1Password alternatives

verdictnothing else here lets outside researchers read both the client and the server, and nothing else has an audit trail this long or this specific.

switch foralmost everyone — it wins on transparency, on price, and on the free tier simultaneously.

verdictstructurally immune to the incident that defines this category, at the cost of doing your own syncing — a trade that is obviously right for some people and obviously wrong for others.

switch forpeople who would rather own the risk themselves than trust anyone's cloud with it.

verdicta genuinely recent independent audit and copyleft clients put it third — the closed server is what keeps it from competing with the two above.

switch forprivacy-focused users who want open clients and hide-my-email aliases in one subscription.

verdictthe deepest compliance stack in the category by a distance, attached to a security page that asserts everything and evidences none of it.

switch fororganisations whose procurement process is satisfied by certifications rather than by published findings.

verdictdoes the thing most of the closed-source field won't — publishes a named, dated, downloadable pentest — and then has only the one to show.

switch forbudget-conscious users who want a real published audit without paying bitwarden-plus prices.

verdicta consistent audit cadence from a firm that matters, undermined by closed source, a single-device free tier and the usual nord pricing pattern.

switch forexisting nord security subscribers adding password management to a bundle.

verdictthe only entry here where we could not locate a single named, dated third-party audit — on a product whose whole proposition is trust.

switch forenterprise buyers specifically interested in its confidential-computing architecture.

verdictranked last on the record rather than the technology: customer vault backups and unencrypted urls left the building in 2022, and no amount of subsequent hardening undoes that.

switch forexisting users planning an export — and worth reading before choosing anything else, because the disclosure is genuinely instructive.