1Password vs LastPass: one of them bills you in dollars wherever you live
How to read this page: every number below was read from the vendor’s own public pricing page on the date shown, and the pages are re-checked daily. Currencies differ because that is what each vendor showed an EU visitor. Some links on this page are affiliate links — if you subscribe through one we earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. Per our method, that never changes a number or a verdict. Source links always point to the vendor’s plain page.
Prices as this vendor showed them to a visitor in the United States — USD. A reader elsewhere may be quoted a different figure — we publish what we were served, never a conversion.
Plan
Price
Individual
$4.99/mo ($2.99 annual)
Families
$7.99/mo ($4.49 annual)
Source: https://1password.com/pricing/personal · read 2026-10-06 (UTC) · 1Password splits its pricing across three separate pages — Personal, Business and Enterprise — each with its own ladder, and a Monthly / Annually switch on the first two. The switch opens on Annually. The headline personal figures it shows are promotional: the page's own small print reads 'Promotions are limited time discounts available for new 1Password customers only for the first year', and the higher price beside each is struck through in the markup. The standing annual rates are therefore $3.99 and $5.99 per month, not $2.99 and $4.49. Enterprise publishes no price. All figures read in a browser on the date shown above with both switches clicked and all three pages visited.
1Password quotes USD worldwide — identical figures from our United States, United Kingdom and EU readers, read 2026-10-06.
Prices as this vendor showed them to a visitor in the United States — USD. A reader elsewhere may be quoted a different figure — we publish what we were served, never a conversion.
What this vendor quotes in each market, as its own page printed it — not one price converted three ways.
Plan
United States USD · 2026-10-02
United Kingdom GBP · 2026-09-13
EU EUR · 2026-09-13
Premium
$3
£2.6
€2.9
Families
$4
£3.4
€3.9
Teams
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Business
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Business Max
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What the record says
The two pages disagree about something more basic than price: what money you are being quoted in. We fetch each vendor's own pricing page from five countries in turn and record the currency symbol it printed for that visitor. LastPass changed its answer with the country. 1Password did not — the same dollar figure came back from Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom as from the United States.
For a reader outside the United States that is the whole story, and it is not a small one. A dollar price on a euro card is settled at whatever rate the card issuer applies on the day, usually with a foreign-transaction fee stacked on top. The listed price is therefore the floor of what you pay rather than the amount, and nothing on the vendor's page tells you the difference.
It also means the two figures on this page cannot honestly be ranked outside the United States. Setting $4.99 beside $3 only works where both are the same money; anywhere else the comparison needs a rate we do not hold and would not publish if we did. The panel above says so wherever the currencies differ, and we would rather print that than a subtraction the record cannot support.
Inside the United States the two are directly comparable, and there the pages show something worth knowing about how each one advertises. 1Password's US reading carries both billing states: $4.99 a month if you pay monthly, and $2.99 a month if you pay for the year. Our readings from the other four countries returned a single figure rather than both, so we quote one there and do not guess at the other.
The consumer ladders are short on both sides. 1Password publishes two tiers for individuals and families. LastPass publishes those two and three more aimed at teams and businesses; the business tiers appeared in our reading but did not clear the extraction that puts a figure against a plan name, so they are absent from the table rather than free, and we are not going to quote a number we did not gate.
Neither vendor's reading holds a plan priced at zero. That is a statement about what we read, not a claim that no free option has ever existed at either company — where a tier is missing from our record, the honest position is that we did not capture it.
Beyond the price tag
The currency, market by market
LastPass quotes local currency: dollars in the United States, pounds in the United Kingdom, euros in Germany, France and Spain. 1Password quoted us dollars in every market we read it from. Both statements come from the same five-country reading, on the dates shown beside the tables.
One person
1Password Individual reads $4.99; LastPass Premium reads $3. Across a year that is $35.88 against $36 — each figure in its own vendor's currency, which is the caveat rather than the footnote.
A household
1Password Families reads $7.99 and LastPass Families $4. Neither page in our reading states the number of people it counts as a family, so we do not state one either; check it on the vendor's page before you buy on that basis.
Both billing states, where we have them
The United States reading of 1Password printed the monthly rate and the annual-billed rate together: $4.99 against $2.99 a month. That is the clearest single view of what paying yearly buys you, and it is the only market where our reading holds both.
What the business tiers are not
LastPass names Teams, Business and Business Max above its consumer plans. Figures for them appeared in the page we read but did not pass the check that binds a price to a plan, so this comparison stops at the consumer tiers rather than carrying three numbers we could not verify held together.
Questions people actually search
Which is cheaper, 1Password or LastPass?
In the United States, where both quote dollars, you can read it straight off the table: $4.99 against $3 for one person. Outside the United States the question does not have an honest answer from this record, because 1Password quotes dollars and LastPass quotes local currency, and ranking those two requires a conversion rate we do not publish.
Does 1Password charge in euros or pounds?
Not in any reading we hold. We fetched its pricing page from Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom as well as the United States, and it returned dollars every time. If that changes, the figures on this page change with it, because they are read again each day rather than typed once.
Is the price on this page the monthly or the yearly rate?
It is whichever the vendor's page printed for that market on the date beside the table. For 1Password in the United States our reading holds both — $4.99 monthly and $2.99 a month on annual billing — and elsewhere it holds one figure, which we print without asserting which basis it is.
Do either of them have a free plan?
Not in our reading: no plan priced at zero appears on either ladder. That is what we captured rather than a claim about everything the vendors offer, and if a free tier is your deciding factor it is worth checking the page yourself.
THE VERDICT, ONE MORE TIME
Our pick on price alone: LastPass — $3 a month for one person, quoted in the money this edition's reader actually spends.
This verdict is scoped to what the record can settle, which is the bill rather than the software. LastPass Premium reads $3 a month and its family plan $4; 1Password Individual reads $4.99 and Families $7.99. Outside the United States those two columns are not in the same currency, so the useful comparison is not which number is smaller — it is that one of them arrives on your statement converted and the other does not.
Both ladders come from each vendor's own pricing page, read from five countries in turn and dated beside every table. Where the two vendors are quoted in different currencies the page says so and prints no conversion: the rate is your bank's, not ours. A figure missing here is a figure missing from our reading. The method →
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