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How Bigby compares

Honest comparisons with the storage you already use and the privacy services you are considering. We say plainly where the others win, because a comparison you cannot trust is just an advert.

Every page below concedes real trade-offs: price per gigabyte, mobile apps, ecosystems.

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How we compare ourselves

Four questions run through every comparison on this site. Who can read your files? Whose law governs them? What does the business actually sell? And can you leave easily? On those questions Bigby holds its ground: files encrypted in transit and at rest on UK servers, never scanned and never used for AI training, governed by UK GDPR with no US parent company, funded entirely by subscriptions, and exportable over WebDAV whenever you choose. On price per gigabyte, mobile apps and ecosystem breadth, Big Tech wins and our pages say so. We would rather you pick Bigby for the right reasons than for inflated ones.

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Start from your question

Most people arrive at private storage from one of two directions: they want out of a Big Tech service they already use, or they are weighing the privacy-focused options against each other. Start from whichever is yours.

Leaving Big Tech

Choosing private storage

Frequently asked questions

You should not trust them blindly, and we do not ask you to. Every claim on these pages is checkable: competitor pricing against their own sites, jurisdiction against company filings, scanning and AI policies against their published terms. We also concede real ground on every page, because the fastest way to lose a reader is to pretend Google is not cheaper or Dropbox does not sync better. Check anything that matters to you.

If you currently store files with Google, Dropbox or Microsoft, read the matching head-to-head page; it covers your actual switching decision, costs included. If you have already decided to leave Big Tech and are weighing the privacy-focused services against each other, start with the best private cloud storage UK roundup, which covers Proton Drive, Tresorit, Sync.com, pCloud and MEGA alongside Bigby.

Bigby wins on jurisdiction and incentives: UK servers under UK law, no scanning, no AI training, and a subscription as the entire business model. Big Tech wins on price per gigabyte, mobile apps and ecosystem. The end-to-end encrypted services win if your threat model includes the provider itself, at some cost in usability. The right answer depends on which of those you rank first.

Competitor pricing was checked in August 2026 and each comparison page notes this. Providers change prices, free tiers and bundles regularly, so treat competitor figures as approximate and check their sites before deciding. Bigby's own pricing is always current at plans and pricing.

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Encrypted UK cloud storage from £3.99 per month. UK servers, UK law, no scanning, no AI training.

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