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Bitwarden
Open-source password manager with a generous free tier, for individuals and teams.
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FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
An excellent value choice. Strong security, open source, and a genuinely useful free tier, with cheap business plans and self-hosting. Its admin UX is less polished than premium rivals. Verify current business pricing and whether you'll use the cloud or self-host.
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Should you use Bitwarden?
Use it if budget-conscious teams and individuals. Avoid it if indian teams that need INR billing and a GST invoice, because Bitwarden charges in USD per user with no local pricing.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹164/mo$1.65/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Bitwarden is a it, security & hosting / security & password management for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹164/mo for a GST-registered business ($1.65/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for budget-conscious teams and individuals, and a poor fit if indian teams that need INR billing and a GST invoice, because Bitwarden charges in USD per user with no local pricing.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- The free tier covers unlimited passwords across unlimited devices with sync, which is enough for one person and costs nothing
- The clients and the server are open source and self-hostable, so an organisation can keep the vault on its own infrastructure
- Teams at $4 and Enterprise at $6 per user a month are published flat rates with no seat minimum
The catch
- Business plans are billed annually only, so there is no monthly option for testing the product across a real team first
- SSO through SAML or OIDC requires the Enterprise plan at $6 per user, a 50 percent step up from Teams for that one capability
- Premium rose from $9.99 to $19.80 a year in January 2026, a 98 percent increase announced inside a blog post about new features
- Existing subscribers heard about the new rate roughly 15 days before renewal, in an email quoting $1.65 a month rather than the annual total
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹164
Bitwarden advertises $1.65/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹164 a month (₹1,965/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹193 a month.
- Sticker price
- $1.65/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹164
- Registered per year
- ₹1,965
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹193
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Free plan (unlimited passwords, 1 user). Personal Premium from $1.65/mo; Families adds users. Business tiers (Teams, Enterprise) are billed per user and cost more. USD-billed, so add forex and GST for India. Confirm on vendor site.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Bitwarden fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
How Bitwarden compares
Against the 4 other password manager toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 4 others, and for Bitwarden.
- Password generator
- Encrypted password vault
- Secure credential sharing
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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Audit my stackOverview
What is Bitwarden?
Bitwarden is an open-source password manager offering encrypted vaults, secure sharing, and admin features, with a notably generous free tier and low-cost paid plans, plus a self-host option. It targets individuals and budget-conscious teams that want strong security affordably.
Best for
- Budget-conscious teams and individuals
- Open-source/self-host preferrers
- Businesses wanting affordable security
Who should avoid it
- Indian teams that need INR billing and a GST invoice, because Bitwarden charges in USD per user with no local pricing
- Small businesses that want to pay monthly while evaluating, because Teams and Enterprise are annual commitments with no monthly billing option
What Bitwarden does
What we verified about Bitwarden
Read from Bitwarden’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed41
- Username generator
- Username generator sits alongside the password generator in free tools
- Sso saml
- Passwordless SSO integration is an Enterprise-tier capability
- Self hosting
- The server application can run on your own network compatible with all clients
- Secure credential sharing
- Organisations and collections let teams share credentials securely
- Scim provisioning
- Automated provisioning via SCIM is included from the Teams plan
- Passwordless login
- Passkeys authenticate and decrypt without needing the master password
- Password generator
- Username and password generator is a free core feature
- Passkey management
- Passkey management and usage is included in every Bitwarden account
- Mobile app
- Mobile apps ship with every plan including the free tier
- Encrypted password vault
- Core product is a zero-knowledge end-to-end encrypted credential vault
- Directory sync
- Directory Connector synchronises an existing directory from the Teams plan
- Desktop app
- Desktop applications are part of the free core feature set
- Browser extension
- Core features list browser, mobile and desktop apps on all accounts
- Account recovery
- Enterprise admins can recover a user who forgot their master password
- Collections
- Families and business plans use unlimited collections to organise shared items
- Credential reassignment on offboarding
- Centralised ownership lets admins reassign items during employee transitions
- Credential risk remediation
- Access Intelligence guides employees to update passwords and measures improvement
- Duo two factor
- Two-step login options include Duo, email and an authenticator app
- Email alias generation
- Generator connects to email forwarding services to create aliases
- Emergency access
- Premium lets you designate emergency contacts who can request vault access
- Encrypted export
- Encrypted vault export is listed as a free core capability
- Encrypted file attachments
- Premium gives 5 GB of encrypted attachment storage, expandable for a fee
- Enterprise policies
