How much does Bitwarden cost?

Bitwarden publishes 7 tiers, from Free for Free up to $47.88/year for Families. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Free and Premium on Bitwarden?

Premium costs $1.65/month against Free, and adds integrated authenticator, file attachments, emergency access, security reports.

Is the Families plan on Bitwarden worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is not itemised separately from the tier below it. It costs $47.88/year against $1.65/month for Premium. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?

1 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Bitwarden have a free tier: Google Authenticator.

What am I actually paying for with Bitwarden?

The record lists 37 features across 6 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for personal password management, team credential sharing, enterprise security.

Does Bitwarden charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 7 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Bitwarden prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Bitwarden against before paying?

The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Hanwha Vision, BeyondTrust, Feedzai, IDnow. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Bitwarden covering price, platforms and features.

Cybersecurity · pricing

Bitwarden pricing

Bitwarden publishes 7 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Bitwarden pricing is free, then $1.65/month across 7 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free, then $1.65/month
Model: Freemium
Tiers: 7
Free tier: Yes

Bitwarden plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Bitwarden pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	9	Entry tier
Premium	$1.65/month	5	+$1.65/month, 5 more features
Families	$3.99/month	3	+$2.3400000000000003/month, 3 more features
Teams	$4/month	5	+$0.009999999999999787/month, 5 more features
Enterprise	$6/month	6	+$2/month, 6 more features
Premium	$19.8/year	-	+$13.8/year
Families	$47.88/year	-	+$28.080000000000002/year

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free

The entry tier. It covers basic password management, zero-knowledge encryption, advanced two-step login, phishing protection, note and credit card storage, passkey management.

Premium

$1.65/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

Integrated authenticator
File attachments
Emergency access
Security reports
Sharing with one other user

Families

$3.99/month

Over Premium, this tier adds:

Up to 6 premium accounts
Unlimited sharing and collections
Organization storage included

Teams

$4/month

Over Families, this tier adds:

Centralized ownership
Secure credential sharing
Event logs
Directory synchronization
SCIM provisioning

Enterprise

$6/month

Over Teams, this tier adds:

All Teams features plus granular access control
Passwordless SSO
Account recovery
Self-hosting
Access Intelligence risk remediation
Complimentary Families plans for all users

Premium

$19.8/year

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Enterprise on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Families

$47.88/year

Nothing on the record separates this tier from Premium on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.

Where Bitwarden stops being free

Free, Free

Basic password management
Zero-knowledge encryption
Advanced two-step login
Phishing protection
Note and credit card storage
Passkey management
Password generator
Unlimited devices
Browser, mobile, and desktop apps

Premium, $1.65/month

The first thing you pay for:

Integrated authenticator
File attachments
Emergency access
Security reports
Sharing with one other user

What the product covers

The full Bitwarden feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

Unlimited password storage
Cross-platform sync
Secure password sharing
Password generator
Two-factor authentication
Encrypted file attachments
Vault health reports
Emergency access

Integrations

Active Directory
Azure AD
Okta
OneLogin
Google Workspace
Duo
YubiKey
FIDO2

Security

AES-256
PBKDF2
End-to-end encryption
Zero-knowledge

Deployment

Cloud deployment
Self-hosted deployment

Platform

Windows support
Macos support
Linux support
Ios support
Android support
Web support
Cli support

Localization

English language support
Spanish language support
French language support
German language support
Italian language support
Japanese language support
Portuguese language support
Chinese language support

People bring Bitwarden in for personal password management, team credential sharing, enterprise security, compliance requirements, developer secrets management. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Bitwarden are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Cybersecurity

Too few cybersecurity tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Bitwarden entry price against other Cybersecurity tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Bitwarden (this page)	Free, then $1.65/month	freemium	-
Hanwha Vision	On request	One-time purchase	-	vs Bitwarden
BeyondTrust	On request	quote	-	vs Bitwarden
Feedzai	On request	quote	-	vs Bitwarden
IDnow	On request	quote	-	vs Bitwarden
Eagle Eye Networks	On request	Per camera per month	-	vs Bitwarden
iDenfy	On request	Per verification	-	vs Bitwarden

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Bitwarden badges page.

Before you pay for Bitwarden

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 7 tiers between Free and $47.88/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Bitwarden runs on windows, macos, linux, ios, android, web, cli, and is published by Bitwarden Inc of Santa Barbara, California, USA. The full record is on the Bitwarden review, and the rest of the category is under best cybersecurity tools.

Bitwarden pricing on the vendor's own site