Bitwarden vs NordPass: the cheap one is cheap in a different way in every country
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.
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
What the page says
Free
Free
'$0.00/month — For a lifetime.' Only the essential features; the same figure in every market read.
Premium
$1.39/mo
US read 2026-09-06: '$1.39/month'. EU read 2026-09-07: '€1.39/month, Save 53%, + 3 EXTRA months — €80.73 → €37.53 for the first 27 months', so the base is €80.73 ÷ 27 = €2.99 a month.
Family
$2.49/mo
US read 2026-09-06: '$2.49/month'. EU read 2026-09-07: '€2.49/month, Save 58% — €161.73 → €67.23 for the first 27 months', base €161.73 ÷ 27 = €5.99 a month.
Source: https://nordpass.com/plans/ · read 2026-10-01 (UTC) · ⭐ THE DISCOUNT BASIS IS NOW READ (2026-09-07, EU egress): the page strikes a 27-month total and prints the discounted one beside it. The Price column holds the US read; the euro figures and the basis sit in the DE market block. ⚠️ The 1-year and 1-month states did NOT redraw when their controls were clicked — every figure here is the 2-year plan.
What this vendor quotes in each market, as its own page printed it — not one price converted three ways.
Plan
United States USD · 2026-10-01
United Kingdom GBP · 2026-10-13
EU EUR · 2026-10-01
Free
$0
£0
€0
Premium
$1.39
£1.09
€1.39
Family
$2.49
£1.89
€2.49
What the record says
Put the two ladders next to each other and the interesting difference is not the size of the numbers, it is how many numbers there are. Bitwarden's pricing page gave us the same dollar figure whether we asked from Chicago, Manchester or Munich. NordPass gave a different answer to each: $1.39, £1.09 and €1.39 for the same personal plan on the same day.
It is tempting to read those three as one price converted, and they are not. A vendor that converts publishes the same value in local money; a vendor that prices per market picks a number for each one, and the gaps between them do not track any exchange rate. We print all three and rank none, because ranking them means applying a rate — and the rate that matters is the one your card issuer uses on the day you pay, which no pricing page can tell you.
The other gap is a whole row. NordPass's ladder in our reading opens with a plan at $0 before its paid tiers begin. Our Bitwarden reading opens at $1.65. That is a real difference in what we captured, and it is worth being precise about what it means: Bitwarden is widely used without paying, and the fact that no zero-priced row appears in our ladder is a statement about our extraction, not a claim that no free option exists. Where our record is thin we would rather say so than fill the gap in.
For a household the comparison is Bitwarden's family plan at $3.99 against NordPass's at $2.49. Outside the United States those two are quoted in different money again, so the panel above marks the pair as not directly rankable, and the honest reading is each figure against its own currency rather than one against the other.
Across a year the personal plans come to $19.8 and $16.68. Both are small enough that the decision rarely turns on the money — which is precisely why the currency question is worth the space. A conversion fee on a small recurring charge is a larger share of it than the same fee on a large one.
Beyond the price tag
One price, or one per country
Bitwarden returned dollars to every market we read it from. NordPass returned the local currency each time, and a different amount: $1.39, £1.09, €1.39. Read on the dates beside the tables, from the vendors' own pages.
The free row
NordPass's ladder carries a tier at $0. Our Bitwarden ladder starts at $1.65 with no zero-priced row above it. That is what our capture holds; treat it as a gap in the reading rather than a finding about the product.
One person, per year
Bitwarden Premium works out at $19.8 across twelve months; NordPass Premium at $16.68. Each figure is twelve times that vendor's own monthly rate in its own currency — not a conversion of the other.
A household
Bitwarden Families reads $3.99; NordPass Family reads $2.49. Neither page in our reading states how many people it counts, so neither do we.
Why the currency line matters more here than usual
These are among the cheapest subscriptions we track. A foreign-transaction fee is charged as a percentage of a small amount, so it is proportionally the same bite as on a large one — and on a plan of this size it can be a visible fraction of the bill rather than a rounding error.
Questions people actually search
Is NordPass cheaper than Bitwarden?
In the United States both are quoted in dollars and you can compare them directly on the table above. Elsewhere the question needs a conversion rate, because Bitwarden quotes dollars to every market and NordPass quotes local currency — so the answer depends on your bank rather than on either pricing page.
Why does NordPass cost a different amount in Germany and the United Kingdom?
Because it sets a price per market rather than converting one. Our readings hold £1.09 for a British visitor and €1.39 for a German one on the same day. We publish both and rank neither; which is larger in your money is a question for the rate your card issuer applies.
Does Bitwarden have a free plan?
Our reading does not hold one — the ladder we captured begins at $1.65. That is a limit of what we extracted rather than a claim about the vendor's full offering, and it is worth checking the page yourself if a free tier is what decides it. NordPass's ladder does carry a row at $0.
Do these prices include tax?
Neither page in our reading states a tax basis, so we do not state one. What is printed here is the figure the vendor showed a visitor from that country on that date, and nothing has been added to it or taken off.
THE VERDICT, ONE MORE TIME
Our pick, narrowly and on the record alone: NordPass at $1.39 — it bills this edition's reader in their own money and its ladder carries a tier priced at zero.
Two things separate them in what we can check. NordPass's reading holds a plan at $0, so there is a way to use it without paying; our Bitwarden reading begins at $1.65 and holds no zero-priced row. And NordPass quotes the currency of the market it is read from, while Bitwarden's page returned dollars to every country we asked from. Neither point is about which manager is better software — they are about what the bill looks like.
Both ladders were read from each vendor's own pricing page, from five countries in turn, on the dates printed beside each table. The three NordPass figures quoted together in the text are pinned to the markets they were read from, so they stay the same sentence in every edition of this page. Nothing here is converted. The method →
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