Every free cloud storage tier that clears our bar in 2026: 7 offers meet the criteria and 2 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 3 of them: on 1 the page we cite did not answer, and on 2 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
Free plan offers 1GB of encrypted cloud storage. Note — discovered 2026-09-03: The free tier now offers 1GB of storage instead of 10GB. Source ↗
Superseded: As of 2026-09-05, mega.io/pricing reads: MEGA's pricing page, fetched 2026-09-05, renders its plan table as "Transfer | Free: Limited | Pro plans: Up to 20 TB | Pro Flexi: Flexible starting at 3 TB | Business: Flexible starting at 3 TB". The free storage figure is not readable from this page: it renders as the unresolved template variable !{freePlanStorage} in all three places the page states it, including the FAQ answer "Yes, our free plan includes !{freePlanStorage} of storage." Our stored description's 20 GB was not re-verified here and is not contradicted. We are not publishing our stored MEGA terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-05, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ Note — discovered 2026-09-05: MEGA's free transfer quota is now stated as "Limited" where our record held a 1 GB quota that replenishes. Source ↗
5 GB storage. File sharing and collaboration. Office for the web (Word, Excel, PowerPoint — basic editing). Personal Vault (3 files limit on free). Photo upload. Mobile app. Best for personal projects. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-22, we found the page did not mention this offer, which is not evidence it ended, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
2 GB storage. Up to 3 devices linked. File sharing. 30-day version history. Dropbox Paper access. 100 MB max file size via web (larger via desktop app). Dropbox Transfer up to 100 MB.
15 GB shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. Google Docs/Sheets/Slides don't count against quota. Real-time collaboration. File sharing with permissions. Max file upload 5 TB. Best for open source projects.
5 GB total across iCloud Drive, Photos, Mail, backups, Notes. Device backups, iCloud Keychain, Find My included. No iCloud Private Relay or Hide My Email on free tier. Best for open source projects.
15 GB shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. Photos stored at original quality count against quota. Basic editing tools. Sharing, albums, face grouping. No unlimited storage saver quality since June 2021. Best for open source projects and unlimited usage needs.
10 GB storage (unlockable via tasks). File sharing. Built-in media player. Automatic upload from mobile. Up to 5 GB additional via referral bonuses. Client-side encryption is a paid add-on. The page we cite for pCloud states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page.
Up to 1,000 photos/videos. No storage size limit per photo (originals preserved). Community features (groups, comments, favorites). Basic stats. Ad-supported. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internxt | Free | Free plan offers 1GB of encrypted cloud storage. read found the page different · 2026-09-20 |
watch discovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknown |
2026-09-20 / 2026-08-18 |
| MEGA | Free | As of 2026-09-05, mega.io/pricing reads: MEGA's pricing page, fetched 2026-09-05, renders its plan table as "Transfer | Free… Our stored MEGA terms are superseded and withheld. | watch discovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknown |
2026-09-24 / 2026-08-21 |
| OneDrive | Free | 5 GB storage. File sharing and collaboration. Office for the web (Word, Excel, PowerPoint — basic editing). Personal Vau... | not published change not established · 2026-09-22 |
2026-09-22 / 2026-08-21 |
| Dropbox | Free (Basic) | 2 GB storage. Up to 3 devices linked. File sharing. 30-day version history. Dropbox Paper access. 100 MB max file size v... | stable | 2026-09-20 / 2026-08-19 |
| Google Drive | Free | 15 GB shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. Google Docs/Sheets/Slides don't count against quota. Real-ti... | stable | 2026-09-22 / 2026-09-04 |
| iCloud | Free | 5 GB total across iCloud Drive, Photos, Mail, backups, Notes. Device backups, iCloud Keychain, Find My included. No iClo... | stable | 2026-09-22 / 2026-08-19 |
| Google Photos | Free | 15 GB shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. Photos stored at original quality count against quota. Basic... | stable | 2026-09-22 / 2026-09-04 |
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 7 free cloud storage offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
7 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 4 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 2 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 1. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.
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