Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits

Generally the distinction system simply does not work.

Up till yesterday, Dropbox offered a vast $24-per-user-per-month plan for companies known as Dropbox Superior that got here with an “as a lot as you want” storage cap. This was meant to free enterprise customers from needing to fret about quotas.

However as with limitless cellphone information plans, the unhealthy conduct of a small group of customers is seemingly ruining limitless Dropbox storage for everyone. The corporate said in a blog post yesterday that it was retiring its limitless storage coverage particularly as a result of individuals had been shopping for Dropbox Superior accounts “for functions like crypto and Chia mining, unrelated people pooling storage for private use circumstances, and even cases of reselling storage.” Dropbox says that these customers had been utilizing “1000’s of instances extra storage than [their] real enterprise clients.”

Dropbox additionally says that this conduct had been getting worse just lately as a result of different providers have additionally been putting caps on their storage plans—sooner or later inside the final 12 months, Google additionally removed comparable “as much as you need” language from its Google Workspace plans.

Somewhat than making an attempt to police conduct or play whack-a-mole with the individuals abusing the service, Dropbox has determined to impose a 15 TB cap on organizations with three or fewer customers. An extra 5 TB per person might be added on prime of that, with a most cap of 1,000 TB per group.

To assist reliable enterprise customers transition, Dropbox says that “clients utilizing lower than 35TB of storage per license” can preserve nevertheless a lot they’re utilizing plus a further 5 TB for 5 years “at no extra cost.” Organizations utilizing greater than 35TB will get the identical deal for one 12 months, however they’re going to have to take care of Dropbox on to work out pricing. As a baseline, including 1 TB of storage with out including extra customers will value both $10 a month or $96 a 12 months.

New clients shall be affected by this coverage change instantly, as you will see should you check current pricing for Dropbox Advanced plans. Present customers shall be “steadily migrated” to the brand new plans beginning on November 1, and so they’ll be notified at the least 30 days earlier than the migration occurs.