Bitwarden Inc.
Bitwarden — Open-Source Password Manager
Open-source password manager with a genuinely usable free tier and Premium at around £15 a year (raised January 2026) - independently audited and self-hostable if you want it.
By Rob1 min read
- Company
- Bitwarden Inc.
- Headquarters
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Founded
- 2015 (as 8bit Solutions LLC)
- License
- GPL-3.0 (clients) / AGPL-3.0 (server)
- Free tier
- Unlimited passwords, unlimited devices, basic 2FA, sharing with 1 other user
- Premium pricing
- Around £8/year (subject to change - check current pricing)
- Families pricing
- Around £30–£40/year for 6 users
- Encryption
- AES-256-CBC with HMAC-SHA256, PBKDF2-SHA256 (600,000 iterations default) or Argon2id KDF
- Audits
- Cure53 (multiple), Insight Risk Consulting
- Compliance
- SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA
- Hardware key support
- YubiKey, FIDO2 / WebAuthn (Premium)
- Passkey support
- Yes - store passkeys in vault and use passkey to log in to Bitwarden itself
- Self-hosting
- Official Docker server, community Vaultwarden (Rust)
- Platforms
- iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, web vault, browser extensions, CLI