- Too bad they took VC funding and have to be a "global leader in identity security" instead of just making a damn good password manager.
https://1password.com/press/2025/nov/1password-strengthens-l...
by joshstrange
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- I get a lot of value from 1Password but the software quality has fallen.
There was a period of time that 1P would constantly grab window focus on macOS, they must have finally fixed it because after months of it randomly happening I don't think it's happened for at least 4 months. Then there is stuff like adding a new item, the search "Try searching anything", well, at least as long as "Anything" is not the _type_ of new item you want to create...
If I search "API" because I want to create an API key entry it shows be a bunch of worthless suggestions of websites (why would that be useful?) and at the bottom just injects my search term into the name of the 3 top "types" of item you can make. I have to expand it and scroll down to find API Credential. This is maddening to me. In part because of the mocking "Try searching anything", which is just clearly BS, and in part because I find the website search 100% useless and the only thing I care to search on is the types of new 1Password item I might create.
Video: https://cs.joshstrange.com/jFqYXC8q
- My family pricing went up by 20%, from $59.88 USD to $71.88 per year.
I like 1Password a lot. I've used it for 10 years. It's never lost a single thing, and I don't recall any downtime that impacted me. It's easy to setup and 99% hassle free. Works on my various device types (windows, mac, ios). It supports passkeys and 2FA codes. I like having shared and private vaults. I love the ability to share an auto-expiring, one-time-view link to a password. And the billing is a simple subscription fee.
I could do without some bloat. Watchtower feels like an enterprise need that is otherwise low-value and (by default) noisy for individuals/families. I obviously don't need "AI" forced into my password manager. I didn't love the version 7 to 8 transition that required a new app/extension to be installed. But all of that is really not so bad.
So yeah, I don't feel like I'm getting any additional value that justifies the price increase, but it's still more than worth it for me.
by jrochkind1
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- The email I got with individual plan went from $35.88 USD / year to $47.88 USD
The new price then is $4/month. From $3/month. (So still 33% increase, similar to family plan in OP].
I found it very cheap before, which is part of what encouraged me to get it in the first place, vs trying to do something free. Would I have signed up for it originally at this price? I don't know. But it's not enough to make me switch to a competitor now, or try to find a way to do password management for free -- so they predicted succesfully for me that they'd keep me as a customer. Even though annoyed.
Definitely can't go back to having no password management. (I also use it for TOTP and passkey).
If I was on all Apple/iOS, I'd probably just use iCloud. But I need multi-OS-vendor support.
What one actually needs these days is not something one can get a reasonable UX for free for. (unless you only need apple OS's maybe? Or only chrome?). There's really no alternative. I think they realized that, and that they were leaving money on the table. I got 1Passowrd originaly when I needed TOTP, and wanted something that was multi-device and secure, and certainly didn't want to host it myself. I don't know what else I'd use.
- They’ve added a lot of ‘functionality’ but I use none of it. In December I migrated everything out and into Apple’s native Password manager, and cancelled my subscription to 1Password. Just in time, apparently. Subscription models need to die.
- I feel like I am really struggling to see the issue here with pricing, it is still a very cheap subscription and it does what we need it to do. And they were one of the ones that came out better in that recent security analysis of password managers. I see a lot of people upset here and I don’t get it.
Did they need to increase the price? Honestly I don’t know, without seeing their financials it is hard to say. But I would much rather they be able to be sustainable.
It likely doesn’t help that they are facing more and more free competition from Google and Apple. I know I have been considering a switch to Apple Passwords after the recent changes to it. I doubt this will excelerate it or anything because I will still want somewhere as a secondary area incase I loose access to my apple account.
by ivannovazzi
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- If the main use case is shared team secrets (API keys, tokens, .env equivalents), there are team-secrets-specific tools worth considering as alternatives:
- KeyEnv (keyenv.dev) — CLI-first secrets manager, syncs across team via CLI. Works like .env but centralized and access-controlled. No per-seat pricing.
- Doppler — More full-featured, team-friendly
- Infisical — Open source option with self-host
1Password is great for passwords/logins. For dev team secrets specifically (API keys, CI tokens), a purpose-built tool often fits better since you get CLI integration, per-project scoping, and environment-level access control.
