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How tigerpassword compares — on price, features and security
The same questions asked of every manager people leave for us: what does it cost over the years you will keep it, who holds your vault, what protects it, and what can it do. Where the other product is better, this page says so.
Checked September 2026. Competitor prices are list prices in US dollars for yearly billing, taken from each vendor's own pricing page; features come from their documentation, linked under Sources. Our prices are the planned campaign prices. Spot a mistake? Tell us and we will fix it.
Price — one payment against a subscription
A subscription is a small number that never stops. The five-year columns assume today's list price with no increases, which is generous to the subscriptions.
| Manager | One person, per year | Family, per year | One person, five years | Family, five years | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tigerpassword | $59once — planned; early bird $39 during the Kickstarter | $99once, 5 people — planned | $59 | $99 | No free tier; licenses arrive with 1.0 |
| 1Password | $47.88$3.99 a month; $2.99 the first year for new customers | $71.88$5.99 a month, 5 people | $239.40 | $359.40 | 14-day trial |
| Bitwarden | $19.80Premium, $1.65 a month | $47.88Families, $3.99 a month, 6 people | $99 | $239.40 | Yes — unlimited passwords, one user |
| LastPass | $36Premium, $3 a month | $48Families, $4 a month, 6 people | $180 | $240 | Yes — one device type |
| Dashlane | $59.88Premium, $4.99 a month | $89.88Friends & Family, $7.49 a month, 10 people | $299.40 | $449.40 | No — the free plan ended in September 2025 |
| Proton Pass | $23.88Pass Plus, $1.99 a month | $59.88Pass Family, $4.99 a month, 6 people | $119.40 | $299.40 | Yes |
| KeePassXC | $0free, open source, donations welcome | $0free | $0 | $0 | Everything is free |
tigerpassword's numbers are one payment for all 1.x versions on every platform; "family" is five lifetime licenses. Taxes may apply by country. The pricing page has every tier.
Feature by feature
Read the words, not just the marks: a tilde means "yes, with a condition", and the condition is written in the cell.
Yes With a condition No Not applicable
| What | tigerpassword | 1Password | Bitwarden | LastPass | Dashlane | Proton Pass | KeePassXC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where your vault lives | |||||||
| A server holds your vaultWhose breach would be your breach. | No server at all | 1Password’s servers | Bitwarden’s servers, or one you host | LastPass’s servers | Dashlane’s servers | Proton’s servers | No — a file you keep |
| Account required | None | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | None |
| Sync through your own cloudGoogle Drive, OneDrive, iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Syncthing, any folder. | Yes — any of them | No | No | No | No | No | Yes, by copying the file yourself |
| Self-host | Nothing to host | No | Yes | No | No | No | Nothing to host |
| Works with no internet at all | Always | Cached copy | Cached copy | Cached copy | Cached copy | Cached copy | Always |
| Source code | Not published; design documents go to auditors | Closed | Open | Closed | Closed | Open clients | Open |
| Security | |||||||
| A second secret on top of your master passwordSo a stolen vault file is useless even if the password was weak. | 128-bit Secret Key | Secret Key | No | No | No | No | Optional key file or hardware key |
| Unlock the vault with a hardware security keyA FIDO2 key in place of the password, not merely as a second factor. | Yes (FIDO2, on desktop) | As a second factor | As a second factor (Premium) | As a second factor (Premium) | As a second factor | As a second factor | Yes (challenge-response) |
| Seed phrases checked word by wordAgainst the BIP-39 word lists, checksum included; SLIP-39, Electrum and Monero recognised. | Yes, with the checksum | Wallet item, not verified | Notes only | Notes only | Notes only | Notes only | Notes only |
| Seed phrases never autofilled or searchable | Yes, by design | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Breach check that never sends the passwordThe k-anonymity range check against Have I Been Pwned. | Yes, matched on your device | Watchtower | Full reports on Premium | Dark-web monitoring | Dark-web monitoring | Dark-web monitoring on Plus | Yes (HIBP) |
| Independent security audit | Not yet — the Kickstarter funds it | Yes, published | Yes, yearly | SOC 2 and ISO 27001; a 2022 breach exposed encrypted vault copies | SOC 2 Type II | Yes, published (Cure53) | Open source; no regular audit programme |
| Backups | Always encrypted, scheduled, to your folder, WebDAV, S3 or SFTP | The vendor keeps the copy | The vendor keeps the copy; encrypted export | The vendor keeps the copy | Encrypted export file | The vendor keeps the copy; encrypted export | You copy the file |
| Features | |||||||
