Best Password Manager for Business in 2026

Why the Password Manager Choice Matters for a Business

A personal password manager has one job: remember your logins. A business password manager has a harder job. It has to hold the logins a whole company depends on, let the right people share them, take access away the day someone leaves, and give an admin a record of who did what.

That changes what you should look at. Autofill and a nice app still matter, because people who find the tool annoying go back to spreadsheets and sticky notes. But for a business the deciding questions are usually these:

• Admin console and policies. Can you require a strong master password, enforce two-factor login, and control who can export or share?
• SSO and SCIM. Can employees unlock the vault with your identity provider (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace), and are accounts created and removed automatically when people join or leave?
• Sharing. Can you share a vault or folder with a team, give read-only access, and change it later without resending passwords?
• Recovery. If someone forgets their master password, can an admin get them back in without breaking end-to-end encryption?
• Audits and incidents. What independent audits does the vendor publish, and how has it handled its own security problems?
• Price at real team sizes. A $2 starter plan that stops at 10 users is not the same as an $8 plan that scales to 500.

This guide compares six business password managers on those points: 1Password, Bitwarden, Dashlane, Keeper, NordPass and LastPass. We did not run our own hands-on tests for this article. It is a researched comparison based on each vendor's pricing pages, product pages, help centers and security posts, checked on October 17, 2026.

Comparison Table

Prices are in USD and were checked on October 17, 2026 on each vendor's site. "Self-host" means the vendor offers a version you run on your own servers. Prices change, so confirm on the vendor's pricing page before you buy.

1Password Review

1Password sells personal and business plans built on the same apps, and its business plans bundle most admin features into one tier. The apps are polished, the admin console is clear, and the Business plan bundles most of what a company needs without add-ons.

Key features

• Secret Key: every account is protected by the account password plus a 128-bit Secret Key that 1Password never receives
• SSO unlock and automated provisioning with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta, OneLogin, Rippling and JumpCloud on Business
• Custom policies, vault permissions, custom groups and custom reports on Business
• SIEM streaming to Splunk, Elastic, Sumo Logic and Panther
• Developer tools: SSH key management, Git commit signing, a CLI, SDKs and service accounts for CI/CD

Pricing

• Teams Starter Pack: $24.95 per month billed annually ($299.40 a year) for up to 10 members, which works out to about $2.49 per user. You can add up to 10 more seats at $4.99 per seat/month on annual billing, for a maximum of 20. Monthly billing is also offered.
• Business: $8.99 per user/month billed annually ($107.88 per user a year), or $10.99 per user/month billed monthly. One-user minimum. Also sold through AWS Marketplace. Volume pricing and nonprofit discounts through sales.
• Enterprise Password Manager: quote-based.

Both business plans come with a 14-day free trial with no credit card.

Standout features

The Business plan is where 1Password earns its price. Employees can unlock with your identity provider, and accounts can be provisioned from Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta, OneLogin, Rippling or JumpCloud, so onboarding and offboarding follow your directory. Admins get custom policies, vault-level permissions and custom groups, and Watchtower team alerts flag weak, reused or breached passwords across the company. Every Business user also gets a free 1Password Families plan, which helps keep work and personal logins apart. Business allows 20 guest accounts, against 5 on Teams Starter Pack, and adds phone support. Companies with 101 or more users get a customer success manager and training.

Both business plans include account recovery, so an admin can help a locked-out user without 1Password ever holding the keys. Travel Mode, included with every subscription, removes selected vaults from devices while someone crosses a border, and on Business admins can turn it on or off for team members.

For engineering teams, 1Password's developer tools are a real point in its favor. Service accounts let apps, infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines read secrets without a personal account, with up to 100 service accounts and usage reports.

Security record

1Password's model combines the account password with the Secret Key in a process it calls Two-Key Derivation, plus the Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol for sign-in and AES-256 end-to-end encryption. The point of the Secret Key is that data taken from 1Password's servers could not be unlocked by guessing the account password alone. 1Password holds a SOC 2 Type II report, publishes independent audit results and runs a bug bounty on HackerOne.

Who it is for

Small and midsize businesses that want one plan with SSO, provisioning, policies, reporting and recovery, and that care about how the tool feels for non-technical staff. The Teams Starter Pack suits teams of up to 20 that do not need SSO.

