The project's own repository on GitHub — AGPL-3.0 licensed, no licence fee and no commercial tier — read on 24 August 2026.
Vaultwarden is a Bitwarden-compatible server you run yourself, licensed AGPL-3.0, with no licence fee and nothing sold on top. Its own repository describes it as an “Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust”. It is not a Bitwarden product and Bitwarden does not charge for it, which is why it appears on this ledger at $0.00 and why that figure needs a footnote.
The footnote is the server. If it runs on hardware you already own and already leave switched on, the marginal annual cost really is close to nothing. If you rent a virtual server to host it, that rental is your annual bill for a password manager, and you should hold it up against $19.80 before calling this the cheap option.
One piece of fine print worth having: vaultwarden.net is not the project. It is a community-run public instance whose own front page says so, in as many words.
Bitwarden Premium is $19.80 a year with no discount attached to it. 1Password's advertised price is a first-year rate, and the vendor's own footnote says so. Here is the ledger, the family-plan break-even, and the three prices we could not read at all.
This is a price record, not a review. We do not rate the product, we track what it charges. The method is on how we check prices; mistakes end up in the corrections log.