pCloud vs Dropbox Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Premium 500 GB
- 500 GB Storage
- 500 GB Shared link traffic
Premium Plus 2 TB
- 2 TB Storage
- 2 TB Shared link traffic
Ultra 10 TB
- 10 TB Storage
- 2 TB Shared link traffic
Plus
- 1 user
- 2 TB of storage
- Stay connected across all devices
- 30 days to restore deleted files
- Transfer files up to 50 GB
- Edit PDFs and get signatures
Standard
Popular- 3+ users
- 5 TB of storage for the team
- Stay connected across all devices
- 180 days to restore deleted files
- Transfer files up to 100 GB
- Edit PDFs and get signatures
- Brand your files to share
- Password protect files
- Preview of Dash, your AI teammate
- Ask Dash questions, get answers
- Summarize meetings and more
- Get team folders for organization
- Manage team sharing
- Create groups and roles
- Admin control
Advanced
- 3+ users
- Starts at 15 TB for the team
- Stay connected across all devices
- 1 year to restore deleted files
- Transfer files up to 100 GB
- Edit PDFs and get signatures
- Brand your files to share
- Password protect files
- Preview of Dash, your AI teammate
- Ask Dash questions, get answers
- Summarize meetings and more
- Get team folders for organization
- Manage team sharing
- Create groups and roles
- Tiered-admin management
- End-to-end encryption
- Advanced key management
- Compliance tracking
- Single sign-on
pCloud vs Dropbox FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- One or both use custom pricing, so it depends on your specific needs.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Dropbox has a free plan. pCloud doesn't — you'll need to pay from day one.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. pCloud uses flat-rate pricing, while Dropbox goes with per-seat. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. pCloud: The lifetime pricing angle sets them apart from Dropbox and Google Drive, who never let you stop paying — pCloud's $199-$1190 one-time fee undercuts years of subscription costs and appeals to people tired of recurring bills. They're not the cheapest month-to-month, but they're playing the long-game value card against subscription fatigue. Dropbox: They're playing the premium-but-accessible game — not the cheapest cloud storage option but positioned as the reliable, feature-rich choice that justifies paying more than Google Drive or OneDrive. Going after teams who want something better than basic but aren't ready for enterprise complexity.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for pCloud and Dropbox and let you know when something moves.