Bitwarden is an open-source password manager for individuals and businesses, made by Bitwarden, Inc. in Santa Barbara, California. The European alternatives that replace it best are Proton (Switzerland) for people and teams who want one privacy-focused Swiss account, Passbolt (Luxembourg) for IT and DevOps teams that want to self-host and Psono (Germany) for companies that must keep the server in-house.
European alternatives
7
From 4 countries
Keep data in Europe
3
By default, no setting needed
With a free plan
6
No time limit
Open source
4
Can run on your own servers
Bitwarden alternatives from Europe, compared
Best first for someone replacing Bitwarden. Headcount and founding year come from LeadWave's database; prices, hosting and G2 ratings from each company's own pages and G2, checked in November 2026.
Encrypted email, passwords, storage and AI from Switzerland
Swiss company behind Proton Mail, Proton Pass and the Lumo AI assistant. Proton Pass is an open-source password manager with end-to-end encryption, email aliases and a built-in 2FA code generator.
Compared with Bitwarden: Open-source apps and a free plan like Bitwarden, plus email aliases. Swiss company. Pass Plus costs more than Bitwarden Premium ($2.99 vs $1.65 a month, billed yearly); no self-hosting.
Documents an import from Bitwarden.
Headquarters
Geneva, Switzerland
Founded
2014
Employees
635
Your data
In Europe
Price
From $2.99/month, billed yearly
Free plan
Yes
Best for
People and teams who want one privacy-focused Swiss account
2. Passbolt
Open-source password sharing for IT and dev teams
Team password manager built around sharing credentials with groups. The Community edition is open source (AGPL) and free to self-host; paid editions add SSO, directory sync and an EU-hosted cloud.
Compared with Bitwarden: Open source (AGPL) and self-hostable like Bitwarden, focused on sharing within teams. Paid plans start at 10 users, and there is no personal premium plan.
Headquarters
Belvaux, Luxembourg
Founded
2017
Your data
In Europe
Price
From €4.50/user/month, billed yearly
Free plan
Yes
Best for
IT and DevOps teams that want to self-host
3. Psono
Open-source, self-hosted password manager for companies
Company password manager from esaqa GmbH, run on your own servers or as a hosted service. Open-source core; enterprise features such as LDAP and SSO are free for up to 10 users.
Compared with Bitwarden: Open source and self-hostable, free for up to 10 users. Smaller vendor, with fewer personal and family features than Bitwarden.
A community open-source project, not a company. KeePassXC keeps your passwords in a local encrypted file on Windows, macOS and Linux; you sync that file yourself. Its legal contact is in Germany.
Compared with Bitwarden: Open source and free, but with no server or sharing: the vault is a local file you sync yourself.
Imports Bitwarden .json exports.
Headquarters
Weimar, Germany
Your data
Self-hosted
Price
Free
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Technical users who want full control and no account
5. heylogin
Password manager that unlocks with your phone
German password manager for companies and individuals. There is no master password: users confirm logins with a phone app, security key, Touch ID or Windows Hello. Hosted in Germany.
Compared with Bitwarden: Not open source, unlike Bitwarden. No master password: logins are confirmed with a phone or security key. Free personal plan; business from €3.99 per user a month.
Business password and access management from Denmark
Danish password and access manager for companies. Passwords are stored on each employee's phone, and IT gets an overview of which business apps staff use, with SCIM provisioning and MDM roll-out.
Compared with Bitwarden: Closed-source business tool that keeps passwords on employees' phones and maps the apps staff use. Quote-based pricing; no free or personal plan.
European companies that want IT oversight of logins
7. Password Depot
On-premises password manager for businesses
Business password manager from AceBIT GmbH that runs on your own servers or in your Azure tenant, with Active Directory sync, audit logs and a REST API. Free for up to three users.
Compared with Bitwarden: Self-hosted like Bitwarden's server, with Active Directory sync, but closed source. Free for up to three users, then priced by quote.
Headquarters
Darmstadt, Germany
Founded
1998
Your data
Self-hosted
Price
Free
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Windows-centric companies that want no vendor cloud
Founded in Europe, headquartered elsewhere
Often called European alternatives to Bitwarden, but run from outside Europe today, so they aren't in the ranking above.
NordPass
Password manager from the makers of NordVPN
Password manager from Nord Security, the NordVPN group founded in Lithuania in 2012. Personal plans are sold by nordvpn S.A. (Panama) and business plans by Nord Security Inc. (New York).
Compared with Bitwarden: Founded in Lithuania, but sold by companies in Panama and the US. Closed source, unlike Bitwarden; listed here for its European roots.
NordVPN users and small teams wanting a simple vault
Dashlane
Business password manager with credential-risk alerts
Password manager founded in Paris in 2009; the group is now led by Dashlane, Inc. in New York, with Dashlane SAS in Paris as its GDPR controller. Mainly sold to businesses.
Compared with Bitwarden: Founded in Paris, now run from New York. Closed source and dearer than Bitwarden Teams ($8 vs $4 per user a month, billed yearly).
Mid-sized companies wanting admin controls and risk alerts
Why look for a European alternative to Bitwarden?
Bitwarden is headquartered in Santa Barbara, United States. These are the reasons buyers in Europe most often give for looking elsewhere:
Bitwarden, Inc. is a US company, so US law, including the CLOUD Act, applies to it wherever the data is stored.
To be fair: the Bitwarden cloud has a European Union region, and the server can be self-hosted.
Buyers who want the vendor itself, not just the data centre, to be European need a company headquartered in Europe.
How this list was made
A company counts as European if it's headquartered in Europe: the EU, the EEA, Switzerland, the UK, or elsewhere in geographic Europe, never Russia or Belarus. Headquarters means where it's run from, not a registered office. Companies founded in Europe but headquartered elsewhere today are listed separately, and a non-European owner is always named.
Each company was checked against its own legal notice, pricing page and data-processing terms, and its G2 page. Headcount, funding and founding year come from LeadWave's database of SaaS companies. No company paid to be listed or ranked.
It depends on what you use Bitwarden for. Proton (Switzerland) for people and teams who want one privacy-focused Swiss account, Passbolt (Luxembourg) for IT and DevOps teams that want to self-host and Psono (Germany) for companies that must keep the server in-house. All 7 on this page are headquartered in Europe; the table compares their hosting, prices and G2 ratings.
Proton, Passbolt, Psono, KeePassXC, heylogin and Password Depot have a free plan with no time limit.
Proton, Passbolt and heylogin store customer data in Europe by default.
Yes: Proton, Passbolt, Psono and KeePassXC. Open-source tools can also be self-hosted on your own servers in Europe.
Proton and KeePassXC document an import from Bitwarden; the details are under each one below.
NordPass has European roots but is headquartered in New York, United States today. That's why it isn't in the ranking above.
Dashlane has European roots but is headquartered in New York, United States today. That's why it isn't in the ranking above.
No. Bitwarden, Inc. is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, in the United States.
Yes. The Bitwarden cloud offers a European Union region next to the US one, and organisations can also self-host the Bitwarden server.
Yes. Proton Pass (Switzerland) has open-source apps; Passbolt (Luxembourg) and Psono (Germany) are open source and can be self-hosted; KeePassXC is a community project with a legal contact in Germany.
