Your storage is shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. When your account reaches its storage limit, you can’t upload or create files to Drive. Learn more about Google storage policies.
To learn how to manage files in your Google Drive storage:
- Check how much storage you have
- Learn how storage policies vary by plan
- Learn how to clear space
- Learn about items that use storage space
- Learn about items that don't use storage space
- Learn what happens if you run out of space
Check how much storage you have
To know how much space you have left on a computer, go to google.com/settings/storage.
- If you use Google Drive for work or school, you can check if your administrator set an individual storage limit.
- If you're close to or over your limit, you can:
- Permanently delete files to clear space.
- Get more storage:
- For a personal account, sign up for Google One or buy more Google One storage.
Change your storage plan
- For a work or school account, ask your administrator for more storage. You can't buy more storage yourself.
- For a personal account, sign up for Google One or buy more Google One 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.
| Google Workspace Edition or Subscription | Storage Limits |
|---|---|
|
G Suite Basic No longer available for new customers |
30 GB per End User |
|
G Suite Business G Suite Business - Archived Users No longer available for new customers |
Unlimited storage 1 TB per Archived User |
| Google Workspace Business Starter | 30 GB times the number of End Users, including Archived Users |
| Google Workspace Business Standard | 2 TB times the number of End Users, including Archived Users |
| Google Workspace Business Plus | 5 TB times the number of End Users, including Archived Users |
| Google Workspace Enterprise Starter | 1 TB times the number of End Users |
|
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 Edition or Subscription | Storage Limits |
|---|---|
|
Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals Google Workspace for Education Standard |
100 TB total for all End Users |
| Google Workspace for Education Teaching and Learning Upgrade | Additional 100 GB times the number of End User licenses |
| Google Workspace for Education Plus | Additional 20 GB times the number of End User licenses |
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 Edition or Subscription | Storage Limits |
|---|---|
|
Google Workspace Essentials Starter |
15 GB per End User |
|
Google Workspace Essentials No longer available for new customers |
100 GB times the number of End User, up to a maximum of 2 TB |
| Google Workspace Enterprise Essentials | 1 TB times the number of End Users |
| Google Workspace Enterprise Essentials Plus | 5 TB times the number of End Users |
Google Workspace Frontline
| Google Workspace Edition or Subscription | Storage Limits |
|---|---|
|
Google Workspace Frontline Starter Google Workspace Frontline Standard |
5 GB per End User* |
*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 Edition or Subscription | Storage Limits |
|---|---|
|
Google Workspace for Nonprofits |
100 TB for all End Users |
|
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 |
Upgrade for existing members |
|
10 TB |
Monthly |
Upgrade for existing members |
|
20 TB |
Monthly |
Upgrade for existing members |
|
30 TB |
Monthly |
Upgrade for existing members |
Learn how to clear space
Learn about items that use storage space
Google Drive- 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.
- 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
Google Drive- 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.
Learn what happens if you run out of space
You can’t back up any photos or videos. If you want to add any more photos and videos, you can free up Google storage space or buy more Google storage.