I think their prices have increased, but it's still a good deal

https://bitwarden.com/pricing/

What is your backup process like? Still haven't figured this one out. Not sure if it makes sense to export encrypted where I can only access My vault with the same account, or unencrypted but then leaving it open and exposed somewhere or in multiple places.

Your first point is debatable. You still have to trust them to be that secure, and you can't verify that. If they are ever breached, it's literally the worst case scenario. You can self-host their solution, but only in the enterprise tier (6$ per user per month). Also BitWarden is a target woth attacking, I am not. BitWarden hosts thousands of instances worthy of being attacked individually. A personal VaultWarden instance of "Mike and Molly Peterson" isn't exactly an attractive target. I do think they are pretty secure, but a single mistake with these stakes can have immense consequences. LastPass was also breached repeatedly, with a similar buiseness model.

The second point about electricity wouldn't be true in my particular case, as the server for self-hosting it is running anyway. Running VaultWarden or not doesn't change the power usage noticably. Obviously this is different for someone who doesn't just have a server at home running anyway.

Side note: I'm not actually running a personal VaultWarden instance, as my personal requirements are being met just fine with KeePass files. We do run an instance at work, but it isn't world-accessible (internal access only).

It's much lighter on the resources while having the exact same functionality.

Bitwarden disables some features if you self host, even if you pay the $15/year.

Self hosting BitWarden still means it's accessbile for them and/or from them. You also have no way to audit their security from what I understand. VaultWarden is FOSS, if you want to, you can go check. And it does get checked by people with the competence to check this do every now and then. [Edit: I forgot that BitWarden is actually souce-available as well, while not being FOSS that's still better than most solutions]. I just prefer full FOSS whenever possible. I prefer it not be a black bos I just happen to run on my own server.

If you self host VaultWarden, the instance can just be not accessible from the internet, and only from behing a VPN. Obviously this is inherently much safer. If that's possible with the self-host option I don't know, but even just for licensing the local instance will have to be able to reach their servers (possibly be reachable from their servers, too). I did see they got an "offline deployment" option for air-gapped servers, but haven't looked into what limitations that entails.

Additionally, you're still within their licensing model. So for certain features you need to have a not-free account (like even just more than 2 people).

And like others said, VaultWarden is much lighter on resources in general and you aren't limited in what you can and can't do (users, collecitons, auth-options, ...).

Where? I can't seem to find that option anywhere in my bitwarden app

Edit: NVM found it, it's just hidden by several clicks before it's an option.

Eh. I am very happy with thwir service, but I didn't opt for the free tier. It has replaced my old VPN service provider, 1Password, google's 2FA, Google Drive, and the office suite is useful.

Since i was paying for other services that offered no privacy, switching to a single paid service with privacy ended up saving me money, so no complaints.

I've been homelabbing for a couple years now, and it's still just a desktop PC with a 450W PSU, it even has a Jellyfin server with some light transcoding. I'd highly recommend trying out a server you don't mind breaking and play around, you'd be surprised what you can do!

I'm sorry, but what? Number one, we're talking about text. Bytes of data, which costs next to nothing to store. If you think that it is in any way fair for a company to allow a person to enter information into an account, and then unexpectedly charge them to access that same data, you are insane. If you paid for a storage rental, moved your belongings into it, and then found that the company changed the lock and decided you had to pay more to get your stuff - would you continue renting that storage?

Go back to reddit, corposhill.

Bitwarden FTW