Advice Request Is Bitwarden Premium a good purchase?

[CMLew]

Hi,

So far been using Bitwarden and it has been good. Wondered if anyone subscribed to the premium feature too? IS it worth?

thanks!

 

[LM77]

In terms of functionality, the difference between free and paid versions is not all that great - you can attach files (which is somewhat cumbersome, as opposed to other PW managers), and the tools for checking passwords etc. are not all that earthshaking.

That said, for only $10 a year - less than a dollar a month! - and to support what is unquestionably a very worthy project I think that the upgrade is money well spent. Indeed, I am very happy that I upgraded, even though I have lifetime subscriptions to Sticky Password and Enpass.

 

[CyberPanther]

From my brother's experience, he is happy with the premium subscription.
It's worth $10, go for a decent password manager.

 

[Tiamati]

Among the paid PM, 1password is one of the most recommended. Although it's more expensive. BTW, i think Kaspersky PM is exactly the same as 1password (and it's cheaper) , but i can't confirm...

 

[RejZoR]

Bitwarden is really affordable at 10€ a year and developer really cares about it as it's always up to date and perfectly polished. I just have no complaints about it.

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

Yes great product support the development!

 

[Ink]

If a free trial is available, it's worth looking into it.

 

[Ink]

If a free trial is available, it's worth looking into it.

Update to my original comment.

Yes, Bitwarden Premium is 100% worth it. For $10 per annum you get a lot of value compared to its competition.

1Password has a slight advantage if you care for the polished UI and it’s secure by design (secret-key).

 

[simmerskool]

Yes, Bitwarden Premium is 100% worth it. For $10 per annum you get a lot of value compared to its competition.

curious... so I assumed I had a free account because I did not recall paying for bw, so I started to create an account in order to pay and issues developed but not the way I would have expected. I entered the email that I've been using, and it let me proceed, ie, it did not tell me that email already has an account associated with it. So I proceeded to enter my password, and it want more characters, so I added some more and saved the changes in my encrypted space, and then it presented me with login page, and login ERROR So then I entered my original pw and logged in ok, got to my account page, finally got to my subscription page and finally showed that I was "subscribed." Long way around to go nowhere, should have been cutoff when I entered my email... Finding you have premium subscription is "buried" 2 or 3 layers deep. But I did learn something, I'm changing my bw pw...

 

[Ink]

curious... so I assumed I had a free account because I did not recall paying for bw, so I started to create an account in order to pay and issues developed but not the way I would have expected. I entered the email that I've been using, and it let me proceed, ie, it did not tell me that email already has an account associated with it. So I proceeded to enter my password, and it want more characters, so I added some more and saved the changes in my encrypted space, and then it presented me with login page, and login ERROR So then I entered my original pw and logged in ok, got to my account page, finally got to my subscription page and finally showed that I was "subscribed." Long way around to go nowhere, should have been cutoff when I entered my email... Finding you have premium subscription is "buried" 2 or 3 layers deep. But I did learn something, I'm changing my bw pw...

To be frank it's your responsibility to keep tabs on the following:

• Outgoing payments from your bank account(s)
• Registered online account(s)
• Your inbox

The Master Password must be a minimum of 12 characters.

Bitwarden doesn't operate like other companies who constantly remind you to upgrade.

Users can only purchase the Bitwarden Premium membership via the Web Vault [icode[]vault.bitwarden.com[/icode]. N/A via extension or mobile app.

Users of Bitwarden Free (or expired subscription) will see this on their Web Vault landing page, which takes you directly to Subscriptions.

Bitwarden Premium can be found here: Web Vault > Account Settings > Subscriptions

 

[Sandbox Breaker - DFIR]

Off topic... Bitwarden could also be used to communicate for illegal means through two actors using the same bitwarden vault. Communications/Messages can be saved and read within the same account and purged with ZERO records. Not talking about bitwarden send.

 

[simmerskool]

To be frank it's your responsibility to keep tabs on the following:

• Outgoing payments from your bank account(s)
• Registered online account(s)
• Your inbox

The Master Password must be a minimum of 12 characters.

considered me spanked somtimes I forget... I take a few notes every day on stuff I do to pc & online.
ALSO my original Bitwarden premium only had 11 characters as pw and it worked fine for many months; however, I realized not a good idea (& below my normal standards) so that security issue has been fixed. So if bw minimum requires 12 characters, there's a flaw in their signup / registration... That aside, bw seems solid, and I've been enjoying premium, and plan to renew again.