Passbolt Review 2026: Pricing, Pros & Cons

Overview

Passbolt is developed by Passbolt SA, based in Belvaux, Luxembourg^[14]. The open-source Community Edition was first released as a stable version in 2016, and the company was incorporated in 2017; it has been backed financially by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg since incorporation^[14]. A cloud-hosted version launched in 2019, and in 2024 the company closed an $8 million funding round and reported 2,000 customers, including governments and defence agencies^[14]. Passbolt says all of its source code has been audited, with reports published^[14].

Passbolt is designed around team collaboration rather than individual vaults. The free Community Edition includes browser extensions, a CLI, an open API, role-based access control, password expiry and multi-factor authentication^[13]. The Pro Edition adds tag management, LDAP provisioning from Active Directory or OpenLDAP and SSO with Microsoft, Google and OpenID^[13].

It can be self-hosted or used as a cloud-managed service^[13]. Organisations needing high availability, disaster recovery consulting or custom development can buy the Enterprise Edition^[13].

Passbolt features

Self-hosted or cloud-managed deployment
Free open-source Community Edition
LDAP provisioning (Pro)
SSO with Microsoft, Google and OpenID (Pro)
Open API and CLI
Publicly available audit reports

Passbolt pricing

Community Edition: free, self-hosted. Pro Edition: $4.90 per user per month billed annually, minimum 10 users, volume discounts above 100 users. Enterprise Edition: custom quote.