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Wish they handled it better, but I knew about this a while ago, and the price is more than reasonable.

A decade without a price hike is extremely generous, especially at how cheap their plan was.

They are a FOSS company that makes a fantastic product I've been happy with for years, I'll gladly pay less than $2 a month to support them. Their server code is licensed with the AGPL, the strongest copyleft license there is, which gives me a lot of confidence.

Worse case scenario, they enshitify down the road, we are protected via the open source implementations. We've seen this many times in the past, Red Hat > Alma & Rocky Linux, Citrix Xen Server > XCP-ng, Terraform > Open Tofu.

Pay for your open source software, folks 💖

20$/year is still cheap compared to other password managers, but yeah, the lack of transparency is worrying.

Selfhost.Vaultwarden.

Bitwarden’s Premium version now costs $20 per year,

This is what you're up in arms about? $1.50 a month?

TIL theres a paid version of Bitwarden.

Get yourself a mini pc or old laptop and control your own future: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Lawl I pay for the yearly thing and I’ve never used any paid features, I just wanted to support them. I’m okay with the price increase, but it definitely would have been nice to have an announcement maybe in December or spending the they’re planning that. I wonder if I’m grandfathered into the same price I’ve been paying? Ehhh too lazy to find out. I’ll pay 20, but yah some transparency or forewarning would have been nice for a lot of peeps.

While the increase is not a huge deal because the total is still cheaper than alternatives, the thing that irks me is how they did indeed just announce it via a blog post titled "Bitwarden launches enhanced premium plan: Complete online security for everyone". This reads like there's going to be free, premium and premium+ at best, and "we are just adding more stuff to the premium" at worst, not implying a price bump, at least to me. I did not get my renewal email yet, so can't confirm whether or not they don't even mention the annual price, but rather just the monthly one. Another thing that kind of bothers me is that they list "Vault health alerts" as a new thing, while it's always been there. While "Phishing blocker" just seems like a feature outside of the scope of a password manager.

All in all, double the price in exchange for x5 more storage and x2 more hardware keys is fine to me, but I hope they improve their communication and actually properly inform users of upcoming pricing changes.

free tier is totally fine for 99% of people. if i want a cloud, i pay for a cloud. hike was totally forseeable. its an ass move tho to birry info in a blogpost noone ever read.

Yeah, not handled well. They're doing slimy corpo bullshit.

On the other hand, I like that they're open source and don't block stuff like vaultwarden.

I hope they can take the extra money and make the product better. Cuz I definitely don't love Bitwarden, but it's a better alternative than 1Password.

Wasn't this announced months ago? I know I heard something about it, probably on here even. Either way 20$ a year for Bitwarden is still well worth it.

Lol for years I have been wanting to switch from KeePass to Bitwarden. Mainly cause the UX/UI felt nice to me.

My initial hesitance was that I didn't love the idea of my passwords being on someone else's servers. But I found out about Vaultwarden. So I kept my eye on it's development and longevity. Now that it's well established, I'd say I trust it now. Next I figured out a way to selfhost without exposing Vaultwarden to the public. Everything seems to be lined up for me to switch.

A few months ago, I decided it was time. After moving my passwords over and getting a flow working, I went to sort by most recent.... Oh wait. You can't sort by date. You can't sort lol I sat with this for a few hours and reverted back to my trusted and working KeePass flow.

EDIT: This is one of the most voted feature requests. Also, it's just table stakes! It's crazy they don't have this feature 😂

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/sorting-options-by-date-of-modification-addition-last-use-etc/2484

I kept procrastinating on self hosting it, but now i will do it tonight and migrate to my own instance.

Problem solved.

TBH, $10/year is a small price not to have to get my wife to change again after lastpass. She is not equipped to deal with enshittification.

The link is from February 1st, about a blog post in January. I clicked here thinking Bitwarden just raised their subscription price again haha.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Time to self host