1Password is an excellent product, and most people who leave do so over price. Proton Pass at $1.99 per user per month and TeamPassword at $2.41 are the cheapest credible replacements, against 1Password Business at $8.99. Bitwarden at $4.00 is the pick if you want open source. Zoho Vault is the only option here with a real free tier for teams.
1Password Alternatives Compared (September 2026)
1Password is included as a row so you can see the actual gap.
| Product | Best for | Team price (per user/month, annual) | Seat minimum | Free plan | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Password (the baseline) | Best overall experience | $8.99 Business · Teams Starter Pack $24.95/mo for 10 | None on Business | No, 14-day trial | No |
| TeamPassword | Small non-technical teams sharing logins | $2.41 Standard · $5.25 Enterprise | 3 | No, 14-day trial | No |
| Bitwarden | Open source and value | $4.00 Teams · $6.00 Enterprise | None | Yes | Yes |
| Proton Pass | Lowest price, privacy, EU residency | $1.99 Essentials · $4.85 Professional | None | Yes | Yes |
| NordPass | Budget option at 10+ seats | Teams $1.79 to $1.99 · Business $3.59 to $3.99 | Teams: 10-seat pack only. Business: 5 | Yes, 1 active session | No |
| Zoho Vault | A genuinely free team tier | $0 Free · $4.50 Professional · $7.20 Enterprise | 5 on Professional | Yes, free forever | No |
| Keeper | Compliance and granular audit | Quote-only, around $3.75 Business | 5 | No | No |
| Dashlane (Omnix) | Credential-security platform | Quote-based | None published | No, discontinued Sept 2025 | No |
| LastPass | Name recognition, with caveats | $4.25 Teams · $7.00 Business · $9.00 Business Max | None | No | No |
How We Evaluated These, and Our Disclosure
Disclosure: this article is published by TeamPassword, and TeamPassword appears first below. Weigh that accordingly. Proton Pass undercuts us on price and we have said so in the table, in the opening sentence, and again in its section.
Criteria, in priority order for someone leaving 1Password:
- Cost for an actual team, including seat minimums and fixed packs, since price is the usual reason for the switch.
- Real team functionality. Shared vaults or groups, role-based permissions, and an audit log.
- What you give up. 1Password is genuinely good, so an honest comparison has to name the capability you lose.
- Adoption, because the most secure manager is the one your colleagues will actually use.
- Security and transparency record, including disclosed incidents.
Pricing verified September 2026. TeamPassword, 1Password, Bitwarden and Zoho's free tier were read from the vendors' own pricing pages. Dashlane and Keeper no longer publish per-seat pricing. Where a vendor renders prices client-side, that is noted rather than guessed at.
What 1Password Actually Costs Now
1Password raised prices in March 2026, so figures published before then understate it.
| 1Password plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Individual | $3.99/mo billed annually | $2.99 is a first-year promotion for new customers only |
| Families | $5.99/mo billed annually | $4.49 first-year promotion; covers 5 people |
| Teams Starter Pack | $24.95/mo | Flat rate for 10 members, extra seats $4.99 each |
| Business | $8.99/user/mo | Adds SSO, provisioning, reporting, free Families seat per user |
| Enterprise | Quote | Now positioned as Unified Access |
There is no free tier, only a 14-day trial.
Two things this table makes obvious. At 10 members the Starter Pack works out at $2.50 per person, which is competitive, and it is where 1Password is genuinely good value. But the moment you need SSO, provisioning or proper reporting you are on Business at $8.99, and that is where the price gap against everything else opens up.
To be fair to 1Password: it is the best-designed manager in this category, its Secret Key architecture means your master password alone cannot decrypt your vault, it has no breach history, and every Business seat includes a free Families license for that employee. The question is not whether it is good. It is whether you need what you are paying for.
Why Teams Leave 1Password
- Price at the Business tier. $8.99 per user per month is roughly double NordPass Business and more than triple TeamPassword. For a 20-person team that is about $2,158 a year against $578.
- Feature surface you do not use. Secrets automation, developer tooling and device trust are excellent and irrelevant to a team that just shares client logins.
- No free tier. If you want to trial with a wider group than a 14-day window allows, Bitwarden, Zoho Vault and Proton Pass all have free plans.
- Open-source requirement. If your security lead wants independently auditable code, 1Password cannot satisfy that and Bitwarden can.
The Alternatives, Ranked
1. TeamPassword
Best for: small, non-technical teams that share logins. TeamPassword is $2.41 per user per month on the Standard annual plan with a 3-user minimum, against $8.99 for 1Password Business.
