Bitwarden pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Bitwarden (bitwarden.com) is a password manager. Free personal account; Premium costs $19.80 a year for one person and Families $47.88 a year for up to 6, while Teams and Enterprise are per user at $4 and $6 a month billed annually.. Free plan: Free account: unlimited passwords and devices, sync across computer and phone; shares with one other user..
What Bitwarden costs
- 1 person: free (Free account has unlimited passwords and unlimited devices on bitwarden.com/pricing, so 0.)
- 10 users: $40/mo (Teams $4/user/mo billed annually x 10 users = $40/mo. The help center says Teams can also bill monthly, but no monthly rate is printed on any page read, so the annual rate stands in. Teams Starter is absent from the current pricing pages, so it is not used.)
Plan compared: Free account (unlimited passwords and devices). Prices are the subscription in USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) at the regular list price, ignoring first-year discounts, for one person using it on a computer and a phone, and for a 10-person team sharing passwords under central admin. Free plans count as $0 only when they cover the whole scenario.
What Bitwarden does
Core: Built-in password vault, Browser autofill, Mobile apps & autofill, Self-hosting & open source.
Important: Desktop apps, Passkey support (partly), Built-in 2FA codes, Identity & payment autofill (partly), Secure sharing (partly), Shared team vaults, Admin console & policies, SSO & directory sync, Breach & password health (partly), Developer tools & SSH, Family plan.
Also has: Email aliases (partly), Local or own-cloud storage (partly), Emergency access, Encrypted file storage, Audits & compliance (partly).
Bitwarden price hikes
- Bitwarden raised Premium to $19.80/yr and Families to $47.88/yr · Apr 4, 2026
Premium went from $10 to $19.80 a year ($1.65 a month) and Families from $40 to $47.88 a year ($3.99 a month). The free account is unchanged.
Alternatives to Bitwarden
Bitwarden is the cheapest password manager we track at 1 person on a computer and a phone. The others:
Bitwarden alternatives: 2 password managers compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Apr 4, 2026 · Price increase: Premium went from $10 to $19.80 a year ($1.65 a month) and Families from $40 to $47.88 a year ($3.99 a month). The free account is unchanged.
Sources
Pricing page: bitwarden.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Solo is the free account, read from bitwarden.com/pricing. Team10 is Teams at $4/user billed annually: the help center says Teams can also bill monthly, but no monthly rate is printed on any page read, and Teams Starter is absent from the current pricing pages and the plans help article.