Watch-outs

• No self-hosted option is listed. Data is stored in the region of your billing currency (USD, CAD or EUR).
• The Teams Starter Pack stops at 20 users and has no SSO or provisioning, so most growing teams end up on the $8.99 Business plan.
• Business is one of the more expensive plans in this list.

Bitwarden Review

Bitwarden is the open source option. Its whole codebase is on GitHub, its business plans cost less than most rivals, and it is the only tool here you can run on your own servers.

Key features

• Open source code under AGPL v3 and the Bitwarden License, with a long list of published audits
• SCIM provisioning, Directory Connector and event logs on Teams
• SSO (SAML 2.0 and OIDC), enterprise policies, custom roles and admin account recovery on Enterprise
• Self-hosting on Enterprise, using Docker on Linux or Windows
• Secrets Manager for developer and machine secrets, sold separately

Pricing

• Free: unlimited passwords and devices, sharing with one other user.
• Teams: $4 per user/month billed annually. Sharing, event logs, directory sync and SCIM.
• Enterprise: $6 per user/month billed annually. Adds SSO, enterprise policies, custom roles, admin account recovery, self-hosting, Access Intelligence and a free Families plan for every user.
• Custom quote for large organizations.

Both business plans have unlimited users at a flat per-seat rate and a 14-day free trial. Prices are shown in USD for annual subscriptions, excluding tax.

Standout features

Bitwarden splits identity features across its two plans in an unusual way. SCIM provisioning and Directory Connector are already on the $4 Teams plan, so accounts can follow your directory without paying for Enterprise. Unlocking with your identity provider, policies and admin account recovery need Enterprise. Event logs cover more than 50 event types with timestamps, client type, IP address and user, are kept indefinitely, and can be exported. A public API lets you manage members, collections, groups, event logs and policies.

Every business user also gets Premium features: an integrated authenticator for TOTP codes, Bitwarden Send for sharing text and files, up to 10 hardware keys, vault health reports, emergency access and 5 GB of personal storage plus 5 GB for the organization.

Security record

Bitwarden lists audits by Cure53 (2018 to 2025), the applied cryptography group at ETH Zurich (2025), Unit 42 (2025), Fracture Labs, IOActive (2024), Mandiant (2024) and Insight Risk. It holds ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3, and lists GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA compliance. Anyone can read the code.

Who it is for

Cost-conscious teams, technical teams, and organizations that need to keep the vault on their own infrastructure. Enterprise at $6 is one of the cheapest plans here that combines SSO, SCIM, policies and admin recovery.

Watch-outs

• SSO, policies and admin account recovery are Enterprise only, so the $4 Teams plan is lighter than it first looks.
• Self-hosting needs an Enterprise license for business use and someone to run Docker, updates and backups.
• Bitwarden's appeal is price and openness more than design, so try the apps with non-technical staff during the trial.

Dashlane Review

Dashlane now sells its business product as Omnix, which pairs a password manager with credential risk detection and phishing protection. If your security team worries as much about phishing and shadow IT as about stored passwords, that pairing is the reason to look.

Key features

• Passwords and passkeys with sharing and admin policies
• SSO and SCIM included in the $8 password management package
• Credential Protection: detects credential risk across company domains, including apps outside SSO
• AI phishing detection in the browser with risk alerts
• SIEM, SOAR and IGA integrations on Credential Protection

Pricing

• Omnix Password Management: $8 per user/month billed annually. Passwords and passkeys, sharing, policies, SSO and SCIM. 14-day free trial.
• Omnix Credential Protection: $4 per user/month billed annually, charged at a company-wide rate based on total employees.
• Omnix Enterprise: custom pricing for 50 or more users, bundling both packages with dedicated account management.

Who it is for

Companies that want SSO and SCIM in the base price and are interested in phishing detection and credential risk monitoring from the same vendor.

Watch-outs

• At $8 per user/month it costs about the same as 1Password Business and more than Bitwarden, Keeper or NordPass Enterprise.
• Credential Protection is billed on total employee count, not just password manager users, so check that number.
• There is no small-team starter plan.

Keeper Review

Keeper aims squarely at regulated companies and the public sector. Its base plans are cheap, and it sells a long menu of add-ons that turn the password manager into a wider privileged access platform.

