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What justifies the huge subscription price increase?
Today I received an email from 1Password with the message of a price increase.
Current price: €31.80 EUR / year New price: €43.80 EUR / year
This is an enormous price. Can someone from 1Password...
Hey everyone! We hear the concerns about AI, especially when it comes to privacy and security. That’s completely fair. We want to clarify and be very transparent about how this specific feature actually works.
We use AI internally to help create and maintain a reference list of common websites, things like primary URLs, login URLs, and human-readable names. This work happens entirely on our own systems, not on your device. That information is compiled into a static database. When you create a new login item in the browser extension, 1Password simply checks that database and applies the appropriate readable name. For example, it might label a login “American Airlines” instead of “aa.com” or “AA.” That’s what the AI-powered item naming feature (launched in 2024) actually is, essentially a smart lookup table that makes saved items clearer and easier to find.
Importantly, this doesn’t access or analyze your vault, your data stays end-to-end encrypted, nothing from your vault is sent to any AI systems, and no external AI services or large language models are involved.
We know AI raises important questions, especially when it comes to security and privacy. Our approach is intentionally limited and privacy-respecting, designed to improve usability without ever touching your vault data.
When considering the cost savings of switching to an alternative password manager, it may be worthwhile to take into consideration how much time and effort is required for the migration. While that is a fixed one-time cost, you may not value it at $0 and, if so, the break-even point could be many months away.
Additionally, there is a risk that the alternative password manager will also increase their subscription price (assuming it is a paid solution) in the not too distant future, perhaps in an attempt to be more at parity with the pricing of 1Password.
it may be worthwhile to take into consideration how much time and effort is required for the migration
The amount of time it took me to export into 1PUX format was less than a minute. The amount of time to import that 1PUX file into a competitor's app was roughly one minute. So taking that into consideration, seems like a pretty worthy trade off.
