Bitwarden Teams vs Vaultwarden
Bitwarden Teams and Vaultwarden are both password manager software. Bitwarden Teams is a commercial product from Bitwarden, Inc. Vaultwarden is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 70k 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 Vaultwarden when
- You want to self-host password management for a family or small team on minimal hardware.
Side by side
Bitwarden's business plan: an open-source password manager with shared collections, user groups, event logs and an optional self-hosted server.
An unofficial, lightweight Bitwarden-compatible password manager server written in Rust that works with the official Bitwarden apps and extensions.
The interface is plainer than 1Password, and SSO and some policies need the Enterprise plan.
Unofficial and not audited like Bitwarden's own server, and you are responsible for backups and security of your vaults.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, self-hosted server, desktop app, mobile app and browser extension
Self-hosted server
C#, .NET and TypeScript
Rust, Rocket, SQLite and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Bitwarden, Inc.
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
2.3k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
70k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release 1.37.5.
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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.