Bitwarden

What the company sells

Bitwarden sells an open source, end-to-end encrypted password manager that stores, shares and manages the credentials, passkeys and sensitive information used by people, AI agents and machines.

Bitwarden says it serves customers from individuals to large organizations. The company's pages describe business plans for teams and growing companies, and for businesses that need advanced protection and control. Bitwarden Password Manager is described as being for organizations and individuals requiring password security to reduce the risk of breaches, boost productivity, and achieve compliance.

On the business side, the Teams plan includes audit activity with event logs, directory synchronization and provisioning with SCIM. Enterprise policies let an organization set minimum password strength, configure specific features and enforce SSO login. Event logs can be exported or ingested into SIEM software. Large organizations can talk to the company about a tailored plan.

Bitwarden Access Intelligence reports on weak, reused and exposed passwords shared in a Bitwarden organization. It is available to all Bitwarden enterprise subscriptions.

Bitwarden Secrets Manager is for developers and DevOps teams who need to centrally store, manage and deploy secrets. Secrets are organized by project and held in an end-to-end encrypted vault, and each machine or agent can be given its own access token. The Secrets Manager CLI is described as the primary method to deploy secrets into applications, agent workflows and infrastructure. The Secrets Manager page also names GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins integrations and a Kubernetes Operator. A free plan is for solo developers and small projects, with Teams and Enterprise plans above it.

Bitwarden states that it is certified and compliant with SOC II, ISO 27001, GDPR, DPF and HIPAA, and that it undergoes annual third-party audits. Its source code is hosted on GitHub for anyone to review. Its financial services page says Bitwarden provides audit trails and access controls that meet GLBA and SOX requirements.

Bitwarden publishes case studies naming customers such as NASA, AccuRanker, Glovo, University of Toronto Press and Bitdefender. Support is offered 24/7/365, and qualified enterprise customers are assigned a dedicated global accounts manager.

Bitwarden was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. The company says it serves over 80,000 businesses and more than 15 million users in over 180 countries. Bitwarden, Inc is the parent company of 8bit Solutions LLC. Michael Sullivan is Chief Executive Officer and Kyle Spearrin is Founder and Chief Innovation Officer. The company also offers Passwordless.dev for developers building FIDO2 WebAuthn-based passkey authentication.^{[1][4][10][11][12][13][14][15][17][18][19]}

Categories

• Password and secrets vaults for people (primary category)
• Compare Bitwarden with companies in the same categoryside by side

Headquarters

Santa Barbara, United States^[2][9]

Founded

2016^[2][9]

Ownership

Not established from our sources

CISO on record

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Website

bitwarden.com

Products and services

Product names as the company writes them; what each does, in our words, from the company's own product pages. Never how well it does it.

• Enterprise^{[3][4][10][11][12][14][21]}

  A business plan for advanced protection and control.

• Access Intelligence^[3][12][21]

  Reports on at-risk credentials across a Bitwarden organization.

  Access Intelligence reports on weak, reused and exposed passwords shared in the Bitwarden organization. It is available to all Bitwarden enterprise subscriptions.

• Passwordless.dev^[9]

  For developers building FIDO2 WebAuthn-based passkey authentication.

Competitors and alternatives

The other companies on our record filed under the same categories, category by category: first those that lead with that category and share more of Bitwarden's categories, then alphabetical. A list from the record, never a ranking.

• On password and secrets vaults for people, Bitwarden competes with 1Password, LastPass, F-Secure, Keeper Security, McAfee and SecurEnvoy.

What review platforms show

The headline rating and review count each platform showed in public search results on the day we looked, with the link. We do not read or reproduce the reviews, and a rating is the platform's, not ours.

• G2 · 4.6 out of 5^[7]seen November 4, 2026
• Gartner Peer Insights · 4.7 out of 5^[8]seen November 4, 2026

Recent news

Dated company events from the last twelve months, each in one sentence of ours with its source. Newest first.

• September 15, 2026

  Bitwarden announced its commitment to pursue FedRAMP Class D (High) certification for its cloud-hosted Password Manager and Secrets Manager. Business Wire^[6]

• April 22, 2026

  Bitwarden said it identified and contained a malicious package briefly distributed through the npm path for its CLI on April 22, 2026, linked to a Checkmarx supply chain incident. Forbes^[20]

• December 3, 2025

  Bitwarden announced general availability of Access Intelligence for Enterprise plans, giving visibility into weak, reused, or exposed credentials with guided remediation workflows. Bitwarden^[21]

References

Every fact above cites one of these by number. Tier A is the company itself, a regulator or a filing; tier B is trade or business press.

1. [1]bitwarden.comBitwarden · bitwarden.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
2. [2]AboutBitwarden · bitwarden.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
3. [3]Best Password Manager for Business, Enterprise & Personal | Bitwarden | BitwardenBitwarden · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
4. [4]Top Business Password Manager | Bitwardenbitwarden.com · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
5. [5]HIPAA-Compliant Password Manager for Healthcare | Bitwarden | Bitwardenbitwarden.com · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
6. [6]Bitwarden Announces Commitment to Achieve FedRAMP Class D (High) CertificationBusiness Wire · published September 15, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
7. [7]Bitwarden Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier C
8. [8]Bitwarden Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer InsightsGartner Peer Insights · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier C
9. [9]About Us | BitwardenBitwarden · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
10. [10]Bitwarden Password Manager Pricing & Plans | BitwardenBitwarden · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
11. [11]Best Enterprise Password Manager | BitwardenBitwarden · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
12. [12]Bitwarden Access Intelligence | BitwardenBitwarden · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
13. [13]Secrets ManagerBitwarden · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
14. [14]Secrets Manager - Store, Manage, & Deploy Infrastructure Secrets | BitwardenBitwarden · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
15. [15]PersonalBitwarden · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
16. [16]BitwardenBitwarden · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
17. [17]GLBA and Sox-compliant Password Manager for Financial Services | Bitwarden | BitwardenBitwarden · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
18. [18]Bitwarden Reviews and Success Stories | BitwardenBitwarden · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
19. [19]Bitwarden Business Support | BitwardenBitwarden · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
20. [20]Bitwarden Confirms Compromise—Here Are The FactsForbes · published April 22, 2026 · Tier B: trade or business press
21. [21]Bitwarden Announces General Availability of Access Intelligence to Strengthen Enterprise Identity Security and Remediate Credential RisksBitwarden · published December 3, 2025 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

Last verified September 27, 2026. Our code found the quoted passage behind each fact on its source page when the fact was recorded, and re-checks every record against its sources each month.

Recorded September 27, 2026, expanded November 4, 2026 from the references above.

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