Password Managers
Ten password managers compared on what their own documentation states: published prices, audits, encryption, platforms, sharing and what each free plan really allows.
Our top picks
Full ranking- 1
8.4Visit siteBitwarden
Best for People Who Want a Low · $1.65/month
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5.4Visit siteProton Pass
Best for People Who Want a Capable Free Tier and Built-in E-Mail Aliases · Free
- 3
5.1Visit siteKeeper
Best for Buyers Who Need Documented Cryptography · $3.58/month
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A password manager is the one security tool that touches every account you own, so the questions worth asking are boring ones: what does it cost when the promotion ends, who has audited it, what happens to your vault if the company disappears, and what does the free plan actually allow?
This category answers those from the vendors' own pages. Prices are recorded only when a price with its billing term is readable on the official pricing page — several vendors render their amounts in the browser, and for those we record no price rather than copying a number from a review site. Audits are recorded only when the vendor names the firm or the programme. Everything else stays unknown, and the reviews say so.
We did not install or test these products. This is a documentation-based comparison, and every claim links to the page it came from.
In our database
Password Managers We Track
- Bitwarden
Published prices, a long public audit history and apps for nearly every platform, including a free tier the vendor calls always free.
$1.65/month
Our score 8.4
- Proton Pass
A free tier with unlimited logins and devices, passkeys on every platform, ten e-mail aliases and a 30-day money-back guarantee on paid plans.
Free
Our score 5.4
- Keeper
The most detailed public cryptography and compliance documentation in this group, with a free tier limited to one mobile device and ten records.
$3.58/month
Our score 5.1
1PasswordPublished personal prices, a 14-day trial and an account model that adds a 128-bit Secret Key to the master password.
$2.99/month
Our score 4.9
PassboltAGPLv3 source, a free self-hosted Community Edition with unlimited users, and a published Pro price of $4.9 per user per month.
$4.90/month
Our score 4.0
NordPassA clear free-versus-paid feature table, a 30-day money-back guarantee and apps for every major platform — but no readable prices.
Free
Our score 3.5
KeePassXCA free, GPLv3 desktop manager that keeps an encrypted KDBX database on your own disk — no account, no subscription, no cloud.
See pricing
Our score 3.2
Zoho VaultA free plan with unlimited passwords, passkeys and devices, and a 15-day Enterprise trial — aimed at teams already using Zoho.
Free
Our score 3.1
LastPassA 30-day Premium trial with no card required and dark-web monitoring on every tier, but a free plan restricted to one device type.
See pricing
Our score 2.9
DashlaneA 14-day trial, a family plan for ten accounts and a bundled VPN on the personal Premium plan — with prices only shown after you start checkout.
See pricing
Our score 2.3
Best for
Pick by What You Need
Each use case is ranked independently over the same products.
- Best free password managers (2026)Managers whose free plan is usable on its own: unlimited entries, more than one device, and no hard record cap.
- Best for families (2026)Subscriptions that cover several people with shared vaults and, where documented, emergency access.
- Best for teams and small businesses (2026)Managers with published per-user pricing, admin controls, provisioning or self-hosting for a shared credential store.
- Best open-source password managers (2026)Products whose clients (and sometimes server) are published under an open-source licence so the code can be inspected.
- Best for passkeys (2026)Managers that state passkey storage on their official pages, so you can move away from passwords where sites support it.
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