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Besides the pricing, is there any reason to prefer Bitwarden over 1Password? Been happily using 1Password for some years, never had any issues, but maybe I'm glossing over anything? Probably the cli interface (`op`) is the one feature I couldn't live without today.

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Open-source versus proprietary and the option to self-host are the two that immediately come to mind.

I can't speak about the other password managers, but 1Password's architecture ensures even 1Password can't see any of your credentials. It's E2E Encrypted.

I've been a 1Password user for over a decade. It's user friendly, and I'd rather not have the responsibility to self-host my company and extended family's credentials.

Bitwarden is also a zero knowledge architecture built on E2EE; I would presume that is the standard in the industry.

They both do e2ee so they cannot read your secrets server-side, which is the standard.

Critically though, Bitwarden is open source, meaning that if the encryption is weakened, it would be noticed in the source.

With 1Password the clients are closed source: you have to trust the company to encrypt the secrets properly and an (malicious or accidental) change of the encryption cannot be detected by the user.

After Lastpass's fiasco around encryption, I don't feel like blindly trusting another company.

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