Microsoft 365 Family drops from 6 TB of OneDrive storage to 2 TB shared
Family and Premium subscriptions move from 1 TB per person to a single 2 TB pool across up to six members, at the same price.
Microsoft has replaced the per-person OneDrive allowance in its Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscriptions with a single shared pool. Its own support page now states that those plans “include 2 TB of shared cloud storage”, drawn on by “the primary subscriber and up to five additional members”. Each of the six members previously had 1 TB of their own, so a full household loses up to 4 TB. Microsoft 365 Pro falls from 6 TB to 5 TB. Personal, at 1 TB, and Basic, at 100 GB, are unchanged.
The new model applies to new and upgraded subscriptions from 8 October 2026. Existing Family and Premium subscribers keep what they have until their first renewal on or after 2 May 2027, and Microsoft says some markets will receive transitional bonus storage. The company frames it as flexibility — storage “automatically goes where it’s needed” — which holds for a household where one person stores everything and the others store nothing, and does not for one where six people each filled a terabyte.
The subscription price did not change, which is what makes this a reduction rather than a repackaging. It also lands on the part of the bundle that is hardest to argue is a service: a terabyte of disk is the most directly comparable thing Microsoft sells.
The European options in this category price storage rather than bundle it. Infomaniak kDrive sells 3 TB from CHF 4.99 a month on Swiss infrastructure, with OnlyOffice and Microsoft Office Online editing on top and 15 GB free. pCloud Drive sells lifetime plans outright, a one-off payment instead of a subscription — the opposite structure to the one that just changed under its customers. Proton Drive is the end-to-end encrypted option. Nextcloud is the one you run yourself, where the storage ceiling is whatever disk you attach to it.
The caveat is the one worth repeating whenever OneDrive comes up: its advantage is structural rather than featural. It is built into Windows, it backs up the Desktop, Documents and Pictures folders by default, and inside an organisation its storage layer is shared with SharePoint and Teams. Moving a personal folder is a weekend. Moving a company is not a storage decision.