1Password vs Bitwarden vs Proton Pass: family and team plans (2026)

Six people on Bitwarden Families costs $47.88 a year — under $8 per person, for the whole year, not the month. That's the number every other password manager in this category gets compared against, and none of them beat it; the question is only whether what they add is worth the difference.

| Product | Annual price | People | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bitwarden Families | ~$47.88 | 6 | open source, cheapest per seat |
| Proton Pass Family | ~$59.88 | 6 | Plus plan roughly halved in 2026 |
| 1Password Families | ~$71.88 | 5 | +$12/yr since March 2026 |

Two of the three moved price this year, in opposite directions. 1Password added $12 a year to its Families plan in March — not dramatic on its own, but it's the second consecutive year the price has crept up, and it's now the most expensive of the three by a real margin while covering the fewest people (five, against six for the other two). Proton Pass went the other way, cutting its Plus plan roughly in half, which changed it from "the privacy-focused option that costs more" into genuinely the middle-priced choice. Bitwarden's family pricing barely moved, even though its *individual* Premium tier nearly doubled in January — the first change to that price in close to a decade — so families were largely insulated from an increase that hit solo users directly.

What you're actually paying more for as you go up that table is polish and integration, not security — all three are considered trustworthy encryption implementations. 1Password's apps are the smoothest of the three, and its sharing tools, Travel Mode (which lets you strip vault data before crossing a border and restore it after), and Watchtower breach monitoring are genuinely best-in-class if a family will actually use them. Proton Pass's case is narrower but specific: if you already pay for Proton Mail or Proton VPN, Pass is bundled into Proton Unlimited and adds email aliases on top, which can make it close to free at the margin. Bitwarden's pitch hasn't changed — open source, self-hostable if you want that, and the apps have genuinely caught up on polish over the last couple of years, which used to be its one real weakness against 1Password.

The business-plan ordering holds the same shape: Bitwarden Teams around $4/user/month, Proton Pass for Business around $4.99, 1Password Business around $8 — cheapest to priciest, same as the family tier.

Bitwarden Families for pure value — it's genuinely hard to argue with $8 a person for a year. 1Password Families if the smoother apps and sharing tools will actually get used, not just paid for. Proton Pass if you're already inside the Proton ecosystem and the bundle effectively makes it free.