1Password vs Bitwarden vs Dashlane

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 7 November 2026.

Compared on	1Password Free trial · from $3.99/mo Visit Remove	Bitwarden Free plan · from $1.65/mo Visit Remove	Dashlane See pricing Visit Remove
What it is	Password manager for individuals, families and businesses, with enterprise access tools	Open source password manager with a free plan and self-hosting for businesses	Password manager for individuals and businesses, built around credential risk and phishing protection
Free plan	No	Free plan lists unlimited devices and unlimited passwords, sharing with one other user, a password generator, passkey management and Bitwarden Send; no separate device or item cap is listed. Premium-only items include the integrated authenticator, file attachments, emergency access and vault health reports.	No
Cheapest paid plan	$3.99/mo billed annually (Individual)1Password pricing	$1.65/mo billed annually (Premium)Bitwarden pricing	Not publishedDashlane pricing
What it covers	Regular price, billed yearly, for 1 user. The page shows $2.99/month as a promotional first-year price for new customers who buy directly on 1password.com.	$19.80 billed annually for 1 account; the free plan costs $0.	Not stated
Free trial	14-day free trial on Individual and Families, no credit card required (per the pricing page)	Free trials are offered on Families, Teams and Enterprise; the Enterprise trial is advertised as 14 days, the other trial lengths are not stated	14-day free trial on Premium and on the business Password Management plan
Platforms	macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Linux, Browser extension, CLI	Browser extension, Desktop, Mobile, Self-hosted	Browser extension, iOS, Android
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	Yes, self-hostable	No
Good for	Individuals who want one paid password manager across all their devices Households sharing logins in shared vaults Larger organisations that want password management alongside access and device controls	Individuals who want a free password manager without a device limit Teams that want to run a password manager on their own infrastructure Families that want shared collections at a flat yearly price	Small groups and families that want a shared password manager Companies that want to see weak or exposed logins that SSO does not cover
Watch out for	No free plan; the personal plans offer a 14-day trial instead Only yearly billing is shown on the personal pricing page The introductory prices apply to the first year for new direct customers, and the regular price is higher	Only annual billing is shown on the pricing page Self-hosting is listed on the Enterprise plan, which costs more per user Free-plan sharing is limited to one other user	Prices were not readable in the page text, so cost has to be checked on Dashlane's site Neither page we read described a free plan
Made by	1Password	Bitwarden	Dashlane

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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