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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

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Post by jemmyw »

kantselovich wrote: post #74
jrochkind1 wrote: post #22

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…

I'm building an alternative called Lockstep: KeePass-like local-first password vault but with build sync https://github.com/lockstepvault-hq/lockstep Sync requires a server, however server does not see any secret data, it is only used to relay encrypted hash-chained ops log between devices. It's intended to be self-hosting friendly - server is single binary backed by SQLite. It's project is early-alfa, CLI app, Keepa…

I'm going to follow your project, it looks good. It's "alpha" btw. I wouldn't usually correct but as you're posting about something you want people to look at you might be interested in a correction.

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

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Post by Huppie »

nerdjon wrote: 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…

To be honest I'm mostly fine with the price increase (it hasn't been adjusted for inflation in ages), the thing I do take issue with is that for over a year now (with the 'upgrade' to a new web interface) you can't easily create a password etc. anymore straight from the browser extension.

You click the button in the browser, choose what to create 'I want to create a password (or a note, or whatever)' and then get redirected to their web-app and be presented with a pop-up asking what you want to create (I just told you, didn't I?)

I get it, when you move to a new web-app some things can break. But after using stored passwords creating new ones is pretty much the only other thing you do in the app, it seems to be core functionality that's been broken for over a year now, it's kinda madness tbh.

Edit: To be fair they offered a 'solution' when I reported it: "Don't use the web-app, install our desktop app instead."

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

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Post by ivannovazzi »

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.

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

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Post by al_borland »

unsnap_biceps wrote: post #172
al_borland wrote: post #152

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 ex…

> 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 latest updates have it prompting me every time I auto fill to approve filing on the site. Click OK to fill your 1Password i…

I haven’t received this update yet, but it sounds like they no longer understand what business they’re in.

I wish in addition to WatchTower they had a way to identify sites that no longer exist. I want to clean things up before I migrate—delete logins for dead companies, delete accounts on sites I no longer use, etc. Some tools to help with that would be much more useful than the new features they actually added. These are tools I’ve wanted/needed for a long time now. I have over 300 logins in 1Password, and that’s after I’ve already done a few manual efforts to cleanup in the past (277 items already archived).

This might be where they could actually add AI in a useful way, instead of item naming. Ping the URLs periodically to see if they are still alive. If they’re dead, have the AI do a little research to see if the site is just down or the company went under… and maybe try to find out if there is any information on how the data was handled upon company closure. For dead sites, consolidate all that information into a section of the app for vault pruning and maintenance. Make it easy to archive all this old stuff and feel good about it. In addition to this, surface how to delete account data on each site I have a login for. There are websites for this, why doesn’t 1Password pull that type of information in to make cleanup easy. Deleting an account that is no longer needed is safer than rotating the password periodically or when I had been breached and shows in WatchTower. These sites store more than just password data that gets taken, deletion is always better.

Maybe they don’t care, because few accounts are as old as mine, but these are the types of things I’d expect from a tool for power users vs all the free options out there. There is a lot of competition in this space now, and if they don’t want to be old-reliable, they could at least be useful.

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

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Post by marcolussetti »

AlexandrB wrote: post #55
fnwbr wrote: post #16

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…

They're Canadian: > © 2025 1Password. All rights reserved. 4711 Yonge St, 10th Floor, Toronto Ontario, M2N 6K8, Canada Though I don't know if they host all their servers in Canada or not.

They have a Canadian-hosted version at 1password.ca

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

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Post by pipes »

zparky wrote: post #67
pipes wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use passwordsafe https://pwsafe.org/ Sync the file to Dropbox. Available on all my devices. 2fa protection in password safe - yubi + password. This is probably not the most secure system in the world but I've been using it for 10+ years. And it's free.

similar, keepass synced with google drive. sure it's on some platform, but if my master file is stolen I feel like it taking ~1s and 128MB per guess it's unfeasible for my file to be cracked.

My main worry is some software dependency in password safe is compromised and my passwords are hoovered up while I have the file open!

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

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Post by dongforceking »

jms703 wrote: post #133
drcongo wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I stopped using 1Password for personal stuff and switched to just Apple Passwords about a year ago so I can add a little colour to what to expect. Firstly, the Apple Passwords app is slow as molasses, just really really bad. If you've got more than about 1000 items, it's almost unusable. That said, you very rarely have to use it, because password entry in Safari is perfect, and the menubar app for it doesn't have the…

1Password also thinks site1.example.com and site2.example.com are the same.

This is adjustable - sorry for UI in French - https://imgur.com/a/Rn046lL

For a password saved from foo.contoso.com:

First option - "Fill anywhere on site" - this means it will fill on foo.contoso.com and bar.contoso.com

Second option - "Fill only on the specified hostname" - will only fill on foo.contoso.com

Third option "Never fill" - written on the tin.

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