmo de um usuário que fica puto toda vez que precisa contar com o Google Drive e sente saudade do quão bem o Dropbox funciona, e não pode pagar 60 reais mensais, primeiro por ser caro demais e segundo por 1 TB de armazanento ser espaço demais

[vojta]

I would pay 3-6 euros per month for a plan in 50 - 200gb range. Please consider it. Or maybe a onetime payment to upgrade basic plan to someting "basic plus" with 50 gb of storage. We have other options, but we love dropbox for years. Other options:

1) pCloud - they have one time payment for 500gb plan. They are wonderful, but on mac they use fuse technology and I dont trust it (with disconnection from network i seem to lose some data). For phone and windows i think they can replace dropbox just fine.

2) mega.nz - 50 gb for free, no file history, strange limits

3) other services like iCloud, google drive, one drive, box, but somehow i would like to continue using dropbox.

[onlyseano]

My dropbox has insignificantly small text files, and yet I'm supposed to spend ~$10/month for access to those files on my four devices. I would switch to another online storage option, but Dropbox is the ONLY option that syncs with Scrivener, which is an essential tool for me. The end result is that I am unable to edit my (again, very small) documents on my tablet unless I drop a non-equitable amount of cash on a subscription. I don't need these crazy amounts of data--I just need to be able to access my data on the devices I use every day. 

As it is, I'm just waiting for my Scrivener app to support another storage option so I can jump ship completely. If they were to offer a more consumer-friendly option--say $3/mo or so--to access my files I would jump on it, but every time I've called customer service I get the hard "that is not an option we offer." 

So basically, they're leaving money on the table from folks like me who aren't running some massive business and just need to work solo. 

[jbarnaby]

Completely agree, I love Dropbox and it's probably the best service out there when compared with the big players as Google Drive, Apple iCloud and Microsoft OneDrive, but the pricing is way off. I don't need 2TB of storage, so paying $10/month when I can pay $2 to one of the competitors for 200GB is a huge difference.

[Riverline]

Hello,

Please take your time to read this message with a thank you in advance.

I would like to talk management and relevant staff about smaller storage options. Dropbox is amazing, I love it and recommend to anyone and everyone. Thank you for this amazing service with loads of simplicity and compatibilities. But what about simpler people and not just business? Business basic plan is 5TB for €10 per month, but people's basic plan is just 2GB for free and then 2TB for €10 per month. Also, file recovery in Free account is for 30 days, in Basic paid account it is still for 30 days, but for Premium plan recovery is for 180 days? Where is logic in this? Why not 60 days for a basic paid plan? It just does not add up for me, sorry. Maybe you can improve that and make paid to 60 days because it feels off-putting to pay for that? Or maybe for 2 months instead of 60 days, because it does not add up again.

What about this for personal Dropbox:

2 GB FREE

50 GB or 100 GB for €2

2 TB €10

3 TB €17

... ?

Given that the approximate calculations look as follows:

3 TB €17

2 TB €10

1 TB €7

500 GB €4

I did read that Dropbox admins tried a cheaper price plan before and that it did not work out, but I cannot find anything in particular what they tried and what happened. It would help me to think about it, I am very analytical. If even 50GB for €2 is too much too offer which I think makes financial long-term sense, then I and many others would be happy enough even with 20GB for €2. Admins need to understand the competition and that 2GB is not enough, but 100s of GBs or several TBs are not what most of people need whereas they have to decluter first. Backup is for the important files, not just for anything and everything. Not possible to store anything and everything forever in one place. Never was, never will be. Life does not work that way.

To make these considerations, I looked at other data storage services, hardware prices, considered what people would store and what tech resulting in data storage is out there like 24MP DSLRs for videos/pictures and various app and document sizes and etc., computer and phone backups, as well as Dropbox business expenses and profit requirements.

Do you know that Google offers mail services and 100GB for €1.99 / month, 200GB for €2.99 ....?

I happily pay them €2.99 for 200 GB use only 3GB where most data is in GDrive being my phone backup. Mail takes up only a few MBs because I keep on deleting all the old mail and have less than 200 emails saved after 14 years of use. Google prices are with mail services included, not just data and Youtube and many other services. Maybe too cheap for such a service, because 200 GB of data storage is loads. Maybe too many people are too reliant on online storage? If something would happen to Dropbox, then what? People still need to have their backups at home. You cannot expect everyone to be reliant on cloud storage. For now, you seem to mainly work with businesses because of the prices provided. Most people probably are using free service with no benefit for you. If you would introduce cheaper plan like I offer, you would benefit from many of them starting to use paid service and provide you an additional income for a very fair storage option. Free version of 2 GB to 5GB with max referrals is not enough. Cloud service options are popping up like crazy globally. Dropbox is one of the best, or the best.

I seen loads of data server designs and they seem to not even understand warm air flow in the data storage units and racks, which moves first upwards and then sideways towards the vents. Vents need to be at the high end, not the middle. It would help even more to place the data storage units with a front facing a bit downwards and back upwards like shop displays are made, but not that much. Oh well. I am just a simple person researching loads and thinking loads........ Maybe they have some point for that, but I cannot understand it.

If you would think about general monthly expenses of people... Google costs €2-3 per month, Netflix €5, Spotify €10 (too much), + others, + websites, + some euros for paid games and movies and music, + phone bills, + utilities, + rent, + food, + clothing, + some things, + going out, + charity support, + transport ...   

What do you think? I am looking forward to everyone's opinion.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Egidijus Musvickas.

[Riverline]

Just noticed that there is a problem with a view counter for the forum pages.

Every time I refresh page, counter for my message does +1. It is not practical and misleading users. That was an old way of doing thngs. It can be simply fixed by programmers. Thank you in advance.

[mbxdoc]

Add some lower tier plans such as a 15GB or 25GB plan that allows > 3 connected devices and only charge $0.99/month or $1.99 etc based on the total storage.  Many users such as myself do not need 2TB of data and don't need a $9.99 plan.  If you do this, I am a paying customer.  Otherwise, I'll stick with iCloud for $0.99/mo for 50GB thank you.

[tetu_1120]

個人の有料プランに容量と料金を下げたプランを追加してほしいです。

現在個人の無料プランをバックアップではなく仕事用データ共有で利用させていただいているのですが

データひとつ100MBを超えるものが多くすぐに容量がいっぱいになってしまいます。

ですが仕事一回分10GB未満に2TBは持て余します。

なので容量と値段を下げたプランを追加していただけないでしょうか。

欲を言えば20GB、200GBのような二段階ほど増えると助かります。

要望をここで言うのが正解なのかわかりませんが

目にとめていただけたのなら何卒ご検討よろしくお願いいたします。