Cheapest 1Password alternatives, teaser rates flagged

What 1Password costs one person

Our scenario: single user, monthly billing. 1Password's Individual plan is $3.99/month billed monthly, or $2.99/month billed annually. Families is $5.99/month billed monthly ($4.49/month billed annually) for 5 members. Business suites are quote-based. It includes password sharing, passkeys, breach monitoring, SSO and unlimited devices — the baseline every alternative below is measured against.

Free-forever, with a real paid tier behind it

Bitwarden's Free plan is genuinely free forever, with unlimited devices and unlimited passwords, and it's open source with a self-hosting option. Its Premium plan is $1.65/month billed annually ($19.80/year) and adds a built-in TOTP authenticator and file attachments — the cheapest paid tier in this category. Families is $3.99/month billed annually ($47.88/year) for up to 6 users; Teams is $4/user/month billed annually; Enterprise is $6/user/month billed annually and adds passwordless SSO and granular access control.

Proton Pass's Free plan covers unlimited logins, notes and cards on unlimited devices, plus 10 hide-my-email aliases, with no credit card required. Pass Plus is $4.99/month billed monthly ($2.99/month billed annually, $35.88/year) and adds unlimited email aliases and emergency access; Pass Family is $6.99/month billed monthly ($4.99/month billed annually, $59.88/year) for 6 members; Proton Unlimited is $12.99/month billed monthly ($9.99/month billed annually) and bundles the whole Proton suite, not just the password manager.

The teaser rate to watch: NordPass

NordPass advertises Premium at $1.39/month — but that's a 27-month introductory rate ($37.53 for the full term). The steady-state renewal, once that term ends, lists at $80.73 for the same 27-month term — about $3/month, which is the honest number to compare against 1Password's $3.99, not the $1.39 headline. Family follows the identical pattern: $2.49/month intro ($67.23 for 27 months), $161.73 steady-state per 27-month term for 6 accounts — about $6/month once the intro expires. NordPass's Free plan is real but limited to 1 device with no password health or breach scanning.

Per-seat business pricing and one-time licenses

Zoho Vault's Free plan covers unlimited passwords, passkeys, storage and devices with built-in 2FA; Standard is $0.90/user/month billed annually ($10.80/year); Professional is $4.50/user/month billed annually ($54/year, up to 5 seats); Enterprise is $7.20/user/month billed annually ($86.40/year). Dashlane has moved to business-only 'Omnix' pricing, with no consumer plan on its current page: Omnix Password Management is $4/user/month billed annually ($48/year/seat); Omnix Credential Protection is $8/user/month billed annually ($96/year/seat).

Enpass skips subscriptions in favor of one-time licenses: its Desktop app is free, its Individual plan is $1.99/month as a first-12-months promotional rate (the standard renewal price isn't shown), its Family plan is $3.99/month on the same promotional basis for up to 6 members, and it sells the only two one-time-fee options in this category: a 3-Year Plan at a one-time $49.99 (“pay for 2 years, get 1 year free”) and a Lifetime plan at a one-time $99.99, neither of which renews. Two more products are named on price only, with no confirmed capability data: Keeper's Personal plan is $3.58/month billed annually ($42.99/year) and Family is $7.67/month billed annually ($91.99/year, 5 vaults); RoboForm has a free single-device tier, and its Business plan renews at $3.33/user/month billed annually ($39.95/year), after a $2.83/month first-year promotional rate.

What actually beats 1Password's $3.99

On a straight monthly-billed number, nothing here undercuts 1Password's $3.99/month for one person: the only other one-person plan sold billed-monthly is Proton Pass Plus at $4.99/month, which is higher. Every cheaper figure in this category is an annual (or multi-year) commitment — and on annual billing Proton Pass Plus's $2.99/month matches 1Password's own $2.99 annual rate exactly, so between those two the real differentiator is which ecosystem you want the aliases and emergency access tied to. Bitwarden Premium's $1.65/month billed annually ($19.80/year) is cheaper than either, Enpass's Individual plan is $1.99/month billed yearly (a first-12-months promotional rate), and Zoho Vault's per-seat Standard tier at $0.90/user/month billed annually is the cheapest paid figure in the entire category — though it's built for teams, not styled as a consumer plan. If you don't need a paid tier at all, Bitwarden's and Proton Pass's free plans both cover unlimited passwords and devices, which 1Password's own lineup doesn't offer at $0.