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Does $180/user/year seem excessively high to anyone else?

As a business expense it seems like a no-brainer, especially with features oriented around security like remote wiping, account transferring and more detailed logs.

Agree. The features you mentioned above, along with an awesome revision history tracking feature, make it an easy decision.

Except the remote wipe doesn't work if the employee disconnects their computer from the internet.

Well, sure. It can't violate the laws of physics, what a shame.

As a business expense for a 50+ person company, that's over $9000 a year. That doesn't seem like a no-brainer, especially when Google will give me Apps (including Drive) for $50/year/person.

A 50+ person company is burning >$5,000,000 on salary + benefits + office space.

Yes, but for $9000/year, I could very easily stand up a server, backups, and a VPN to access more than 1TB of data.

We pay for Google Apps for everyone in our company, and unfortunately no one used Google Apps. I know some people pay and expense Dropbox on their personal accounts, and if more of our team needed to use Dropbox I can easily see getting on their Business plan. Plus the Business plan ends up costing less than the consumer version.

The couple of thousand dollars is fairly trivial amount of money - you need to look at price per headcount. Salesforce and other SAAS services that we use cost a lot more per person and yet we still happily pay for them. I can also see a simple feature like 'Track logins, devices, and locations ' being a must have depending on the security requirements internally.

No, not at all. $180/user/year = $15/user/month.

In comparison, Salesforce Sales Cloud starts at $25/user/month, and Box for Business starts at $15/user/month.

In addition to everyone else's comments on pricing, it's $125/user/year if you pay annually (additional users after the first 5 users, which are $795/year).

Seems comparable to Box's pricing.

Oh, I didn't see that. Upvoted.

For business use it is probably one of the cheapest "serious" SaaS price levels I have seen (e.g. go and have a look at what Salesforce charge per user per month).

not in the slightest.

It's a 44% raise from the previous "Dropbox Team" business pricing. It used to be $125/user/year.

So AWS S3 does a big price drop, and Dropbox Business raises prices by 44%. Sounds good :)

It is still $125/user/year if you pay annually. It is $15/user/month if you pay monthly.

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