Price comparison · Updated July 2026
The cheapest legitimate way to buy 1 TB of cloud storage in India is ₹170 per month, and almost nobody arrives at it by searching for storage. It is Microsoft 365 Business Basic — a productivity licence that happens to include a terabyte of OneDrive per user, which undercuts every standalone storage plan sold in the country. That single fact explains most of this page: in India, storage bought as part of a bundle costs roughly half to a fifth of storage bought on its own. Below is what each capacity actually costs, calculated as rupees per terabyte per month so the tiers are directly comparable. Business prices exclude 18% GST, which registered businesses can normally reclaim as input tax credit.
≈ ₹170 per TB per month
≈ ₹250 per TB per month, shared
≈ ₹540 per TB per month
≈ ₹325 per TB per month
≈ ₹1,000 per TB per month for a 5-person team
Scales to any capacity
Archive only
Three things distort per-TB comparisons in India and are worth checking before you commit. First, pooled versus per-user: Google Workspace pools storage across the organisation while Microsoft 365 allocates a terabyte to each person, so a 20-person team on M365 holds 20 TB of capacity that mostly sits empty, whereas the same team on Workspace Standard shares 40 TB that anyone can draw on. Neither is better — it depends on whether your storage is concentrated or evenly spread. Second, egress: object storage such as S3 looks cheapest per terabyte stored and can become expensive once you read data back regularly, because bandwidth out is billed separately. For a working team drive that is a poor fit; for backup it is fine, because you rarely restore. Third, GST at 18% applies to all business plans and is normally reclaimable as input tax credit, so compare vendors on the pre-GST figure — consumer plans give you no such credit, which quietly widens the gap in favour of business licensing.
We supply Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Zoho WorkDrive and Dropbox Business on INR billing with a GST invoice, and we will tell you plainly when a cheaper bundle covers what you were about to buy as standalone storage. WhatsApp +91 98119 98370 with your headcount and roughly how much data you hold, and we will send a per-TB comparison for your actual situation rather than a rate card.
₹170 per month on the cheapest credible plan — Microsoft 365 Business Basic, which includes 1 TB of OneDrive per user along with business email and Teams. Standalone consumer storage costs considerably more: Google One's 2 TB tier at ₹650/month works out to ₹325 per TB, and Microsoft 365 Personal at ₹6,899/year is about ₹575 per TB per month. Add 18% GST to business figures, which you can normally reclaim.
Microsoft 365 Business Basic at ₹170/user/month, provided you have a business entity — a registered freelancer or sole proprietorship qualifies. For personal use where no business exists, the cheapest route to roughly a terabyte is Google One's 2 TB plan at ₹650/month, which gives twice the capacity at ₹325 per TB and can be shared across five family members, bringing the effective per-person cost down sharply.
It depends entirely on whether the 5 TB sits with one person or a team. Dropbox Business Standard at roughly ₹1,000/user/month gives 5 TB shared, so a five-person team pays about ₹5,000/month, or ₹1,000 per TB. A twenty-person Microsoft 365 Business Basic deployment costs ₹3,400/month and provides 20 TB of capacity, though allocated as 1 TB each rather than pooled. For a single 5 TB pool with no team behind it, AWS S3 at about ₹2/GB works out near ₹10,000/month before egress.
On AWS S3 Standard, around ₹20,000/month at ₹2/GB, plus egress when you read data back. Moving the same 10 TB to an archive tier such as S3 Glacier drops it to roughly ₹2,000-4,000/month, with the trade-off that retrieval takes minutes to hours and carries its own charge. At this capacity the real question is access pattern, not price: if you read the data daily, buy Standard; if you read it twice a year, archive tiers cut the bill by 80% or more.
Because the storage is not the product. Microsoft and Google price business plans to win the productivity suite — email, Teams, Office, admin controls — and bundle generous storage to make the suite compelling. Consumer storage is sold on its own merits and must carry its own margin. The result is the inversion this page opens with: a business licence including a terabyte costs less than a consumer plan offering a fifth of that.
Pooled, in almost every real team. Storage use is rarely even — a designer holds 3 TB while ten colleagues hold 40 GB each. Per-user allocation strands capacity on accounts that will never use it, while pooled allocation lets the heavy user draw on the rest. Google Workspace pools, Microsoft 365 allocates per user. If your data is concentrated in a few people, pooled is meaningfully cheaper for the same usable capacity.
Not really, and it is the most common mistake we see. S3 is object storage designed for applications and backups, with no consumer-style sync client, no familiar folder view for non-technical staff, and egress charges each time someone downloads. Per terabyte stored it looks cheap; as a daily working drive it is both awkward and, once bandwidth is counted, often more expensive than OneDrive or WorkDrive. Use S3 for backup and archive, and a proper drive product for daily work.
Business figures here exclude GST — add 18%, which registered businesses normally reclaim as input tax credit, so the effective cost is the pre-GST number. Consumer plans differ: iCloud+ prices are quoted inclusive, Google One and Microsoft consumer plans typically add GST at checkout, and none of it is reclaimable. That reclaim difference is worth roughly 18% and is a genuine reason for an eligible business to license properly rather than expense a consumer plan.
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