Signing up for a Google One membership gets you 100GB of space to use across Google Drive, Gmail and Google Photos for $2 a month. Formerly known as Paid Google Drive Storage, Google One is Google's cloud storage service that's been around since 2018. Or if you'd rather look at different options, check out our guide to the best Google Photos alternatives.Since Google capped its unlimited free storage in Google Photos at 15GB in June, you may have considered signing up for Google One to get more space. Our Google Photos vs Amazon Photos guide has a more detailed run-down of the differences between the two. Or you can make a decent saving by paying annually, which costs US$19.99 / £15.99 / AU$24.99 per year.Īlternatively, you might decide it's time to look at different options – if you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, for example, you might not know that you get unlimited storage for full-resolution photos as part of your subscription.
Our in-depth guide to the Google Photos price options has more details, but bumping your Google account up to 100GB of storage costs only US$1.99 / £1.59 / AU$2.49 per month. If you regularly back up 'high quality' (or Storage saver, as they'll soon be known) files to Google Photos and are worried you'll soon go over the 15GB limit, then it's worth looking at Google One storage. And from June 1, any new files that you upload in either format will count towards your 15GB storage. There are still two sizes of storage for Google Photos files, but these will now be called 'Storage saver' (compressed to a maximum of 16MB) and 'Original' (uncompressed).
This doesn't change anything on a practical level, but makes things a little clearer for Google Photos users. (Image credit: Google) Random access memoriesĪlongside its new photo management tool, Google Photos also announced that it'll soon be renaming its 'high quality' storage tier to 'Storage saver'.
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