pCloud
pCloud AG
Pay once, store forever. The lifetime plan that started it all.
Price
From $4.17/mo
Last checked
July 2026
Best for
Long-term storage, pay once
Category
Cloud storage & sync
About pCloud
pCloud (Swiss) is the provider people mean when they say "lifetime cloud storage": around $199 buys 500 GB forever, $399 buys 2 TB, and the deal beats a subscription within three to four years. The product earns it: sync is quick, the music and video players are genuinely useful, and file versioning covers 30 days (extendable). The honest notes: zero-knowledge encryption (pCloud Crypto) is a paid add-on rather than the default, and lifetime economics only work if the company outlives your files, which pCloud has been doing since 2013 with over 20 million users.
“The lifetime-deal king and a genuinely good cloud drive: fast sync, built-in media players, and Swiss-based infrastructure. The famous pay-once plans transform the economics if you keep them for years. Zero-knowledge encryption costs extra, which we wish were standard.”Editorial team, via BackupShortlist
Where to get it
From $4.17/mo
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