Google One has long been offered as a way to expand the storage across products like Drive, Gmail, and Photos, but Google has been pivoting it towards a focus on AI. And while that’s compelling for some, the real value in Google’s AI storage subscriptions is now coming from everything else – and it’s simply one of the best deals in tech today.
Cloud storage is a big part of basically every tech product you might want to use in 2026. Google already offers far more storage than most for free, with most accounts getting 15GB of storage without any cost at all. From there, you can pay extra to open up a bigger and bigger allotment of cloud storage to be used with your Google account.
For the longest time, that meant paying $2/month for 100GB, $3 for 200GB, $10 for 2TB, and so on. And, while there have always been a few perks in Google One, the storage was the main selling point.
In its “Gemini era,” though, Google has rethought these storage subscriptions, and it’s a win for everyone.
This is a thought that’s been bouncing around my head for the past few months, as Google just keeps piling on more reasons to pay up for one of its various AI-centric storage plans – and it’s better than ever as of this week.
