Also adds a 500 GB plan to complement the new 100 GB and 200 GB ones

Jul 10, 2012 22:51 GMT  ·  By

Dropbox is by far the most successful cloud storage service around, it's got tens of millions of users and it keeps on growing. It's also the best known and, arguably, the easiest to use.

It's going strong, but the competition is quite fierce. Not only are there several big players clamoring for a piece of the market, Google and Microsoft notably, which have finally come up with a couple of products that put up a good fight against Dropbox, but there are plenty startups that are offering similar services.

One thing that almost all of them have in common is better prices or, alternatively, bigger storage space, both in the free and in the paid versions.

Dropbox hasn't been sitting idly still though. Yes it's still coming with 2 GB of free storage out of the box, but you can get 10 times as much for free with relatively little hassle.

It is upgrading the paid tiers, quite impressively so. Dropbox is doubling storage space for both paid versions and it's adding a new top tier.

The Pro 50 tier now offers 100 GB of storage, up from 50 GB, for the same $9.99, €8.12 per month or $99, €81.2 per year. Likewise, the Pro 100 tier ups the ante from 100 GB to 200 GB for $19.99, €16.26 a month or $199, €162 if you pay for a year in advance.

Finally, Dropbox is adding a new 500 GB tier, though it's not providing pricing for it yet. These new plans are not live yet, but existing users will get upgraded later today.

The 500 GB tier should be something like $49.99, €40 a month or $499, €400 per year, if the pricing scales linearly. Dropbox is still not cheap. For the price of the Dropbox Pro 50 you get 200 GB at Google, Pro 100 will get you 400 GB and for the price of the 500 GB Dropbox tier you get 1 TB of storage on Google Drive. Skydrive is slightly cheaper at $50, €40 per year for 100 GB of storage.