Key features

• Vault and admin console with shared team folders and delegated admin
• SCIM, AD/LDAP integration and SSO (SAML 2.0) on Enterprise
• Advanced 2FA options (Duo, RSA) and role-based access control on Enterprise
• Add-ons for secrets management, privileged session management, remote browser isolation and endpoint privilege management
• SOC 2, ISO 27001/27017/27018, plus FedRAMP High and GovRAMP for its government cloud

Pricing

• Business Starter: $2 per user/month billed annually, for 5 to 10 users. Vault, admin console, sharing and autofill.
• Business: $4 per user/month billed annually. Adds shared team folders, delegated admin, advanced organization structure and a free Family plan for each user.
• Enterprise: $6 per user/month billed annually, via a quote request. Adds SCIM, AD/LDAP, SSO, advanced 2FA, role-based access control and developer APIs.

Business and Enterprise have free trials. Add-ons are priced separately.

Standout features

Keeper's add-on list is the widest here: secrets management, privileged session management, remote browser isolation, endpoint privilege management, dark web monitoring, compliance reporting and Advanced Reporting & Alerts (ARAM). SIEM integration requires ARAM. For US government and contractors, FedRAMP High and GovRAMP authorization in Keeper's GovCloud can decide the matter on its own.

Who it is for

Regulated businesses, government agencies and contractors, and IT teams that want to grow from password management into privileged access from one vendor.

Watch-outs

• SSO and SCIM are Enterprise only, and Enterprise is a quote request even though $6 is listed.
• Reporting with alerts and SIEM streaming need the paid ARAM add-on, so the real bill is often above list price.
• Business Starter only covers 5 to 10 users.

NordPass Review

NordPass has the lowest business list prices in this comparison and offers monthly, 1-year and 2-year terms.

Key features

• Google Workspace SSO, sharing and activity monitoring from the Teams plan
• Password health and data breach monitoring for one domain on Business
• SSO with Entra ID, Microsoft ADFS and Okta, plus provisioning through Entra ID and Okta, on Enterprise
• Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel integrations on Enterprise
• xChaCha20 encryption, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA and a Cure53 audit

Pricing

• Teams: $1.99 per user/month on a 1-year plan, sold only as a 10-user pack ($1.79 on 2 years, $2.49 monthly).
• Business: $3.99 per user/month on a 1-year plan ($3.59 on 2 years, $5.99 monthly). Adds group sharing, folders, password health, breach monitoring for one domain and a Vanta integration.
• Enterprise: $5.99 per user/month on a 1-year plan ($5.39 on 2 years, $7.99 monthly), 5-user minimum. Adds SSO with Entra ID, ADFS and Okta, provisioning, Splunk and Sentinel, and breach scanning for up to 10 domains.

Prices exclude VAT. Business has a 14-day free trial with no card, and there is a 14-day refund window.

Who it is for

Small teams that want a simple, cheap password manager, and Microsoft or Okta shops that want SSO and provisioning at under $6 per user/month.

Watch-outs

• The Teams plan is a fixed 10-user pack.
• Entra ID and Okta SSO and provisioning need Enterprise.
• The lowest prices need a 2-year commitment. Monthly billing costs noticeably more.

LastPass Review

LastPass has a long history in business password management, and its lineup is still complete. Any evaluation now has to include its 2022 security incidents.

Key features

• Admin policies: 25 on Teams, 100 or more on Business
• Directory integrations with Active Directory, Entra ID, Google Workspace, OneLogin and Okta on Business
• Federated login and SIEM integration on Business
• SSO for other apps (3 apps on Business, unlimited on Business Max)
• Dark web monitoring, security dashboard, travel mode, passkeys and FIDO2 passwordless vault login on all business plans

Pricing

• Teams: $4.25 per user/month billed annually, up to 50 users. 25 policies and basic reporting, no SSO, directory integration or SIEM.
• Business: $7 per user/month billed annually, unlimited users. Groups, SIEM, directory integrations, federated login and a Families plan for employees.
• Business Max: $11 per user/month billed annually. Unlimited SSO apps, advanced MFA and AI/SaaS/Web Monitoring & Protect.

All plans have a 14-day trial. LastPass notes that some prices are promotional.

The 2022 incidents

In August 2022 LastPass said an attacker had accessed a development environment and taken source code. On December 22, 2022 it disclosed that the attacker had also copied a backup of customer vault data. Usernames, passwords, secure notes and form data in the vaults were encrypted with AES-256, but website URLs were not, and the attacker also took names, email addresses, billing addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses. In a March 2023 update LastPass said the attacker had targeted a senior DevOps engineer through vulnerable third-party software and accessed backups that included its MFA and federation database. LastPass said no defect in its product caused the incident.

