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Bitwarden Teams vs KeePassDX

Bitwarden Teams and KeePassDX are both password manager software. Bitwarden Teams is a commercial product from Bitwarden, Inc. KeePassDX is open source under GPL-3.0, with 7.6k GitHub stars.

Which to pick

Pick Bitwarden Teams when
A team wants an audited, open-source password manager at a low per-user price, optionally self-hosted.
Pick KeePassDX when
You keep passwords in a KeePass file and need an Android app that reads and writes it.

Side by side

What it does

Bitwarden's business plan: an open-source password manager with shared collections, user groups, event logs and an optional self-hosted server.

An Android password manager that edits KeePass database files, with autofill, biometrics, TOTP codes and passkeys.

Watch out

The interface is plainer than 1Password, and SSO and some policies need the Enterprise plan.

Syncing the database file between devices is up to you (cloud drive, Syncthing or similar).

Ready for

Production-ready (both)

Runs as

Cloud service, self-hosted server, desktop app, mobile app and browser extension

Mobile app

Built with

C#, .NET and TypeScript

Kotlin, Java and C

Source code

Closed source, sold by Bitwarden, Inc.

Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)

What the license allows

Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

How widely known

2.3k Wikipedia readers a month on phones

7.6k GitHub stars

How established

Not known

Established: started 9 years ago, latest release 4.5.8.

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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.