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title: "Password Managers: ranked reviews and comparisons"
description: "Password managers compared on the price per user you will actually pay on the business tier, on both bases, whether the vendor has been breached and how it behaved afterwards, whether the code is open source and audited, where the company and your vault sit, and the features a small team needs: passkeys, two-factor codes, shared vaults, SSO and an MCP server."
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last-updated: "2026-09-08"
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# Password Managers: ranked reviews and comparisons

> Password managers compared on the price per user you will actually pay on the business tier, on both bases, whether the vendor has been breached and how it behaved afterwards, whether the code is open source and audited, where the company and your vault sit, and the features a small team needs: passkeys, two-factor codes, shared vaults, SSO and an MCP server.

- Last updated: 2026-09-08

## Ranking

Ranked by Saaskly's editorial score (0–5). Ties share a rank. Method: https://saaskly.com/editorial-policy.md

1. **1. [Proton Pass](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/proton-pass.md)**: 4.3/5. The password manager Saaskly keeps its own secrets in: Swiss law and a non-profit majority owner, open-source clients with a public Cure53 audit, a free plan with passkeys and no device limit, email aliases and a two-factor authenticator built in, and business tiers from €1.99 a user with SSO and SCIM from €4.49. What to know: business prices come in euros, not pounds, the admin layer is younger than 1Password's, and Proton's company-wide Trustpilot is poor.
2. **2. [1Password](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/1password.md)**: 4.2/5. The business benchmark: the best admin console in the category, a Secret Key on top of the account password, SSO included at the Business tier, guest accounts, a CLI, SDKs and an official MCP server that never hands a secret to the agent, SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and a Trustpilot 4.2 on 12,475 reviews. The costs: no free plan, no pound pricing (euros or dollars), €7.99 a user on annual billing only, or a fixed ten-seat starter pack at €21.95 a month.
3. **3. [Bitwarden](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/bitwarden.md)**: 4.1/5. The open-source choice: clients and server on GitHub, self-hosting or an EU cloud region on any plan, twenty-four published audits since 2018, a full free plan, Teams at $4 a user with SCIM and event logs, Enterprise at $6 with SSO, a CLI, a public API, a Secrets Manager and an official MCP server. The trade-offs: dollars only, annual billing only, SSO gated to Enterprise, and a Trustpilot 3.2 on 362 reviews.
4. **4. [Keeper](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/keeper.md)**: 3.7/5. The compliance-heavy US option with a UK price list: Business Starter at £2.00 a user, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 and FIPS 140-3, passkeys that unlock the vault, a TOTP authenticator, a Commander CLI, Terraform providers and a vendor-built MCP server, 24/7 phone support and an EU data region. The catches: SSO and SCIM are Enterprise-only at £5.00, reporting and secrets are paid add-ons at every tier, there is no free plan and no monthly billing, and the company once sued a journalist over a vulnerability report.
5. **5. [NordPass](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/nordpass.md)**: 3.6/5. Nord Security's password manager, priced in pounds before VAT and sold the Nord way: Teams at £1.99 a user on a one-year term (£2.49 monthly) in ten-user packs, Business at £3.99 with a five-seat floor, XChaCha20 encryption, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 and a Cure53 audit, passkeys, an authenticator and email masking, 24/7 live support and a Trustpilot 4.0 on 2,064 invited reviews. Missing: any CLI, API, MCP server or open-source code, and a clear statement of which company you contract with.
