Bitwarden 100% price increase
2026-03-27 07:43 UTC
Replies (29)
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@SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-27 10:30
Cant see any changes on the business plans? Anyone see anything on that?
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@brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-27 11:27
The link is from February 1st, about a blog post from January. I clicked here thinking Bitwarden just raised their subscription price again haha.
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@Lulzagna@lemmy.world 2026-03-28 02:56
Time to self host
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@shiftymccool@piefed.ca 2026-03-27 10:46
Get yourself a mini pc or old laptop and control your own future: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
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@BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 2026-03-27 08:08
20$/year is still cheap compared to other password managers, but yeah, the lack of transparency is worrying.
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@HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 2026-03-27 08:46
TIL theres a paid version of Bitwarden.
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@alakey@piefed.social 2026-03-27 08:48
While the increase is not a huge deal because the total is still cheaper than alternatives, the thing that irks me is how they did indeed just announce it via a blog post titled "Bitwarden launches enhanced premium plan: Complete online security for everyone". This reads like there's going to be free, premium and premium+ at best, and "we are just adding more stuff to the premium" at worst, not implying a price bump, at least to me. I did not get my renewal email yet, so can't confirm whether or not they don't even mention the annual price, but rather just the monthly one. Another thing that kind of bothers me is that they list "Vault health alerts" as a new thing, while it's always been there. While "Phishing blocker" just seems like a feature outside of the scope of a password manager. All in all, double the price in exchange for x5 more storage and x2 more hardware keys is fine to me, but I hope they improve their communication and actually properly inform users of upcoming pricing changes.
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@sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io 2026-03-27 22:03
Selfhost.Vaultwarden.
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@MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2026-03-27 08:03
TBH, $10/year is a small price not to have to get my wife to change again after lastpass. She is not equipped to deal with enshittification.
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@quaff@lemmy.ca 2026-03-27 16:03
Lol for years I have been wanting to switch from KeePass to Bitwarden. Mainly cause the UX/UI felt nice to me. My initial hesitance was that I didn't love the idea of my passwords being on someone else's servers. But I found out about Vaultwarden. So I kept my eye on it's development and longevity. Now that it's well established, I'd say I trust it now. Next I figured out a way to selfhost without exposing Vaultwarden to the public. Everything seems to be lined up for me to switch. A few months ago, I decided it was time. After moving my passwords over and getting a flow working, I went to sort by most recent.... Oh wait. You can't sort by date. You can't sort lol I sat with this for a few hours and reverted back to my trusted and working KeePass flow. EDIT: This is one of the most voted feature requests. Also, it's just table stakes! It's crazy they don't have this feature 😂 https://community.bitwarden.com/t/sorting-options-by-date-of-modification-addition-last-use-etc/2484
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@uuj8za@piefed.social 2026-03-27 17:34
Yeah, not handled well. They're doing slimy corpo bullshit. On the other hand, I like that they're open source and don't block stuff like vaultwarden. I hope they can take the extra money and make the product better. Cuz I definitely don't love Bitwarden, but it's a better alternative than 1Password.
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@kepix@lemmy.world 2026-03-27 21:06
free tier is totally fine for 99% of people. if i want a cloud, i pay for a cloud. hike was totally forseeable. its an ass move tho to birry info in a blogpost noone ever read.
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@Ransack3@lemmy.world 2026-03-27 23:45
Wasn't this announced months ago? I know I heard something about it, probably on here even. Either way 20$ a year for Bitwarden is still well worth it.
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-03-27 10:26
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
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@Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-28 05:16
Lawl I pay for the yearly thing and I’ve never used any paid features, I just wanted to support them. I’m okay with the price increase, but it definitely would have been nice to have an announcement maybe in December or spending the they’re planning that. I wonder if I’m grandfathered into the same price I’ve been paying? Ehhh too lazy to find out. I’ll pay 20, but yah some transparency or forewarning would have been nice for a lot of peeps.
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@aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml 2026-03-27 13:50
Bitwarden has a paid version?
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@webkitten@piefed.social 2026-03-28 15:59
> Bitwarden’s Premium version now costs $20 per year, This is what you're up in arms about? $1.50 a month?
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@aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 2026-03-27 16:49
Can someone please help me understand why you would want to have your passwords in the cloud? I've been using Keepass for about the past 15 years. I always just sync the db between computers/mobiles. Its never been an issue. Is having it in the cloud really that big of an advantage?
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@black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-27 11:15
Yeah...they've been making a lot of changes to the client, too. I'm not sure what form it will take yet, because idk enough about bitwarden as a company, but get ready for enshittification and forks.
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@NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-28 13:33
I kept procrastinating on self hosting it, but now i will do it tonight and migrate to my own instance. Problem solved.
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@AverageEarthling@feddit.online 2026-03-31 15:40
keepass and syncthing are free.
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@TotalCourage007@lemmy.world 2026-03-27 19:15
Better off using keepass or literally a Linux hosted Notepad at this point.
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@EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2026-03-27 23:23
If anyone needs an alternative in a hurry and can't be bothered to self host feel free to use https://pass.bitnet.dev/ I spun this up for me and my family but I don't mind sharing with my extended online friends You can also DM me if you want some space in our nextcloud instance, I'm pretty limited right now but I'm planning storage expansion pretty soon
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@steel_for_humans@piefed.social 2026-04-18 20:29
I migrated from the US servers to the EU servers and while looking through my settings I noticed that my renewal was $19.80 instead of $12 last year. At first I thought that the EU servers are much more expensive and was upset that support didn't tell me before migration, but it turns out that's just the new price.
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@Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-28 13:17
Im happy with EnPass.
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@kaito@lemmy.world 2026-03-28 11:42
product: We don't have syncing. We're focused on being a password manager User: Boo hoo I cri hard why you do this???? All the other password managers have itttttt
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@unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-27 12:54
What? I think you dont understand at all how this works. The database of any password manager is an encrypted file. When you open your password manager and type in the master password it opens that file and decrypts its contents for you and only saves them to memory. It doesnt actually decrypt the file on the drive. When you close the application it doesnt need to be encrypted again. This is exatly the same for all password managers, the only difference is that with web based ones the database file sits on bitwardens server instead of on your harddrive. You are just changing the location of the database, nothing else. Keepass also automatically saves a backup version of the database to a location you can specify and even if you dont you still have better redundancy than with bitwarden because the file sits both in your cloud storage and on each of your devices.
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@lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 2026-03-27 14:16
only one password to rememebr as the keepass master key is the encryption key. keepass database is just a file that you sync using dropbox/gdrive/onedrive/nextcloud/seafile/owncloud/etc.
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@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2026-03-28 06:12
Wish they handled it better, but I knew about this a while ago, and the price is more than reasonable. A decade without a price hike is extremely generous, especially at how cheap their plan was. They are a FOSS company that makes a fantastic product I've been happy with for years, I'll gladly pay less than $2 a month to support them. Their server code is licensed with the AGPL, the strongest copyleft license there is, which gives me a lot of confidence. Worse case scenario, they enshitify down the road, we are protected via the open source implementations. We've seen this many times in the past, Red Hat > Alma & Rocky Linux, Citrix Xen Server > XCP-ng, Terraform > Open Tofu. Pay for your open source software, folks 💖