Dropbox Increases Storage, Features, and Pricing for Plus Users
Let’s start with the semi-bad news: Dropbox is raising the price of its Plus plan from $ 10 to $ 12 a month. You will have to drink one less cup of coffee if you want to save on cloud storage costs.
To ease the pain, Dropbox also offers several perks for anyone who now waives an additional $ 24 per year on monthly payment plans. First, its Plus plan is expanding from 1TB to 2TB. Not too shabby. And users who sign up for an annual Dropbox Plus subscription instead of monthly payments will still receive a small discount ($ 120 per year, up from $ 144 per year if you pay monthly). This is still slightly higher than the previous annual subscription ($ 100).
Dropbox Plus users can also take advantage of the service’s Smart Sync feature, which lets you create web-only folders if you don’t want them to take up a lot of space on your computer. Better yet, Dropbox automates this feature on your behalf; the service will notice when you haven’t accessed certain files for some time and will automatically upload them to the cloud – and from your disk – until you need them again. (You can also choose to keep certain files on your disk if you know you will get access to them again someday.)
Plus, Plus users will have access to Dropbox’s rewind feature, which lets you restore any accidentally deleted folders or an entire deleted account to any point in the previous 30 days.
If you’re already a Dropbox Plus member, you’ll have these features and storage expansion at your fingertips, no matter how much you’ve already paid for the service. Once your billing cycle ends, you will be upgraded to a (slightly) more expensive plan.
And if you pay even more for Dropbox Professional ($ 20 / month or $ 200 / year), you only get good news. Your plan’s cost stays the same, but Dropbox adds an extra terabyte of storage (making you only have three), as well as a new watermarking feature you can use to protect work you share with others. (You also get Dropbox Smart Sync and Dropbox Rewind, which removes up to 180 days instead of 30).