It does one job: letting a team share credentials without emailing them around. Agencies handling client accounts and small businesses sharing billing, social and vendor logins are the core case. The interface is deliberately small, which is the whole point, because onboarding a non-technical colleague is where most rollouts fail.
What you give up against 1Password is real: no secrets automation, no developer tooling, no device trust, no bundled family plan. If you need those, pay for 1Password.
TeamPassword Features
- Group-based sharing, with access revocable in a couple of clicks
- Built-in TOTP authenticator, so 2FA codes live alongside credentials
- Enforceable 2FA across every user in the organization
- Detailed activity logs, unlimited records and groups, SOC 2 certified
See full pricing, or the head-to-head TeamPassword vs 1Password Business comparison.
2. Bitwarden
Best for: open source at less than half the price. Bitwarden Teams is $4.00 per user per month and Enterprise is $6.00, with no seat minimum.
Bitwarden is the closest thing to a like-for-like 1Password replacement at a lower price. It is independently audited, fully open source, and can be self-hosted if your compliance posture requires vault data on your own infrastructure. Its free tier is genuinely usable for individuals. The January 2026 price rise affected personal plans only; business pricing was untouched.
The interface is more utilitarian than 1Password's, which is the main thing you trade away.
Bitwarden Features
- Open source and independently audited
- Self-hosting option
- Bitwarden Send for sharing encrypted data with a self-destruct timer
- Vault health reports scoring password strength and flagging reuse
3. Proton Pass
Best for: the lowest price, plus privacy and EU data residency. Proton Pass for Business is $1.99 per user per month on Essentials and $4.85 on Professional, with no seat minimum. That is the cheapest paid option in this comparison, including ours.
Proton Pass is open source, end-to-end encrypted and Swiss-based, from the team behind Proton Mail. It includes email aliasing, which 1Password does not, and it has a real free tier. For a team whose objection to 1Password is purely cost, this is the largest saving available.
It is the youngest product here and its admin console is less mature than 1Password's. Evaluate the admin tooling specifically before moving a large team.
4. NordPass
Best for: budget-conscious teams at 10 or more seats. NordPass Business is $3.59 to $3.99 per user per month with a 5-user minimum. Enterprise, which adds SSO and shared folders, is $5.39 to $5.99.
NordPass stores unlimited items, has a Data Breach Scanner, and supports TOTP and U2F. It has no disclosed vault breach.
The catch is the Teams tier. At $1.79 to $1.99 it looks like the cheapest thing here, but it is sold only as a fixed 10-seat pack, so a six-person team pays an effective $2.98 to $3.32 per person actually using it. It also lacks shared folders and the security dashboard at that tier. We go deeper in our NordPass alternatives comparison.
5. Zoho Vault
Best for: teams with no budget, and teams already inside Zoho. Zoho Vault Professional is $4.50 per user per month and Enterprise is $7.20, with a 5-user minimum on Professional. Standard is around $0.90.
Zoho Vault is the only product in this comparison with a genuinely free forever tier that still includes shared vaults, role-based access and audit logs. Nothing else here matches that, and it is the direct answer to 1Password having no free plan at all. Native Windows and Mac desktop apps arrived in 2026. If you already run Zoho One the integration case makes itself.
Zoho Vault Features
- Free forever tier with shared vaults and audit logs
- Deep integration with the wider Zoho suite
- Role-based access controls and detailed audit trails
- Direct password sharing with granular privileges
6. Keeper
Best for: compliance-heavy teams needing granular audit trails. Keeper Business sits around $3.75 per user per month with a 5-user minimum, but Keeper has moved to quote-only pricing and no longer publishes per-seat rates, so treat that as indicative.
Keeper has the deepest role-based access control and audit reporting in this price range, which is why it wins in regulated environments. Through 2026 it has pushed hard into privileged access management. That is a strength if you need PAM and added complexity if you only want a shared vault.
Keeper Features
- Granular role-based access control and detailed audit reporting
- Compliance reporting for SOC 2, HIPAA and similar
- Privileged access management capabilities
- Secure file storage add-on
7. Dashlane (Omnix)
Best for: buyers who want credential-risk tooling, not just a vault. Dashlane rebranded its business line to Omnix, split across Omnix Password Management and Omnix Credential Protection. Per-seat pricing is no longer published, so you will need a quote.
If price is why you are leaving 1Password, Dashlane is unlikely to help; it is consistently the most expensive option in this category. It is worth a look only if you specifically want phishing and credential-risk monitoring. Note that Dashlane discontinued its free plan in September 2025.
