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by teej 1623 days ago
“Totally free” is not a benefit. I want a transactional relationship with a company that will compel them to help me when things go wrong.
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You have the option of paying for BitWarden if you prefer :)

But everyone that I know that uses it, hosts their own anyway (I don't agree with Moxie's thing of "people don't want to host their own servers and never will - clearly not true for some people). But that was beside the point anyway, open server design means you can choose who runs your server for you.

They have compelling premium plans fairly cheap. In my opinion it's a more trustworthy relationship because their software is open source and is fairly straight forward to host yourself if they start misbehaving. No such option on most alternatives.
I'd be ok paying for BW, the issue for me is not knowing what's going to happen if they close down or decide to pull a LastPass. So I've transferred my stuff to KeepassXC and been pretty happy with the ux. Having to deal with syncing the password database across devices is a bit of a pain but it's one of the things I absolutely need control over.
Try 1Password - Great app and I can vouch that they help you when things go wrong (because things went wrong for me and they went above and beyond to help).
Previous commenter should have said "freemium" instead