Microsoft cuts Microsoft 365 cloud storage from 6 TB to 2 TB

Microsoft has replaced the per-person OneDrive allowance on its Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscriptions with a single shared pool. Where each of up to six members previously held 1 TB of their own, the household now shares 2 TB between them — a drop from 6 TB to 2 TB at the same price. The new terms apply to subscriptions bought or upgraded from 8 October 2026, and reach existing subscribers at their first renewal on or after 2 May 2027.

Basic and Personal keep their individual allocations. The new Microsoft 365 Pro tier carries 5 TB, also shared. Privacy between members is unchanged — each person still sees only their own files unless something is shared — but the arithmetic is not. A family of four that had filled 4 TB will be over the ceiling on renewal day, and the choices are to delete, to buy extra storage, or for members to take out subscriptions of their own.

Storage is one of the few parts of this market where the European options compete on terms rather than on jurisdiction, because a gigabyte is a gigabyte wherever it sits.

pCloud Drive sells capacity outright instead of renting it: EUR 499 once for 2 TB, EUR 1,499 once for 10 TB, per its own price list. Proton Drive folds storage into the same Swiss account as Proton Mail and Proton Calendar, so the allowance is shared across the suite rather than across a household. Infomaniak kDrive is sold by seat from Geneva with office editing attached. Nextcloud moves the question elsewhere entirely — you run it on hardware you own, and the ceiling is the disk.

What a reader loses in the move is the thing Microsoft is actually charging for: Office on the desktop, bundled with the storage. Anyone leaving the subscription for the storage alone has to solve the documents separately.