- Enterprise policies are listed as a top business feature in the navigation
- Event logs
- Teams plan adds activity audit through event logs
- Granular access control
- Enterprise adds granular access control over member roles and permissions
- Hardware key 2fa
- Premium supports up to 10 hardware security keys plus Yubico OTP
- Integrated totp authenticator
- Premium adds six-digit timed passcode generation inside the vault
- Passphrase generator
- A dedicated passphrase generator is listed among the free tools
- Password coaching alerts
- At-risk passwords are flagged in place with guidance to update them
- Passwordless dev sdk
- Passwordless.dev lets developers add passkey login in a few lines of code
- Password strength tester
- A password strength testing tool is offered publicly and free
- Phishing protection
- Built-in phishing protection is listed as a core feature on all accounts
- Secrets manager
- A separate end-to-end encrypted secrets product exists for DevOps teams
- Secure file sharing
- Bitwarden Send transmits text and files end-to-end encrypted even to non-users
- Shadow it discovery
- Access Intelligence uncovers shadow IT and prioritises critical applications
- Standalone authenticator app
- Bitwarden Authenticator is offered as a separate product in the nav
- Store cards and identities
- Core features include storing notes, credit cards and identities
- Unlimited passwords
- Every account including free stores unlimited passwords on unlimited devices
- Unshared item reporting
- Reporting covers employees' unshared items, not just shared vault content
- Vault health reports
- Reports flag weak, reused or exposed passwords for Premium and Families
- Vault import
- Passwords, passkeys, secrets and cards import from other managers in a few clicks
What people use it for3
- Deflect support tickets
- Business page names IT admins reducing password reset tickets as a buyer
- Pass a security audit
- Regulated companies needing to meet client security and compliance requirements are targeted
- Eliminate shadow it
- Growing businesses centralising credentials to eliminate shadow IT is a stated segment
Works with3
- Yubikey
- Two-step login supports hardware keys and Yubico OTP specifically
- Microsoft azure
- Server infrastructure runs on Microsoft Azure managed services
- Duo security
- Duo is a named two-step login provider on Premium and Families
Terms, compliance and how you buy33
- Sso gated to enterprise
- SAML and OIDC SSO require the Enterprise tier, a 50 percent step up from Teams
- Self serve signup
- Get Started Free and Start Free Trial buttons need no sales conversation
- Self hostable
- Self-hosting is offered on Premium, Families and the Enterprise tier
- Open source
- Source code is publicly available for researchers to inspect and verify
- Hipaa compliant
- HIPAA is listed among the validated compliance standards
- Gdpr compliant
- Third-party audits validate GDPR compliance per the business page
- Ccpa compliant
- CCPA appears in the audited compliance list on the business page
- Budget priced
- Teams at 4 and Enterprise at 6 dollars per user undercut premium rivals
- 24x7 support
- 24/7 email support for everyone with priority support for paid users
- Annual billing only on paid plans
- Every paid price is stated as based on an annual subscription
- Community forum support
- A public community forum and courses supplement vendor support
- Fast deployment
- Vendor claims 83 percent of enterprise customers go live in days not months
- Free business trial
- Both Teams and Enterprise offer a self-serve free trial start
- Free families plan for enterprise users
- Enterprise includes a free Families plan for every covered user
- Free forever plan
- Basic password management is described as always free
- Less polished admin UX
- Our verdict notes admin UX is less polished than premium rivals
- Msp programme
- Solutions navigation includes a dedicated For MSPs offering
- No indian language UI
- Language selector lists nine western and Japanese locales, no Indian language
- No INR billing
- Only USD pricing is published, so Indian buyers add forex and GST
- No monthly billing for business
- Teams and Enterprise show only per-user annual rates with no monthly option
- No seat minimum
- Business plans publish flat per-user rates with no stated minimum seats
- Priority support for all business roles
- Priority support covers any member of a Teams or Enterprise plan regardless of role
- Public bug bounty
- A bug bounty program is listed under security and trust
- Published security whitepaper
- A Bitwarden Security Whitepaper is published in the trust section
- Quote only for large orgs
- Companies with hundreds or thousands of employees must contact sales
- Runs on microsoft azure
- FAQ says Bitwarden uses Microsoft Azure managed services for infrastructure
- Short notice price change
- Existing subscribers heard of the new rate roughly 15 days before renewal
- Soc2 audited
- Independent audits validate compliance with SOC 2 among other standards
- Steep premium price increase history
- Personal Premium rose from 9.99 to 19.80 a year in January 2026
- Usd billed
- Pricing page states prices are shown in USD, taxes not included
- Vertical solution pages
- Solutions exist for healthcare, financial services, law firms, agencies and government
- Widely adopted by businesses
- Vendor claims trust from over 80,000 businesses worldwide
- Zero knowledge encryption
- Data is encrypted locally before reaching servers and only you hold keys
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Pricing caveat and source trail
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Free plan (unlimited passwords, 1 user). Personal Premium from $1.65/mo; Families adds users. Business tiers (Teams, Enterprise) are billed per user and cost more. USD-billed, so add forex and GST for India. Confirm on vendor site.
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Does Bitwarden give a GST invoice in India?
Bitwarden does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Bitwarden good for Indian small businesses?
Bitwarden can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Bitwarden have a free plan?
Bitwarden lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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