Swiss-encrypted passwords with a free tier that's actually usable.
1Password Individual: $47.88/year · Proton Pass: $0 free, or $1.99/mo (~$23.88/year) for Plus · You keep: $24–$48/year
1Password has never had a free tier, and in March 2026 it quietly raised the Individual plan from $2.99 to $3.99 a month — $47.88 a year to keep your own passwords. Proton Pass, from the Swiss privacy company behind Proton Mail, gives you unlimited logins, unlimited devices, unlimited passkeys and 2FA codes for exactly nothing. The reason to switch in one sentence: you stop paying a subscription to access credentials you created.
The day-to-day is indistinguishable. Cross-platform desktop and mobile apps, browser extensions with autofill, passkeys, built-in TOTP two-factor codes, encrypted notes and cards, and secure sharing all ship in Proton Pass. The clients are open source and have been independently audited. It even throws in 10 hide-my-email aliases (via SimpleLogin) on the free plan — a genuine privacy feature 1Password doesn’t offer natively.
1Password’s ecosystem is deeper: more third-party integrations, a longer track record, and richer business/vault tooling if you run a company. You can’t self-host Proton Pass’s sync server — you trust Proton’s cloud, albeit end-to-end encrypted, rather than your own box. And a few conveniences (breach-monitoring reports, more aliases) live behind the $1.99 Plus tier. For most individuals none of this bites; for a security team with 1Password wired into everything, weigh it.
About half an hour. Export your 1Password vault to CSV, import it into Proton Pass, and you’re done — logins, notes and cards come across in one pass. Passkeys are the only manual bit: you re-enroll them per site, which takes a minute each and only matters for the handful of accounts that use them. Effort: low.