Google Drive subscription prices reduced drastically

NEW DELHI, INDIA: India's popular search engine has slashes price on google search. In a bid to take on DropBox and Microsoft's OneDrive head-on Google is leaving no stone unturned. It has drastically reduced the subscription plans for Google Drive.

The changes, which will certainly apply pressure on competitors in the cloud storage marketplace, such as Box, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive. The Drive storage is shared across Google Drive itself, Gmail, and for images larger than 2048x2048 pixels on Google+.

While users can get 15GB of data for free, with their Google+ and Gmail accounts, now the paid schemes are now more tempting than ever.

Now, users can get 100GB for only $1.99 per month as opposed to the previous rate of $4.99 per month. The variance is even more drastic on the 1TB plan. Previously, it was offered for $49.99 per month, but now it's only offered for $9.99 per month.

Users can even get 10TB for $99 per month. With this move, Google is now massively undercutting DropBox. Google is known for such moves and it's doing it again.

DropBox offers 100GB for $9.99 per month. In the same amount Google offers 1TB. In fact, DropBox offers 500GB for $49.99, so Google's 1TB plan is really a steal.

Of course, one should be mindful that Google Drive storage is shared across various Google services, but still the value of the new plans is undeniable.