When money’s tight, getting your hands on some free cloud storage is a good feeling. The problem is, though, that many plans offering free storage come at a price not expressed in money, either through data mining or other practices that can’t stand the light of day. Cloudwards.net has vetted several providers and come up with these best free cloud storage services.
If you’re not already paying for cloud storage, you’re probably not going to be keen to pay for a subscription without trying it. Thankfully, there are a lot of free online storage providers that will allow you to store your data online, share photos and videos or listen to your favorite music. We’re here to help you sort the bad from the good with our list of some of the best free cloud storage plans on the market today.
We’ve got 12 of the top free cloud storage providers here, from pCloud (up to 10GB free storage) to Degoo and everything in between, each with varying storage limits and features.
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12/13/2021
Updated the rankings based on IDrive’s improved speeds.
The Best Cloud Storage: Free Options Galore
- pCloud – Best overall free cloud storage with 10GB free and file syncing
- Sync.com – 5GB free, best for for security
- Icedrive – 10GB free, best newcomer cloud storage
- MEGA — Whopping 20GB free with no strings attached
- Google Drive — 15GB free with document collaboration
- Dropbox — 2GB free with good syncing capabilities
- Amazon Drive — 5GB free for Prime subscribers
- iCloud — 5GB free online storage for Apple users
- OneDrive — 5GB free cloud storage but with a 100GB file size limit
- MediaFire — 10GB free “bare-bones” file storage
- iDrive — 5GB free backup storage
- Degoo — 100GB free backup space