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1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

#121

Completely worth it to me. It would be an incredible value at twice the price and part of my daily workflow on all machines.

Same, just excellent software that I use 100+ times per day. Quality matters in what you use constantly.

100+ times a day? Explain yourself.

I login/unlock my password manager maybe...a dozen times a week and that would be a high count when I'm doing "business" and logging in for financial things.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

#122
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

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

#123
post #8

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.

Most users don't need any of the premium features, so the point may be moot, but it's worth mentioning that bitwarden increased their premium tier prices by 100% this year (10/y to 20/y). https://bitwarden.com/blog/bitwarden-launches-enhanced-premi...

I think 20/yr is low enough and much cheaper than 1p anyway, so it seems fine to me. I have already cancelled my yearly 1p password subscription and will use the next couple of months to get familiar with bitwarden before the full switch.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

#124
post #48

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…

The manage to find the money to sponsor an F1 team, so I don't think the money is the issue.

Also, if they'd increase things by 5%, or did yearly 2% increases or something like that, I'd be okay with that (to cover the inflation). But the 33% increase combined with the list of features I don't care about -- that's just taking users for granted. Thankfully I didn't start using passkeys, otherwise I'd be locked within 1p without ability to export them.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

#126
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.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

#127
post #48

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…

The manage to find the money to sponsor an F1 team, so I don't think the money is the issue. Also, if they'd increase things by 5%, or did yearly 2% increases or something like that, I'd be okay with that (to cover the inflation). But the 33% increase combined with the list of features I don't care about -- that's just taking users for granted. Thankfully I didn't start using passkeys, otherwise I'd be locked within…

> The manage to find the money to sponsor an F1 team, so I don't think the money is the issue.

I'm guessing they'd view that as a marketing expense.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

#129

Completely worth it to me. It would be an incredible value at twice the price and part of my daily workflow on all machines.

+1

For pure peace-of-mind managing a family and all our passwords and digtial security, it's value is far more than this monthly cost

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

#130
post #112
post #58

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.

Subscriptions are fine, companies are greedy

I’m absolutely not fine with being a subscriber. Whenever there’s a lifetime license alternative, that goes to the top of my list. I’m not into being somebody’s peon who has to keep paying an unknown fraction of their income to maintain functionality I would’ve broken even on years ago.
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