Dashlane Review

Dashlane is the password platform security leads open when the question is credential risk, not only a shared vault. Treating the two Omnix packages as one product with two prices is how a budget goes wrong.

Password Management stores and shares passwords, while Credential Protection watches logins that never enter a vault, so a detection-only buy still leaves no Dashlane place to keep a workforce password.

This review prices both packages, then sets them next to 1Password, Bitwarden, Proton Pass, Keeper, and NordPass.

A buyer who needs a free vault can see the cheaper path there. The wider field is our password manager comparison.

Toolradar data: the September 2026 password-manager ranking evaluated 37 products, and Dashlane is one of them.

How we compared: prices below were read on September 24, 2026 from Dashlane's pricing page, 1Password's USD pricing, Bitwarden's pricing page, and Keeper's plan article, as of July 2026.

Personal US figures are the current non-legacy App Store subscriptions, because Dashlane's website checkout localizes the price. Proton's dollar cycles are from Proton's USD plan catalog the same day. No vendor paid for a place in this review.

Dashlane sells credential security as two business layers under the Omnix name, plus two personal plans, and the layer you pick decides whether employees get a vault.

Password Management is the vault seat, with unlimited collections, AI-powered autofill, a password generator, secure sharing, a health dashboard, vault security alerts, and admin policies, and it lists SSO, SCIM, and Yubico.

Quote this seat when the directory has to provision joiners and leavers.

Credential Protection is the detection layer, and the pricing table marks the vault, collections, autofill, and sharing as absent while risk detection, AI phishing detection, and risk alerts are present. A team that buys only that seat still has nowhere in Dashlane to store a workforce password.

The lower bill works when another product already holds the passwords.

Enterprise combines both layers at custom, volume-optimized pricing, with a dedicated account manager. It is not a self-serve sum of the two seats, so budget a quote before you tell the board the combined control has a public price.

Premium covers one member and Friends & Family covers 10, with unlimited passwords and devices, dark web monitoring, AI scam protection, and 1 GB of encrypted notes. Billing is annual, so a household that wanted a one-month trial is already committed to the year.

Dashlane's architecture overview says each vault is encrypted on the device with AES-256-CBC and HMAC-SHA256, and that the vault key is not stored on its servers in plaintext. That is Dashlane's design claim, not an audit we reran.

The same note says enterprise SSO components run inside AWS Nitro Enclaves.

A business trial is 14 days on the Omnix platform, from the pricing page's own FAQ, long enough to deploy the extension before you must pick a plan.

You then buy Password Management, Credential Protection, or Enterprise. Dashlane keeps custom changes from the trial and drops features from the plan you did not buy, so a dual-layer pilot loses whatever you decline to pay for.

Password Management is the autofill and sharing product: admins set vault policies, connect SSO and SCIM, and can send events to a SIEM. Credential Protection flags credential risk and phishing whether or not the login was saved. A partial vault rollout still leaves the detection gap the cheaper plan is priced to cover.

SOAR and IGA stay on the detection plan, so a vault-only purchase will not feed those workflows.

Personal use is an annual subscription plus the apps, and passwordless login is marked for new users only, so an existing account should not assume that path is open.

The VPN row lists full VPN on Premium and a count of 1 on Friends & Family. Dashlane's VPN help says Hotspot Shield is for Premium members and the Friends & Family plan manager, not invited members, so the family plan is a weak VPN buy for everyone except the manager.

A Password Management or Enterprise admin can turn the VPN on as a policy, which invited family members do not inherit.

For passwordless accounts, a new device needs approval from a device already on the account, and business admins can approve a recovery request. That checks identity without handing Dashlane the vault key, so support cannot open the vault for a locked-out employee.

Dashlane prints two business rates and leaves Enterprise as a quote, so a meeting can cite the seats and still cannot cite the combined package. One layer is a list price a meeting can approve, and a team that needs both is waiting on sales.

Password Management is the vault seat, billed annually after the trial on that row, so those seats cannot move to a monthly bill later. Credential Protection is the detection seat, also billed annually. Five vault seats come to $480 for the year and twenty come to $1,920.

Twenty detection seats come to $960 for the year, and that bill still does not include a vault, so a company that size still needs another place to store passwords.

Buying both layers for the same people is an Enterprise conversation. Adding the two list rates does not produce that price. Dashlane publishes no list price for the volume-optimized tier, so leave Enterprise out of the spreadsheet until the quote arrives.

Website personal checkout localizes the price and publishes no fixed dollar amount, so a US purchase order should use the App Store row in the table. A legacy Premium year is still listed at $59.99, so a new subscriber who copies that SKU will budget the wrong year.

Friends & Family covers 10 members on one annual plan. The VPN count is 1, and Hotspot Shield goes to the plan manager only, so invited members pay for a vault without the VPN. Secure notes include 1 GB of encrypted storage, which caps what sits beside passwords.

Selected older Team renewals move to a base of $8.00 per seat per month, billed annually, with email notice before renewals on or after March 20, 2026. Starter, Team, and Standard are no longer sold to new buyers, so a new company cannot order those names.

The same check against 1Password, Bitwarden, Proton Pass, and Keeper is in the table.

1Password's low personal rate is a current promotion, and the regular annual Individual rate is the struck-through figure beside it, so renewal should use that figure.

NordPass charges business checkout in USD, excludes VAT, and publishes no fixed seat price, so the total appears at checkout.

Browser-level credential alerts are the reason to buy Dashlane, and only for a team that will pay for detection as its own seat. Password Management is the right quote when the job is a shared vault, SSO, and SCIM, and the health score inside the vault is enough.

Add Credential Protection when phishing on unsaved logins is the control you have to show, because those logins never appear in a vault health score.

Skip the detection seat when the only job was a vault, because you would pay for alerts on a product that does not store the password.

Skip Dashlane when the pilot has to start on a free vault. Individuals who want a published dollar price and a separate authenticator can stay on Bitwarden. A household that wants Swiss jurisdiction and hide-my-email aliases is closer to Proton Pass.

If the program is dark-web alerting, start with dark web monitoring tools, because that job is the product there. If the second factor must live in its own app, see authenticator apps.

Pipeline secrets belong in our secrets management guide, because a workforce password vault is the wrong store for pipeline secrets.

SOC 2 evidence still has to be run by you: see SOC 2 compliance automation, because a vendor note is not the audit file.