Samsung Cloud (storage, discontinued)

Free allowance: None. It was 15 GB for early Galaxy buyers, cut to 5 GB for new accounts, then discontinued.
Verdict: deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
Cost: no price stated
Identity: emailno card, no phone
Binding limit: retention-clampedthe storage product was discontinued and migrated to OneDrive by 2021-09-30
Evidence: reported4 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: checked 2026-10-21checked 2026-10-21 (inherited)

Free tier	None. It was 15 GB for early Galaxy buyers, cut to 5 GB for new accounts, then discontinued. Gallery Sync and Drive migrated to Microsoft OneDrive unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Limits	retention-clamped (binding) the storage product was discontinued and migrated to OneDrive by 2021-09-30 source
Binding	retention-clamped The storage product ended, so the retention clamp is total and there is no offer to test.
Identity	email a Samsung account, which now gives OneDrive and not Samsung storage
Egress	Not applicable
Per-object cap	Not applicable, the service closed
Retention	Two-phase shutdown: Gallery Sync and Drive migrated by 2021-09-30, then the remaining sync. Samsung matched the old quota on OneDrive for one year only, after which OneDrive's 5 GB applies
Interface	unknown
Tooling	none usable. Samsung's own support pages redirect the user to their personal OneDrive account
Composes with	Nothing to chain: it is now literally OneDrive on a 5 GB free tier. The 15 GB that older guides quote is a number that no longer exists
Reliability	Do not count this as a live 15 GB. The quota Samsung matched on OneDrive lasted one year and OneDrive's own 5 GB applied afterwards
Notes	Recorded under a slug that does not collide with the compute topic's samsung-cloud record, which covers Samsung SDS Cloud Platform and is a different product from the same company.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 0

Evidence 4

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10003437/	'Your Gallery app can only be synced to your personal OneDrive account', so the Samsung-side storage is gone
2026-10-21	www.androidcentral.com/samsung-cloud-users-have-until-septem	the migration deadline of 2021-09-30
2026-10-21	www.samsungcloud.com/en/about/sync-with-onedrive-ending-soon	Samsung's own notice page, 'Sync with OneDrive ending soon'
2026-10-21	www.techradar.com/pro/grab-1-54tb-free-cloud-storage-for-lif	'dozens of cloud storage companies have either given up on free cloud storage (e.g Samsung, Amazon and Ionos)'

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access mode	none
closed	2021-09-30
replaced by	OneDrive
aliases	`["Samsung Cloud",null]`
reserved slug	samsung-cloud
cross topic record	compute/samsung-cloud
cross topic note	a different product from the same company: compute/samsung-cloud.json covers Samsung SDS Cloud Platform

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