Who wrote this: the team that makes SIMPL, a budgeting app with a subscription tracker, so we have a stake in this topic. Every price below links to where we read it, on 2026-10-20. The free ways to find forgotten subscriptions come first.
What your cloud storage subscriptions cost
6 common cloud storage services run from $9 to $11.99 a month at today's prices. All 6 together would be $60.95 a month, $731.40 a year. Nobody pays for all of them: add up the ones on your own statement.
What surveys say
- 70% of iPhone owners pay for extra cloud storage, vs 31% of Android owners; average reported spend is $5.92/month (about $70/yr). All About Cookies survey of 1,000 US adults, as reported by Apple World Today on Mar 20, 2026. (All About Cookies (reported by Apple World Today), 2026) appleworld.today
Today's prices
| Service | Per month | Per year | Cancel |
|---|---|---|---|
| iCloud+ iCloud+ 2 TB support.apple.com | $9.99 | $119.88 | how to cancel |
| Google One Google AI Plus (2 TB) one.google.com | $9.99 | $119.88 | how to cancel |
| Dropbox Plus (2 TB, 1 user) recurdash.com (report) | $11.99 | $119.88 | how to cancel |
| Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 Personal (1 TB) microsoft.com | $9.99 | $99.99 | how to cancel |
| Backblaze Personal Backup (Computer Backup) backblaze.com | $9 | $99 | how to cancel |
| pCloud Premium Plus 2 TB cloudwards.net (report) | $9.99 | $99.99 | how to cancel |
Regular US prices, read on 2026-10-20, before tax. Introductory rates are left out. No price rises are assumed. Prices change, and the vendor's page is the final word.
4 of these prices come from the company's own pricing or help page. 2 come from a news or price-tracking report, because the company's site would not show us a price; those rows say "report" next to the source link, and the report's own date is in our notes. When a company has renamed a plan, we use its current name.
Cheaper ways to keep what you use
- Cancelling Backblaze deletes the backup, permanently. Make sure you no longer need it first. backblaze.com
- pCloud sells storage once: 2 TB for $499 lifetime, against $99.99 a year. cloudwards.net
- Smaller tiers are cheap: iCloud+ 200 GB is $2.99 a month and Google Basic 100 GB is $1.99. support.apple.com
- Paying for two of these usually means the same photos stored twice. Pick one.
How to find the ones you forgot
Free, and enough for most people:
- Your bank or card statement. Scroll the last three months and mark every charge that repeats at the same amount. Many banks also have a "recurring payments" or "subscriptions" list in their app.
- Your phone's app store. iPhone: Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions. Android: Google Play, tap your profile, then Payments & subscriptions.
- Your email. Search for "receipt", "renewal" or "your subscription". Annual renewals are the easiest to forget.
In SIMPL:
- Drain Guard reads your expenses (from a linked bank, an imported statement, or ones you type in), finds the charges that repeat, and totals them by the month.
- Keep or Cut takes you through each one, with how to cancel it where we have the steps.
- Once you have cut, the budget's envelopes give the money you freed up a job, so it doesn't drift into the next subscription.
Before you renew any of these
When did you last use it?
If you can't remember, that is your answer. Most of these let you sign up again in a minute if you miss it.
Is there a smaller plan for how you actually use it?
An ad-supported tier, a smaller storage plan or a single-person plan is often half the price.
Would you pay yearly?
If you are keeping it anyway, a yearly plan usually costs less than twelve monthly bills. If you are not sure you will keep it, stay monthly.
Would you sign up today at this price?
Prices on several of these went up in 2026. Judge it on what it costs now, not what it cost when you joined.
How fast one cancellation covers SIMPL
SIMPL is $199 once. Cancel one of these and the money you stop paying covers it in:
- Dropbox ($11.99/mo): 17 months
- iCloud+ ($9.99/mo): 20 months
- Google One ($9.99/mo): 20 months
- Microsoft 365 ($9.99/mo): 20 months
- pCloud ($9.99/mo): 20 months
- Backblaze ($9/mo): 23 months
Can it pay for itself?
SIMPL is $199 once, about $17 a month over its first year. Its Drain Guard reads your expenses (from a linked bank, an imported statement, or ones you type in), finds the charges that repeat, and adds them up by the month. Keep or Cut then walks you through them one at a time. Cancel $17 a month of charges you'd forgotten about and SIMPL has paid for itself inside the first year.
It depends on what you find and what you cancel, so we don't promise a number.
Questions
What is the cheapest cloud storage subscription here?
Backblaze (Personal Backup (Computer Backup)) at $9 a month, as of the date above.
Do I need an app to find my subscriptions?
No. Your bank statement and your phone's subscription list find most of them for free. An app helps if you have several cards or want a running total.
Is SIMPL a subscription?
No. SIMPL is $199 once. Cloud Sync, which keeps it on more than one device, is optional at $4.99 a month, and the first three months come with the purchase.
Will SIMPL cancel subscriptions for me?
No. It finds them, totals them and walks you through each one. You cancel with the service yourself, using the cancel links on this page.
$199 once. No subscription.
Get SIMPL: $199Sources
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/108047
- https://one.google.com/about/plans
- https://recurdash.com/subscription-pricing/dropbox
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/buy/compare-all-microsoft-365-products
- https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/personal
- https://www.cloudwards.net/pcloud-pricing/
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207594
- https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9056360?hl=en
- https://help.dropbox.com/billing/cancel-subscription
- https://support.microsoft.com/office/46e2634c-c64b-4c65-94b9-2cc9c960e91b
- https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/cancel-or-delete-a-backblaze-account
- https://pcloud.com/help/general-help-center/how-do-i-cancel-my-subscription
- https://appleworld.today/?p=124929