What Dropbox Advanced costs for a team of 1–25
At five people, Dropbox Advanced costs $120 a month — $1,440 a year.
The cost at your headcount
Figures are the annual-billing rate. “Billed seats” is what appears on the invoice, which is not always the number of people you have.
| People | Billed seats | Per month | Per year | Per person/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | $72 | $864 | $72 |
| 3 | 3 | $72 | $864 | $24 |
| 5 | 5 | $120 | $1,440 | $24 |
| 10 | 10 | $240 | $2,880 | $24 |
| 25 | 25 | $600 | $7,200 | $24 |
What the table above does not capture
Dropbox states this plan is "For 3 people or more", so it carries a three-seat floor. Same billing-toggle caveat as Standard.
What forces the upgrade
The limit you hit first decides the real cost more often than the headline rate does — a plan you outgrow in four months was never the cheap one.
- Storage: 15 TB pooled for the team
- History: 1 year to restore deleted files
- Trial: 30 days .
How Dropbox Advanced is priced, and what that does as you grow
Straight per-user billing at $24 per user per month. Cost tracks headcount exactly, so every hire adds the same amount and there is no cliff to plan around — the simplest model to budget, and the one that gets expensive last in small teams and first in large ones.
The seat floor: 3 minimum
Dropbox will not sell fewer than 3 seats. Below that headcount you are billed for people you do not have. A three-person firm pays for 0 seats it cannot staff — 0% on top of what it is actually using — and a solo owner pays for 2 empty seats, which is why the per-person column above looks so bad at the top of the table.
A floor is not automatically disqualifying, but it is a real cost that headline per-user rates hide. If two products are otherwise close, the one without a floor is cheaper at your size and stays cheaper until you reach the floor.
Dropbox does offer monthly billing on this plan, but the figure is behind a JavaScript toggle we have not verified from an official source. We would rather leave it blank than print a number we have not read. The annual rate above is verified.
Where it sits against the file storage alternatives
At five people, Dropbox Advanced is number 2 of 2 of the file storage plans we track, behind Dropbox Standard at $75.
| Product | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dropbox Advanced | $72 | $72 | $120 | $240 | $600 |
| Dropbox Standard | $15 | $45 | $75 | $150 | $375 |
Against every file storage product we track, the cheaper of the two does not change anywhere between one and twenty-five people — the ordering you see at five is the ordering you get at twenty-five. Price is therefore not the variable that should decide this one.
The free tier
Basic free, 2 GB
What this page does not tell you
Price is the easiest thing to verify and the least likely to decide whether a tool was a good idea. This page says nothing about whether your team will actually adopt it, how quickly you can remove someone's access when they leave, whether your data comes out in a usable shape, or what support is like when something breaks at month end. Those cost more than the gaps above when they go wrong, and none of them are visible on a pricing page — ours or the vendor's.
We have not run a hands-on lab test of Dropbox Advanced. When we do, it will be dated and logged in the test log, and this page will link to it. Until then, treat everything here as what it is: verified arithmetic on a published price.
Sources and corrections
Rate read from https://www.dropbox.com/plans on , re-checked weekly. Changes we find are published in the price-change log. If a figure here is wrong, tell us — corrections are logged publicly on the corrections page.
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Get told when this price changes
We re-check Dropbox weekly. When the rate, the seat minimum or the free tier moves, subscribers hear about it with the date and the source.