Best unlimited cloud storage deals from $3.50/month

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Unlimited cloud storage probably sounds too good to be true - but its real! Where some people struggle with multiple licenses across different services in order to keep all their files, photos, and videos backed up, the most savvy cloud users will opt for an unlimited cloud storage plan.

These services are aimed at those with a lot of files that need backing up into the cloud, and come with a price tag to match. Unlimited cloud storage is generally aimed at businesses and professionals, rather than the standard consumer wanting to store a few GB of data.

If that sounds like you, why not check out our guide to the best cloud storage where you can find excellent deals on cloud storage at multiple price points for those with cash to splash, or those looking to save can take a look at the best free cloud storage.

Here at TechRadar Pro, we regularly scour the internet for the best deals, and here I have rounded up all the best unlimited cloud storage deals I could find in February 2025. From here on out, I'll be using the terms cloud backup and cloud storage interchangeably - but if you want to know the difference, check out this article.

Not all of the best unlimited cloud storage deals on the market right now are from the obvious big-hitter providers, so I've done my best to put your best alternatives under the spotlight.

If we’ve missed any unlimited cloud storage service or if one of the ones listed below are out of date, ping me an email on desire.athow@futurenet.com.

I like that Livedrive has an established pedigree, celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2023. It's also UK-based, which may appeal to some.

What I like less is that the service has seen a price hike as of February 2025, despite the company tweaking the numbers to still make it sound like you're getting a deal. You might well be, but that doesn't change the fact that the Backup plan used to be $10 cheaper.

Though Livedrive does offer unlimited cloud storage, the only thing I would note is that, as of February 2025, edit access to your files, in a true 'cloud storage' sense, is only available in a 'Briefcase' plan for $156, or a 'Pro' plan that combines both functionalities for $240 a year.

Crashplan is different from most providers here, in that it only offers file backup and recovery, so you don't have an interface that allows you to select individual files. What I like, though, is that Its Professional and Enterprise plans have no user limits, even if you are still paying for each one.

The Professional plan provides unlimited cloud storage with the only limits being 2 devices per user, while the Enterprise plan ($120 a year per user) allows 4 devices per user.

JottaCloud's primary product is an unlimited cloud storage service at just 119 USD / year, this includes backup, archive and sync across all your devices.

The service isn't limited to cold storage, and the servers are located in Norway and they have launched a new AI photo search feature.

As of February 2025, the catches are that your upload speeds will be 'reduced' by an unspecified amount if you use more than 5TB, providing access to additional accounts will cost extra, and that it simply used to cost €20 less.

Unlimited cloud storage is now being thrown in with US tech repair company Asurion's Home + subscription, a 'whole home device protection service' offering 'tech support and data security', for what it says is 'a limited time'.

The company is tight-lipped on how long this'll last, or whether current subscribers will be grandfathered into their 'free' unlimited cloud storage.

It's also US-only, with no indication that unlimited cloud storage will be offered separately in the future. But if both sides of the deal appeal, you could do a lot worse.

What is unlimited cloud storage?

In theory, unlimited cloud storage is cloud storage with no limits in capacity, file format and file size.

However, there are always restrictions as to what you can and can’t do. That’s because cloud storage service providers have finite resources: fixed bandwidth to and from the data center where hard disk drives are stored, fixed number of bytes per hard drive and fixed number of hard disks.

For more on this, check out our perspective on no-limit cloud storage.

Why do companies offer unlimited cloud storage?

Companies offer unlimited cloud storage because it is a powerful marketing argument, a valid selling point not only in cloud storage but also in web hosting (unlimited bandwidth) and in mobile phone contracts (unlimited minutes, unlimited data downloads, unlimited text).

What they bet on is that customers won’t be uploading tens of terabytes of data. Unlimited cloud storage depends very much on how much data you can upload at any time and this has a physical limit based on your connection.

Is unlimited cloud storage really unlimited?

Like anything that’s unlimited, service providers do not expect customers to max out the service.

Heavy users are the ones that are the costliest for the service providers, and for those, they can deploy an array of limitations ranging from bandwidth throttling (how much data you can move per unit time) to file size limits.

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Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.

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