We’re only focusing on the consumer-grade or individual options here rather than the business or enterprise products. While it’s nice that both services offer a free tier for you to try, you’ll need to shell out a little cash in order to get the most out of them. Google Drive also lets you revert file versions and recover deleted items from the Trash, but it has nothing as good as this at the time of writing. We are however very impressed with Dropbox Rewind, which is a powerful and intuitive way to roll back changes to your Dropbox that happen either by accident or thanks to malicious actors. Partly because Dropbox has a much smaller set of functions squeezed into the same space. We do however think that the Dropbox mobile application is much more user friendly and easy to navigate compared to Google Drive. The Backup and Sync application gives it effectively the same form and function as Dropbox. However, Google Drive has caught up in the last few years. Your Gmail address is the key to it all and, of course, all of your mail takes up a part of the storage in your drive.Īll in all, Dropbox just works and that’s a big plus point in its favor. Drive itself is the unifying hub that ties together all the various Google services. Google Drive is so much more than a cloud storage solution.

So if you’re not looking to spend any money at all, we have a hard time recommending it. In the end, the sheer lack of storage space of the DropBox Basic offering makes it little more than a trial by another name. So if you mainly want cloud storage as a way to work seamlessly with others, Google Drive is already the stronger contender here.

Of course, you also get a Gmail account, access to the full Google Drive suite and quite possibly the best set of online collaboration and sharing tools of any cloud software service today. If you’re only storing a few work documents and photos, then it’s likely this chunk of storage will serve you for a long time. That’s far more reasonable for general use. The free version of Google Drive currently offers a 17GB allocation of space.

Dropbox cost comparison