6. **6. [Zoho Vault](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/zoho-vault.md)**: 3.5/5. The cheapest business tier here and the most generous free plan: unlimited passwords, passkeys and devices for nothing, with passkey and YubiKey unlock and a built-in authenticator; Professional at £3.13 a user with folder sharing, a CLI and break-glass access; Enterprise at £6.30 with SSO; monthly billing on every tier. The gaps: SSO only at Enterprise with a five-seat floor, no published audit, no MCP server, and a data centre assigned by signup region with no UK option confirmed.
7. **7. [RoboForm](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/roboform.md)**: 3.4/5. The 1999 veteran from Fairfax, Virginia, with the simplest business deal on this page: £2.66 a user a month with SSO and SCIM included, a million-round PBKDF2 master key, passkeys that unlock the vault, a TOTP authenticator, hardware-key support, a 2025 penetration test and a Trustpilot 4.6. Also: US-only data storage, no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 found, no CLI, API or MCP server, and annual billing only.
8. **8. [Dashlane](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/dashlane.md)**: 3.3/5. The polished consumer product that has rebuilt itself as "Omnix" for business: vaults hosted in Dublin with backups in Frankfurt, a French entity as GDPR controller, Confidential SSO in AWS Nitro enclaves, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, an open-source CLI, a read-only API and an MCP server for audit logs. The reasons it is mid-table: dollar pricing only, the vault half of the product at $8 a user on annual billing, no free plan any more, no desktop app, a 30-day cancellation notice that trips people up, and a Trustpilot 2.8 on 6,127 reviews.
9. **9. [Enpass](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/enpass.md)**: 3.2/5. The password manager with no vault server: your encrypted vault syncs through your own iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or WebDAV, and the business tier keeps it inside your own Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace tenancy. Business is £1.58 a user a month with SSO, SCIM, dark-web monitoring and an MCP server included, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II are claimed, and one-time licences exist for individuals. What is thin: the auditor is unnamed, there is no CLI or API, the reviews are few, and the company details are hard to pin down.
10. **10. [Passbolt](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/passbolt.md)**: 3.1/5. The European open-source team vault: Luxembourg company, AGPL code including the paid edition since August 2026, self-hosted for free with unlimited users or cloud-hosted in Belgium and Germany from $5.40 a user, a sovereign Luxembourg tier at $8, four Cure53 audits and a public incident log going back to 2017. Built for organisations only: no personal or family plan, a ten-seat minimum on paid tiers, no pound pricing, no passkeys, and not a single Trustpilot review.
11. **11. [LastPass](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/lastpass.md)**: 2.3/5. Still one of the most used password managers and the one with the record: encrypted vaults stolen in 2022 and disclosed at Christmas, master-password defaults weak enough that around $35 million in cryptocurrency has since been traced to cracked vaults, a £1.2 million ICO fine in December 2025 for 1.6 million UK users, and a June 2026 supply-chain breach of its customer database. Pound pricing, Teams at £3.83 a user, passkeys and an authenticator on every plan; ISO 27001 and SOC 2 since; Trustpilot 1.4 on 930 reviews.

