Support this for the free option - perhaps at a small price?

If the Plus Plan offered 15 GB that would be great. Maybe in the future when more donate and sign up for Plus then it would be a great replacement for Xmail.

I will totally switch to protonmail if they increase storage capacity and offer basic features that google the notorious gives for free . . Thanks

Totally Agreed! The free email option should have a storage of at least 2 GB

Being able to just buy an extra gig as needed without upgrading to the whole plan would be extremely helpful. I don't need any of those other features just a little more space.

either add a 1gb paid option or 1gb free, i cannot view emails older than 30 day to 6 months to delete and free up space/ storage, is this also a bug for free accounts

news about the free space increase to >= 2GB ?

Agree Wholeheartedly.

Agreed! The free email option should have a storage of at least 2 GB if not more. Please consider it, or you'll just lose out to Gmail.

I am one of the original users of ProtonMail, and I was given 500MB of storage as part of the free plan. I have a friend who started using ProtonMail later and has 1GB of free storage. Would it be possible to at least be fair with the amount of storage everyone has? Consolidate the amount of storage for everyone? Thanks.

I can’t fathom how people here are asking for Proton Mail to give away things for “free” all while citing Google (!) as an example. Google is NOT free - YOU are the product they sell. They use your information, including all email information - including the body/text of emails - and sell this info. to 3rd party advertisers among other things.

As far as the “customizable” options - surely everyone knows that there is a massive difference in cost between filters/folders and adding, maintaining, etc. additional storage/servers. That’s not an apples-to-apples comparison.

This would be great. I don't need 5 emails and 5gb storage. The available plans are tailored towards families or organisations. I'd love to be able to have a smaller "indivudual" pro with something like 1 custom email and, 1/2GB storage and a couple folders and or other features. Stripping business features could lower the price slightly. I'm sure there are many that would be willing to pay for it.

Agreed. Just discovered ProtonMail and while I'm really tempted to switch over, still reluctant because of the storage issue. Even if I could afford the paid account (really expensive for an individual), 5GB is still not much to go with if you plan years of archiving.
I suggest to upgrade the current plans to 10 or 15GB, offer a 5GB plan with limited support and options at 1€/month or 10€/year, and offer 500 extra MB for donators.

Please consider it, I'm certain you're missing out a lot of income because of this swiss-based ^^ price policy !

I've read several places with different numbers, but Google always ranks #1 in what each of their users are wroth. I've seen numbers from $135 to $350 per year. They generate somewhere around 90% of their revenue from advertising. Most of that is targeted advertising because they sell your information.

There's also this "Google's software crawls billions of emails on Gmail, and then uses software to suggest phrases drawn from that database that you might want to use to confirm a coffee at 4 PM at Blue Bottle. 10% of responses are generated through the Smart Reply feature, according to The Wall Street Journal.". Just one example of how they actually read your mail.

I could go on and on. People really need to stop comparing the free features of ProtonMail to Gmail. Gmail isn't Free. Nothing Free is Free. YOU are the product that Google sells. YOU are the product Facebook sells. YOU are the product that Twitter sells. ProtonMail doesn't sell you. 18 cents a day (US) is hardly expensive. 14 cents a day (US) if you pay by the year. It's a tiny price for a great service.

Add a cheap account, or add a pay per feature system. But free accounts are a good thing. They have to stay.

I have a paid account.

Or add a cheap version that only adds storage. I have no need for multiple addresses, sending a gazillion emails or even folders and most laypeople (almost everyone) don't either. Buuuuut 500 megs makes us have to worry about which emails need deleting like the bad old days.

$50 a year is hard to swallow and real hard to get a non technical friend to jump for. $20-30 for a couple/three gigs on the other hand...

Im fine with the 500MB. Note: Just delete Email you don't need anymore or outsource it??

put a cheaper annual plan with 2GB of storage and 3 email accounts

For those looking to use this service to archive ALL data (emails, folders, sub folders) from 1 or more email accounts...the ability to purchase more storage space on ProtonMail should be offered....for a fee of course.

Minus 3 votes. Your business model must charge people for services they want. This currently has 3574 votes, which means people want it, but they don't _need_ it to use the service. Therefore, this is exactly the kind of feature you must use to generate revenue.