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LastPass vs Passbolt
Both do 1 of the same security & privacy tools task. Below is what each says about its own limits and pricing, and how each ranks on signals we can measure or quote.
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LastPass
LastPass is a password manager that secures every login and gives you shadow IT visibility and AI governance across the SaaS and AI tools your employees actually use.
Signals score: 4.0 / 5 · not a hands-on test
Visit www.lastpass.comB
Passbolt
Manage and share passwords securely with Passbolt. Open source, audited and built for teams that need collaboration, compliance and control.
Signals score: 4.1 / 5 · not a hands-on test
Visit www.passbolt.comPricing, limits and privacy
- Free tier
- A: Free plan covers one device type (desktop or mobile, not both). It includes unlimited password storage, autofill, dark web monitoring and sharing one password with one person at a time. No emergency access or hardware MFA keys. Support is self-service only.
- B: Community Edition is free forever, with unlimited users and unlimited instances and community support.
- Paid plan
- A: Premium (1 user), Families (6 users), Plus (1 user, includes LastPass VPN on Windows), Teams, Business and Business Max, all billed annually. The page shows placeholders instead of price amounts, so prices are Not stated. Taxes are added at checkout.
- B: Pro Edition is $4.9 per user per month (EUR 4.5 shown in EUR), billed annually, minimum 10 users, volume discounts after 100 users. Enterprise is custom priced via quote.
- Signup
- A: Not stated. The page does not say explicitly whether an account is needed for the Free plan.
- B: Cloud Site appears to require an account; whether self-hosted use needs one is not stated.
- Watermark
- A: Not applicable.
- B: Not applicable.
- Where files go
- A: Vault data is stored on LastPass servers in encrypted form, encrypted on the device before syncing. Data is transferred to and processed in the United States and other countries. No retention period is stated.
- B: Cloud Site data is hosted in Belgium and Germany, mainly on Google Cloud. Passwords are described as end-to-end encrypted. Terminated cloud account data is purged from backups after 60 days. Where passwords are stored for self-hosted use is not stated.
From each tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them. Sources are listed on each tool's page.
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