## Comparison table

| Provider | Rating | Business per user* | Individual | Free tier | Seat minimum | Breach on record | Last audit | Open source | Self-host | Passkeys | TOTP codes | Hardware key | SSO | SCIM | Shared vaults | Secrets manager | CLI | MCP server | Owned in** | Data location | Trustpilot (reviews) |
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| [Proton Pass](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/proton-pass.md) | 4.3/5 | €1.99/user/mo annual · €4.99 monthly (Pass Essentials) | €2.39/mo annual · €3.99 monthly | Full-featured | 3 | No | 2023 (Cure53) | Clients | No | Store | Yes | Yes | Extra cost | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Swiss-owned | Switzerland (Proton does not name a data-centre region for Pass) | 2.2 (1,779) |
| [1Password](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/1password.md) | 4.2/5 | €2.20/user/mo annual only (Teams Starter Pack (10 seats)) | €3.65/mo annual only | None | 10 | No | 2025 (Annual pentest (report gated)) | No | No | Store | Yes | Yes | Extra cost | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Other | EU, US or Canada, chosen at signup | 4.2 (12,475) |
| [Bitwarden](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/bitwarden.md) | 4.1/5 | $4/user/mo annual only (Teams) | $1.65/mo annual only | Full-featured | 1 | No | 2025 (Cure53, ETH Zurich, Unit 42, Fracture Labs) | Clients + server | Yes | Store | Yes | Yes | Extra cost | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | US-owned | US or EU region chosen at signup; or self-hosted | 3.2 (362) |
| [Keeper](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/keeper.md) | 3.7/5 | £2/user/mo annual only (Business Starter) | £3.07/mo annual only | None | 5 | No | None published | No | No | Store + unlock | Yes | Yes | Extra cost | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | US-owned | US, EU (Ireland, Frankfurt), AU, CA or JP region; no UK region | 3.2 (3,164) |
| [NordPass](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/nordpass.md) | 3.6/5 | £1.99/user/mo annual · £2.49 monthly (Teams (10-user pack)) | £1.49/mo annual only | Limited | 10 | No | None published | No | No | Store | Yes | No | Included | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Other | Not published | 4.0 (2,064) |
| [Zoho Vault](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/zoho-vault.md) | 3.5/5 | £3.13/user/mo annual · £3.50 monthly (Professional) | £0.90/mo annual · £1 monthly | Full-featured | 5 | No | None published | No | No | Store + unlock | Yes | Yes | Extra cost | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Other | Zoho data centre by signup region (US or EU); UK centre not confirmed | 3.9 (6,118) |
| [RoboForm](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/roboform.md) | 3.4/5 | £2.66/user/mo annual only (Business) | £1.99/mo annual only | Limited | 1 | No | 2025 (Secfault Security) | No | No | Store + unlock | Yes | Yes | Included | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | US-owned | US only | 4.6 (542) |
| [Dashlane](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/dashlane.md) | 3.3/5 | $8/user/mo annual only (Omnix Password Management) | $5.42/mo annual only | None | 1 | No | 2026 (Penetration test summary (report gated)) | Clients | No | Store | No | Yes | Included | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | US-owned | AWS Dublin, backups Frankfurt | 2.8 (6,127) |
| [Enpass](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/enpass.md) | 3.2/5 | £1.58/user/mo annual only (Business) | £1.62/mo annual only | Limited | 1 | No | None published | No | Yes | Store | Yes | No | Included | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Other | Your own cloud (personal) or your Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace tenancy (business) | 4.1 (70) |
| [Passbolt](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/passbolt.md) | 3.1/5 | $4.86/user/mo annual · $5.40 monthly (Cloud Business) | None | Full-featured | 10 | No | 2026 (Cure53) | Clients + server | Yes | No | Yes | No | Included | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | EU-owned | Self-hosted; or Belgium and Germany (Cloud Business), Luxembourg (Cloud Sovereign) | — |
| [LastPass](https://saaskly.com/category/password-managers/lastpass.md) | 2.3/5 | £3.83/user/mo annual only (Teams (up to 50 users)) | £2.60/mo annual only | Limited | 1 | Yes | None published | No | No | Store | Yes | Yes | Extra cost | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | US-owned | Not published | 1.4 (930) |

*Business per user: the business or teams tier the score is set on, per user per month on annual billing and then month-to-month, in the currency the vendor shows a UK visitor on the research date; see each profile for the VAT basis, the seat minimum and what the tier above adds.

**Owned in: where the company that owns the provider answers to. A US-owned provider is subject to US law (including the CLOUD Act) wherever the vault is stored; with a zero-knowledge design the vendor cannot read the vault either way, so this column is about the company, not the encryption. "Data location" records where the encrypted vault is stored.

## Articles

- [Best Password Manager for UK Small Business in 2026: Proton Pass Wins, 1Password Sets the Standard, and What the LastPass Fine Tells You](https://saaskly.com/comparisons/best-password-manager-2026.md): Comparison. We compared eleven password managers on what a team really pays per user, on both billing bases and with single sign-on counted, on whether the vendor has been breached and what it did next, on where the company and the vault sit, and on the 2026 essentials: passkeys, two-factor codes in the vault, hardware keys, a CLI, an API and an MCP server. Proton Pass wins on jurisdiction, open code and price; 1Password is the business benchmark; Bitwarden is the open-source choice. Keeper, NordPass and Zoho Vault have pound price lists. LastPass is last, and the £1.2 million ICO fine explains why.

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Researched and drafted with AI assistance; reviewed and approved by Tim Meredith. See https://saaskly.com/ai-transparency.md and https://saaskly.com/editorial-policy.md.

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