Security & privacy tools / Passbolt
Passbolt
Manage and share passwords securely with Passbolt. Open source, audited and built for teams that need collaboration, compliance and control.
Where it stands
4.1 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health4.8 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Facts stated4.2 / 5 · weight 30%
How many of the five facts the tool's own pages state
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Passbolt yet. Facts checked 2026-11-01. How tests work
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Should you use Passbolt?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-01.
A good fit if…
- You want a free option. It states: “Community Edition is free forever, with unlimited users and unlimited instances and community support.”
Check first
Nothing to flag from what we know.
Does: Password manager
Measured signals
4.8 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Passbolt's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 224 ms.
- Security5 / 55 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy, x-frame-options).
- Privacy4 / 51 third-party tracking service found: Google Tag Manager.
- Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
Not enough discussion yet: 4 classified comments from 3 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.
- Positive
“Hi passbolt developer here, the reason for building on top of CakePHP was mostly: - it's been audited multiple time (last in date was by Cure53, financed by mozilla foundation) - convention over configuration - good…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“I don't know if Passbolt is any good, it seems like it is off to a decent start. I've looked into enterprise/team password managers at every company I've worked for in the past 10 years; I've never found an open source…”
Read in the thread
Threads: Passbolt: Self hostable, open source, password manager for teams (2020, 99 comments) · Show HN: Passbolt – open-source password manager for teams (2016, 38 comments) · Passbolt – Open source password manager for teams (2018, 4 comments)
- Free tier
- Community Edition is free forever, with unlimited users and unlimited instances and community support.
- Paid plan
- 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
- Cloud Site appears to require an account; whether self-hosted use needs one is not stated.
- Watermark
- Not applicable.
- Where files go
- 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 the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Pricing, Privacy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
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Compare with: LastPass
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