A Nextcloud One Alternative From $5.90 per User
Nextcloud One is Nextcloud GmbH's own hosted Nextcloud for organisations under 100 users, hosted in Europe and priced per user. MassiveGRID's Nextcloud Hub runs the same software on the Nextcloud Enterprise Ultimate branch, in the U.S., E.U., U.K. or Asia, at a lower seat price with office, chat, mailboxes and support included, and moves you to a dedicated Nextcloud Enterprise instance with the same operator when you grow.
Why teams look for an alternative
Teams that look past Nextcloud One usually have one of four reasons. Price per seat: Nextcloud GmbH's hosted service is priced near its software subscription, in the mid-teens of euros per user per month at the figures published when we checked, and a 20-person team feels the difference against a $5.90 seat. Geography: it is hosted in Europe, which is right for a European organisation and wrong for a British, American or Asia-Pacific one. Growth: it is for organisations under 100 users, and above that Nextcloud sells a subscription you host yourself or through a partner, which means changing operator at the moment the organisation is busiest. What is in the plan: mailboxes and round-the-clock support are things a growing company wants included rather than arranged.
There is also a reason to choose Nextcloud One that this page should state: it is the vendor's own service, and for some procurement teams buying from the maker is the point. Our side-by-side comparison keeps that in view.
What you get instead
| You use today | On Nextcloud Hub | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Nextcloud One hosted build | Nextcloud Enterprise Ultimate on MassiveGRID's shared platform | The certified Enterprise branch; our Enterprise vs Community guide explains what that means. |
| Per user per month, annual, mid-teens of euros | $5.90, $12.90 or $19.90 per user per month | Monthly, or 3 to 36 months at 5% to 40% off; first month $1 on monthly billing. |
| Hosted in Europe | U.S., E.U. (Frankfurt), U.K. (London) or Asia (Singapore) | Chosen at checkout, same price in each. |
| Files, Office, Talk, groupware per the current plan sheet | Files, Photos, Office, Talk, Calendar, Contacts on every plan; Notes, Tables, Deck, Tasks from Business | Check Nextcloud One's current plan sheet for what it includes; Hub plans include all of these. |
| Mail per the current plan sheet | A mailbox per user included | Standard Email on Starter and Business; Enterprise Email with delegation on Enterprise. |
| Nextcloud GmbH support | Ticket, priority or 24x7 support by plan; 100% uptime SLA | Dedicated instances add a Nextcloud Enterprise subscription with the tier's reaction times. |
| Under 100 users | 1 to 50 online; dedicated Nextcloud Enterprise instances from 50 users | Same operator from the first seat to thousands, in the same region. |
Nextcloud One details are from Nextcloud's pricing page and published figures at the time of writing; check nextcloud.com before deciding. Moving between the two is a Nextcloud-to-Nextcloud transfer with the desktop client, WebDAV, CalDAV, CardDAV and Nextcloud's export and import tooling.
How the switch works
Order and set up
Order a Hub plan for the pilot users, pick the region, use the $1 first month. Create the folder structure you want, add users, install the desktop client.
Move one project
Run one live project entirely on Nextcloud: files, the weekly call in Talk, the agenda in Nextcloud Office. Note what anyone misses.
Migrate the data
Export from the old suite and import files, calendars and contacts, or hand it to the migration service. Replace the shared links that will break.
Mail, phones, switch-off
Point MX records at the new mailboxes, connect calendars and contacts on every phone, train the team, put the old suite into read-only for a month.
Nextcloud Hub Pricing
Per-user plans on MassiveGRID's Nextcloud Enterprise platform: files, office, email, chat and video calls, calendar and contacts, in the U.S., E.U., U.K. or Asia. Pick the region and team size to see what your team would pay.
First month for $1 on monthly billing with coupon code NEXTCLOUD, applied by the Order buttons.
- Files, Photos, Calendar and Contacts
- Nextcloud Office: documents, spreadsheets and presentations
- Talk: chat, audio and video calls, screen sharing
- Standard Email
- 100 GB storage per user
- Desktop and mobile sync clients, public share links
- Nextcloud Enterprise platform with managed updates and daily backups
- Ticket support
- Files, Photos, Calendar and Contacts
- Nextcloud Office and Talk: documents, chat, audio and video calls
- Notes, Tables, Deck and Tasks
- Standard Email
- 1 TB storage per user, ten times Starter
- Desktop and mobile sync clients, public share links
- Nextcloud Enterprise platform with managed updates and daily backups
- Priority support: faster response and escalation
- Files, Photos, Office, Talk, Calendar and Contacts
- Notes, Tables, Deck and Tasks
- Enterprise Email with delegation and other enterprise mail features
- 1 TB storage per user
- Desktop and mobile sync clients, public share links
- Nextcloud Enterprise platform with managed updates and daily backups
- 24x7 support
- Upgrade path to a dedicated instance with your own domain and branding
USD per user per month before taxes; the billing-cycle discount applies to every plan. Order 1 to 50 users online. Need your own domain, a compliance boundary of your own or more than 50 users? See the dedicated instances below or contact us.
Other alternatives, honestly
Hetzner Storage Share is the cheapest managed Nextcloud per terabyte, in Germany, without the suite; our comparison says when it is the right call. IONOS Managed Nextcloud is the other storage-priced German option. Nextcloud Enterprise bought directly is the route above 100 users for organisations with their own operations team, hosted on a managed HA cloud server or their own hardware. A dedicated Nextcloud Enterprise instance from MassiveGRID is the route for organisations that want the subscription in their own name with the operator included; see the Nextcloud Enterprise page. The providers comparison covers the field.
Frequently Asked Questions
Nextcloud Enterprise, four regions, one operator as you grow
Order a Nextcloud Hub plan and the first month is $1 with coupon code NEXTCLOUD. When you pass 50 users, the same team moves you to a dedicated instance.