Dashlane Features
- Credential risk and phishing monitoring
- Dark web monitoring
- SSO and provisioning integrations
- Admin console with security scoring
8. LastPass
Best for: almost nobody moving from 1Password, but it is too widely used to omit. LastPass Teams is $4.25 per user per month, Business is $7.00, and Business Max is $9.00.
The product is capable and the price undercuts 1Password. The record is the problem, and it belongs in the open:
- 2022: attackers exfiltrated backup servers containing encrypted vaults plus some unencrypted metadata. Researchers later traced tens of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency theft to seed phrases in those vaults.
- 2025: a $24.5 million class-action settlement.
- November 2025: a UK ICO fine of £1,228,283 under UK GDPR, covering up to 1.6 million UK users.
- June 2026: a third-party supply-chain breach exposed customer names, emails, phone numbers, addresses and support cases via its CRM. Vaults were not affected, but disclosure came ten days after discovery.
Moving from a manager with no breach history to one with this record is a strange trade. If you want a cheaper 1Password, Bitwarden costs less and has a cleaner record. See our LastPass alternatives guide.
Free and Self-Managed Options
Three products come up constantly and do not belong in a team ranking, because none offers hosted multi-user sharing with an admin console.
KeePass is free, open source, actively maintained and excellent for individuals. It has no native team sharing, no admin console and no audit log. Teams that adopt it end up syncing a database file over shared storage, which recreates the problem a password manager exists to solve.
Norton Password Manager is free and still standalone, tied to a free Norton account. It has no business tier and no secure sharing, so sharing means copying a password out in plain text.
Enpass suits teams committed to bring-your-own-cloud sync, but central administration is thin next to anything in the ranked list.
Passbolt is the exception worth a real look if you are technical: open source, self-hosted, API-first, with granular per-credential permissions. It belongs on your shortlist if you are happy to own a deployment.
Which One Should You Pick?
- Leaving purely over price? Proton Pass at $1.99 or TeamPassword at $2.41.
- Want the closest like-for-like at a lower price? Bitwarden at $4.00.
- Budget is zero? Zoho Vault's free tier, which uniquely keeps shared vaults and audit logs.
- Need an open-source requirement satisfied? Bitwarden, or Passbolt if you will self-host.
- Compliance and audit depth? Keeper.
- Team of exactly 10 and price sensitive? Stay on 1Password's Teams Starter Pack. At $2.50 a head it is hard to beat.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does 1Password cost in 2026?
After the March 2026 increase, Business is $8.99 per user per month and the Teams Starter Pack is $24.95 per month for 10 members, with extra seats at $4.99. Personal plans are $3.99 for Individual and $5.99 for Families, billed annually. The $2.99 and $4.49 figures you may see are first-year promotions for new customers only.
Why is 1Password so expensive?
It prices for breadth: secrets automation, developer tooling, device trust, SSO and a free Families license with every Business seat. At $8.99 it is roughly double NordPass Business and more than triple TeamPassword. If your team only needs shared credential storage, most of that spend buys capability you will not use.
What is the cheapest alternative to 1Password for a team?
Proton Pass Essentials at $1.99 per user per month, then TeamPassword at $2.41 with a 3-user minimum. Both are well under 1Password Business at $8.99. Zoho Vault has a genuinely free tier with shared vaults and audit logs if your budget is zero.
Is there a free alternative to 1Password?
Yes. Bitwarden's free tier covers unlimited passwords across unlimited devices for individuals. Zoho Vault has a free forever tier that keeps shared vaults, role-based access and audit logs, which is unusual. Proton Pass also has a free tier. 1Password itself offers only a 14-day trial.
Which 1Password alternative is best for open source?
Bitwarden, at $4.00 per user per month for Teams. It is independently audited and can be self-hosted. Proton Pass and Passbolt are also open source, with Passbolt aimed at technical teams that want to run everything themselves.
Is 1Password more secure than the alternatives?
1Password's Secret Key means your master password alone cannot decrypt your vault, which is a real architectural strength, and it has no breach history. Bitwarden's advantage is different: being open source and audited, its claims are independently verifiable rather than asserted. Both are strong. LastPass is the one option here with a documented incident record.
Try TeamPassword
If price is why you are looking, and your team needs shared credentials rather than a security platform, that is the gap TeamPassword fills.
- Affordable: $2.41 per user per month billed annually, or $5.25 for Enterprise features, with a 3-user minimum.
- Unlimited groups: organize and share credentials by project, department or client.
- Built-in TOTP authenticator: store one-time codes alongside the passwords they belong to.
- Enforceable 2FA: mandate two-factor authentication across the whole team.
- Apps and extensions: browser extensions and mobile apps for access on the move.
- Full activity logs: an audit trail of who accessed what and when.
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