Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service by Google which offers 15GB of free storage space, which is among the best you can get in terms of free storage that enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing.
If you are looking for Alternatives to Google Drive, you have landed at the right place.
Today in this post I am going share Top 10 Alternatives to Google Drive.




Yandex. Disk (Russian: Яндекс.Диск) is a cloud service created by Yandex that lets users store files on “cloud” servers and share them with others online. The service is based on syncing data between different devices. Yandex. The disk was launched in English in June 2012. Files uploaded to Yandex. Disk are saved in the cloud. This means that you will have access to them from any device connected to the internet.




Dropbox is a simple to use file storage service in the cloud. The interface would be very familiar for a desktop user as you can arrange your files into folders and sub-folders easily.
You can even share folders with other people as well. The free service provides 2GB of usable storage. If you need a convenient way to share files with others or just a place to park your files in the cloud to be easily retrievable from other computers, then Dropbox will be the one for you.



3. Box





The box is an enterprise-level file sharing service. While you may be able to get a plan as an individual user, it does work best for the business team. Individual accounts do not even have the desktop sync feature.
It provides an easy to use and protected way to consolidate files. Users can upload and manage their content from a browser or supported app from any web-enabled device. Box users can be granted role-based permissions for the uploaded content and associate tasks and comments to the files for collaboration purposes. The company also takes security into consideration by offering plenty of encryption.
Free storage: 10GB
Price for unlimited storage: $35/month (enterprise package)




Last but not least, LG announced recently it will jump into the cloud storage game with its service, aptly named LG Cloud. This app is a bit tricky because your cost of service depends on what your usage will be. LG says it is proud of its RTS (Real-Time Streaming) which delivers almost instant streaming from the cloud.  Free or paid, however, the typical 5GB of space is provided to users.



New! Amazon has gotten into the Cloud Drive business with a new app. The Cloud Drive itself is not new, just the desktop software. You can store up to 5GB of files for free on Amazon's respected cloud servers. You can access your files from anywhere, of course. The big draw is that music files purchased from Amazon and stored on the drive don't count toward your storage allocation. As a promotion, in fact, any music files uploaded to the Amazon Cloud are stored for free. Amazon wants to push its Cloud Player online music app.
The downside: Amazon Cloud Drive is not a synchronizing hard drive like the other products on this list. When you're offline, you can't access or update files you've put on your drive. Rather, you copy files from your local system to the Drive. It's a good music storage product, but not nearly as useful for working with or sharing files as the other products in this comparison.


SugarSync is quite a bit more complex and feature-rich than Dropbox and puts it to shame in that regard. While it offers the same basic service that Dropbox does, it’s easy to get lost and confused in all the options. The Android application is rather basic but gets the job done. However, it doesn’t have tablet optimization. Users are provided with 5GB of storage.



Apple iCloud was created not as a general-purpose cloud file-sharing product in its own right, but as a means for Apple users to store files and documents on multiple devices. For instance, what you stored in the iPhone could be accessed from your Mac.
It’s seamless to open these files from any machine running the apps which is the product’s strength, and it’s also the product’s weakness because everything is geared towards an individual’s devices that there is little of collaborative features like the other file-sharing services. That is to say, there is no way to share a file with another user.
Free storage: 5GB
Price for 50GB: $100/year



Formerly known as SkyDrive, it has morphed into OneDrive with little fanfare. It combines storage in the cloud for Microsoft Office products, Windows 8.1 PCs, and Windows 8 or Windows RT tablets together.
There is also the capability to sync files from computer to computer, bypassing cloud storage. OneDrive offers 15GB of free storage with an option for bigger capacity with a monthly paid subscription.
Free storage: 15GB

Price for 115GB: $1.99/month (OneDrive + 100)











A new entry from LogMeIn, Cubby has taken the best ideas from existing sync and share products. It's simple like Dropbox, allows you to sync any folder like SugarSync, and it offers a computer-to-computer sync feature that lets you share folders between two computers without storing them in the cloud; this helps keep the price down if you're using the system to keep a lot of data synced between computers.
Cubby is an invite-only beta and pricing has yet to be determined beyond the 5GB free tier.
Best for: Syncing a lot of data between computers
Free storage: 5GB; Price per 100GB: TBD


10.CX








This is another flexible sync product. Like SugarSync and Cubby, it lets you share any folder on your computer. The CX team is focused on collaboration, and the product lets you create groups of users for sharing files. It gives groups collaboration tools, too, like discussion threads.
CX has another differentiator: 10GB of free storage. But it's among the most expensive solutions on a per-gigabyte basis beyond that.
Best for: Most free storage, sharing files with groups.
Free storage: 10GB; Price per 100GB: $240/year*

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