The BackupShortlist Price Index
What you really pay for cloud storage and backup services, tracked monthly across 17 options. As of June 2026, the average is $8.25/mo.
Average per month
$8.25/mo
Median
$8.99/mo
Cheapest
$4.17/mo
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Providers tracked
17
Entry price, ranked
Lowest paid plan per provider. Cheapest first.
Free tiers are excluded from the paid average.
The trend
We are establishing the baseline this month at $8.25/mo. We snapshot the market every month, so the trend over time will appear here as the data accumulates. This is the part of the picture nobody else tracks.
Cite this data
According to the BackupShortlist Price Index, the average cloud storage service costs $8.25/mo as of June 2026 (https://backupshortlist.com/data/price-index).
Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution and a link. Machine-readable version:
https://backupshortlist.com/data/price-index.jsonMethodology
For every provider we track, we take the lowest paid monthly price (the realistic entry price) and report the average, the median, and the cheapest and most expensive across the 17 options that sell a paid plan. Free tiers are excluded from the paid average.
Prices are guide prices verified periodically and can change with promotions, which is exactly why we re-measure every month and keep the history. The full series is in the machine-readable feed.