Who it is for

Mainly existing LastPass customers weighing whether to stay, and teams that want password management and simple app SSO in one bill on Business Max.

Watch-outs

• The copied vaults were protected by each user's master password, so weak master passwords from that time are the main risk. LastPass's March 2023 post lists recommended actions for customers.
• Directory integration and SIEM need the $7 Business plan.
• Many security teams will need a written case for choosing it.

Price at 10 and 50 Seats

These are list prices per month on annual billing (1-year plans for NordPass). The first rows for each vendor are the cheapest plan that fits the team size. The SSO row is the cheapest plan that unlocks with Okta or Entra ID.

Over a year at 50 seats, the SSO-ready plans range from about $3,594 (NordPass Enterprise) and $3,600 (Bitwarden or Keeper Enterprise) to $4,200 (LastPass Business), $4,800 (Dashlane) and $5,394 (1Password Business). On monthly billing 1Password Business is $10.99 per user, or $549.50 a month for 50 seats.

Feature Coverage

Admin console and policies. All six have an admin console. 1Password puts custom policies in Business. Bitwarden keeps policies for Enterprise. LastPass gives 25 policies on Teams and 100 or more on Business. Dashlane includes policies in its $8 package, and Keeper adds delegated admin from Business and role-based access control on Enterprise.

SSO and SCIM. Dashlane includes both at its only self-service price. 1Password needs Business. Bitwarden gives SCIM on Teams and SSO on Enterprise. Keeper and NordPass keep identity provider integration for Enterprise (NordPass offers Google Workspace SSO from Teams). LastPass needs Business.

Sharing. All support shared vaults or folders. 1Password has role-based vault permissions on Business, Bitwarden uses collections and groups, Keeper uses shared team folders from Business, and NordPass adds group sharing and folders on Business.

Recovery. 1Password includes account recovery on both business plans. Bitwarden includes admin account recovery on Enterprise, and every business user has emergency access. Check the recovery options of the other vendors in their admin guides during a trial.

Audits and logs. Bitwarden keeps event logs indefinitely on both plans. 1Password, Keeper (with ARAM), NordPass Enterprise and LastPass Business stream events to a SIEM.

Self-hosting. Only Bitwarden.

How to Choose a Business Password Manager

1. Start with your identity provider. If you run Okta, Entra ID or Google Workspace, decide whether you need SSO unlock, SCIM provisioning or both, then find the cheapest plan that includes them. This one step rules out most starter plans.
2. Count seats for next year, not today. Teams plans from 1Password (20), Keeper (10), NordPass (10-user pack) and LastPass (50) all have caps.
3. Decide whether you need to self-host. If policy says the vault must stay on your servers, Bitwarden is the answer.
4. Read the security record. Ask each vendor for its latest SOC 2 report and audits. Read LastPass's own incident posts before deciding.
5. Check recovery before rollout. Locked-out users are a common support request. Make sure admin recovery is on your plan and set up before people forget their passwords.
6. Plan the migration. All of these tools import from the others, usually through a CSV or a vendor export. Attachments and passkeys do not always come across, so test with one team first.
7. Use the trial with real users. Most vendors offer 14 days. Ask a few non-technical staff to save, share and fill passwords. If they struggle, adoption will suffer.

Final Recommendation

For most businesses we would pick 1Password Business. It puts SSO unlock, provisioning, custom policies, Watchtower alerts, SIEM streaming, admin recovery and developer tools into one plan with a one-user minimum, and the Secret Key adds a layer of protection that does not depend on employees choosing perfect passwords. It costs more than most rivals, but you rarely need add-ons.

If price or control matters more, choose Bitwarden. Enterprise at $6 per user/month covers SSO, SCIM, policies and admin recovery, it is the only option you can self-host, and its code and audits are public.

Very small teams can start cheaply on NordPass Teams or Keeper Business Starter, as long as they plan for the jump to Enterprise when SSO becomes necessary. Dashlane makes sense when you also want phishing detection, and Keeper when you need FedRAMP or privileged access add-ons. If you are on LastPass today, read its incident posts, check whether your old master passwords were weak, and decide with that in mind.