What IDrive Team costs for a team of 1–25
At five people, IDrive Team costs $9.99 a month — $119.88 a year.
The cost at your headcount
Figures are the annual-billing rate. “Billed seats” is what appears on the invoice, which is not always the number of people you have.
| People | Billed seats | Per month | Per year | Per person/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | $9.99 | $119.88 | $9.99 |
| 3 | 5 | $9.99 | $119.88 | $3.33 |
| 5 | 5 | $9.99 | $119.88 | $2 |
| 10 | 10 | $19.98 | $239.76 | $2 |
| 25 | 25 | $49.95 | $599.40 | $2 |
What the table above does not capture
Pooled 5 TB across 5 users — far cheaper than per-machine backup, but the quota is shared.
How IDrive Team is priced, and what that does as you grow
Sold in blocks of 5, at $9.99 per block per month. Cost moves in steps, not a line: person 6 costs the same as an entire second block. The cheapest moment to be on this product is the headcount just below a block boundary; the worst is the one just above it.
The seat floor: 5 minimum
IDrive will not sell fewer than 5 seats. Below that headcount you are billed for people you do not have. A three-person firm pays for 2 seats it cannot staff — 67% on top of what it is actually using — and a solo owner pays for 4 empty seats, which is why the per-person column above looks so bad at the top of the table.
A floor is not automatically disqualifying, but it is a real cost that headline per-user rates hide. If two products are otherwise close, the one without a floor is cheaper at your size and stays cheaper until you reach the floor.
Monthly billing costs 20% more
$9.99 per account on annual billing, $11.99 month-to-month. At five people that is $9.99 a month against $11.99 — $24 a year for the privilege of being able to stop.
Monthly billing buys the option to leave. On a tool you have already decided to keep, that option is one you are paying 20% for and will not exercise. On a tool you are still evaluating, it is worth every cent — which is why the decision belongs after a subscription audit, not before one.
Where it sits against the backup alternatives
At five people, IDrive Team is the cheapest of the backup plans we track.
| Product | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDrive Team | $9.99 | $9.99 | $9.99 | $19.98 | $49.95 |
| Backblaze Computer Backup | $8.25 | $24.75 | $41.25 | $82.50 | $206.25 |
| Acronis True Image | $6.08 | $18.25 | $30.41 | $60.82 | $152.06 |
The headcounts where the answer changes
Because these products are priced on different models, “cheaper” is a function of team size rather than a property of the product. These are the points where the cheaper of the two swaps over:
- vs Backblaze Computer Backup — Backblaze Computer Backup is cheaper below 2 people. From 2 up, IDrive Team is ($9.99 against $16.50).
- vs Acronis True Image — Acronis True Image is cheaper below 2 people. From 2 up, IDrive Team is ($9.99 against $12.16).
If you expect to cross one of those numbers inside the next year, price the headcount you will have rather than the one you have now. Migrating a tool you have already filled with data is the expensive way to save the difference.
The free tier
Basic free, 10 GB
What this page does not tell you
Price is the easiest thing to verify and the least likely to decide whether a tool was a good idea. This page says nothing about whether your team will actually adopt it, how quickly you can remove someone's access when they leave, whether your data comes out in a usable shape, or what support is like when something breaks at month end. Those cost more than the gaps above when they go wrong, and none of them are visible on a pricing page — ours or the vendor's.
We have not run a hands-on lab test of IDrive Team. When we do, it will be dated and logged in the test log, and this page will link to it. Until then, treat everything here as what it is: verified arithmetic on a published price.
Sources and corrections
Rate read from https://www.idrive.com/pricing on , re-checked weekly. Changes we find are published in the price-change log. If a figure here is wrong, tell us — corrections are logged publicly on the corrections page.
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Get told when this price changes
We re-check IDrive weekly. When the rate, the seat minimum or the free tier moves, subscribers hear about it with the date and the source.