Depends on your ratio of "password manager" vs "secrets manager" usage.
- I've had good experiences with KeePassXC. In addition to being able to store your passwords, it can ingest TOTP seeds. And finally, it's open source and cross platform. (I originally stumbled upon it because it was the only KeePass implementation that tried to look like a native MacOS app)
This is a killer feature for me, since apparently iOS backups do not backup your TOTP generators in Google Authenticator, which I discovered after I wiped my phone and restored it thinking I was perfectly safe doing so given I had a backup.
I now encourage all the folks I mentor to set up a KeePass vault for the TOTP seeds.
There's even an option to generate one of those fancy QR codes that apps like authenticator can use, so the two are not mutually exclusive.
If you're an individual, not an enterprise user, I don't see why anyone would pay for a password manager.
- It's a shame that the free/cheap password managers that regular people would use (like those by Apple, Google) seem unwilling to loosen their platform lock-in, and others like 1Password mainly target business use and are too expensive for the average joe to bother. So decades and dozens of new auth standards later we are still in a place where people use the same password on all accounts and write it down on post-its.
The industry has collectively spent untold billions/trillions on cybersecurity over the years, while the best way to actually secure access would be to have a free, preinstalled, interoperable password manager that "just works".
- Completely worth it to me. It would be an incredible value at twice the price and part of my daily workflow on all machines.
- There is no reason for this increase except the fact that they know people are too lazy to migrate away.
Most of the listed features don't make any sense as core value propositions (wtf is AI-powered item naming)
- If everyone goes to their subscriptions and cancels today maybe they'll get the message.
I've done it, and will spend the rest of the current renewal figuring out how well Apple Passwords works, I guess.
I'd like to sync everything but realistically I just need to extract any 2FA I have left in 1p; everything else can be password reset when the time cometh.
by luizfelberti
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- You left out the most bizarre part of the email:
> Action needed: Please go to my.1password.com/billing to register your approval. If you do not provide consent by your next renewal date on or after March 27, 2026, your subscription will automatically be cancelled at time of your next renewal
Apparently you get auto-cancelled if you don't manually accept the price increase?
- A commenter here recently just asked me if I have considered BitWarden due to my gripes with KeePass. KeePass cannot rent-seek off my passwords. You can of course host BitWarden, but the official software can always get worse (see Minio). Thankfully we have community run versions of the BitWarden server (VaultWarden), whereas 1password customers are left to dry. There just isn't any money in personal password managers, and restricting features like TOTP (BitWarden free tier) rarely entices the average person to get a paid plan.
by whitepoplar
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- I'd like to switch to Bitwarden, but my singular focus is on security. I trust 1P because of its reputation in the security community. Does Bitwarden have any drawbacks when compared to 1P, security-wise?
by puppycodes
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- I would be fine with this if they fixed the wildly buggy browser extensions.
The number of times my preferences have been wiped after an extension update is maddening.
- Just cancelled my subscription, which was due for renewal a few days after the change takes effect. I can live with vaults being read-only while I find a (self-hosted) alternative.
- I'm a 15+ year user of 1password and have been telling myself to move off of it for like 5 years now. It ain't the price... $72 is really fine for good software that just works.
But as mentioned throughout the thread it's really just too much. My goodness they really could have a nice, profitable, business with simple software. I'd happily pay $10/month for the version of 1password from 15 years ago! It's just all too much.
- Very disappointed by this. I've been a customer for many, many years on a Family plan, but I do not understand this price raise. The only reason they raise price is definitely because of the need to answer to investors, and the necessary enshitification that follows. While I understand every business needs to generate revenues, they put on us, the customers, the burden of their rapid hiring spree and growing operating costs. It's just sad. There is just so much you can charge for managing passwords, and the family plan becomes way too expensive for the value it truly provides. We will need to switch to a less expensive competitor.
by user205738
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- What do subscription password managers do compared to free managers, such as keepass + device-to-device synchronization, so that people are willing to pay even 1 penni, let alone $72?
- That's for family plans. For individual plans it is increasing as
> Current vs New Pricing:
Current price: $35.88 USD / year
New price: $47.88 USD / year
- I checked with their "AI chat" about whether I could lock in current prices by renewing early but they said they would not allow this. I'm kind of surprised that there is no option to do this (I see Jetbrains as an example of a company which makes this very easy)
I've been a 1password customer for many years, so I'm a bit bummed out about this.
