Bitwarden review

Bitwarden score breakdown

What Bitwarden is and who it is for

Bitwarden is a password manager for individuals, families and organisations, sold in free, Premium, Families, Teams and Enterprise tiers, with a self-hosting option on paid plans (vendor-sourced). G2 reviewers rate it 4.6/5 across 1,342 reviews (review platform). Its case study page lists NASA, AccuRanker, Glovo, University of Toronto Press, Bitdefender and Hillbrook Anglican School as customers (vendor-sourced). It also runs a partner programme for managed service providers.

Bitwarden suits individuals who want unlimited passwords and devices at no cost, households that want several premium accounts for a low annual fee, and small teams that need shared collections. IT teams that need passwordless single sign-on must move to the Enterprise tier. If a different plan structure suits your team better, read the reviews of 1Password or Dashlane.

What Bitwarden does

The free tier includes unlimited passwords, unlimited devices, a password generator and passkey management (vendor-sourced). Premium adds a built-in authenticator, 5 GB of file attachments, emergency access, security reports and sharing with one other user (vendor-sourced).

Sharing in the team products works through an Organization and a Collection, and some users find that setup unintuitive (third-party reported, from a publisher that sells identity products). Capterra reviewers describe the interface as slightly dated and say save and update prompts miss some sites (review platform). Self-hosted deployments are described by Capterra reviewers as complex and time consuming to patch (review platform).

Export is well documented. Bitwarden supports plaintext .json and .csv, an encrypted .json, and a .zip that includes attachments for individual vaults. Only .json exports include cards, identities, passkeys and SSH keys, and trash items and Sends are never exported. Individual exports leave out organisation-owned data, which only admins, owners and some custom roles can export (vendor-sourced). On iOS 26 and later and Android 10 and later, items can be moved directly to another app through the FIDO Credential Exchange Protocol (vendor-sourced).

On security, Bitwarden states that it holds SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 reports and is ISO 27001 certified (vendor-sourced). Enterprise supports SAML 2.0 and OIDC single sign-on (vendor-sourced). Teams includes directory sync and SCIM provisioning but not passwordless SSO. Enterprise also lists a feature called Access Intelligence, which the vendor markets for risk remediation.

Bitwarden pricing

Prices below are from the vendor pricing page unless marked otherwise.

• Free: unlimited passwords and devices, plus passkey management (vendor-sourced).
• Premium: $1.65 a month, billed annually at $19.80 for one person (vendor-sourced).
• Families: $3.99 a month, billed annually at $47.88, for up to six users, with a free trial (vendor-sourced).
• Teams: $4 per user per month, billed annually (vendor-sourced). Capterra lists the same price (review platform).
• Enterprise: $6 per user per month, billed annually, and it includes a free Families plan for all users (vendor-sourced).
• Large organisations: priced through sales.

Sources disagree on Premium. The vendor page, Capterra and PricingSaaS list $19.80 a year, while an aggregator lists $10 a year. Linuxiac reports that $10 was the earlier price and that the 2026 change roughly doubled it while raising storage to 5 GB (third-party reported). The $10 figure appears to be out of date.

Entry price and total cost diverge for teams that need SSO, because passwordless SSO sits only on the $6 Enterprise tier, not the $4 Teams tier. SpendHound reports average contract values of about $3,734 a year for small and midsize businesses and about $25,692 a year for enterprises, based on 160 customers (third-party reported).

Bitwarden pros

• The free plan has no cap on passwords or devices and includes passkey management.
• Premium at $19.80 a year and Families at $47.88 a year for six users are low list prices for the feature sets.
• G2 shows 4.6/5 from 1,342 reviews and Capterra shows 4.7 from 214 reviews, with ease of use, security features and cross-platform access among the common G2 themes (review platform).
• Export is documented in several formats, including an encrypted .json and a direct transfer to another app on recent iOS and Android versions.
• Published security attestations include SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 and ISO 27001, and a self-hosting option is available on paid plans (vendor-sourced).

Bitwarden cons

• The interface is described as slightly dated by Capterra reviewers, and some users report that save and update prompts miss certain sites.
• Sharing requires creating an Organization and a Collection first, which some users find unintuitive.
• Premium roughly doubled in price in early 2026, from about $10 to $19.80 a year.
• The "always free" wording was briefly removed from the website around mid-April 2026 and later restored, and Linuxiac reports that Bitwarden has not signalled plans to end the free plan (third-party reported).
• Passwordless SSO is limited to the $6 Enterprise tier, so Teams customers do not get it.
• Individual exports exclude organisation-owned data, and only .json exports carry cards, identities, passkeys and SSH keys.

How Bitwarden compares

• 1Password: choose it instead if Bitwarden's Enterprise-only passwordless SSO at $6 per user is a blocker, and use its review to check which of its own tiers covers that need.
• Dashlane: choose it instead if you want to weigh its plan prices against Bitwarden's $19.80 Premium and $47.88 Families annual rates, as set out in its review.
• NordPass: choose it instead if you want to set its team pricing from its review against Bitwarden's $4 Teams and $6 Enterprise per user rates.

Featured in: Best password managers

Last researched: October 29, 2026.

Reviewed by Greylisting Team.

Bitwarden verdict

Bitwarden earns a 7.4 for a free tier with no caps on passwords or devices, low paid prices and a large body of review platform feedback. It will not give you the most polished interface, and passwordless SSO costs extra at the Enterprise level. It is right for individuals, families and small teams that put price and portability first, and less right for organisations that want a refined interface or SSO without moving to the top tier.