What is Google One? | Mashable

Google offers a variety of productivity products, including Drive, Gmail, and Photos, all of which take storage into account. Every Google Account gives users 15 gigabytes of free cloud storage across these products, but for many people, this isn’t enough.

Enter Google One, the company’s subscription cloud storage service. Here’s a guide to the service and how it works.

What is Google One?

Google One is a cloud storage service that offers a variety of tiered membership plans for a monthly fee. Available for Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos.

Other benefits of the service include photo effects, discounts on Google products, and access to Google experts for a variety of technical questions. Certain plans now also offer access to Google’s AI tools.

How is it different from Drive?

Google Drive offers free storage to users, but Google One replaced Drive’s storage plans in 2018. Drive is now a place exclusively for files and documents. One is a subscription service.

How much does Google One cost?

Google One offers a variety of membership plans.

• 100GB basic plan: $2 a month or $20 a year (£1.59 or £16 in the UK)

• 200GB standard plan: $3 per month or $30 per year (£2.49 or £25 in the UK)

• 2TB premium plan: $10 per month or $100 per year (£8 or £80 in the UK)

• 2TB AI Premium Plan: $20/month (£19 in UK)

All plans starting from the Basic tier allow family sharing for up to 5 people.

Subsequent tiers vary, such as the 2 TB Premium plan, which offers Google Workspace benefits. The AI-Premium plan, on the other hand, offers all Premium benefits in addition to AI-powered products (Gemini Advanced, Gemini integration into Gmail and Docs).

There are other plans with increased storage, but As Wired points out2TB is unlikely to be enough.

• 5TB: $25 per month or $250 per year (£20 or £200 in the UK)

• 10TB: $50 (£40 in the UK) per month.

• 20TB: $100 (£80 in the UK) per month.

• 30TB: $150/month (£120 in UK)

How do I sign up for Google One?

I’m heading to google one Sign up using Google Login. From there, you can choose your desired membership plan.