At PicBackMan, we've assisted users from 125+ countries backup millions of precious photos to one or more online services. Many of them have migrated from one online service to another, too. And a common question is always this - which is the best online service for storing my photos that has this, this, this and this - the list goes on.
To make that clear and easy to understand, we've put together the world's best resource to understand all the major online photo storage services and choose what is apt for your exact needs.
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Flickr
- Price
- Free: Lifetime free
Premium, $5.99/mo or $49.99/yr
- Storage Limit
- Free: 1000 photos/videos
Premium: Unlimited
- Download Limit
- Unlimited for free & premium, both.
- Bandwidth Limit
- Unlimited for free & premium, both.
- File Size Limit
- 200 MB Photos & 1 GB Videos
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + Native app for Windows, Android & iOS
- Share Folders
- With an album, which is a collection of files.
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
SmugMug
- Price
- No free plan (14 days free trial only)
Premium: $5.99/mo or $48/yr
- Storage Limit
- Unlimited for paid users
- Free Trial
- 14 Days free trial
- Download Limit
- Unlimited for free & premium, both.
- Bandwidth Limit
- Unlimited for free & premium, both.
- File Size Limit
- 150 MB Photos(210 megapixels) & 3GB Videos(up to 20 min long)
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + Native app for Windows, Android & iOS
- Share Files
- With a link or with share app
- Share Folders
- Share Gallery or slideshow
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
Google Photos
- Price
- Free: 15 GB free storage
Premium: $2.99/mo for 200GB , $9.99/mo for 1TB
- Storage Limit
- 15 GB for free users, According to the price plan
- Download Limit
- Unlimited for free & premium, both.
- Bandwidth Limit
- Unlimited for free & premium, both.
- File Size Limit
- No Photo larger than 75 MB or 100MP, No video larger than 10 GB.
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + Native app for Windows, Android & iOS
- Share Files
- With a link or using applications
- Share Folders
- With an album, which is a collection of files.
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
500PX
- Price
- Free: 7 days free trial and unlimited storage with 20 photos uploads weekly
Premium: Pro plan $71.88, pro and Adobe $155.88
- Storage Limit
- Unlimited storage for free and pro, both
- Bandwidth Limit
- Unlimited
- File Size Limit
- No size limit
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + Native app for Windows, Android & iOS
- Share Files
- Using the link
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
Dropbox
- Price
- No free plan(only 30 days free trial with 2 GB free storage)
Premium: $9.99/mo for 2TB & $16.58/mo for 3TB
- Storage Limit
- According to the price plan
- Download Limit
- Unlimited for paid (for trial user 10000)
- Bandwidth Limit
- 200 GB per day for paid (for trial user 20GB)
- File Size Limit
- Upload using dropbox application no limit, using website size must be less than 300 MB(upload size be smaller than dropbox storage quota)
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + Native app for Windows, Android & iOS
- Share Files
- Share using a link, share using a mobile application,using a browser
- Share Folders
- With a folder, which is a collection of files.
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
Zenfolio
- Price
- Free: 14 days free trial (Unlimited)
Premium: $5/mo, $20/mo, $30/mo for unlimited
- Storage Limit
- Unlimited for free and premium, both
- Bandwidth Limit
- 1TB for premium
- File Size Limit
- $5/mo(36 MB maximum file size), $20/mo & $30/mo(64 MB maximum file size)
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + Native app for Windows, Android & iOS
- Share Files
- Share using the link
- Share Folders
- Share file, photos
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
OneDrive
- Price
- Free: 5GB storage for free user & $1.99/mo for 50GB
Premium: $6.99/mo for 1000GB, $9.99/mo for 5000GB
- Storage Limit
- 5GB for free users and according to the price plan
- Download Limit
- Single zip folder size limit is 20GB.
