How do I see my Google storage?

Learn how storage policies vary by plan

Storage policies vary by plan:

• Your account, , is a Personal account with 15 GB of storage at no charge: This storage is shared among Drive, Gmail, and Photos.

• You’re not signed into a Google account: To find out what plan you have, log into your Google account and reload this article.

Google Workspace storage is shared between Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. Learn how storage use is calculated.

The amount of storage for each user depends on your Google Workspace edition. Most Google Workspace editions have pooled storage. Pooled storage is indicated in the following tables as total storage or a storage amount times the number of End User licenses.

G Suite Basic

No longer available for new customers

G Suite Business

G Suite Business - Archived Users

No longer available for new customers

Unlimited storage

1 TB per Archived User

Google Workspace Enterprise Standard

Google Workspace Enterprise Plus

5 TB times the number of End Users, including Archived Users

For customers with 5 or more End Users, more storage may be available at Google's discretion upon reasonable request to Google Workspace support.

Google Workspace for Education

Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals

Google Workspace for Education Standard

For more information about storage for Google Workspace for Education storage, go to Understand storage availability and usage.

Google Workspace Essentials

Google Workspace Essentials editions do not include Gmail.

Google Workspace Essentials Starter

Google Workspace Essentials

No longer available for new customers

Google Workspace Frontline

Google Workspace Frontline Starter

Google Workspace Frontline Standard

*This storage limit applies to all End Users using a Google Workspace Frontline edition, even if the Customer purchased another Google Workspace offering with different storage limits.

Google Workspace for Nonprofits

Google Workspace for Nonprofits

Google One storage is shared between Drive, Gmail, and Photos and across family accounts, where applicable. The amount of storage for each user depends on your Google Workspace edition.

Google One Plan

Payment

Availability

100 GB

Monthly or yearly

Everyone

200 GB

Monthly or yearly

Everyone

2 TB

Monthly or yearly

Everyone

5 TB

Monthly or yearly

10 TB

Monthly

Upgrade for existing members

20 TB

Monthly

30 TB

Monthly

Google One members can share their plan features with up to 5 family members.

Everyone gets 15 GB of cloud storage at no charge with their Google Account. The rest of the paid Google One storage is shared between family members. Learn how to start or stop sharing with your family

You can also use the storage manager to Clean up & troubleshoot your Google storage

Learn how to clear space

Files in trash are automatically deleted after 30 days. Before the time window closes, you can restore your files . After the 30-day window, you may lose those files permanently.

To delete your Google Drive, Gmail, or Google Photos files and make space available, move them to the trash and then empty your trash . If you delete, restore, or permanently delete multiple files or folders at once, it might take time for the changes to take effect.

Learn about items that use storage space

Important: As of June 1, 2021, newly created Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, or Jamboard files count toward storage. Files that already exist don't count toward storage unless they're modified on or after June 1, 2021. 

• Most files in your My Drive take up space. My Drive contains files and folders you upload or sync, such as PDFs, images, or videos. It also contains files you create, such as Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms.
• Items in your Trash also take up space. Learn how to empty your trash.
• If you use Drive for work or school, content in shared drives' trash also counts toward your organization's storage.

Messages and attachments, like items in your Spam and Trash folders, take up space.

• Photos and videos backed up in Original quality take up space.
• Photos and videos backed up in High quality (now named Storage saver) or Express quality after June 1, 2021. Any photos or videos you backed up in High quality or Express quality before June 1, 2021 will not count toward your Google Account storage. Learn more about Photos backup options.

Items in Google Drive for desktop take up a different amount of space than the same items in drive.google.com.

• Items in your Trash take up space in Google Drive, but aren't synced to your computer.
• Shared items will take up space on your computer, but not Google Drive.
• Items that are in multiple folders will be synced to all folders on your computer, taking up more space.
• If you only sync some folders to your computer, the storage on your computer will be less than what is shown on Google Drive.
• Your computer may show a slightly different file size than drive.google.com because of Mac or PC requirements.

Learn about items that don't use storage space

• Files in "Shared with me" and shared drives don't use space. These files only take up space in the owner's Google Drive.
• Google Sites.
• Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Jamboard, and Drawings files you create before June 1, 2021, and don't edit after that date.

Photos and videos backed up in Storage saver quality or Express quality before June 1, 2021 don't use space.

Learn what happens if you run out of space

Important: If you're over your storage quota for 2 years, your content across Gmail, Drive, and Photos may be deleted.

You can’t send or receive messages. Messages sent to you are returned to the sender.

You can’t sync or upload new files. You can’t create new files in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard. Until you reduce the amount of storage you use, neither you nor anyone else can edit or copy your affected files. Syncs stop between your computer's Google Drive folder and My Drive.

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It seems like the days of free apps are slowly grinding to a halt. Just recently, password manager LastPass announced that it was drastically limiting the usefulness of its free app, and now, Google has sent out emails reaffirming that it is ending its free unlimited photo storage policy:

Starting June 1, 2021, all new photos and videos backed up in High quality and Express quality* will count toward the free 15 GB of storage that comes with your Google account or any additional storage you may have purchased, the same way other Google services like Google Drive and Gmail already do.

While this isn’t a surprise — Google announced its new policy back in November 2020 — it is still depressing to be reminded of the upcoming storage crunch. Of course, until June 1st, you can still add as many “high quality” photos as you like, so if you’re planning to upload a lot of old photos, this is the time to do it. Meanwhile, though, you may want to figure out just how much space you’re already using, so you can figure out if you need to upgrade. It’s not difficult, and there are several ways of doing it:

• Go to this page, and you’ll see a breakdown of how much storage you’re using and how it’s been divided between Google Drive, Gmail, Google Photos, and your device backup. (Note: how the page looks may vary, depending on the type of Google account you have.)

Google will let you know how much storage space you have left and what it’s being used by.

• You can also see how much storage you have left by going to your Google Drive page and looking at the Storage statistic showing at the bottom of the left-hand column
• Google has also created a page that estimates, based on your current usage, how long it will be before you need to increase your storage. You can find it here.

Once the June 1st deadline has passed, Google says it will send reminders when you’re nearing your limit. It also intends to provide a tool that will identify what it calls “dark, blurry, and otherwise unwanted content.”

Now that you know how much space you have left, you can try to figure out what you want to do next. If you’re getting close to your limit, do you want to pay Google for more storage space? (Prices start at $1.99 per month for 100GB.) Find a different service to store your photos? It’s up to you.

One word of advice: before you do anything else, try to get rid of any old, unwanted, or duplicate files that are hanging around in your Google storage. You’d be amazed at how much space you might save.

Related

• How to get more space in your Google storage