NordPass vs Proton Pass: the rare pair you can actually compare like for like
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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.
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
Proton Free
Free
Pass Plus
$4.99/mo
Pass Family
$6.99/mo
Proton Unlimited
$12.99/mo
Source: https://proton.me/pass/pricing · read 2026-10-13 (UTC) · Two separate pages: personal plans at proton.me/pass/pricing and business plans at proton.me/business/pass/pricing. Both carry a Monthly / Yearly switch that opens on Yearly, so the figures shown first are the discounted per-month equivalents with the twelve-month total printed underneath. Proton also sells Pass inside Proton Unlimited, which bundles Mail, VPN, Drive and Calendar for one price — so on this page a password manager and a five-product suite sit in the same table. Read in a browser on the date shown above with the switch clicked both ways on both pages. Prices returned in euros from an EU address.
What this vendor quotes in each market, as its own page printed it — not one price converted three ways.
Plan
United States USD · 2026-10-13
United Kingdom GBP · 2026-10-13
EU EUR · 2026-10-13
Proton Free
$0
£0
€0
Pass Plus
$4.99
£3.99
€4.99
Pass Family
$6.99
£5.59
€6.99
Proton Unlimited
$12.99
£10.39
€12.99
What the record says
Almost every pairing in this category runs into the same wall: one vendor bills dollars to the whole world and the other prices per country, so setting their two figures side by side quietly asks the reader to apply an exchange rate. These two do not have that problem. NordPass and Proton Pass both quoted the local currency to every market we read them from, which means the subtraction on this page is a real number rather than an implied conversion.
On the personal tier the gap is $3.6 a month. Over twelve months that is $43.2 — $16.68 against $59.88. For a household the two family plans read $2.49 and $6.99.
Both ladders open at zero. NordPass's first row is $0 and Proton's is $0, so in each case there is a way to use the manager without paying and the paid tier is an upgrade rather than an entry fee. That is worth stating because it changes what the price difference means: nobody is locked out by it, they are only choosing how much to spend once they have decided to spend anything.
There is one oddity in NordPass's pricing that is not a currency effect at all. Its personal plan reads €1.39 to a German visitor and €1.39 to a French one — the same plan, the same money, €0 apart. Both countries use the euro, so no exchange rate explains it; the vendor has simply set a different number for each market. Our Spanish reading matches the French one.
Proton's ladder is the longer of the two and its top row is doing a different job. $12.99 is not a password manager price — it is the bundle that carries the manager alongside the rest of Proton's services. Comparing it against a standalone manager is comparing a suite to a component, so this page compares the tiers that actually do the same thing and leaves the bundle to be judged against whatever else you would otherwise pay for.
Beyond the price tag
Why the subtraction is allowed here
Both vendors returned the local currency from every market we read: dollars to the United States, pounds to the United Kingdom, euros to Germany, France and Spain. Same money on both sides of the comparison in each edition, so $3.6 is a figure rather than an estimate.
One person
NordPass Premium reads $1.39 and Proton Pass Plus $4.99 — $16.68 against $59.88 across a year.
A household
NordPass Family reads $2.49; Proton Pass Family reads $6.99. Neither reading states the number of people each counts as a family, so neither figure here implies one.
Both start at nothing
NordPass opens at $0 and Proton Pass at $0. A free row on both sides means the price gap decides how much you spend, not whether you can start.
The German euro and the French euro
NordPass Premium is €1.39 in Germany and €1.39 in France — €0 apart in the same currency. Our Spanish read matches France. Nothing about exchange rates explains this one; it is a per-market decision.
What the top tier actually is
$12.99 buys Proton's bundle rather than the password manager on its own. It belongs in a comparison against a whole stack of subscriptions, not against a single manager, which is why this page does not score it.
Questions people actually search
Which is cheaper, NordPass or Proton Pass?
NordPass, at every tier we hold, and unusually the answer holds in every market: $1.39 against $4.99 for one person, a difference of $43.2 a year. Both vendors quote local currency, so this is a straight subtraction rather than a conversion.
Do both have a free plan?
Yes — $0 on NordPass and $0 on Proton Pass, both present in our reading of their ladders. What each free tier limits is a product question the pricing page does not settle, so check the vendor's own description before treating them as equivalent.
Why is NordPass more expensive in Germany than in France?
We do not know why, only that it is: €1.39 against €1.39 on the same day, both in euros, €0 apart. Since both markets use the same currency this is not a conversion artefact — it is a price the vendor set separately for each country.
Is Proton Unlimited worth it instead?
That depends on services this page does not track. $12.99 carries the password manager together with the rest of Proton's suite, so it only makes sense to judge against what you would otherwise pay for mail, storage and a VPN combined. Against a standalone manager it is the expensive answer.
THE VERDICT, ONE MORE TIME
Our pick on the bill: NordPass at $1.39 against Proton Pass at $4.99 — the same job, $43.2 less across a year.
This is one of the few comparisons here where the arithmetic is honest in every market, because both vendors quote the reader's own currency rather than one of them exporting dollars. On price alone NordPass wins at every tier we hold: $1.39 against $4.99 for one person, $2.49 against $6.99 for a household. Both also publish a free row, so neither forces a payment to start.
Both ladders come from the vendors' own pricing pages, read from five countries in turn and dated beside each table. The German and French NordPass figures quoted together are pinned to those markets, so that sentence says the same thing in every edition. Differences on this page are computed from the two figures printed beside them, in one currency, and never across two. The method →
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