Vaultwarden

What is Vaultwarden?

Lightweight Rust server that works with the official Bitwarden apps, for families and small teams.

Who is Vaultwarden best for?

Vaultwarden is best for families, homelabs and small teams that want to host their own password vault for Bitwarden apps.

• Families sharing logins

  Organizations, collections and password sharing from the Bitwarden apps all work against your own server.

• Homelabs and small servers

  Written in Rust, it suits self-hosting where the official Bitwarden server would be too heavy to run.

• Small organizations

  Groups, event logs, emergency access and single sign-on through OpenID Connect are supported.

How much does Vaultwarden cost?

Vaultwarden is free and open source under AGPL-3.0, with no paid plan or hosted service; you pay only for the server you run it on.

There is no hosted Vaultwarden service. The project is not associated with Bitwarden, Inc., and asks users to report bugs to Vaultwarden rather than to Bitwarden support. Full pricing on github.com. We checked these prices on 8 Nov 2026.

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Is Vaultwarden open source?

Yes. Vaultwarden's code is public under the AGPL 3.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.

Host it on a serverHostinger, Railway, Elestio and PikaPods set it up on a server for you with a one-click install.

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What are the best Vaultwarden alternatives?

Three tools on Recaply do Vaultwarden's job.

PadlocOpen Source

Vault for passwords, notes, cards and files for people, families and teams, on every platform.

PassboltOpen Source

Shared password and secret vault for IT teams, with browser extensions, mobile apps and access roles.

TeampassOpen Source

Credential vault for IT teams with folder and role access, password rotation and audit exports.

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