Proton slashes Proton Pass price by 50%, citing increased user base and lower server costs
Proton, the company behind privacy-centric products such as Proton Mail and Proton VPN, has announced a price reduction for Proton Pass Plus. The change has been made possible due to the rapid adoption of Proton Pass and the growth of its paid user base, leading to earlier-than-expected economies of scale.
The price of Proton Pass Plus is now $1.99/month on an annual subscription, a decrease from the previous $3.99/month. This new pricing applies to both new and existing customers.
Proton attributes this price reduction to a decrease in server cost per account. Unlike many password managers that depend on third-party cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Proton owns and operates all of its server infrastructure. This allows them to scale down costs more rapidly.
Existing Proton Pass Plus subscribers will receive an email from Proton with details on how to benefit from the new pricing structure.
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- We’re changing the price of Proton Pass PlusProton • Official source
- Proton Pass Plus will soon lower its subscription price, passing savings to usersAndroid Police
- Proton Pass Plus cuts its annual prices down to just $1.99 a month for its password managerNeowin
- Proton's Password Manager Gets a Permanent 50% Price CutHow-To Geek
Comments
$1.99/month isn't bad but still is more expensive than BitWarden. I'm sure ProtonPass is a great service and if you're already in the Proton ecosystem it makes sense, but I can't imagine leaving BitWarden at this point. $10/year is a steal for all it does. Still, glad to see decent competition in this field.
100% agree with you. It's great that Proton has a competing service in the password manager sector. But, at least for now, Bitwarden has everything better: price, quality, time alive (lindy effect), etc.
Great, even if this makes me have to reconsider my whole current email-alias/password setup, I might have to move to proton.
This! This is why open-source is so good. Even though this is a paid/tiered service, it's open-source and the people behind it have genuine intentions for their users. Would never get this from (insert money-hungry company name here).
I don't mind the "money-hungry" companies that exist. The part that is unacceptable is when they hide or try to conceal how they actually make money (usually by mining customers data, specially if it's a free service). But as long as I'm concerned, I hope that Proton makes a LOT of money, because I agree with you: they do it transparently and have genuine intentions for their users. They deserve to grow to a point where they can dethrone the google's and microsoft's of nowadays.