- The haven't raised the price of the individual plan in at least 8 years. It is now going up 33%.
Inflation calculated from the CPI over the last 8 years in the US was 31%, which is fuzzy enough that it should be considered approximately equal to 33%.
A lot of overreaction here.
- A very recent frustration from them was this: https://x.com/youyuxi/status/2005904473332564339?s=20 - their Chrome extension was breaking code block rendering on a lot of websites for weeks.
The issue had already been reported in their community forum, but it didn’t seem to gain much traction until Evan You mentioned it publicly on Twitter. Only then did it feel like it was taken seriously.
That experience, combined with a ~33% price increase, makes the direction a bit concerning, and feels like it’s going in a down hill...
That said, it’s genuinely difficult to move my family off 1Password. I just wish there are stronger competitors.
by al_borland
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- I’m really disappointed by this. I’ve been a 1Password user for 18 years.
Over the last several years, since they moved to Electron for the main app, things have gotten worse and worse. The browser extension doesn’t work half the time. In addition to being frustrating, that makes it a less secure system, as one of the benefits is that it only fills the password on the specified domain. A lack of reliability of the extension leaves people more vulnerable to phishing, since they have to copy/paste passwords out of the app.
The features they list, I don’t care about. AI item naming? What? It already automatically named things pretty well without AI. It feels like they just want to use the hot buzz word.
A password manager should be a fairly boring utility. It should be secure, stable, reliable for the long-haul. These ideas are incompatible with taking on investments from a bunch of celebrities.
When I heard about them taking on investors I was worried. Password managers create a fair amount of lock-in, and now they’re starting the squeeze, while failing to deliver on the basic functionality I want out of a password manager… filling passwords in the browser.
It seems like I’ll need to migrate over the next 5 months. I was hoping this day would never come, as it was mostly a good 18 years. I recommended 1Password to a lot of people over the years.
While I don’t want to move to a password manager that will create vendor lock-in, I will probably end up going to Apple Passwords.
- That has to be the lamest use of “AI” to justify price increases.
- Anyone have suggestions for a good alternative?
I've been using 1Password (family version to share some subset within the family) for more than 10 years now, but I have to say the user experience has degraded quite a bit. Anyone have a better overall alternative? (Doesn't necessarily have to be cheaper.)
- Love how there’s never an “I don’t want new features, I want my current price” option.
- Lately their Windows client has been consistently crashing for me when it tries to auto-run on a fresh boot. It always works the second time, but still, how about getting your shit together before dropping a 30% price increase.
by brendanmc6
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- 1password is by far my most recommended subscription to friends and family.
In a world where almost every single app or service I use has thrown me into a rage from enshittification or show-stopping bugs or both, where I can hardly even type this message because even iOS keyboards have regressed… 1password is actually a great service that makes my life objectively better.
I put them in an exclusive S-Tier with, surprisingly, Chase Mobile (in recent years), Signal, Google Sheets, and maybe an few others. They just work.
Since the rest of them ignore my 1 star App Store reviews and my desperate, detailed bug reports, the only power I have left is to support good software and recommend it to friends.
by chickahoona
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- If you are looking for an alternative take a look at Psono. It's open source, only sold B2B so it's free for individuals. It's made in Germany, so a European alternative to the US solutions. It has all the typical features with browser extensions and apps for android and iOS.
by neillyons
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- I stopped my 1Password subscription last year and started using Apple Passwords. The user experience is great if you switch to Safari with fingerprint login.
- They took VC money, this was expected. But still, +30% is high.
- I have been a customer since 2018. However, I'm getting tired of all these subscriptions. I will use Apple Password moving forward
- I love the product but this is a really aggressive price update and makes me concerned they’ll try to gouge me in years to come.
by midnightdiesel
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- Enshittification strikes again. For a normal user, the software seems to be getting worse and more cumbersome, and the company seems to continue focusing solely on pushing business- and enterprise-centric features that I have no use for. They'd do well to offer a non-pro type subscription for users who don't want all of that. Instead, though, I and a lot of others will simply be canceling.
by airbridgeflyer
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- Using icloud passwords is more sensible. it's free and available on windows and other mac devices. In fact, opting for an icloud+ subscription at $1 a month is hard to resist. 1Password is secure but expensive
- Fortunately 1P6 with one time purchase still works. I don't care about this company since then.
