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Bitwarden

Best Password Manager for Business, Enterprise & Personal

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What is Bitwarden?

Bitwarden is the trusted open source personal and enterprise password manager. Get end-to-end encryption across all platforms: web browsers, mobile devices, and desktop applications; and securely access your vault from anywhere, at any time.

Independently observed

Bitwarden pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $4/mofreemiumFree tier

Free tier available. From $1.65/month (Premium) or $4/user/month (Teams). Annual billing.

Free

Free
Free

Basic password management

  • Password storage
  • Unlimited devices
  • Unlimited passwords
  • Free sharing with one user
  • Password generator
  • Two-factor authentication

Premium

$1.65/month billed annually at $19.80
annual
  • Integrated TOTP
  • Emergency access
  • Secure sharing with Send
  • Email alias integration
  • File attachments

Families

$3.99/month for up to 6 users, billed annually at $47.88
annual

For up to 6 users

  • 6 premium accounts
  • Unlimited sharing
  • Unlimited collections
  • Organization storage

Teams

$4/user/month billed annually
annual

For teams and growing companies

  • Centralized ownership and management
  • Share credentials securely
  • Audit activity with event logs
  • Directory synchronization
  • SCIM provisioning

Enterprise

$6/user/month billed annually
annual

For businesses needing advanced protection and control

  • Granular access control
  • Passwordless SSO integration
  • Easy account recovery
  • Self-hosting flexibility
  • Access Intelligence risk remediation

What Bitwarden does

The capabilities that matter for password managers, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Security
Zero-knowledge / end-to-end encryption
✓
Openness
Open-source clients
✓
Self-hostable
✓
Auth
Passkey support
✓
Hardware security key (FIDO2/YubiKey)
-
Monitoring
Breach / dark-web monitoring
-
Sharing
Family / team sharing
✓
Enterprise
Enterprise SSO + SCIM
✓
Assurance
Independent security audit published
✓
Platforms
Platform breadth
Web browsers, mobile devices, and desktop applications
Pricing
Pricing model
Freemium
Free tier available
✓
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (4)

Independently observed
  • Email Alias
  • Directory
  • SSO
  • SCIM

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Bitwarden, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 68 / 100
low · 26%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Github Activity6318.001135.8✓
Capabilities9212.001099.6✓
Pricing Transparency10010.001000.0✓
Release Cadence9310.00927.8✓
Reliability5018.00900.0✓
Price Level808.00640.0✓
Github Stars815.00405.0✓
Integrations2012.00241.2✓
Security Posture540.000.0-
Package Downloads026.000.0-
Stackoverflow Activity012.000.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d100mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars19,686highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"free_tier":true,"pricing_model":"freemium","self_hostable":true,"zero_knowledge":true,"passkey_support":true,"platform_breadth":"Web browsers, mobile devices, and desktop applications","independent_audit":true,"enterprise_sso_scim":true,"family_team_sharing":true,"open_source_clients":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count4mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryC#highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
Starting gbp4mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days13mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%