Free up your Google Drive storage

Your Google Account comes with one shared storage pool — 15 GB free, or more with Google One. That single quota is split between Google Drive, Gmail and Google Photos. When it fills up, you can't upload files or receive email. Here's how Drive's share works and how to get space back fast.

Check your usage first

The fastest official view is Google's own storage page: Google's storage manager, which lists your largest files, discarded items and Trash. To rank everything in your Drive by size in seconds, open DriveBalance.

Start here

Free up Drive storage fast → Trash, big files, duplicates and old clutter — the order that recovers the most space. What counts against your quota → Why Docs are free, why Trash still counts, and why shared files don't cost you.

See exactly where your Drive storage goes

DriveBalance ranks your files by size, finds exact duplicates, and shows your Trash — so you know what to delete first.

Open DriveBalance