Bitwarden Premium and Families plans now include new features that identify vulnerabilities and help defend against threats before they happen. For full details, check out the full blog and FAQ, or read the highlights below:
Premium enhancements
These enhancements expand on years of existing Premium capabilities like Bitwarden Send for secure sharing, email alias integrations across six providers, passkey support, and more. The new features strengthen the mission to make password management accessible to everyone.
Vault health alerts
Password coaching
5x more attachment storage (5GB)
2x more security keys for 2FA (up to 10 keys)
Phishing blocker (coming soon)
Updated subscriptions
Premium is now available for $1.65 per month ($19.80 billed annually)
Families is now available at $3.99 per month ($47.88 billed annually)
Current subscribers will receive a reminder 15-days prior to renewal, and all existing Premium and early Families 2019 customers will receive a one-time 25% loyalty discount for their next year of renewal.
When are new features available?
All new features are available to all Premium and all Families subscribers immediately.
Free plan stays free
The basic free plan remains unchanged with unlimited logins across unlimited devices.
Hi there, yes, on the storage and security keys. Regarding alerts/passwords, Enterprise admins can run the Access Intelligence report to issue password change requests to team members, and the phishing blocker is planned for a future release.
And also, regardless of the marketing label as “discount” (25%):
Premium member one-time renewal fee: $14.85.
From a consumer perspective, even if the hike percentage is unusual, the resulting full price is still less than 60% of some of the paid comparable non-discounted alternatives. There are also a lot of competitors to choose from, if so desired.
I’ve been a paying Premium member for five years, basically treating my sub as a “support fee” while waiting for core improvements. Sadly, those improvements never came. I cannot justify paying twice the current price for a service that still doesn’t meet my basic needs (custom icons to name only one of many examples). My subscription is now set to expire. I wish the team luck, but I’m done waiting.
It is incredibly frustrating that this has not been addressed yet considering it’s been a longstanding issue for so many people here. I was content with the clunky workaround I posted back in 2021, but that no longer works. To add insult to injury, Bitwarden is now doubling the cost of premium going forward. This is the single most important feature I’ve wanted since subscribing 5+ years ago, and there’s still no word on when it will be fixed. It may not be the low hanging fruit developers enjoy working on, but it’s a security vulnerability that needs to be prioritized.
I’ve decided to take a stand here—I will be canceling my premium subscription until real action is taken and this feature is officially added to the product roadmap. I urge others waiting on this to do the same.
@donjohnson@akronguy : I understand your frustration very well. On the other side these new functions/improvements make sense, and we are talking about a software which is strongly related to security aspects (and not e.g. a game or word processor).
There are many - important - requests, ideas about UI, how to work with Bitwarden, simple functions. For years and with lots of votes, but nothing happens, or the BW developer teams thinks it is not important and blocks (see “more item types discussion”). Or, a developer adds “archive this item” to a menu but without any function behind it (obviously a bug). No interest in releasing a new version without this “archive” in the menu.
I can understand everyone who would like to see more “speed” here… but nothing happens is a really weird expression for me. Via Topics tagged roadmap:implemented you can see a list of implemented feature requests.
What do you mean by “no interest”? That bug was only present in desktop app 2025.12.0. The latest desktop app 2025.12.1 isthe new version without this “archive” in the menu. (BTW, on GitHub someone from BW wrote, that the Archive feature would be expected for Q1 2026)
My comment refers to these “feature requests” that have been requested here for years and are then collected in an ever-growing list of comments and “requests” (and I wrote this as well). Of course, the developers are working on new features or improvements—and there are also “overlaps” here (customer requests and what is preferred from the developers’ point of view).
I have been working here for several weeks with version 2025.12.0 (52522), MacOS, App Store version. There is no newer version (e.g. 2025.12.1) available here.
I just discovered the updated Bitwarden Roadmap (as of January 2026) and am really glad that “Item Archiving” has finally made it onto the list for this year: “Item Archiving: keep items safe in your vault but out of the way when using autofill and searching”
Similar thing with other long-standing feature requests – that had many votes and posts – and were implemented at some point in time… (I’m talking about the one’s that are listed there… on the other hand, I don’t want to imply here, that every existing feature request will eventually get implemented)
Ah… desktop app 2025.12.1 was released on Jan 13, 2026, on GitHub (see here: Release Desktop v2025.12.1 · bitwarden/clients · GitHub) and on Windows I got the update back then. But it seems, that version was “rolled back” to 2025.12.0 – I read that before here, but so it seems it was not only rolled back for Linux (as I initially thought), but for other systems too…
But nevertheless, 2025.12.1 contains the fix for what you mentioned.
I put up with BW’s clunky UI/UX and bugs for years based purely on price. At the end of last year I finally had had enough and moved my personal and business Bitwarden accounts elsewhere. Now with the 98% price hike, I’m migrating the rest of my family out as well. The price differential between between BW and other far superior products is just not justified anymore (an no, no-one needs the extra storage and “features”).
Honestly, I think BW should consider reintroducing a “Classic” plan at more stomachable say 20% increase ($12/yr) before they loose too many more customers. I know a number of industry colleagues who have scoffed at the 100% price hike and considering singing sayonora Bitwarden. For me and my family, the ship has already sailed and bid Bitwarden adieu.
Not to deter you from moving to an “offline” password manager, but I want to comment that if cross-platform accessibility (such as being able to run on Android and Windows seamlessly) is important to you, then the Bitwarden free plan may still be workable. You just need to move the TOTP code generation into another app.
I moved to Bitwarden from an offline password manager for that reason. I didn’t like the idea of having to create my own syncing arrangement to a cloud account (with the possibility of corruption or vault divergence) or tracking multiple developers (one for Windows, one for Android, one for syncing) to manage the same set of passwords.
edited: Got rid of the user’s name that the user no longer uses.
