LastPass just announced a price increase to $36/year.

StrayDog · Feb 12, 2019

Sad news because there are many LP users here in the forum.

Last year, 2018, they had increased to $24. For 2019 they have no new feature for LP, just usual "price hike" by LogMeIn.

https://blog.lastpass.com/2019/02/change-lastpass-premium.html/

Starting today, LastPass Premium will be $36 per year for new customers. For existing users, your subscription will renew at the new $36 list price.

CrankyJay · Feb 12, 2019

Remind me again why anyone is using premium? I used to use premium so I could use it on my iPhone, but they made that free so I'm just a regular LP user.

StrayDog · Feb 12, 2019

CrankyJay said:
Remind me again why anyone is using premium? I used to use premium so I could use it on my iPhone, but they made that free so I'm just a regular LP user.

For people, like me, that use a security key as 2nd factor authentication.

spindashing · Feb 12, 2019

No reason for me to upgrade. The free version is more than enough.

BLEEN · Feb 12, 2019

Welp, luckily there are alternatives. That's bloody high.

Ravelle · Feb 12, 2019

spindashing said:
No reason for me to upgrade. The free version is more than enough.

Yeah, the free one is enough for me 6 passwords/sites I logon too.

Kernel · Feb 12, 2019

CrankyJay said:
Remind me again why anyone is using premium? I used to use premium so I could use it on my iPhone, but they made that free so I'm just a regular LP user.

They're protecting your passwords. You might want to give them money to do a good job.

StrayDog · Feb 12, 2019

BLEEN said:
Welp, luckily there are alternatives. That's bloody high.

The fact last year they increased to $24 and now $36... fucking hell LogMeIn, they are greed as fuck.

Mindman · Feb 12, 2019

Damn. I use premium for the password sharing/emergency access stuff. Hmm...

Tracygill · Feb 12, 2019

Dashlane is $39 and 1password is $36. Are there any other alternatives?

Transistor · Feb 12, 2019

I don't want to sound like an ass, but is $3 a month really that much of a deal-breaker when it comes to the security of every password that you own?

Falcon511 · Feb 12, 2019

I use 1password which is a monthly fee.

I also use Bitwarden which is free and open source. $10 a year for them.

CreepingFear · Feb 12, 2019

Sucks, but it's the best. It works with pretty much every os and device that I use.

mrchad · Feb 12, 2019

I happily pay for the family plan. Well worth it.

You Are Viewtiful · Feb 12, 2019

Transistor said:
I don't want to sound like an ass, but is $3 a month really that much of a deal-breaker when it comes to the security of every password that you own?

I don't think it takes $3/mo to store all those things. They have a lot of free users and premium are subsidizing the freeloaders, which, being a freeloader, I have no right to complain.

StrayDog · Feb 12, 2019

Transistor said:
I don't want to sound like an ass, but is $3 a month really that much of a deal-breaker when it comes to the security of every password that you own?

Its dear breaker because LP is owned by LogMeIn... you can bet that next year they will hike price again. It's LogMeIn after all

Tracygill said:
Are there any other alternatives?

I personally use Bitwarden ($10/year) but its on evaluation period for me. It has good features that I like, one of them is TOTP integration (TOTP = google authenticator thing to people understand)

PSA: Did you know ResetEra has TOTP - Two factor Authentication?
https://www.resetera.com/account/security

John Dunbar · Feb 12, 2019

what a rip off. i just use "password" for everything and it hasn't let me down yet.

maximumzero · Feb 12, 2019

I use the "free" tier, but I figure this is impetus enough for to switch over to Apple's solution wholesale.

Dr. Lucien Sanchez · Feb 12, 2019

Tracygill said:
Dashlane is $39 and 1password is $36. Are there any other alternatives?

I switched over to Bitwarden from LastPass a few months ago and couldn't be happier. Great piece of software.

jelly · Feb 12, 2019

You get a VPN with Dashlane Premium too.

CreepingFear · Feb 12, 2019

Darn, my sub expires in 2 weeks. If only I renewed it yesterday. No WOW sub for me this month. :(

OrdinaryPrime · Feb 12, 2019

I use Safe In Cloud, where you only pay for the mobile apps and everything is encrypted and hosted on a cloud service like Dropbox or Amazon Cloud Drive. It's pretty good but may not have all of the functionality of Last Pass or 1password for some folks.

TAJ · Feb 12, 2019

Ravelle said:
Yeah, the free one is enough for me 6 passwords/sites I logon too.

I can't even imagine having that few. I have 80+ that I still need to manage.

MisterB_66 · Feb 12, 2019

Guess I'm switching to something else when I get home, I was happy paying the 12 a year, begrudging spent the 24 last year, not paying another 50% price hike

Deleted member 46493 · Feb 12, 2019

That's not too bad. I pay $4 a month for 1Password and it's definitely worth it. That said there are plenty of free options nowadays.

CreepingFear · Feb 12, 2019

mrchad said:
I happily pay for the family plan. Well worth it.

Well, now you have me thinking about upgrading. It would be $10 more a year since the one user is $36. I could add my mother and get her more secure and she can have my important passwords.

