1Password
1Password is a password manager: it saves, generates and fills passwords, passkeys and cards in apps and browser extensions on macOS, iOS, Windows, Android and Linux, with developer tools for SSH keys and API secrets on its personal plans.
It suits founders who hold the company's logins and keys themselves and want them out of a notes file or a plaintext .env.
There is no free plan: a 14-day trial, then Individual at $4.99 a month, or $3.99 a month billed yearly, as checked on 30 October 2026.
Reviewed by the IndieHacked team
- What it does
- Save, generate and fill passwords and passkeys on your devices, and keep API keys and SSH keys out of your code with its developer tools.
- Our take
- Founders who hold the company's logins, API keys and SSH keys themselves. 1Password fills passwords and passkeys on each device you use, and its developer tools, included on personal plans, keep keys out of your code: the SSH agent signs Git commits, and Environments hands a project its secrets at runtime without a plaintext file on disk.
- Pricing
- Free trialLow priceNo free plan; each plan starts with a 14-day free trial and no credit card. Individual is $4.99 a month, or $3.99 a month billed yearly, and new customers who buy on 1password.com pay $2.99 a month for the first yearly term. Families, for up to 5 people, is $7.99 a month, or $5.99 billed yearly ($4.49 the first year). Teams Starter Pack is $2.99 a user a month, or $2.49 billed yearly, with a 10-user minimum and room for 20; Business is $10.99 a user a month, or $8.99 billed yearly, and gives each user a free Families plan, as checked on 30 October 2026. Prices are shown in US dollars, Canadian dollars or euros, and the currency sets the region your data is stored in. Students get a free year through the GitHub Student Developer Pack.
The IndieHacked breakdown
What it does
1Password saves, generates and fills passwords, passkeys, cards and documents, in apps for macOS, iOS, watchOS, Windows, Android and Linux and extensions for Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox and Brave. Vaults are end-to-end encrypted with AES 256-bit, keyed to your account password and a Secret Key created on your device, so 1Password cannot read what you store. Watchtower flags breached, weak and reused passwords and the sites where you could use a passkey.
The personal plans include its developer tools: an SSH agent that also signs Git commits, a CLI, shell plugins that sign you in to CLIs such as AWS, GitHub and Claude Code with biometrics, and Environments, which serves a project's secrets as a mounted .env file without writing them to disk, on Mac and Linux. Service accounts and SDKs for Go, JavaScript and Python load secrets into GitHub Actions and other pipelines, and 1Password's plugins for Claude Code and Cursor connect an agent to Environments through an MCP server.
Who it suits
Founders who hold every login the company runs on: the registrar, the payments account, the app stores, the cloud console. A shared vault gives a contractor the logins they need and nothing else, and you can share one item with someone who has no 1Password account, with an expiry date. Families covers up to 5 people for $7.99 a month.
It fits a founder building with AI agents. 1Password's guide to securing AI access covers AI API keys, MCP server config files and signing in to AI CLIs with biometrics, so keys stay in the vault rather than in a file next to the code. When a team forms, Business adds sign-in through Okta or Entra ID and user provisioning from Google Workspace, and gives each member a free Families plan for personal use.
Not the right fit for
Founders who use only Apple devices and need passwords and passkeys saved, nothing more. 1Password's own comparison describes Apple's Passwords app as managing passwords and passkeys and sharing them with family, on Apple platforms; 1Password's case rests on Windows, Android and Linux, sharing outside the family and the developer tools.
Founders who want a password manager with a CLI at no cost. 1Password has no free plan, only the 14-day trial, and its own comparison notes that Bitwarden includes CLI, SSH agent and API access for free, with limited use.
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