A LastPass Alternative for Teams Whose Admin Console Nobody Has Opened Since Rollout

Bitwarden publishes the lowest business pricing of the group, four dollars per user a month on Teams and six on Enterprise, both billed annually and both with unlimited users. 1Password sells a flat Teams Starter Pack at twenty four dollars ninety five a month covering ten people and capped at twenty, then moves to eight ninety nine per user on Business. LastPass renders its own prices in the browser rather than in the page source, so there is no LastPass figure anywhere on this page. What separates them for most buyers is not the feature list, which is broadly similar, but which tier holds the administration you actually need.

Yes, and that is a point in its favor. The admin console, group management, policy enforcement and reporting all appear from Teams upward rather than being reserved for the top plan. What changes with the tier is the depth. Teams carries twenty five policies and basic reporting. Business carries more than a hundred policies and advanced reporting. Business Max adds SaaS monitoring and SaaS protection above that.

Enough to be worth checking before you assume. Teams caps at fifty users while Business has no ceiling. Teams carries twenty five policies against more than a hundred on Business. Reporting is basic on Teams and advanced on Business. SIEM integration to Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel is listed against Business and Business Max but not Teams. SaaS monitoring and SaaS protection are Business Max only. A customer success manager is arranged with sales on larger accounts rather than included anywhere.

Who decides what a shared folder is for and who may create one. Who reviews the access a contractor was given two years ago. Who noticed that the policy set was written for a tier you have since left. Who rotates the logins a departing colleague held, and who checks any of it a second time next quarter. None of that appears on any vendor plans page, ours included, which is why this page exists at all.

Often you should not, and we give that answer regularly. If somebody opens the admin console every month, the shared folders are deliberate and leavers get closed out properly, keep your three hundred dollars. You pay us when the console has quietly become nobody’s job, and somebody still has to design the chamber structure, hold the policy set together, handle leavers and the credentials they held, wire access into the rest of the estate, and still be doing all of it a year from now.

We cannot put a headcount on that, because we do not have a LastPass figure to divide three hundred dollars by, and we are not going to invent one to make the sum look tidy. The shape is straightforward enough. Their cost rises with every person you hire. Ours does not move. Somewhere above the point where your per user bill passes three hundred dollars a month the arithmetic turns, and below it our fee is larger than everything you currently spend on passwords. Note also that our three hundred is management only and a Zoho Vault license sits on top of it, so this is not a clean like for like crossover and we are not going to present it as one.

On people. Passwords are unlimited on every tier, devices are unlimited on every tier, and secure note file storage is one gigabyte across the board. The meter is the seat count, with Teams capped at fifty seats and Business uncapped. Zoho Vault is also metered per user, so neither of us hands you seats for free. What differs is that our management fee is charged to the organization and does not move when you hire.

As a standalone password manager it is the more mature product and we are not going to pretend otherwise. A longer track record, a deeper admin console, more identity provider integrations and a policy engine Zoho Vault does not match. Zoho Vault wins on two counts. It sits in the same estate as CRM, Desk and Projects, so access follows the person rather than being administered twice, and it costs less to license. If your only requirement is the best standalone password manager, buy LastPass.

That is the reason to choose it. Vault sits alongside CRM, Desk, Projects and People, and we wire it into Zoho Directory, Zoho Flow and Zoho Analytics as part of the fee, so a joiner gets their access at the same time as their mailbox and a leaver loses it at the same time too. LastPass integrates with Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, OneLogin and Okta, which is a wide and genuinely useful list, and each of those joins is a connector somebody has to maintain.

We set up the vault and provision your users, migrate you off whatever you are on now, roll out the browser extension and the mobile apps, wire up directory sync and single sign on, design the chamber and folder structure, set password policies and monitor password health, build the sharing and role based access model, write the joiner and leaver runbooks, enforce two factor and passkeys, produce audit reporting, plan emergency access before anybody needs it, and connect Vault to Zoho Directory, Zoho Flow and Zoho Analytics. Support for your team is unlimited and costs nothing extra.

You do, and that is deliberate. The Vault subscription is bought direct from Zoho in your own name and we manage something you already own. Managed Zoho Assist is the one exception across everything we run, because there the subscription genuinely sits with us. On Vault the license, the account and the data stay yours throughout, so ending the arrangement means we hand back keys rather than transfer a contract.

Yes, and it carries one step a straight export does not. Alongside listing the shared folders people actually use and the ones nobody has opened in a year, we decide which credentials should be rotated rather than simply moved, because a password that has sat in a shared folder for three years has been seen by more people than the current access list shows. Exporting and importing is the easy half. Deciding what should not survive the move is the real work.

No. Three hundred a month, month to month, thirty days’ notice, and no setup fee. Your LastPass agreement is between you and LastPass, and since their business plans are billed annually it is worth checking where you sit in that term before assuming you can stop paying for it this quarter.

Then buy LastPass or Bitwarden and keep your three hundred dollars, and we would tell you the same on the phone. Five people who all know who holds what do not have a governance problem. Come back when the second team starts, or when the first person leaves still holding a shared login.

Three hundred a month for the organization covers the audit, the chamber design, the access model, the migration, the integrations and the tuning that follows, with nothing metered. Your Zoho Vault license stays in your name.