Clealy, Google wants more (paying) users on its platform by offering an attractive price while fighting off competitors in a market it doesn’t yet dominate. It looks like Google is willing to sell its storage at or below cost in order to put pressure on its competition. That’s where most cloud storage startups host their files. Google’s new prices even significantly undercut those of its own cloud storage platform for developers, as well as those of Amazon’s S3 and Microsoft’s Azure platforms. For instance, Dropbox charges$9.99/month for 100GB, SugarSync has a $55/month plan for one terabyte of data that is shared by up to three users and Microsoft’s OneDrive, which only features annual plans, starts at 50GB for $25 per year, which is even more expensive than Google’s new $1.99/month for its 100GB plan. The price has drastically dropped in comparison to Google’s competitors in the Cloud industry. The software offers a free version, which gives the user 15 GB of cloud storage. Google Drive pricing is relatively budget-friendly, and offers are based on storage needs, starting at 1.99 monthly. Imagine how much you’d spend for a 1TB hard drive? Google drive is less expensive than the industry average. Anyway, that is what Google is charging for its Cloud Storage service, Google Drive. That’s surely less than what the average Zambian spends for their weekend entertainment. A rough estimate puts it just under K60 though.

It’s hard to tell what the equivalent of US$9.99 is with our ever dwindling Kwacha currency.

Google drive cost 2017