Swiss technology company Proton continues to expand beyond its flagship encrypted email product: Proton Drive now offers three different paid plans for businesses, the startup announced on Tuesday, ranging from simple team storage plans to more comprehensive productivity and security software packages.
Proton’s most affordable subscription option for teams is Drive Professional, currently priced at a discounted rate of $5.99 per user per month, with a regular price of $9.99 per user. It includes 1TB of end-to-end encrypted cloud file storage per person (other cloud storage platforms, such as Google, don’t offer E2E encryption by default). Proton also stores file history for up to a year, so you can revert to a previous version if needed.
Proton Business Suite costs $12.99 per person per month during the sale, down from the regular price of $14.99. It offers the same amount of storage per user, but also includes access to paid versions of Proton Mail, Calendar, a VPN, and password-sharing app Pass. Document version history is backed up for 10 years, business email is customizable, and VPN connectivity can be added to up to 10 devices per user.
For those looking for a more tailored business subscription, Proton also offers a tailored Enterprise plan that is priced based on the services you need. This tier of Proton includes all of the features of the Business Suite, plus account management tools, 24/7 support, custom app configuration, enforced two-factor authentication, and more.
Proton Drive, the company’s answer to Google Drive, has gradually added features to make it a comparable alternative to Google Drive. Proton Drive indexes search tools locally on your device and stores all your documents as end-to-end encrypted file storage. Proton Drive’s user interface is intuitive, but items don’t load immediately and trying to edit and share documents in real time doesn’t translate well yet. Instead, you’re better off creating new documents natively in Proton Drive for now. Some document types, such as Excel spreadsheets, don’t yet support real-time Drive preview or editing, although Proton says it plans to increase compatibility in the future.
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While Microsoft and Google have committed to generative AI, adding it to virtually all of their cloud and software products, Proton has taken a more modest approach, promising users that their data will never be used to train AI models.
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