- Bandwidth Limit
- Unlimited
- File Size Limit
- File size 15GB
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + Native app for Windows, Android & iOS
- Share Files
- Share using a link
- Share Folders
- Share folders or files
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
Google Drive
- Price
- Free: 15GB for free users
Premium: $1.99/month for 100GB ($20.99/year), $2.99/month for 200GB ($29.99/year), $9.99/month 2TB ($99.99/year)
- Storage Limit
- 15 GB for free users, according to a paid plan
- Download Limit
- 10TB Download per day
- Bandwidth Limit
- Download via web client 1250MB/per day & upload 500MB/per day
- File Size Limit
- Upload file up to 5TB( 50MB for presentation and documents upload)
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + native apps for Windows & Android
- Share Files
- With a link, share folder
- Share Folders
- With a folder, which is a collection of files.
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
iCloud
- Price
- Free: 15GB
Premium: 0.99/mo for 50GB, $2.99/mo for 200GB, $9.99 for 2TB
- Storage Limit
- Free: 5GB
Premium: According to a price plan
- Bandwidth Limit
- 200/400/600 GB per month
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + native apps for Windows & iOS
- Share Files
- Using the link
- Share Folders
- Share using files
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
Box
- Price
- Free: 15GB for free users
Premium: $1.99/month for 100GB($20.99/year), $2.99/month for 200GB ($29.99/year), $9.99/month 2TB($99.99/year)
- Storage Limit
- 15 GB for free users, according to a paid plan
- Download Limit
- 10TB Download per day
- Bandwidth Limit
- Download via web client 1250MB/per day & upload 500MB/per day
- File Size Limit
- Upload file up to 5TB (50MB for presentation & documents upload)
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + Native app for Windows & Android
- Share Files
- With a link, share folder
- Share Folders
- With a folder, which is a collection of files.
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
pCloud
- Price
- Free: Free: 10GB for free users
Premium: $47.88/yr for 500GB, $4.99/mo for 500GB, $95.88/yr for 2TB, $99.99/mo for 2TB
- Storage Limit
- Free: 10GB
Premium: According to the price plan
- Download Limit
- pCloud Free - 50 GB
pCloud Premium - 500 GB (including Lifetime)
pCloud Premium Plus - 2 TB (including Lifetime)
- Bandwidth Limit
- Unlimited
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + Native app for Windows, Mac, ios, Android, Linux
- Share Files
- Share file link
- Share Folders
- Share folders or files
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
Amazon S3
- Price
- Free: 12 month free trial with 5GB storage
Premium: First 50 TB / Month$0.023 per GB, Next 450 TB / Month$0.022 per GB, Over 500 TB / Month$0.021 per GB
- Storage Limit
- Free: 5GB
Premium: According to the price plan
- Free Trial
- 12 Months free trial
- Bandwidth Limit
- Unlimited
- File Size Limit
- Upload file up to 5TB
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Share Folders
- Share buckets
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
Instagram
- Bandwidth Limit
- Unlimited
- File Size Limit
- 4GB for video and 30MB for photo
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + Native app for Windows, Mac, ios, Android
- Share Files
- Using the link
- Share Folders
- Share photos or albums
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
YouTube
- Price
- Free: Lifetime
Premium: $11.99/mo
- Storage Limit
- No video larger than 20GB
- Bandwidth Limit
- Unlimited
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app + Native app for Windows, Mac, ios, Android
- Share Files
- Share with link
- Share Folders
- Share videos
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes
Mega
- Price
- Free: 50 GB free
Premium: $7.50 for 200GB,$16 for 1TB, $30 for 4TB & $46 for 8TB
- Storage Limit
- Free: 50GB
Premium: According to plan
- Download Limit
- Depend on bandwidth
- Bandwidth Limit
- Free account: 1GB
Premium: According to plan
- File Size Limit
- Available cloud drive space
- Folder Structure Support
- Yes
- Platform
- Web app+ native apps for Windows, Android & iOS
- Share Files
- Share using the link
- Share Folders
- Folder or file share
- Full Resolution Storage
- Yes