Hey, one of the reasons Ente is expensive is because we maintain 3 copies of your data across 3 clouds.

You can read about our replication strategy here: https://ente.io/reliability

We could in the future offer cheaper plans at the cost of additional replicas.

Apple's cloud probably gets a better deal on their datacenter's costs and already charged you through your device and app store tax.

Honestly, everyone can do what they want with their money but working in tech and being on a site like this and seeing this comment makes me really sad

We all want cool things, secure, where our data is protected and we are not the product, but 3 euros a month is too much?

No wonder big tech gets bigger and the rich get richer. The silicon valley VC funded feifdoms become more entrenched and, in the end, we all suffer for it

I agree.

Over a 10 year horizon, the difference between 1€/m and 3€/m is a mere 240€.

That's like 2-5 extra work hours over the course of 10 years!

I seriously don't get how someone working in tech would fear bankruptcy over this.

There are much cheaper alternatives to Ente. Filen.io, which is also E2E encrypted, for example costs 200 GB montly for 1.99 Euro. Its difficult to compete with iCloud if your service costs three times as much.

Filen is perhaps cheaper because they are storing lesser replicas. It is not financially feasible to provide 3 replicas at their price points, unless they're running their own storage infrastructure, which doesn't seem to be the case.

Now Ente could of course choose to keep lesser replicas and offer "lite" plans that are more affordable. But we would rather not complicate our pricing structure right now. Understanding buckets of GBs is hard enough, and adding tiers on top would worsen the experience for most.

All of that said, Filen does seem like a really cool project for storing files.