"Always free" was never sustainable for a password manager that took VC money and now needs growth at all costs [0].

Obviously predictable. Bitwarden is now in the extraction phase and it is now time to pay an expensive...

...$1.65 a month.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34427981

Just use vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Now I started to worry about their clients openness to work with valultwarden. They also said in the past they will not change the behavior to not accept third party servers. But who knows now.

Thank you so much for posting this. I have been paying the annual 10$ (which went up by 2$ this year), but now it looks like I have to pay a whopping 30$ a year (a 3x increase, with no increase in features or value at all).

The cherry on the shit cake is that they did not give me any heads up at all. Quite sad. Bitwarden has been consistently one of the best pieces of softwares I have ever used. Simple, just does what it does and gets out of the way.

Sad really ...

I stopped endorsing closed-source software to friends and family for years, because you can't trust the companies behind them not to quietly change directions.

Years ago I used a free workout app that I really liked. After a few months of using it I recommended it to friends. I only much later found out that I was on a grandfathered version of the free plan without ads or restrictions. The company had made changes to the free plan since I joined, and all new accounts were subject to ads and restrictions.

It was embarrassing to have unknowingly recommending something like that.