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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 gib444 »

I was expecting this - they're just copying everyone else (LOVE that kind of inflation...)

They've amassed enough users who depend on something so critical (family accounts being even more entrenched). They're now in the enshittification era.

As a year of 1Password for about years, my perception is that their software quality is declining.

I recently bagged a free 1-year trial family account after looking at the alternatives (they're all way less polished) but I will re-evaluate the tradeoffs when the renewal is up.

In terms of price, if they've stopped innovating, I expect them to work on fixing bugs and compatibility. But they don't seem to be doing that, so I feel I'm just being milked for cash

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Also Bitwarden recently hiked family accounts from $24 -> $48 a year and personal from ~$10 -> $20. Funny how these companies copy each other

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

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Post by gib444 »

Valodim wrote: post #142
quacker wrote: post #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,…

You mean they didn't increase prices in 10 years? A 2016 dollar is not the same thing as a 2026 dollar

> A 2016 dollar is not the same thing as a 2026 dollar

Indeed, in part because companies keep raising prices

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

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Post by gib444 »

commandersaki wrote: post #208
Raed667 wrote: post #27

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)

Migrate to what exactly? And what happens when the thing you migrate to also increase prices?

Exactly. Every other software is either:

1) Temporarily not yet enshittified, at a discount rate to get market share

2) Actually just shit / pure vendor lock in

The merry-go-round is tiring

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

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Post by gib444 »

bombcar wrote: post #76
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…

Is it possible to set it to NOT require Touch ID for every single password every time?

Think about something snatching your device out of your hand / laptop off the table at the cafe

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

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Post by luckman212 »

et-al wrote: post #39

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...

"AI-powered item naming" is literally one of their new features. Not sure which is more embarrassing: releasing this feature, or using it.

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

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Post by oftenwrong »

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…

>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.

This is my main frustration with it as well. It is one of the main features in my mind, and it often does not work. It seems to work for many sites I use on desktop (Firefox on Linux, Mac), but doesn't work well at all on Android (Android app and Firefox). I can understand if this issue is outside of 1password's control because it possibly is due to specifics of Android's APIs, but I would prefer transparency in the matter.

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

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Post by xp84 »

I switched to a product called StrongBox which is an Apple-specific app (iOS and Mac clients) that uses standard KeePass vaults. Various free clients exist which I use for my Android and Windows devices, and you can sync using either direct integration with Dropbox, OneDrive, etc, or use the device’s filesystem and sync it to whatever you like that way. It supports passkeys as well and you can have your iOS devices save your passkeys in StrongBox instead of the Apple thing.

The UI isn’t quite as slick as old versions of 1PW were, but since 1PW went Electron I don’t see a difference in quality.

I still refuse to rely on iCloud’s functionality for this since it is a one-way door, giving you no native way to export your vault without painful, one-at-a-time password typing. I had to do that once to escape 6 years ago — never again. Literally every other password manager lets you export a plaintext CSV.

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

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Post by xp84 »

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…

Have you tried StrongBox? It uses standard KeePass vaults and covers the Apple platforms, sync the file with whatever you like and use any KeePass client for Android, Windows, and others. Strongbox is $25/year, but has a trial. If I remember correctly, the Windows and Android clients I chose are both free (of cost).

Note: no affiliation with the developer, I just discovered it from a post similar to this, having never heard of it, and thought your needs sounded similar to mine.

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

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Post by Spooky23 »

al_borland wrote: post #194
don_neufeld wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

My issue is that quality has noticeably dropped over the years. I can’t justify paying more while the core functionality is getting worse. It’s been going downhill since the launch of v8. I sung its praises for many years (I’ve been using it for 18 years), but that mostly stopped after v8 was released. I kept going with it because I thought being platform agnostic with my password manager was important. But with them…

What issues do you see?

The only problem I have with it is safari support, and that’s really about Apple’s arbitrary limits on plugins.

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