Premium (paid) plans
What do you get if you choose to pay extra for a premium package?
We’ll get on to what you get for free later on, but if you want to pay for premium features, the trick is to visit each website, examine the prices for different plans, and decide which features you need or can live without. With all of the systems, it’s worth checking out the latest prices before making a decision because there are sometimes special offers, which can be significant for a long-term subscription. To give an example, currently the cheapest NordPass plan (called Personal) is around £32 for two years, thanks to a 50% off offer.
Bitwarden is quite a lot cheaper on its single-user plan than the others. Obviously, prices could increase, but at the time of writing, it’s $10 (about £7.80) a year, which is excellent value. It also adds the ability to attach files, handy for things like scanned documents. However, its business plans are similar in pricing to the other password managers. This means NordPass is cheaper on its cheapest business plan right now, thanks to a sale offer.
In the case of NordPass, RoboForm and Keeper, the lowestpriced plan removes the limitation of access from more than one device. In the case of NordPass, it adds a few things such as features aimed at testing the quality of your password choices and the ability to store files as well as credentials. The NordPass Family plan is good value because it’s just under twice the cost of single-user but offers six user accounts. Bitwarden’s family plan is similar but slightly cheaper, though.
We wouldn’t call the Keeper single-user plan expensive at £2.50 a month, but at £6.00 per month for the family plan, it’s beginning to rack up the costs. Put in the context of overall business costs, none of the Keeper business plans are that expensive, starting at £22 per user per year. With services of this sort, be careful when evaluating the different business plans, because they may list the price as per user rather than for the total cost of the plan.
KeePass 2 doesn’t offer any paid-for premium subscriptions at all. You get everything for free, but some high-end features and many online features aren’t available.