The price anchor
| Vaultly | 1Password Teams | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 — no subscription | $7.99/user/mo |
| Annual | $0 after purchase | $96 |
| 5-year total | $39 | $480 |
| 10-year total | $39 | $960 |
Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($7.99/user/mo, ~$96/yr); the Vaultly column is the full price, paid once.
Break-even analysis
Five months of 1Password for a five-person team already costs more than Vaultly, which then never charges you a per-seat cent again.
- After 1 year: Vaultly has cost you $39 total — 1Password Teams has cost $96.
- After 3 years: Vaultly is still $39 — the subscription is at $288.
- After 5 years: Vaultly is still $39 — the subscription is at $480.
What you get for $39 once
- Zero-knowledge client-side crypto. PBKDF2 at 600k iterations into AES-256-GCM via the Web Crypto API, so a server compromise is not a vault compromise.
- Shared team vaults. Vault keys are wrapped with each member RSA-OAEP public key in the browser, and the server only relays wrapped keys it cannot read.
- Logins, notes and cards. Store logins, secure notes and cards with folders, search, a strong password generator and a strength meter.
- Inline TOTP. Store a 2FA secret alongside a login and get live 6-digit codes with copy-to-clipboard that auto-clears.
- Opt-in breach check. HaveIBeenPwned k-anonymity range lookups only when you click, off by default, and your password never leaves the browser.
- No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $39 is the whole price.
Pricing questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes. Vaultly is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/password-manager-selfhosted-mvp and always will be. The $39 buys the packaged 1-click installer and setup; building from source is free.
Where does my data live, and what can the server see?
On your own server, as ciphertext. The server can see email addresses, item counts and timestamps, vault names and audit metadata, but not names, URLs, usernames, passwords or notes, which stay inside the encryption.
What if I forget my master password?
It is unrecoverable by design; there is no reset. Export regularly (the export is ciphertext too) and store it safely.
Is this a subscription in disguise?
No. $39 once, no renewal, no per-seat billing, no license server. Deploy it on your VPS and it keeps working regardless of team size.
Vaultly — $39, one time
Or get Vaultly plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.