- They still don't have support for recovery codes and links to secrets between vaults... Their Chrome extension stopped working for most websites, especially for credit cards! The Electron app is using plenty of RAM.
by jasonriddle
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- Yeah, pretty disappointed by this as well. The app has been getting buggier overtime and I was already considering leaving, so this was the push I needed.
Seems like the most popular players in this space are Bitwarden and KeePass, does anybody have a positive or negative experience to share with either?
- The 33% increase (47.88/35.88) for the "features" I don't need is too much. I will be switching to Bitwarden.
I think if they increased the prices by 5% or something like that, I'd said fine, that >30% is simply not justified.
- I am ready to pay for this. This is useful tool (even as there are many self-hosted options).
- My family members struggle to use 1Password. This breaks it for them, as I can't really defend 1Password over Apple/Google password managers anymore.
- If they write a native (non Electron) app, fine.
by shubhamintech
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- I've been using Bitwarden, can anybody help me with how are they compared to 1Password?
by darepublic
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- Their extension has not been working well
- The 1Password app(s) have never been buggier or more frustrating to use. App UIs have never been more convoluted.
Enshittification comes for us all, sadly, even something like this that has largely been indispensable for me and my family for so long now.
Not sure what to say, because Bitwarden is worse at everything and nothing else is even worth mentioning based on what I know. Great example of something I’ll stay with for now simply because there are no better alternatives on the market.
PS - listing AI auto naming of items as an improvement got a genuine laugh out of me.
- This will finally push me to self host an alternative, not even an hour of work until everything is merged.
- I don't mind the increase per-se, but the "improvements" they advertise to justify it are laughable. Not to mention that 1Password 8 has been a major downgrade across the board.
by fred_is_fred
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- This is useful enough for a family of 4 with teenagers who have a lot of logins that I don't mind the price. I'm not going to deal with self-hosting to save $1/month. My time is worth more than that.
- This is in preparation for their IPO when the market is attractive.
- Still way under the actual rate of inflation
- 4$/month is cheap. It’s about a coffee!
- Seems excessive
- Got the same. Kind of a bummer to see “AI powered item naming”. Who needs this shit? Hope the price increase is not to cover their useless AI spendings. Otherwise I’m happy with 1Password.
- Will they fix the Chrome extension for this price increase or do I have to wait ~1 hour for it to sync or restart the browser? Check the rating of the extension compared to all others. It is shit, it has been shit for 1+ year.
by kylehotchkiss
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- Wow, add AI nobody wanted or needed and pull a gmail and say this justifies raising the price. Exceptionally uncool.
Apple plays the long game and has been improving the password app substantially. I've noticed.
- Wasn’t software cost going to 0 thanks to AI? How they justify 33% increase?
- Not stoked but it's the first since I've joined. Not an insane jump. Seeing Bitwarden go up had me wondering. It's still the best all rounder password manager I've used. Has everything and does it all really well. If Bitwarden could integrate their Reports feature into the app that might be a compelling reason to come back.
- I despise what 1Password has become. They've spent the past 10 years removing everything that made it great, and becoming increasingly user hostile. And now this. Well they can fuck off. This is great timing though as only the other day I was researching the alternatives - current front runners are Passbolt [0], Hypervault [1] and Heylogin [2]. If anyone has personal experience with any of these I'd love to hear your thoughts.
[0] https://www.passbolt.com
[1] https://hypervault.com
[2] https://www.heylogin.com/en
- $1 more per month is okay, but these planned features are laughable.
- yeah, honestly i'm baffled... don't they have a whole team for marketing and communications? it's a slap in a customer's face... i've been on this subscription for 9 years, and now with enshittification, scott galloway, rutger bregman and cory doctorow all shouting off the roofs to cancel US-based subscriptions it's like no one on their public comms team is reading the room; like at all.
and on top of that they added this joke of a list of features supposed to justify the decision... as if i had previously been asked about if i'd want "AI-powered item naming. wow, what a shitshow.
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