Password managers for small teams: 13 plans priced at 6 sizes

A 10-person team pays $239 a year for Proton Pass Essentials, $480 for Bitwarden Teams, $1,079 for 1Password Business and $1,320 for LastPass Business Max. We read the business pricing pages of six vendors on October 31, 2026. Then we ran their list prices through one script for teams of 3 to 50 people.

Price is the easy part. The cheap tiers differ in what they leave out: single sign-on, shared team folders, or an admin’s way to get a locked-out colleague back in. That last one decides whether a forgotten master password costs a reset or a whole vault. Below are the prices, what each tier drops, and the one setting to switch on before anyone forgets.

Thirteen plans, one table

Most vendors price business plans per user and quote a monthly figure billed yearly; 1Password’s Starter Pack is a flat fee. These are the US dollar list prices for annual billing as each page showed them on October 31, 2026.

Vendor and plan	Per user per month, billed yearly	Seat limits on the page	SSO login
Bitwarden Teams	$4	Unlimited users	No
Bitwarden Enterprise	$6	Unlimited users	Yes
1Password Teams Starter Pack	$24.95 a month flat for 10; extra seats $4.99	Up to 20	No
1Password Business	$8.99	1 user minimum	Yes (Okta, Entra ID and others)
Keeper Business Starter	$2	5 to 10 users	No
Keeper Business	$4	None stated	No
Keeper Enterprise	$6, by quote	None stated	Yes (SAML 2.0)
Dashlane Password Management	$8	None stated	Yes
LastPass Teams	$4.25	Up to 50	Not checked
LastPass Business	$7	Unlimited	Not checked
LastPass Business Max	$11	Unlimited	Not checked
Proton Pass Essentials	$1.99	Minimum 3 users	No
Proton Pass Professional	$4.99	Minimum 3 users	Yes

LastPass’s page printed placeholders such as {LPTeams} instead of prices when we loaded it. Our figures come from the price list inside the page’s own script (main.js): $51, $84 and $132 per user per year. Treat them as unconfirmed until checkout shows them.

Keeper shows $6 for Enterprise but sends buyers to “Request a Quote”. And LastPass describes its SSO as sign-on to apps, three on Business and unlimited on Max. We did not check whether that covers logging in to LastPass itself through your identity provider, so we left that column open.

Monthly billing costs more where we checked it, on Proton’s page. It showed Essentials at $4.99 per user billed monthly against $1.99 billed yearly, and Professional at $6.99 against $4.99.

What a year costs at six team sizes

Guess which plan is cheapest for a three-person team that wants to share passwords. It is Proton Pass Essentials at $72 a year, because its three-user minimum is $23.88 per seat. Here is the full run, at list prices without discounts or tax.

Plan	3 users	5 users	10 users	15 users	25 users	50 users
Bitwarden Teams	$144	$240	$480	$720	$1,200	$2,400
Bitwarden Enterprise	$216	$360	$720	$1,080	$1,800	$3,600
1Password Teams Starter Pack	$299	$299	$299	$599	n/a	n/a
1Password Business	$324	$539	$1,079	$1,618	$2,697	$5,394
Keeper Business Starter	n/a	$120	$240	n/a	n/a	n/a
Keeper Business	$144	$240	$480	$720	$1,200	$2,400
Keeper Enterprise	$216	$360	$720	$1,080	$1,800	$3,600
Dashlane Password Management	$288	$480	$960	$1,440	$2,400	$4,800
LastPass Teams	$153	$255	$510	$765	$1,275	$2,550
LastPass Business	$252	$420	$840	$1,260	$2,100	$4,200
LastPass Business Max	$396	$660	$1,320	$1,980	$3,300	$6,600
Proton Pass Essentials	$72	$119	$239	$358	$597	$1,194
Proton Pass Professional	$180	$299	$599	$898	$1,497	$2,994

“n/a” means the plan does not sell at that size: Keeper’s Starter covers 5 to 10 users, 1Password’s Starter Pack tops out at 20. 1Password’s flat pack is the odd one. At $299.40 a year it costs the same for 3 people as for 10, so it beats 1Password Business from 3 users up. At 3 users Bitwarden Teams and Keeper Business both cost $144.

If you need SSO, the order changes. Among plans with SSO login, Proton Pass Professional was cheapest at every size we ran, at $599 for 10 users. Bitwarden Enterprise and Keeper Enterprise tied next at $720, ahead of Dashlane at $960 and 1Password Business at $1,079.

The cheap tiers leave out the features that hurt to lack

The price gap between tiers buys specific things, and they are listed on the same pages.

• Bitwarden Teams has unlimited sharing through collections and event logs, plus directory sync and SCIM. Its comparison table marks SSO, policies, custom roles, the free Families plan and the “Account recovery workflow” as Enterprise only.
• 1Password Teams Starter Pack shares vaults and allows 5 guest accounts against 20 on Business. Business adds identity-provider integration with Okta, Entra ID, OneLogin and Duo, and a free Families plan for each user.
• Keeper Business Starter lists “Credential sharing and autofill” but not shared team folders; those start at Business along with delegated administration and a free family plan. Enterprise adds SCIM and SSO, plus role-based access control.
• Proton Pass Essentials shares vaults and items, and can share by link. Professional adds SSO and SCIM, plus activity logs and group sharing.
• LastPass Business adds LastPass Families for employees, with 5 extra licenses each, and lifts the 50-user cap of Teams.

