The ten-euro test: what Files.fm, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and WeTransfer really give you in 2026

About ten euros a month buys you 1 TB, 2 TB, or just the right to send ten file transfers. The price is nearly identical and the contents are nothing alike. We compared five services on what happens after you pay: how much space is left, how soon you hit a limit, and how many extra tools you no longer need to buy.

The short version

• More space than Microsoft for the same money. Files.fm PRO gives 2 TB for €8.18 + VAT a month. Microsoft 365 Personal gives 1 TB for €8.26 + VAT.
• Space that belongs to your files alone. Google's 2 TB is shared with Gmail and Google Photos. Files.fm's 2 TB is 2 TB of files.
• No daily ceiling. Google Drive stops uploads after 750 GB in 24 hours. Files.fm sync traffic is unlimited.
• A year of version history. Dropbox Plus and Google Drive keep 30 days. Files.fm keeps up to one year, and the Business plan recovers deleted files for up to 5 years.
• Data stays in Europe. Files.fm is an EU company with European data centers and GDPR compliance. The other four are products of US or international groups.
• A team does not pay a full subscription per head. An extra user on Files.fm costs €5 or €10. Competitors charge roughly €12 to €19.

Price: what ten euros buys

To be fair, at 2 TB the prices of Files.fm, Google and Dropbox sit very close together. The difference starts with what those 2 TB include and what comes with them. Against Microsoft the difference is simple: twice the space for less money.

WeTransfer plays a different game in this table. It is a sending tool, not storage, and since late 2024 its free plan has shrunk to 3 GB a month with links that live for three days. If you regularly send large files to clients, you pay almost twice as much for a service where the files do not stay.

Limits that only show up after you pay

Two numbers here matter more than the rest.

750 GB per day. A wedding-season archive, a video project or a move from another cloud passes that mark easily, and then Google Drive uploads stop until the next day. Files.fm has no such threshold.

One year against thirty days. A mistake in a file usually surfaces not the next day but three months later, when a client asks for the earlier version. With 30 days of history it is gone. With a year of history it is two clicks away.

For teams: a bill that does not grow with every new colleague

For a ten-person office that is the difference between roughly €50 to €100 and €120 to €190 a month for seats alone. Files in a Files.fm organization account also stay with the company when an employee leaves, and the admin sees who opened what.

Bonus: what Files.fm does and the other four do not

This is the part no pricing table shows. The big clouds store files. Files.fm also works with them.

1. FTP access. On TEAM, Business and Enterprise plans, files can arrive straight from a camera, a scanner, a surveillance system or legacy accounting software. Dropbox and OneDrive have no native FTP.
2. Selling files with built-in payments. Photos, videos, courses or e-books sell directly from storage, with no separate online shop. Of the four competitors only WeTransfer offers something similar, and it has no drive.
3. Conversion in the cloud. RAW to JPG, video to MP4, documents to PDF, already on the free plan. The client sees the picture instead of downloading a 60 MB file they cannot open.
4. Client galleries with photo selection. The photographer sends a link and the client marks the frames they want. Google Drive and Dropbox need a separate third-party tool for this.
5. E-signature with eParaksts and Smart-ID. For a Baltic company that means a legally valid signature in the same place the document lives.
6. Document management system (DMS) as an add-on. Registers, approvals, invoices and tasks on top of the same storage. Elsewhere this is a separate product with a separate bill.
7. Print on demand. A picture from a gallery can be ordered as a print without leaving the platform.
8. AI search inside storage. On PRO, faces, text in images and automatic tags find one frame among a hundred thousand without digging through folders.

Count how many separate subscriptions this list replaces (a gallery tool, e-signature, file sales, a converter, a DMS) and ten euros a month starts to look very different.

Where competitors are ahead

A comparison is only worth reading if it does not hide the awkward parts.

• Very large single files. Google Drive accepts up to 5 TB per file, Dropbox up to 2 TB, OneDrive up to 250 GB. Files.fm PRO stops at 50 GB, and larger files need TEAM or Business.
• The office ecosystem. If a company lives in Word and Excel, Microsoft 365 bundles the apps themselves. If it lives in Google Docs, Google Workspace does.
• Client-side encryption. At Files.fm it is still in development. Dropbox offers it on Advanced, Google on selected plans.
• A bigger free plan. Google gives 15 GB, Microsoft 5 GB, Files.fm 2 GB of permanent space.

Who should pick what

• Photographers, videographers, creative freelancers: Files.fm. Galleries, selection, RAW conversion, sales and unlimited traffic are exactly this job's daily routine.
• Small and mid-sized businesses in the Baltics: Files.fm. EU data storage, eParaksts and Smart-ID, DMS and the lowest price per extra user.
• Teams that spend all day in Excel and Teams: OneDrive as part of Microsoft 365.
• Anyone who needs one enormous file above 400 GB: Google Drive or Dropbox.
• A one-off transfer once a month: the WeTransfer free plan, as long as you fit in 3 GB.

Conclusion

Ten euros a month is no longer a question of gigabytes, because nearly everyone offers them at that price. The question is how many of those gigabytes your email eats, how soon you hit a daily limit, how far back you can go for an old version, where the data physically sits, and how many extra tools you still have to buy separately. On those five points Files.fm is the only one of the five that wins more than one.

Try it free: files.fm. Full table: files.fm/cloud-storage-comparison.