Baseseat vs. Google Drive and Dropbox
Why are they so cheap?
An honest answer.
Google Drive and Dropbox are great places to keep your files. Baseseat is built for something else: you, your team and your agents working in the same drive at once. That changes what it costs, and how it’s priced.
The short version
Cheap storage is usually
the start of a sale.
- 01
A way into an ecosystem.
Cheap or free storage is how big platforms bring you into their wider world of apps and subscriptions. The drive isn’t the product they most need you to buy.
- 02
Most plans are never filled.
Flat plans work because most people use a fraction of what they pay for. The light users quietly cover the heavy ones.
- 03
Most files just sit there.
Photos and documents are mostly saved once and rarely opened again. Storage that stays put is cheap to offer.
- 04
Not built for agent scale.
They were designed for people keeping files in sync across their devices, not for many sandboxes reading the same drive at once.
How we price
You pay for
what you use.
On a Baseseat, heavy users pay more and light users pay less. Nobody quietly pays for someone else.
That’s also what makes agent scale sustainable. Agent work is spiky: a quiet afternoon, then many connected sandboxes reading the same drive for an hour. Pricing by use means that hour is affordable, and so is the quiet afternoon.
Side by side
Different jobs.
Different drives.
| Google Drive, Dropbox | Baseseat | |
|---|---|---|
| Designed for | People keeping files in sync across their devices. | People and their agents working in the same files at once. |
| How you get in | Desktop and mobile apps, a web app and an API. | MCP, a CLI, a mounted folder, a Python SDK and an API. No app needed. |
| Pricing | A flat monthly plan for a block of storage. | A small monthly plan with usage included, then what you store, read and write. |
| In a quiet month | The same price as a busy one. | A smaller bill. |
| When the work spikes | Sync and sharing limits built for people. | Many connected sandboxes on one drive, paid for by the job. |
| Safeguards | Version history and recovery for personal files. | Base-revision checks, one-hour trash and hourly service backups. |
What we’re
focused on.
Our goal is agent-scale infrastructure: drives that a thousand agents can work in at once, with the safeguards that kind of work needs, such as base-revision checks, one-hour trash and hourly service backups.
We keep prices as low as we can while staying sustainable, so we’re still here, and still improving, when your agents are doing ten times the work.
If you mainly need somewhere cheap to keep photos and documents, a consumer cloud drive is a great deal, and we’d tell you so. Baseseat is for when your agents do the work.
We’re not trying to replace Google Drive or Dropbox.