Quick answer
Yes — for the part of Dashlane covered on this page, Vaultly is a one-time-purchase alternative. It costs $39 once, while Dashlane lists from $4.99/mo. Bitwarden-style zero-knowledge vaults, shared teams and TOTP, self-hosted with no per-seat fee. It is not a 1:1 replacement for everything Dashlane does — the honest limits are spelled out below.
The verdict
Switch to Vaultly if the slice of Dashlane you actually pay for is the slice Vaultly covers — and a $39 one-time price beats from $4.99/mo for as long as you use it.
Stay with Dashlane if this sounds like you — Dashlane handles sync, recovery, dark-web monitoring and polished native apps on every platform with zero maintenance. Vaultly is software you host — uptime, backups and updates are your responsibility.
Head to head
| Vaultly | Dashlane | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39 once | from $4.99/mo |
| Where it runs | Your own server (self-hosted) | Vendor cloud (hosted service) |
| Renewal | None — the license never expires | Recurring — access ends when you stop paying |
| 5-year cost | $39 | ~$299.4 |
About Dashlane: Dashlane is a hosted password manager with sharing and monitoring features. Premium plans list from $4.99/mo billed annually (about $59.88/yr).
Where Dashlane still wins
Dashlane handles sync, recovery, dark-web monitoring and polished native apps on every platform with zero maintenance. Vaultly is software you host — uptime, backups and updates are your responsibility.
Where Vaultly wins
Vaultly is the self-hosted answer: Bitwarden-style zero-knowledge vaults with client-side encryption, shared team vaults, logins/notes/cards and inline TOTP — on your own server for $39 once, with no per-seat fee. Your encrypted vault never sits in someone else's cloud.
- Price, permanently. $39 once versus from $4.99/mo for as long as you use it. There is no renewal, no seat count and no tier gate.
- 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.
The math
Dashlane lists from $4.99/mo. Vaultly is $39, paid once:
- After 1 year: Vaultly has cost you $39 total — Dashlane has cost ~$59.88.
- After 3 years: Vaultly is still $39 — the subscription is at ~$179.64.
- After 5 years: Vaultly is still $39 — the subscription is at ~$299.4.
Common 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.
Try Vaultly — $39, one time
Or get Vaultly plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.