Dropbox will limit previous unlimited storage in Advanced subscription

Dropbox will add limits to its Advanced plans. It used to be possible to store an infinite amount of data, but the company says it suffers so much from abuse that it only offers a maximum of 15TB.

Dropbox writes in a blog post that it will switch to metering for the Advanced plan. That subscription costs 18 euros per user per month and always had an infinite amount of storage. Dropbox says that’s no longer feasible. “We increasingly saw that customers who took out an Advanced subscription were not using it for business purposes, but for crypto mining, for example. In some cases they even resold storage space.” According to Dropbox, this has only become more common in recent months. “We saw such customers using thousands of times more storage than legitimate business users. That caused problems for other customers.”

For this reason, Dropbox is reducing the maximum storage space to 15TB. That 15TB applies to teams with three active users. Every additional paying user gets an additional 5TB of storage. The total storage can be divided among all team members.

Dropbox has drawn up some leniency rules. Business users who use less than 35TB of storage per license can continue to use that storage for another five years. This concerns the amount of space they use when they receive a notification. They also get 5TB of extra storage space to use. The same applies to customers using more than 35TB, but for only one year. Dropbox also makes it possible to purchase additional storage. That costs 10 euros per terabyte per month.

The policy takes effect immediately for new customers. Existing customers will be notified before November 1.