| Platforms | Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, extension, CLI | Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android, extension | Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android, extension | Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, extension; Linux through the browser | Web app and extension, Mac, iPhone, Android | Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android, extension | Mac, Windows, Linux; phones through third-party apps |
| Passkeys — save and sign in | Extension and Android; iPhone and Mac | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Desktop, through the browser extension |
| One-time codes (TOTP) in the vault | Yes | Yes | Premium | Separate authenticator app | Yes | Plus | Yes |
| Encrypted attachments | Inside the vault | 1 GB | Premium, 1 GB | Premium, 1 GB | 1 GB | Paid plans | Inside the database |
| Face or fingerprint unlock on phones | iPhone yes; Android on the roadmap | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Third-party apps |
| Imports from other managers | LastPass, 1Password, Bitwarden, KeePass, browsers, CSV, wallet files | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sharing with other people | Not yet | Yes | Two people free; more on Families | One-to-many on Premium | Yes | Limits on Free | No |
| Emergency access | Printed Recovery Kit | Families: recovery by the organiser | Premium | Premium | Withdrawn; an export workaround | Through the Proton account | No |
| Lossless export — you can always leave | Documented format | 1PUX, CSV | JSON, CSV | CSV | CSV, encrypted DASH | JSON, CSV, PGP | XML, CSV |
"Premium", "Plus" and "Families" name the paid plan the feature needs. tigerpassword rows marked with a tilde are honest about what waits on signed builds: the code is written, the store builds are not out.
Where the others are better
- Bitwarden is free for most people, open source, self-hostable, and audited every year. If those four matter more than a server-free design, it is the right choice — our full comparison says so at length.
- 1Password has been audited repeatedly, has the most polished family sharing and admin tools, and its Secret Key design is the one ours resembles. The full comparison.
- LastPass has the cheapest family plan of the hosted services and dark-web monitoring on the free tier.
- Dashlane covers ten people on one family plan and bundles a VPN.
- Proton Pass is the cheapest paid hosted plan, has open-source clients and a published audit, and adds email aliases the others do not.
- KeePassXC is free, open source and local — the closest relative to tigerpassword's design. What it lacks is the part we spent the years on: first-party phone apps, autofill everywhere, cloud sync built in, and seed phrases as a real type.
Where tigerpassword is better
- No server, no account, no breach surface. The vault is a file on your devices, synced through cloud storage you already have; what lands there is ciphertext and a signed manifest.
- Pay once. $59 planned for every platform and all 1.x updates, against $48–$60 a year for the hosted services.
- A Secret Key on top of your password, so a stolen file, sync blob or backup still faces 2128 work. Only 1Password does the same.
- Hardware keys unlock the vault, not just the login page. Only KeePassXC comes close.
- Seed phrases done properly: checked word by word, never autofilled, never searchable, revealed only on purpose. Nobody else treats them as a type.
- Backups that are always encrypted, to your folder, WebDAV, S3 or SFTP, and a lossless export in a documented format so leaving is always possible.
Questions people ask
Is a one-time license really cheaper?
Over five years a single 1Password plan costs about $239.40 and a family plan about $359.40 at today's prices; tigerpassword's planned lifetime license is $59 once, or $99 for five people. Bitwarden and Proton Pass are cheaper per year than most, and KeePassXC is free — the table shows every number.
Why is there no free tier?
Because there is no server to give away a slice of. A license pays for the years of updates once; the comparison pages and switch guides show what you get before you pay, and packaged builds arrive with 1.0.
Is it a problem that tigerpassword is not open source?
It is a real difference, and the table says so. What we do instead: the threat model, crypto specification and audit scope are written before the marketing and shared with auditors, the command-line tool builds reproducibly, and the independent audit is the headline use of the Kickstarter funds. Until it lands, the security policy asks you not to store real credentials.
How hard is it to move?
Ten minutes for most people: export from the old app, preview the import, commit it, delete the export. There is a guide for LastPass, 1Password, Bitwarden and KeePass, and the same one-line import reads browser CSVs, SafeInCloud and wallet files.
Sources
Checked September 2026. Prices and plan contents change; the vendor's page is the authority.
- 1Password — personal pricing; about the Secret Key
- Bitwarden — pricing
- LastPass — pricing; TOTPs in the vault (Teams and Business only); the 2022 breach
- Dashlane — pricing; sharing data with a trusted person
- Proton Pass — pricing
- KeePassXC — documentation (passkeys since 2.7.7; YubiKey challenge-response)