Best 1Password Alternatives in 2026: Cheaper and Open Source

People leave 1Password for one of three reasons: they want a free plan, they want the second-year bill to drop, or they want the code or the server in their own hands. Bitwarden answers all three, which is why it leads this list, but it is not the cheapest seat for every team size.

Toolradar data: on 1Password's Toolradar profile, its entry paid plan at $3.99 a month billed yearly ranks #11 of 15 for price among password managers with a verified entry price, where the median is $2.99, and 1Password is listed as an alternative to 32 other tools, the most in the category, as of October 2026. The password manager ranking tracks 37 tools, and 59% of them are free, freemium or open source.

So the market is crowded with cheaper options, and the question is which one keeps the features you used. For the tool you are leaving, see our 1Password review and the 1Password pricing breakdown.

How we ranked: nine alternatives, USD list prices read on vendor pages on 19 October 2026, ordered by how much of a 1Password setup each one replaces for less money, for one person, a family and a 10-person team. Cyberpresso runs no test lab, so this ranking rests on published prices and documented features, not on hands-on testing. Method and disclosures are on the about page.

A 1Password alternative is a password manager that stores, generates and autofills logins across your devices and can replace 1Password's Individual, Families or business plans without losing shared vaults or admin controls.

The benchmark you are replacing: 1Password Individual is billed yearly at its regular rate, with $2.99 a month for the first year for new customers who buy direct. Families covers five people at $5.99 a month regular. For companies, the Teams Starter Pack is $24.95 a month billed yearly for 10 members, capped at 20, and Business is $107.88 per user per year.

There is no free 1Password plan, only a 14-day trial, so every alternative with a real free tier wins the pilot by default.

The promotion is the trap. 1Password's pricing page says the first-year rate applies only to new customers, on annual billing, bought directly, so a household budgeted on the promotional rate pays the regular rate in year two, about $12 more a year on our arithmetic.

For a company the jump is larger. A 10-person team outgrows the Teams Starter Pack once it needs identity-provider provisioning or more than 20 seats, and the same 10 people on Business cost $1,078.80 a year, our arithmetic on the printed per-user rate. That is the bill most alternatives undercut by half or more.

Cyberpresso data: the newsletter reaches 28,000+ security readers at a 31% open rate, from the audience file updated November 1, 2026. They asked for the yearly bill, not the monthly slogan, so every price below is the annual figure or the per-month figure billed yearly.

Whatever you move to, put a hardware security key on the admin account and turn on an authenticator app before you import, because the new vault becomes the single place an attacker wants.

Every figure below is a USD list price read on 19 October 2026 on the vendor's own page: 1Password personal, 1Password business, Bitwarden, Proton Pass business, Keeper, LastPass and Zoho Vault. Keeper's Business Starter rate comes from Keeper's plan guide, and RoboForm business from RoboForm's business pricing.

A 10-person team pays $1,078.80 a year on 1Password Business. On our arithmetic from the printed per-user rates, the same headcount costs $480 on Bitwarden Teams, $240 on Keeper Business Starter, $238.80 on Proton Pass Essentials and $108 on Zoho Vault Standard. The 1Password Teams Starter Pack at $299.40 a year is the fair comparison only while the team stays at 20 people or fewer and needs no identity-provider sync.

For one person, compare yearly bills: Bitwarden Premium is $19.80, RoboForm Premium renews at $29.88, Proton Pass Plus is billed $35.88 every 12 months, LastPass Premium works out to $36 and Keeper Unlimited is $42.99. 1Password Individual at its regular rate works out to $47.88, so every paid alternative here costs less in year two except Dashlane.

Minimums change small-team math: Proton business plans start at three users, Zoho Vault Professional and Enterprise at five, and Passbolt Pro at ten.