Bitwarden vs 1Password

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	Bitwarden Free plan · from $1.65/mo Visit Remove	1Password Free trial · from $3.99/mo Visit Remove
What it is	Open source password manager with a free plan and self-hosting for businesses	Password manager for individuals, families and businesses, with enterprise access tools
Free plan	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	$1.65/mo billed annually (Premium)Bitwarden pricing	$3.99/mo billed annually (Individual)1Password pricing
What it covers	$19.80 billed annually for 1 account; the free plan costs $0.	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.
Free trial	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 Individual and Families, no credit card required (per the pricing page)
Platforms	Browser extension, Desktop, Mobile, Self-hosted	macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Linux, Browser extension, CLI
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	Yes, self-hostable	No
Good for	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	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
Watch out for	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	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
Made by	Bitwarden	1Password

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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