Apple prices iCloud+ storage at five tiers, from 50GB at $0.99 a month up to 12TB at $59.99 a month in the United States, according to Apple’s own support page. Every tier, cheapest to most expensive, bundles the same set of extra features on top of the storage itself.
That full price table rarely gets published in one place, and the features that come with it, rather than the gigabytes, are the part most subscribers never open Settings to check. Here is what Apple states, tier by tier.
What each iCloud+ tier costs
| Key facts | Detail |
|---|---|
| 50GB | $0.99/month |
| 200GB | $2.99/month |
| 2TB | $9.99/month |
| 6TB | $29.99/month |
| 12TB | $59.99/month |
| Source | support.apple.com/en-us/108047 |
The jump from 50GB to 200GB roughly triples the price for four times the space. The jump from 200GB to 2TB is the biggest single step up in raw storage, ten times the space for a bit over three times the monthly cost. Apple has not published a per-gigabyte rate on this page, so any per-gigabyte figure is arithmetic a reader can do themselves from the table above, not a number Apple states.
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What iCloud+ adds beyond storage
Apple’s support page states that all five tiers, including the cheapest, include iCloud Private Relay, Hide My Email, a Custom Email Domain, and family sharing with up to five other members. None of those four features scale with the price. A subscriber on the $0.99 plan gets the same Private Relay and the same Custom Email Domain allowance as a subscriber paying $59.99, at least as far as Apple’s page states it.
That is a genuinely different shape from most subscription tiers, where the top price buys more features rather than more of the same feature. Here, the only thing that changes tier to tier, on the page Apple publishes, is the storage total and the HomeKit Secure Video camera allowance.
The HomeKit camera limit that moves with the plan
| Tier | HomeKit Secure Video cameras |
|---|---|
| 50GB | One camera |
| 200GB | Up to five cameras |
| 2TB and above | Unlimited cameras |
That is the one line item on Apple’s iCloud+ page that actually gates a feature by price rather than just by gigabytes. A household running more than five HomeKit Secure Video cameras needs at least the 2TB tier for that reason alone, independent of how much photo and backup storage it actually uses.
A detail Apple added quietly this year
Apple’s June 2026 services announcement stated that iCloud+ plans now carry higher daily limits for Apple Intelligence features, tied to the paid tier a subscriber is on. Apple did not publish the specific numbers behind that claim in the material reviewed for this piece, only that the limits rise with the plan.
It is a real change to what a paid iCloud+ tier buys, and it sits alongside the storage tiers rather than replacing anything on the pricing page. Anyone comparing tiers purely by gigabytes is leaving that detail out of the decision.
Where iCloud+ sits next to Apple One
iCloud+ storage is also one of the components inside Apple One, Apple’s bundle of services priced separately at $21.95, $27.95 and $39.95 a month for its three US tiers. Apple’s own pricing page for Apple One does not state which of the five iCloud+ tiers above travels inside each bundle, so that comparison is not one this article can complete from published figures alone.
What Apple has not said
- The specific daily-limit numbers behind the higher Apple Intelligence allowance on paid iCloud+ tiers.
- Which iCloud+ storage tier, if any single one, is included inside each Apple One plan.
- A per-gigabyte rate for any tier. Apple prices the plan as a whole, not the storage unit.
Today is Saturday, September 12, 2026, two days before iOS 27 arrives on Monday, September 14. Checking current iCloud usage under Settings before that update is a reasonable moment to confirm which of these five tiers actually fits, since Apple’s storage alert only appears once a backup or sync attempt has already failed.