CrankyJay · Feb 12, 2019

Kernel said:
They're protecting your passwords. You might want to give them money to do a good job.

Then don't offer a free tier that's more than enough for what I need? I'm not sure what your point is here.

elektrixx · Feb 12, 2019

I'm still using the old one-off purchase version of 1Password and I'm happy with it.

thesoapster · Feb 12, 2019

I panicked, but then saw it was just their "premium" version. Phew.

Orbis · Feb 12, 2019

Dr. Lucien Sanchez said:
I switched over to Bitwarden from LastPass a few months ago and couldn't be happier. Great piece of software.

I also switched to Bitwarden, seems to do the job. I moved away from Lastpass because I was having some ongoing issues with the Android app.

Invisible Cities · Feb 12, 2019

Free version continues to be great.

Deleted member 3038 · Feb 12, 2019

StrayDog said:
For people, like me, that use a security key as 2nd factor authentication.

I decided to just use the 2FA mode on my Yubikeys so I don't have to pay for premium just for LP (Also helps with sites with no U2F support)

Orbis · Feb 12, 2019

Also friendly reminder to everyone to ensure you:
a) Have 2 step authentication set up on your password vault provider
b) If possible have a secondary method of 2 step authentication, for example don't fuck yourself over having only Google Authenticator app then lose your phone!
c) Definitely print off a back up code as a final fall back.

nStruct · Feb 12, 2019

I used to gladly pay LastPass $12/year but they ended up making everything I wanted free. So I guess I'll just keep on using the free tier.

Sidebuster · Feb 12, 2019

I've moved to KeepassXC and Syncthing. It's not a great solution for the phone but it works perfectly on my computers. I've been using it for a month+ now and I think I'm about ready to delete my lastpass account.

Francesco · Feb 12, 2019

Is there a way to switch from lastpass to another service without losing all passwords?

Ravelle · Feb 12, 2019

TAJ said:
I can't even imagine having that few. I have 80+ that I still need to manage.

Holy moly, that seems like a night mare.

BLEEN · Feb 12, 2019

StrayDog said:
The fact last year they increased to $24 and now $36... fucking hell LogMeIn, they are greed as fuck.

It's way too much, too soon. If people flocked away in protest, it would show 'em they fucked up. Doubt people will do that, tho. Guess we'll see soon enough.

Sidebuster · Feb 12, 2019

Francesco said:
Is there a way to switch from lastpass to another service without losing all passwords?

You can export your lastpass info to a .csv file and import it into something else (keepass database for me. You just have to make sure the information is in the right columns.

Swig · Feb 12, 2019

I signed up when it was $12 per year. I may have to look into alternatives. I had no idea they even bumped the price up from that. I don't mind spending a little, but two price hikes that quickly.. meh. Too bad because I really like using LastPass.

The free version only allows six sites? I wonder if I could make that work somehow.

Gaming_Groove · Feb 12, 2019

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dragonbane · Feb 12, 2019

I have 5 different passwords I manage by hand shrugs. Never had any issues and none of them showed up in one of the pwned databases yet

Dineren · Feb 12, 2019

Swig said:
I signed up when it was $12 per year. I may have to look into alternatives. I had no idea they even bumped the price up from that. I don't mind spending a little, but two price hikes that quickly.. meh. Too bad because I really like using LastPass.

The free version only allows six sites? I wonder if I could make that work somehow.

I don't think there are any limits on the number of passwords you can save in the free version. I'm at around 500 right now.

ColdSun · Feb 12, 2019

Swig said:
I signed up when it was $12 per year. I may have to look into alternatives. I had no idea they even bumped the price up from that. I don't mind spending a little, but two price hikes that quickly.. meh. Too bad because I really like using LastPass.

The free version only allows six sites? I wonder if I could make that work somehow.

Pretty sure the free version allows for more than 6 sites.

Swig · Feb 12, 2019

Dineren said:
I don't think there are any limits on the number of passwords you can save in the free version. I'm at around 500 right now.

Do you know what the difference is between free and premium? If I remember, I signed up when there wasn't a free version and it was $12 per year. I'm not sure why I should keep paying, unless I use features that exist in premium. I wish their website compared the free tier with the other tiers.

Dineren · Feb 12, 2019

Swig said:
Do you know what the difference is between free and premium? If I remember, I signed up when there wasn't a free version and it was $12 per year. I'm not sure why I should keep paying, unless I use features that exist in premium. I wish their website compared the free tier with the other tiers.

Only thing I know about is letting you use two factor auth. It used to be required for the mobile apps, but they changed that a long time ago.

Swig · Feb 12, 2019

Dineren said:
Only thing I know about is letting you use two factor auth. It used to be required for the mobile apps, but they changed that a long time ago.

Thanks for the info. I removed my auto-payment for the update, so I guess that saves me some money. I didn't even know they had a free version.

Deleted member 15227 · Feb 12, 2019

Logmein continues to be trash.

J-Wood · Feb 12, 2019

Is Dashlane worth it? Because it's even more expensive for a year than last pass ($60 for a year).

Giolon · Feb 12, 2019

A standalone license for 1Password can still be bought, but you have to contact customer service to do it.

LastPass just announced a price increase to $36/year.

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