{
 "name": "1Password",
 "slug": "1password",
 "category": "Passwords & security",
 "verdict": "BUY",
 "headline": "Buy it. You should not build a password manager, and the Teams Starter Pack is $24.95 a month for 10 people.",
 "from_price": "$24.95/mo (annual billing)",
 "free_plan": null,
 "url": "https://buildict.com/build-or-buy/1password/",
 "summary": "A 5-person team pays about $900 over 3 years on the Teams Starter Pack, which covers 10 people for a flat $24.95 a month on yearly billing. Bitwarden Teams at $4 a user saves about $5 a month at 5 people and costs more past 6. Building a team vault would cost about $7,700 over 3 years and puts your company’s passwords in code you wrote yourself.",
 "prices_checked": "2026-10-26",
 "price_confidence": "official",
 "plans": [
  {
   "name": "Teams Starter Pack (10 people included)",
   "monthly_annual_billing": 24.95,
   "monthly_monthly_billing": 29.9,
   "per_seat": false
  }
 ],
 "alternatives": [
  {
   "name": "Bitwarden",
   "kind": "open-source",
   "price": "Free plan; Teams $4/user/mo billed yearly",
   "note": "Cheaper than the Starter Pack up to 6 people, with code you can audit; the apps are plainer than 1Password’s.",
   "url": "https://bitwarden.com/pricing/business/"
  },
  {
   "name": "KeePassXC",
   "kind": "open-source",
   "price": "Free",
   "note": "Free and offline, but it has no built-in sync or team sharing, so you pass a database file around yourself.",
   "url": "https://keepassxc.org/"
  }
 ],
 "downgrade_tip": "A solo user can take 1Password Individual from $2.99 a month on yearly billing, which is the new-customer price.",
 "three_year_cost": {
  "buy": 898,
  "build": 7705,
  "assumptions": "typical plan, 5 seat(s), $30/h"
 },
 "build": {
  "hours": 100,
  "upkeep_hours_per_month": 4,
  "scope": [
   "An encrypted vault for each person, with keys that never leave the browser",
   "Shared vaults with role-based access",
   "A browser extension for autofill",
   "A password generator and breach alerts",
   "An invite flow and admin recovery"
  ]
 },
 "you_would_lose": [
  "Years of security audits and bug fixes",
  "Autofill that works on every site and app",
  "Mobile apps with biometric unlock",
  "Single sign-on, recovery and activity logs for admins"
 ],
 "risks": [
  {
   "label": "Encryption design",
   "level": "high",
   "note": "A mistake in key handling can expose every password you store."
  },
  {
   "label": "Account recovery",
   "level": "high",
   "note": "Lose the master key and the data is gone, while weak recovery lets attackers in."
  },
  {
   "label": "Autofill coverage",
   "level": "medium",
   "note": "Filling logins on every site and app takes years of fixes."
  }
 ],
 "verdict_flips_when": "There is no realistic flip to BUILD. Bitwarden Teams is cheaper only up to 6 people, so switch to it if you want open-source code you can audit or you have a very small team.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "1Password business pricing",
   "url": "https://1password.com/pricing/business"
  }
 ]
}