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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

#61
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.

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

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post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're in the Apple ecosystem, password and passkey management via iCloud is included.

Don’t lock yourself in apple ecosystem especially in such important thing as password management.

Why not? How is the risk substantially different than with a different vendor?

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

#64
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

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

#65
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…

In China the median hourly wage is somewhere between 4 and 6 USD, whereas in India where most employment is ‘informal’ estimates of the median wage vary from about 50 cents to 1 USD an hour.

So to cover those twelve dollars, the average Chinese worker will have to work three to four more hours a year just to have the same functionality, whereas the Indian average worker will have to work twelve to 24 more hours a year.

Does that help your struggle?

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

#66
post #51

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.

Apple Passwords works very well (as somebody who has fully migrated to it for password storage and OTP functionality). There’s a bit of a hassle because Apple has much simpler data structures currently, but you can bet that they’re working to enhance the record types they support because it’s such an easy win.

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

#67
post #46

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 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.

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

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post #51

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.

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 same slowness problems.

One big gotcha though is that Apple Passwords thinks site1.example.com and site2.example.com are the same site. So if you log into site1, it notices that the password you used isn't the password for site2 and offers to update it. If you click yes, it will overwrite the password stored against every subdomain of example.com - if you need to use multiple Sentry accounts, this is very problematic.

Finally, password entry in other browsers is less than perfect. There's an extension for Firefox but it's clunky, and the experience is even worse in Orion. Don't know about Chrome as I don't like to have spyware on my computer.

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

#69
post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're in the Apple ecosystem, password and passkey management via iCloud is included.

Don’t lock yourself in apple ecosystem especially in such important thing as password management.

You can export from their app very easily.

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

#70
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.

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