Each vendor offers a free trial on at least one business plan, 14 days where the page gives a length. A missing feature is cheap to find before you pay. Bitwarden also lets two people share for free: its page lists “Free sharing with another user” as a core feature of every account.

Account recovery has to be set up before anyone forgets

A password manager encrypts the vault with a key derived from each user’s master password, which the vendor does not know. LastPass said it plainly in its 2022 breach notice: the master password “is never known to LastPass.” So when an employee forgets theirs, the vendor cannot help. What can help is an admin recovery feature, and where the docs say how it works, it has to be set up before the password is lost.

• Bitwarden: “Account recovery is available for Enterprise organizations,” per its help page. An admin turns on the Account recovery administration policy, and members who joined before it was on must enroll.
• 1Password: team owners, administrators and custom groups with the “Recover Accounts” permission can recover members, per its support page, which names no plan restriction. It advises: “Make sure at least two family or team members can recover accounts.”
• Dashlane: admin-assisted recovery is on by default, but each member must acknowledge it in the web app first. It “isn’t available to plan members using single sign-on (SSO),” and it does not work for a member who turned it off before forgetting, per its support page.
• LastPass: a policy lets super admins reset master passwords. A 2019 LastPass help post says to turn it on before onboarding. Until a user logs in after the policy is enabled, the admin cannot use that user’s recovery key.
• Keeper: we found an Account Transfer policy that moves a departed user’s vault to another user and deletes the original account. It “must be configured prior to the user’s account being transferred,” and the user must have logged in once since. We did not find an admin reset of a master password in what we read.
• Proton Pass: we did not check its business recovery options for this piece.

This is where we think the money is best spent. A team that standardizes on Bitwarden Teams to save $2 per user a month gives up the one feature that rescues a vault when a key person forgets or leaves.

What the LastPass breach showed about a vault’s limits

LastPass’s December 22, 2022 notice said an attacker copied a backup of customer vault data. Website usernames and passwords were encrypted, as were secure notes and form data. Website URLs were not, and neither were company names, end-user names, billing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and the IP addresses customers used. The notice gave the default key derivation as 100,100 iterations of PBKDF2 and warned that weaker master passwords would need fewer guesses to crack.

Its March 1, 2023 update said the attacker “targeted a senior DevOps engineer by exploiting vulnerable third-party software.” The haul also held a backup of the MFA and federation database, with copies of LastPass Authenticator seeds. That database was encrypted, but its key was among the stolen secrets.

In December 2025 the UK Information Commissioner’s Office fined LastPass’s UK subsidiary £1.2 million, about $1.6 million, as reported by The Record. The breach affected up to 1.6 million UK users. The ICO found no evidence that customer passwords were decrypted, per the same report.

Two lessons carry to any vendor. Encryption protects only the fields a vendor encrypts, so ask which ones it stores in plain text, URLs included. And the master password is the last line, so a long one plus a team policy that enforces it matters whichever brand you pick.

What this means for you

The decision is which missing feature you can live with, then the price.

1. Under 10 people, no identity provider: Proton Pass Essentials ($23.88 per user a year), Bitwarden Teams ($48) and Keeper Business ($48) cover sharing. Bitwarden Teams has no admin account recovery, Keeper offers vault transfer rather than a reset, and we did not check Proton, so test recovery during the trial.
2. Up to 20 people on 1Password: the Starter Pack’s flat $299.40 beats per-seat Business until you need SSO or the free Families plan.
3. You sign in through an identity provider such as Okta or Entra ID: price the SSO tiers only. Proton Pass Professional is cheapest on list price; Bitwarden and Keeper Enterprise cost $72 per user a year, Dashlane $96 and 1Password Business $107.88. Note that Dashlane’s admin-assisted recovery does not cover SSO users.
4. On the day you set it up: turn on the recovery or transfer policy before inviting anyone, make at least two admins, and have every member log in once after.

If your team is also leaving Arc, our piece on the Arc browser shutdown says to move saved passwords into a password manager first. And a password manager is one more renewal to track; our subscription finder script flags it on the card statement.

How we made this

We read the business pricing pages of Bitwarden, 1Password, Keeper, Dashlane, LastPass and Proton, and the recovery and breach documents listed below, on October 31, 2026; some pages were loaded in a headless browser because their prices only appear after scripts run. We wrote a short Python script that applies each plan’s list price and seat limits to teams of 3, 5, 10, 15, 25 and 50 users and ran it that day. We did not buy or trial any plan, so the feature lists are the vendors’ own claims, LastPass’s prices come from its page script rather than a displayed price or checkout, and we did not ask for quotes or volume discounts.

Sources

• Bitwarden, Business pricing and About Account Recovery, read October 31, 2026
• 1Password, Business pricing and Recover accounts for family or team members, read October 31, 2026
• Keeper, Business pricing and Account Transfer Policy, read October 31, 2026
• Dashlane, Pricing and Admin-assisted recovery for members of professional plans, read October 31, 2026
• LastPass, Pricing, its price list in main.js, and Helpdesk 101, April 30, 2019
• LastPass, Notice of Security Incident, December 22, 2022, and Security Incident Update and Recommended Actions, March 1, 2023
• Proton, Proton Pass for business, read October 31, 2026
• The Record, UK fines LastPass over 2022 data breach, December 11, 2025
• 28creation calculation, October 31, 2026: list prices and seat limits from the pages above, applied by a script to six team sizes